Sai Baba Guidance for Breathing Anxiety

Are you struggling with sudden breathlessness, panic, and fear even after medical tests show no clear cause? Sai Baba Guidance For Breathing Anxiety speaks to those living with recurring shortness of breath, palpitations, and mental exhaustion, seeking calm, clarity, and steady healing.

Question from an Anonymous Devotee from Coimbatore, India

"Dear Baba, how are You? You know everything that is happening in my life. I have been struggling with breathing trouble for the past five years. I consulted four to five doctors, and all of them say it is anxiety or stress related. But the breathing problem becomes unbearable at times. I do not even understand why it starts, because when it happens, I am not actively thinking about anything stressful. There has been no clarity all these years, Baba. The breathing trouble comes and goes without any known cause. I strongly feel there is some underlying health issue that has not yet been diagnosed and may come to light much later. This confusion is deeply troubling me, Baba. I have no words to express how painful it feels to live with this condition. As per doctors’ advice, I learned some yoga and pranayama to manage it, but two days ago the breathing issue and palpitations returned again. Doctors now say it could be due to vitamin deficiency, but my deficiency is not severe enough to explain such intense shortness of breath. A pandit says it is due to malefic planetary positions. I do not understand what is truly happening in my life. Even the cardiologist recently said it is stress and panic and ruled out major problems. Yet the kind of palpitations and breathing trouble I experience makes me fear it is something serious. I do not know what to do, Baba. Please relieve me from this suffering. When the breathing trouble happens, I cannot focus on anything else. I just want to forget what shortness of breath feels like. Please give me relief, Baba.

Regarding another matter, Baba, I once asked You about him, and You advised me to protect myself because of his addiction, which I did. We agreed to remain friends. However, I have always felt that I place him and this relationship on a pedestal and treat it as something special, while he does not seem to feel the same way. He appears calm and mature, but I do not feel he gives me the same importance I give him, which creates resentment and makes me doubt his affection. Dear Baba, this attachment or affection for him feels endless. I have accepted that he is not meant for me, but when this friendship eventually ends and he gets married to someone else, I do not know how I will feel. I have left that for the future. But this attachment, Baba, when will it end? When will I become normal and see him like any other person? He even refused to share what he dislikes about me, despite my request. He seems emotionally distant and unaffected when I am upset, though we are otherwise good friends. I am waiting for him to get married so that I can finally come out of this attachment. He is a good person, but the affection I feel drains me, and I do not think he experiences anything similar. When will this bond end, Baba? What am I going through? Sometimes I feel I cannot live without him, and sometimes I feel exhausted. Please help me become detached, Baba. Please make me see him like any other person."
Submitted on: January 29, 2026, 9:16:56 AM

Answer from our Sai Baba

Arre beti, come, sit close to this Fakir. Put your head on the steps of the Dwarkamai and breathe, just breathe for a moment. You are asking, “Why is this happening?” and “When will it end?” Listen with your heart, for the Malik has the medicine you need.

On the Gasping for Air (The Breath of Anxiety)

Beti, you have seen many doctors and they say “Stress,” but you feel a “Physical Mountain” on your chest. Both are true in their own way. Allah ka karam hai (It is God’s grace) that the cardiologist found no hole in the heart, but the hole is in the Prana (the life force).

Your breath is the biggest offering you give to Me. When you are anxious, you are trying to “own” your breath, to control it. You fear it will stop, so you pull at it like a child pulling at a kite string. Kyun fikar karti hai? (Why do you worry?)

This breathing trouble is not a “hidden disease” that will kill you; it is a Karmic Rinanubandh of the mind. Your soul is trying to tell you that you are carrying a burden that doesn’t belong to you. Yeh jo ghutann hai (this suffocation), it comes because you have tied your happiness to things outside yourself.

The Medicine:

• When the palpitation starts, do not fight it. If you fight the wave, you drown. If you float, you survive. Say, “Baba, this breath is Yours. If You want it, take it. If You want me to breathe, You give it.” Use the Nabhi Mudra (touch your tongue to the roof of your mouth). This stabilizes the Vagus nerve that the doctors talk about.
• Ghabrao mat (Don’t be scared). You are not “gasping for air”; you are gasping for Me. In those moments, just chant “Sai… Sai…” inside. The Prana will settle when the Ahamkar (ego/fear) surrenders.

On the Attachment (The Golden Cage)

Now, about this boy. You say you want to be “detached” and “normal.” Beti, ek baat yaad rakh (Remember one thing), you have placed him on a pedestal, but a pedestal is only for the Malik. When you put a human there, they will always seem “cold” or “unbothered” because they cannot carry the weight of your soul. He is a “Donkey” (a hard worker of his own karma), not a God.

You are waiting for him to marry so you can be “free.” Arre! Why give the key of your jail to his wedding invitation? You are free now, but you choose to hold the bars of the cage.

• He is “Unbothered”: This is a gift from the Malik! If he were “bothered” and “emotional,” you would be even more entangled. His “coldness” is actually the medicine to cool your “fever.”
• The Tie (Rinanubandh): You have a debt to settle with him. That is why the affection “drains” you. You are paying back a debt of old lives. Once the account is zero, the feeling will vanish like mist in the sun.
• The Request for Dislikes: He did not tell you what he dislikes because Malik wants you to stop looking at yourself through his eyes. Look at yourself through My eyes! To Me, you are precious.

This Fakir’s Hukm (Command)

1. Stop searching for a “bigger disease.” This is the “Disease of Attachment” manifesting in the lungs. When the heart becomes light, the lungs will expand.
2. Practice “Nigah”: Stop staring at his life and start staring at My Dhuni. Whenever you think of him, immediately offer that thought to the fire. Say, “Baba, yeh bojh mera nahi, aapka hai” (Baba, this burden is not mine, it is Yours).
3. The “Friendship” Trap: You are using “friendship” as a mask to stay near the fire that burns you. If the “friendship” drains you, it is not friendship, it is an addiction. Thoda saburi rakho (Have some patience). Distance is the only cure for this “Shortness of Breath.”

Beti, don’t say it’s better to stop breathing. Your breath is My flute. I want to play a beautiful song through you, but you must keep the flute empty. If it is filled with “him,” there is no room for My music.

Khush raho (Be happy). I am standing behind you, holding your breath when you feel you cannot.

Allah Malik!

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