Emotion affects Breath
Anxiety, anger and distress create rapid breathing as a "fight or flight" response to increase oxygen in our system.
A calm nervous system creates slow, deep, relaxed breathing to supply the required oxygen to the system, using least effort. The oxygen requirement is much less compared to what is needed for fight/flight.
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