Excessive sweating is a condition that affects roughly 2% of the entire population in the world. If you are an excessive sweater your perspiration rate is altered. This means that you sweat a lot more than normal people. Often so much that sweat is dripping of your body.

If you have this condition you often face embarrassing social condition such as:

• Afraid of shaking hands in public.
• Have to wear multiple shirts to hide sweat patches.
• Avoid going on dates & parties because you sweat so much.
• Need to have 1 extra set of clothes with you.
• Trouble playing sports such as golf, baseball & basketball because sweat ruining your grip.

The problems are many but what causes excessive sweating?

The cause for excessive sweating is an overactive nerve system. The problem lies not in the sweat glands that many people tend to think, but in a part of your body's nerve system called the "sympatetic nerve system".

This part of your body's nerve system is what scientists like to call automatic. This means that you don't have to think in order for it work.

The sympathetic nerve system controls the temperature in your body. In order to do that, it has the sweat glands as help. When the temperature in your body rises, this system senses that and it sends signals to the sweat glands to start sweating.

When your sweat glands produce sweat and the sweat reaches the skin, it immediatly gets cooled off by the surrounding air. In return the sweat cools the skin, which lowers your body temperature.

When this system is working as it should be, it knows exactly when to start sweating and when to stop sweating. It also knows exactly where in your body it needs to give the "sweat orders".

Unfortunatly, this is not the case in a person who suffer from excessive sweating. This system is not functioning as it should be and the symptoms differ from person to person.

For example:

Some people may experience heavy palm sweating, while another person might have big problems with underarm sweating. Yet, another person might suffer from heavy face sweating while another has very slippery feet.

The problem is the same for these different people, but it shows itself in different ways. The single problem every excessive sweater has is that the sympathetic nerve system is temporary stuck at max.

I say temporary because you can get it unstuck, but it require some work from your part. I will go into this deeper in a moment, but first I would like to talk about how this system got stuck in the first place.

The sympathetic nerve system can get stuck in a number of different ways. Some of the most common ones are:

• Puberty
• Unpleasant memories
• Stress
• An Accident
• Diet
• Medication

There are more to this list but it would take too long to list every cause. What you need to remember is that this system's main goal is to get your body fully prepared for an outside threat.

Lets say you work a lot and have a million things that don't seem to get done in time. This system sees the treath (not getting your work finished in time) and helps you by raising your adrenalin and sweat levels and your heart rate. You get more focused and work faster.

But if you constantly have this pressure on you and it's very hard for you to relax your body will begin to think that this is your normal state. This means that the sympathetic nerve system will send out the same signals even when you try to relax. You have made your SNS think that this is the state you always want to be in.

The same goes if you have experienced a terrible accident. Your physical scars may have healed but you still have thoughts about the accident in your sub-concious mind. Your mind cannot tell the difference between thoughts and reality. Therefore your mind tells the SNS that you are still experiencing the accident, and the SNS begins regulate all kinds of different body functions, such as sweating.

Now, one thing to remember. All people doesn't experience sweating when the SNS start to send out signals. Some may experience blushes, increased heart rate, numbness etc. The symptoms are however an indication of the same condition, which is that the SNS needs to become balanced.

I guess you can say that this system are also telling you that something isin't as it should be, and you need to fix it. Your body has just provided you with feedback.

How do you balance the sympathetic nerve system?

Yor body is a beautiful piece of machinery. It's like a giant spiderweb with every function connected togheter.

If you work with one part of your body, the structure makes that your whole body is affected. Picture the spiderweb again..

If you take a small stick and gently pick at the adge of the spiderweb, you will see that the whole spiderweb is vibrating to your picking.

It's the same with your body. If you pick on one part of your body, this vibration will travel across your whole body and affect a number of different functions. Some functions will be triggered more and some will be trigged less, depending where you pick.

How can you balance your sympathetic nerve system with this insight? Well, I actually stumbled upon this technique when I was trying to balance my mind and reduce stress. Luckily I found a way to take care of my excessive sweating as well.

The technique I am about to explain have been around for ages and it's soo simple to apply. The whole technique bases itself on that by manipulating one function, we can also balance another, because they are connected to eachother.

The part of your body you are going to target is your breath! Sounds pretty simple don't it?

Your breath is one of the automatic systems in your body. You don't have to think in order to breath right?

Now, this is interesting. Your breath is controlled by the automatic nerve system and this system is made up of many different nerve systems. One of these systems is our little friend from the past.. The sympathetic nerve system!

So by manipulating your breath, you are also manipulating the automatic nerve system, which will in return manipulate the sympathetic nerve system. Now isin't that good news?

By balancing your breath, you can also balancing your sympathetic nerve system. But how do you balance your breath?

The following yoga exercise will help you to slow down your breath and balance it, which will in return balance your mind and all the nerve systems in your body.

It's so powerful that when you get the hang of it, it will be the only thing you need to solve your excessive sweating problem.

You can use this exercise for other problems as well. For example:

• Stress
• Troubling thoughts
• Anxiety
• Panic attacks
• Depression
• Etc.

The following exercise will effectively remove any type of mind and nerve system problem you might have.

Lets get down to business..

Lets take a quick look at how you breath now, and how you should breath in this exercise.

This is how I took a breath before I discovered this exercise: I would inhale with my chest rising, and then exhale with my chest lowering. Chances are that you breath like this now.

This exercise demands that you breath a little bit different. You have to apply something called diafragmic breathing. Instead of rising your chest first when you breath in, you should expand your stomach first. Then when you cannot extend your stomach more, you start raising your chest.

Then when you exhale, you lower your chest first and then start to pull in your stomach.

This technique allows you to fill your lungs with a lot more air then by just using your chest when you breathe.

The actual exercise demands you to use diafragmic breathing, or deep breathing as it's being called as well.

The exercise is about controlling your breath and the goal is to be able to inhale for 20 seconds, then hold your breath for 20 seconds and lastly exhale for 20 seconds.

Now, I'm certain that you won't be able to manage 20 seconds the first time you try it. But that's actually good. Because then you know that you have something to work on.

You might want to start with 5 or 6 seconds, perhaps more. The important thing is that you keep the porportions. So if you start with 5 seconds inhale, you keep the 5 seconds all the way. That means: 5 seconds inhale, 5 seconds hold, and 5 seconds exhale. If you try anything else, you will mix up your current breathing rythm. Don't do that!

The easiest way to begin is to first find a comfortable chair or bed =). Then use a timer of some sort so you can see how many seconds have passed. (When I do this exercise I sit in what is called the easy pose with my legs crossed. It's the easiest pose for me and it allows me to keep an eye on the clock when needed.)

There are 3 levels of this meditation. The first level is 3 minutes, the second is 11 minutes, and the third is 31 minutes.

I would recommend you to start with 3 or 11 minutes.

So lets say you start with 3 minutes. And you decide to start with 5 second breaths. So you set the timer for 3 minutes and start it the moment you start to breathe in.

For the 3 minute and 5 seconds breaths example above it's:

Inhale slowly.. 1... 2... 3... 4... 5... Hold your breath 6... 7... 8... 9... 10... Exhale slowly.. 11... 12... 13... 14... 15... Inhale slowly.. 16... 17... 18... 19... 20... Hold your breath... 21... 22... 23... 24... 25... Exhale slowly 26... 27... 28... 29... 30... And so on

As you do this you might notice that you start to sweat a lot and that's a good sign! You are balancing this system and the feedback you are getting is sweat =).

Then after a few times you might notice that you can manage 8 second breaths, then after a few more times you might manage 12 second breath, then eventually you will manage 20 seconds. 20 seconds is the optimal, and you shouldn't go over that limit.

You should try to do this meditation every day for 40 days. If you should miss one day, then it's not a big deal, but optimal result is aquired by doing 40 days straight.

The hardest part is to start. Then it's just downhill

If you have any question about this, ask it in the form below and i'll answer!

Have a great day =)