Most people stress breathe shallow and fast. This 60-second reset: breathe into your belly instead of your chest, cover your eyes while you do it, then blink rapidly when you open them. Your nervous system settles down.
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Now while we're doing that, we also want to focus on breathing through the belly. So to show you that, we're going to be here. We're going to breathe into the belly. So you should expand as you inhale. And then as you exhale, everything should shrink back in. So there should be movement through here. If you find that you're breathing a lot up and down in the chest like that, that's stress breathing and that's not going to help you. So practice the breathing. Practice covering the eyes. After about 60 seconds, we're going to open the eyes and blink rapidly. We're going to blink for 15 seconds or so, and that's kind of just reintroducing the light back into your eyes and not going so fast.