How to Slow Down Your Breath to Reduce Stress

The first thing that we need to do is slow down our breathing. Your breath is in many ways the dial that over a little brief period of time can turn up your heart rate and can turn up the stress response in your body. It's literally going to settle the storm of the mind, all the thoughts that are racing through. And it's going to temper the emotional charge, the rate at which and the intensity at which your emotions are coming through.

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