The 5-Minute Breather

Just find five minutes and start doing your work, with complete concentration. Write for five minutes with seriousness and focus. You would need to tell yourself that if you don't write for five minutes and wait for the ideal three hours of free time, along with coffee, you may...

When your emotions run high, breathing speeds up, too. Slowing your breathing down relaxes tense muscles, bringing shoulders down from ears, calms roiling emotions, and helps disarm the hormonal cascade within the body that feeds anxiety.

Just five minutes of deep breathing can calm you eff...

It is a foundational practice for improving self-awareness. To focus solely on your breathing is to focus on a key internal process.

You’ll become aware of how your mind wanders, and get better at snapping out of distractions.