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Originally Posted by DiMarie
BF,
Some of was related to me as the fight or flight syndrome. Instead of normal deep tummy breathing with tighten, and chest breaths. Because so many nerves run under the chest wall muscles, the tightness of brathing presses on the. Some people even will go to the ER thinking it is heart attacks. You can get the arythmia off making it even more painful.
Learning techniques to slow the breathing, put the hand on the tummy, focus on the breath in through the nose and slow out through the mouth, feel the tummy rise not the chest helps. So does biofeedback. Visualize and feel letting go of tightness from the finger tips, neck head, body, arms legs to toes.
All good in theory, but man when you are in a panic attack or heavy anxiety it is hard with out treatment or help from an outside person to focus.
I had to be treated at least twice in the ER and another time by medics.
It is as if My heart is broken in pieces as dgs says,,,,don;t squeeze me your breaking me to pieces! 
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Di... Thank you for the advice. That's what I need to do. I need to practice breathing right. I've noticed a heaviness around my lungs at times when My anxieties where calmer in the middle of my chest. A psychiatrist told me that's called free floating anxiety.
I've felt below my heart something that felt like a broken glass. It might be nerves that have been stretched when I had that pain in my chest,and I'd wake up after a nap,and those muscles where starting to relax. I don't know why all of this happens.
I have a triangular area in my head that needs to relax also. It starts just above my eye's,and goes half way up my forhead,then down to the top of the muscles in my neck. If that area just above my eye's gets dizzy,sometimes the bottom of my head will shake. All of this seems to be tied together. No one understood this if I tryed to explain it when I was growing up.
When I breath from the tummy area,I'll try to relax the upper neck area also. Does anyone else here have that?
Thank you Di...I'll try that. I haven't worked on my breathing for relaxation in a while. Thank you for mentioning this. BF
