Simple breathing technique to help you beat stress

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Simple breathing technique to help you beat stress
Why every breath you take is important

By Adam Isaacs, Aug 12th 2015 02:26 PM


With our jam-packed lives, we can sometimes forget to stop and catch our breath.

Performance enhancement coach Ed Harrold wants us to learn why it's important to breathe properly. Here, he demonstrates a breathing technique that can help reduce stress.

He says most people are shallow breathers, or mouth breathers. But what we need to do is optimise our nasal breathing.

When we are breathing through the nose, our abdominal diaphragm muscle, which is the primary muscle that pulls air into our lungs, presses down on our gastrointestinal organs and our lower back and gives us better posture and improves digestion.

He says it's a very relaxing inhale, unlike the mouth inhale which is very rapid and shallow and stimulates heart rate.

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[wendy]

very useful to remember this
thank you

[annie]

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