Breathwork To Quickly Relieve Stress And Anxiety

This guided breathwork practice uses the physiological sigh to quickly calm the nervous system and ease stress and anxiety. Through a simple breathing rhythm, the body begins to relax while the mind settles into greater clarity and ease. A gentle and effective practice you can return to anytime you need grounding, calm, and emotional reset.

Transcript

This practice, The physiological sigh, Has been proven in some scientific studies for being the most efficient and effective and practical way to really reduce feelings of stress and anxiety in a very short time period. Just taking a couple minutes, This works wonders for kind of regulating and reducing our stress and anxiety and kind of calming us down. So what we do here is it's a double inhale. Where we start off, We inhale through the nose to about 70%. And then what we do is a kind of a quick inhalation through the mouth, Like you're sucking in the air and feeling almost a slight bit of tension into the body. And then as long as possible, Exhale with the sound of a sigh through the mouth. So it's something like this. We inhale. And where we normally feel it, Don't we do a quick gasp? Feel a little bit of tension in that upper chest and then Make that exhale as long as you can. It's almost like we're just dissolving the exhale. We ride it out. Okay. So do one more demonstration. Now we're going to do six. So it's inhale through the nose. Sucking in the air through the mouth. Long sigh exhale. So let's do six on our own. Double inhale, Long exhalation. Ride that exhale out. You should just feel as relaxed as possible. You're dissolving all your tension through the body and mind on the exhale. And begin. We're gonna do two more of these. Make the exhale even longer where there's almost nothing left to exhale and you exhale even more. Exhale more and more. And hold at this bottom of the exhale for three. One and just a normal relaxing breath. Feel free to use this practice. Throughout your day whenever you just need about two minutes A little stress relief. Amazing, Simple breathing practice for downregulating. For balancing our emotional and energetic state. Thanks for joining.