Aug
03
Stress – Breathe and live with less Stress
ByStress is a response to a threat. When the threat is perceived like possibly losing your job during a recession, the response to it can grind on and on. This response is detrimental. The purpose is to get you moving and that is what these words are intended to do.
Breathing is necessary for life. Three minutes without oxygen and you enter another realm but leave this one. Increasing your levels of oxygen for brief periods throughout the day can make you anxiety proof and lessen your stress response. It isn’t hard and when you do deep breathing for brief periods of time you make you body accustomed to changing levels of oxygen. One indicator of an emergency to your brains emergency monitoring system is falling levels of carbon dioxide (CO2). CO2 is a waste product we breathe off. There are levels that are usual. If the body perceives lower than usual levels, it thinks you are sensing a danger because you are breathing faster. Breathing exercises can teach your body that lower levels of CO2 can be a sign of relaxation and this will help you reduce your stress response.
Here is how you do it. Stop for a moment right where you are. Imagine you need to blow away something falling on your face. I don’t like feathers so I imagine them. I imagine each feather is something bugging me. A person, a situation, a problem that I am going to blow away.
Now, take a deep breath down into you abdomen. You know you are breathing abdominally when your belly button moves out or up when you inhale. Now exhale fully and completely but purse your lips like you are blowing something away. For me I blow away feathers and problems and relax. I let my shoulders fall into their normal place, I let my back relax and I feel better. Stop what you are doing now, stop reading, stop any music and breathe deeply in and out 3 times. It isn’t magic. It is effective. I have learned to do it when walking from one exam room to another, quietly and quit effectively. You can learn this too.
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