You know,
Do not discount the deep breath.
And here's why.
Still,
Just when we're regularly living,
We just naturally breathe shallow.
The moment we get stressed,
Annoyed,
Or angry,
It's even more so.
So if you consider,
Like,
My husband always makes fun of me because I'll do this.
And he's like,
What measurement is that?
And I'm like,
It's my measurement,
Okay?
So imagine,
Like,
The lung capacity,
Full lung capacity is between my hands.
That's available to us.
This is not by any means a medical diagram,
But just for example's sake.
So if we deeply breathe,
We can really kind of get in there.
Normally,
We're like at this.
If we're stressed or angry,
We're like here.
So when we breathe,
We are signaling,
You know,
And this is scientifically backed as well,
As well as on a metaphysical level.
But when we breathe deeply,
We're activating various things inside of us that say,
I'm okay,
I'm safe,
Right?
So this can help us to calm down.
It can help us to recenter.
It can help us if we're starting to get panicked or anxiety or anxious or stressed or frustrated,
You know.
So it can also help us respond better because it gives us that pause,
Right?
So don't ever discount the deep breaths.
And what's beautiful about it is that if you have a space where no one's watching you,
Then you can really be like,
Hold it.
And then,
You know,
Opening the mouth on the exhale is a really good thing too.
Cause again,
It just kind of like relaxes,
But maybe you don't have that capability.
Maybe you're literally in an interaction where you can't visually,
You know,
Change.
You can still do that without indicating anything.
You could just take that deep breath in your nostrils and then try to like,
Imagine like you're trying to just really fill up your whole lungs and then let it out.
That is so helpful.
Just see how you feel.
That you'll find that all of a sudden you're like,
Oh,
Okay.
I'm kind of getting my,
My faculties back.
You know,
I'm not immediately ready to attack or,
You know,
React or whatever that might be.
But then you can also do a technique where you breathe in and then you hold it for a second and then you release the breath.
And so that's a cool way as well to just kind of come back to center,
Calm down,
Relieve stress,
Get clear.
It's really,
Really good.
And I would say it can be done no matter who's around,
But if you find yourself in a place where you could really do it and do on the exhale,
It's great.
Cause then also too,
Like what happens when we get stressed or we're thinking or concentrating too much,
We we're tight here.
So that's another thing that signals to our body and our brain,
Like,
What do we do when we yawn?
Oh,
You know,
So it just helps everything to calm down.
So a deep breath,
I'm telling you,
It's a good trick that we can all use.
