Controlling your breathing

• The power of breathing is evident with people who have breathing disorders. As emotions affect our well-being, so does our breathing.
• Our parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems are in control of producing feelings of calmness and the latter, the body's rapid involuntary re...

Slow breathing is a quick and easy way to change your state, whether it is to decrease stress or increase your energy and focus, or even in creative problem-solving. Other science-backed benefits include:

• There is a short-term reduction in blood pressure after guided, slow breathin...

• Respiration influences many of the processes in our body that have a direct impact on our physical and mental health. 
• Each day, we take around 20,000 breaths.
• With every inhalation, our heart rate speeds up, and with every exhalation, it slows down. 
• The nervous syst...