If you're having an anxiety attack, can you do this to lower your heart rate so that it won't beat so fast? Would it have the same results and make you feel better? Thanks for helping with an answer.,(reply>), @MusikCassette anxiety attacks can often self feed... that is to say the discomfort of elevated heart rate and panicked breathing cause you to experience <b>even more</b> anxiety and it just keeps going and can get worse like that even with the initial cause of anxiety removed.,(reply>), even if your heart rate goes down, your anxiety probably won't.