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Deep breaths reduce stress, improve focus.

29 Dec 2023 · 1 min

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A short wellness coaching video (Living Light Metabolic Coach) arguing that calm, intentional deep breathing reduces stress and improves focus and mental clarity. The speaker contrasts calm, gentle breathing—said to set the nervous system for focus—with short, shallow mouth breathing, which signals stress and produces anxiety and scattered thinking.

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The other thing that breathing correctly will do is it will improve your focus and clarity. So when I'm trying to do focused work, one of the first things I tap into and pay attention to is how am I breathing? Because if I'm breathing in a calm, gentle way, intentionally, that's going to set the stage in my nervous system for me to be focused and have clarity. But if I'm breathing with my mouth open, short, shallow breaths, I'm telling my nervous system that I'm under stress, and it's having the exact opposite effect of what I'm trying to do. My mind is going to be anxious and I'm going to be scattered and not able to focus on.