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Breathing And Stress Reduction
Breathing exercises are an ancient and time-tested technique to reduce stress, manage negative emotions and help with many other ailments.
New studies show that breathing exercises are extremely effective in both long-term and short-term stress reduction. Changing your breath from an irregular one to a calm, deep one has a calming effect on our emotions, slows our heart rate, and signals relaxation.
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The Effectiveness Of Breathing
When we are in a highly stressed state, no amount of ‘talking’ can calm us down as our brain's prefrontal cortex region is impaired at those moments.
Breathing regulates our emotions like stress, anxiety and anger, and helps us regain control of our mind.
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Types Of Breathing Exercises
- The most common and effective breathing exercise is to breathe in (inhale) for four seconds and then breathe out(exhale) for about eight seconds, for a few minutes. Lengthening our exhales reduces agitations, calming us down.
- There are several deep breathing progra...
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Breathing: Need To Know
- 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.
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Breathing: stress vs relaxation
The way we breathe can set off a cascade of physical changes in the body that promote either stress or relaxation.
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