Hi Hope2day - greetings, you are most welcome here on Openhandweb

I would say that you're breathing techniques have been great for bringing awareness to the inner world. Awesome! And there's a challenge with that too - if our approach becomes over prescriptive, and in so doing, actually surpresses the emergence of authentic self. What do I mean by this?

Most people come from a place where they've been programmed with 'needing to feel good' and then not accepting 'feeling bad'. When they step into self-realisation practice, often these limiting judgments are transferred into the work - and so there's a subtle efforting to be feeling good, then beating yourself up if you don't.

Not allowing yourself to truly honour the pain you feel, because there's a subtle judgment that it's not okay, actually has the reverse affect - of locking the pain in. Because you form a limiting polarity - an identity with it. In this case, that which is resisting it.

The way forwards in the Openhand Approach, is to allow the pain to be - to get right into the heart of it and honour it by expressing it. "Your feelings are not wrong!"

When you close the gap between this polarity internally, you now have the potential for profound alchemical change. There's now an invitation for total acceptance of your self. To the extent that you don't even need to change it. This is crucial to the healing. You become so "as-one" with the pain, that you become "The One" in the pain - the presence that you truly are, from which everything arises. This is the truly enlightened experience. You are now free from the pain, because it no longer limits or defines you...

The relativistic experience (in this case anxiety) is merely a transient dance across the skies of your unlimited presence. And in this place, over time, the clouds of anxiety will simply blow away - because there's nothing anchoring them in the landscape any longer.

You might find this "Breakthrough" approach helpful...

Namaste Open