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Great responses, especially from Steven. Im trying to do just those very things in my own life, after suffering with acute anxiety and depression for close to a decade.
Part of that had to do with having kundalini syndrome as a result of advanced pranayama practises combined with bouts of drug use and a slew of unresolved childhood trauma issues.
Recently I discovered the Microcosmic Orbit and began to move qi down the front channel. Something happened and there was a tremendous opening and release. A wave of bliss engulfed me and cool, healing energy flowed all around the front side of my body all the way down to my feet. I could feel the pressure of qi in the head loosen and immediately felt a lot more grounded and stable emotionally. Developing the lower tan tien by abdominal breathing and learning the healing sounds and simple things like embracing the tree standing posture, have all helped tremendously.
I used to get these stabs of anxiety at the solar plexus, and also developed a weak voice due to problems with the throat centre. All of that has improved remarkably. I was even visited in the psychic realm by a powerful being, maybe an immortal, who blessed me, saying some words of advice in a very loud voice. Whatever happened as a result of doing the orbit (i think it was the opening of the front channel and thus the balancing of the qi) has been a tremendous healing. Now Im just plodding forward healing the deeper causes like the psychological traumas, but with a lot less anxiety and stress.
The answer to your problem could just as easily be a redirection of your qi by some basic Qigong. Open your front channel and see if that doesnt help you. When you actively balance yin and yang things seem to happen that help you along, sometimes quite dramatically!
From my understanding of yogic process, pratyahara comes when there is enough inversion of the pranic currents that you disconnect the senses from the world. Effectively this means stationing awareness within the Brahmanadi which is the innermost core of the Sushumna. This requires considerable mastery of pranayama so that you can have extended periods of kumbhak and rely on subtle breath moving as the upward and downward currents by itself. Its at that stage that you can forget the body and become more fully absorbed in the Omkar sound perceived at the heart chakra. Doing this makes the consciousness merge into itself and the process of Samyama unfolds; awareness focusing on the unstruck sound gradually realizes its unity with the sound in an unbroken flow which eventually leads to unity with itself.
