5 Natural Strategies to Manage Anxiety
1. Breathe through your nose — Inhaling through your nose helps filter, warm, and moisten the air before it reaches your lungs. This process supports better oxygen absorption and keeps carbon dioxide levels balanced, which is key for soothing your nervous system. When you feel uneasy, try slowing down and focusing on steady nasal breaths. – Mercola Article Archive 2025/11/15/ LSD-anxiety-treatment
2. Practice horizontal breathing — Rather than taking vertical breaths that cause your chest to rise and activate stress responses, shift to horizontal breathing. This technique involves widening your ribcage outward instead of lifting it upward. Breathing this way eases tension and prevents your nervous system from slipping into a stress-driven state. - Mercola Article Archive 2025/11/15/ LSD-anxiety-treatment
3. Breathe more gently, not more often — Quick, forceful breaths can heighten anxiety by pushing your oxygen-carbon dioxide balance out of sync. The goal is to breathe fewer times per minute and with a softer rhythm. This steadiness preserves healthy carbon dioxide levels, which helps quiet your mind and lower stress hormones like cortisol. - Mercola Article Archive 2025/11/15/ LSD-anxiety-treatment
4. Make controlled breathing a habit — Regularly practicing mindful breathing techniques reshapes how your brain responds to pressure. Methods such as alternate nostril breathing or the Buteyko approach encourage slower, more intentional breaths. Over time, this activates your parasympathetic nervous system, creating calmness and improving your resilience against anxiety. - Mercola Article Archive 2025/11/15/ LSD-anxiety-treatment
In addition to these breathing techniques, there are other far safer (than pharmaceutical) strategies you can explore.
5. Get Checked for Subluxation — The purpose of a chiropractic adjustment is to reduce subluxation, a state where there is interference with the neural feedback loop. When subluxation is reduced, the body naturally gravitates to a place of decreased stress; the biochemical drivers of stress are reduced and the body assumes a greater sense of coherence and integration. This optimizes the expression of physical, mental and spiritual health.Chiropractic is not a “remedy” for any single symptom or named disease, but by re-integrating normal functions of the body, the Chiropractic adjustment predisposes you to expressing better health, which includes reducing unnecessary anxiety. - Dr. du Quesnay 2025/11/17