How to help yourself in stressful situations
04.04.2019
Along with anxiety and fear hyperventilation creeps in unknowingly manifested through shallow, irregular breathing of the upper part of our lungs, and in time, also withholding the breath. When hyperventilation sets in, the level of carbon dioxide in the blood plummets, which makes capillaries narrow down and close, which means stopping the blood flow to the cells, and what follows is lack of fresh oxygen in the cells. This, in turn, leads to such reactions such as emptiness in the head, nausea, vertigo etc. In stressful situations the rhythm of breathing changes as well as the amplitude of in-breaths and the tension in the shoulders.
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