Breathing and Stress Reduction

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Everybody experiences stress. We need a certain amount of it to motivate us to get out of bed in the morning and roll into our day. Stress becomes a problem when we experience the world as a series of potential threats. This is when stress transforms into distress, anxiety and panic.

If we feel panicked one of the first things our body does is to alter our breathing rate and rhythm. We begin to gasp for air as we take short, sharp breaths. When we do this we fire off the part of our brain that tells us we are in danger and so we create a distress loop. However, we can do something about this and we have all the tools we need to do it.


By simply altering the rate and rhythm of of breath we tell our brain that everything is ok. For this to happen all we need all we need to do is to slow the rate, breath deeply and increase the length of our out breath.

I've included a breathing tool that will helps us to do this. Have a try, you'll be amazed at how effective it is.