A short YouTube clip by James Laughlin presenting a quick tool to reduce acute anxiety: the "physiological sigh." Laughlin opens by citing a World Health Organization prevalence figure (301 million people with an anxiety disorder) to normalize the experience, then describes and demonstrates the two-inhale, single-sigh breathing technique and asserts that neuroscience shows it reduces anxiety.
Are you sick of feeling anxious or overwhelmed? Well, look, the World Health Organization published a research paper showing that 301 million people are suffering from an anxiety disorder. So if you are suffering from anxiety, you're in company with millions, hundreds of millions of other people. Look, my health coach shared something with me some time ago and it's really useful. It's a simple little tool to help you with acute stress and anxiety. It's called a physiological sigh. All you've got to do is take a breath in through your nose and before you finish the breath, take another big one and you go.
And then let out with a big sigh. Just give it a try.
So it's two breaths in through the nose quite intensely and then let it out with a sigh. If you do that, the neuroscience shows that it will bring down the anxiety and take away the power that it has over you. I hope you enjoy it.
