What’s the best approach for overcoming anxiety?

Colette Bardell of Warwickshire based Wellness Consultancy Sense Your Health outlines one approach.

At Sense Your Health we take the Ayurvedic approach of addressing both mind and body to find natural, sustainable, long-term solutions to anxiety. Ayurveda sits at the heart of what we do for clients, an ancient healing system from India and mother to Traditional Chinese Medicine. Ayurveda treats the person not the disease – Because we are all unique!

As a therapist and wellness coach I would design a programme that fits their lifestyle and looks to the root of issue. Three key stones for finding healthy harmony for physical, mental or emotional health are – to keep the breath, the body and the bowels moving!

We use the breath to connect to our Vagus nerve, one the 12 cranial nerves, it’s stimulation signals to the body that it can rest and digest, tend and befriend. I would suggest deep breathing exercises, these are super effective at bringing about calmness, lowering blood pressure and heart rate.

Moving the body plays a big role and shifting energy known as chi in Chinese Medicine and Prana in Ayurveda. Even simple, rhythmic movements like walking, swimming or