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Practice Controlled Breathing To Experience Stress Safely with Chuck McGee III

Kwik Brain with Jim Kwik

CHAPTER

You Are Your Body's Pilot, Not Its Passenger

We take 18 to 25 thousand breaths a day over ten days, that's up to a quarter million muscle movements. The more we make a choice, the more the brain wants to make the choice. If you're breathing through your mouth, your veins and arteries are constricting,. Your blood pressure going up. None of those things help you perform. That's just front loaded stress even before you get into that situation. So if this is where you're sitting and then stress hits you, it's like a highway that's supposed to have four lanes open, but now suddenly has two. It's just not as efficient as it could be. An it's one of the astest ways to

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