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How to Handle Negative People: 6 Strategies to Protect Your Peace

The Mel Robbins Podcast

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The Power of Breathing Techniques

There's a breath technique that you can use called 478. You breathe in for four seconds, hold it for seven, then out for eight. The 8 part is the most important, because when you breathe out for longer than you breathed in, it sends a signal to your nervous system that it's okay to relax. And so if you get that all cap text from a friend, or you get that really rude email from a colleague, or you're standing somewhere in public, and some jerk is annihilating the person, and you just don't have the energy to go, hey, you know, you don't have to be rude about it. Do the 478 breathing technique to

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