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Why We Need to Invest in Our Emotional Health with Dr. Guy Winch

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The Benefits of Breathing Techniques

When you are ruminating about dramatic things, up goes your heart rate. Your breathing becomes more shallow and more accelerated. You're getting less oxygen. So slowing your breathing is telling your brain. It's a brain hack. Everything is an amazing thing to regulate when we're dysregulated. The same is true of crying. By the way, people think, oh, sign of weakness. No, it's actually a great recovery mechanism because it releases a lot of stress. And so some people have trouble crying. Stimulates the vagus nerve. Yes, it's, it's a very, very useful thing that we judge very incorrectly.

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