Triangle Breathing - Calm Your Mind With This Simple Deep Breathing Exercise
Deep Breathing is a well known tool that can help calm your mind, lower heart rate, and reduce stress. This article is a good introduction to the principle. You can read a more in-depth article at this link . A lot of research has been done around this psychobiological hack. Here is a brief review of some of the literature. "Psychological/behavioral outputs related to the abovementioned [physiological] changes are increased comfort, relaxation, pleasantness, vigor and alertness, and reduced symptoms of arousal, anxiety, depression, anger, and confusion." - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6137615/ "Students reported having perceptions of decreased test anxiety, nervousness, self-doubt, and concentration loss...and believing it helped them academically..." - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10401330701366754 The problem with the term deep breathing, is it can mean many different things to different people. I have attempted to rectify that. T