How to Stop Breathing When You're Designing

Looking at screens, particularly with high visual stimulus, naturally creates a default mode of making us lock up. You start pausing your breath, locking your muscles, breathing through your chest instead of your stomach. This is having a very terrible hypertension effect on our bodies because we're not getting the natural amount of nitric oxide dissolved in amongst many other mechanisms to do with movement. There's a whole other reason why we're probably anxious as well to do with microbiome etc but one huge contributing factor is that incorrect breathing.

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