Dr. Singh connects breathing patterns to stress: panicked people breathe shallow and fast from the chest, while calm people breathe deep from the abdomen. He recommends making your exhales longer than your inhales and breathing with your belly instead of your chest to reduce stress.
Friends, state of your mind— if you are stressed out, it has very strong connection with the way you breathe. And opposite is also true. The way you breathe also affect the activity of your mind. I always see the people who are stressed out, who are in panic state, they breathe very differently. They breathe shallow, they breathe fast, they breathe superficially. If you notice somebody like a saint or, or even a child, how they breathe, they breathe through their abdomen, right? Their abdomen is moving in and out when they're breathing, whereas, you know, we mostly breathe through our chest, right? Which is like, you know, superficial breathing. It's like a shallow kind of a breathing. So when it comes to the stress management, if we can just learn how to breathe properly— and proper breathing means, you know, our exhales, at least keep them as long as your inhales. If you can make them a little bit longer than inhales, it It's amazing. And then the second thing is, you know, try to move your abdomen when you breathe. Don't just keep breathing from your chest, which is shallow breathing. Breathing is wonderful. Breathing can help you calm down your mind in amazing manner. Just try it out.
