Healthy Tip: 🫁 Day 1: Breathe Like You Mean It (Because Gasping Doesn’t Count)

🧘‍♂️ For the next 5 days (beginning with this post) I am going to share a different way to stay calm and keep your cool. Non of us are immune from high stress situations. A small trigger an set us of causing us to say or do something we later regret. Healthy

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Breathe Like You Mean It (Deep Breathing)

Why it works: Deep breathing activates your parasympathetic nervous system—your body’s natural “calm-down” mode.

How: Try box breathing: inhale for 4 seconds, hold for 4, exhale for 4, hold for 4. Repeat.

Example:

You’re stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic, running late. Instead of white-knuckling the steering wheel, you take five deep, slow breaths and focus on the rhythm. Your heart rate drops, your grip relaxes, and suddenly you’re not yelling at the radio.