Guided ManoYatra tool

Understanding Anxiety

Anxiety is the body's threat-detection response — a set of physical and attentional changes that prepare for danger — running in situations where no physical danger is present.

Psych-ed10 minPROtext or voice

How it works

Understanding the mechanism changes how the sensations read. A racing heart and shallow breathing are the system working as designed, not signs that something is wrong with you. This tool explains what the response does, why it overshoots, and why it settles on its own if not fed. It explains rather than intervenes.

Grounded in

threat-detection and polyvagal accounts of the stress response.

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