Treatment of Panic Attacks and Anxiety - Yoga and Meditation

Yoga and meditation are practices that help your body to renew itself naturally. The yoga helps to do so physically while the meditation helps to do so mentally. The satisfaction that one gets after doing a session of yoga and meditation is unparalleled. Hence people are getting slowly and slowly gravitated towards these forms of natural healing.

Yoga and meditation are nearly the only types of alternative medicine that require nothing but your body to complete them. Only a little instruction is required in the beginning and you have an asset in your life that will remain with you forever and help you with the various conditions of of ill health that you may have - physical or mental.

Now we shall discuss the effects of yoga and meditation in the treatment of panic attacks and anxiety. Yoga leads to a slow decline in the sympathetic tone of your body as does meditation by decreasing your stresses and tensions. These alone help in a great decrease in your anxiety level and the frequency of panic attacks correspondingly decreases.

The yoga and meditation also have a sort of placebo effect on the patient. As yoga is something that you do yourself, it helps in gain of self confidence. The medication and psychiatric therapy are something that a patient may or may not have confidence in, but when a person goes on to yoga and medication for treatment of panic attacks and anxiety, its usually his own choice and he goes in for it because of that very reason that he believes in yoga and that it will cure him. Hence, the placebo effect.

Thus if you are a patient of anxiety or panic attack, ideally, you should go around and search for the efficacy of yoga and meditation and only when you gain confidence in these techniques that you should go in for these. Otherwise you will not benefit from the major placebo effect of these treatments.

If you are a patient of anxiety, panic attacks, or even general stress and are tired of your medication and their side effects, start learning about yoga and meditation. These alternative therapies will surely help in decreasing your anxiety levels.
If you feel convinced enough then go ahead and learn the power of yoga. Otherwise, poke around and find out a bit more.

Regards, Dhritiman Chakrabarti.