Pranayama Doesn’t Instantly Bring Me Zen, and Maybe That’s Not the Point
How the positive feedback cycle works against me if I’m already anxious.
4 min readOct 19, 2020
As a teenager, I went to a therapist who told me that, in order to relieve an anxiety attack, I should take deep breaths and imagine I was on a beach. I took this to heart. During my next attack, I scrambled to picture…
