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We’re on the B of November, which is Breathe deeply.
If you ever look at my Substack where I post nightly (through 2024), honestly, like a nightly blog of the crap in my head spews out on the page, I’ve had three or four posts talking about breath.
Breath is incredibly important.
When you get stressed, you breathe shallowly, so how do you stop doing that?
If you can change that and breathe a little bit more deeply, you will feel less stressed.
You’ll have a clearer head. It clears out some of the stress chemicals too.
I’m going to make a couple suggestions.
Suggestion number one is you could do a four or five count breathing in.
One, two, three, four, five.
And then out, same amount.
One, two, three, four, five. Then start the process over.
If that is difficult, start with shorter inhalations/exhalations.
If you want extreme stress relief, you breathe in for a count and then you double it on the out.
If you breathe in for four, you breathe out for eight.
This helps you to sleep too.
You breathe in for four.
One, two, three, four.
Breathe out for eight.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
Breathing is incredibly important.
If you ever find yourself taking shallow breaths, you can do the deep breaths.
You’re not going to believe me, but yawning is amazing it will clear your head before you go into a stressful meeting. Do a big manual yawn. It’s going to help, and it actually brings in oxygen and energizes you.
If you feel you are breathing shallowly, yawn, do some of the breathing exercises and it’s going to help you through this month.
