Regulating our breath can have a significant effect on our stress levels.
Longer exhales can slow down your heart rate, which in turn can signal to your brain that you are calm.
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Regulate your breath to calm down your heart rate and focus your attention. Whether you're in a competition or game, this technique will help you focus your attention on what matters. There are many different types of breathing patterns and they relate to different emotional states.
Geek out: Stanford researcher Dr. Krasnow, describes many different types of breaths: "regular, excited, sighing, yawning, gasping, sleeping, laughing, sobbing" and these breath patterns relate to different emotional states. His team has identified a cluster of neurons in the brainstem of mice that are breathing rhythm generators, which directly communicate with the higher functioning brain to regulate attention, alertness, and stress levels.
