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#367 BITESIZE | The Fastest Way to Reduce Stress and Anxiety | Dr Andrew Huberman

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee

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How to Down Regulate Your Nervous System

A lot of people learn how to hit the accelerator and as you said, they never learn how to decompress. I think if there were one tool I'd love for people to have in their kit is this physiological side. The first practice which is based on work that goes back to the 1930s actually, it's called the physiological size. In sleep or in wakefulness, every five minutes or so, we take a big deep breath. We don't realize it but we do this. Sometimes we'll do this right before they go down to sleep. It can be done essentially anywhere.

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