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

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🧘‍♂️ 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

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.

Healthy Tips: Diffuse the Angry Feeling by Pausing and Deep Breathing

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Over the next few days I will be posting on ways to diffuse anger. Anger, especially when it is an emotional response without much thought does little, if anything, to improve a situation. When we can take the energy out of our anger or that of another, we have a better chance at working through the salient issues

 Pause and Breathe – Anger triggers the body’s fight-or-flight response. Taking slow, deep breaths activates the parasympathetic nervous system, calming the body and mind. When dealing with an angry person, encourage them to breathe deeply by modeling calmness yourself.

Healthy Tips: Quiet the Anxious Mind

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Deep breathing, positive mantras and tackling negative thoughts can help get you out of your head and cool down your anxiety. Source: Cleveland Clinic

NOTE: Occasionally I’ll go to bed, nod right off, and I’m in dreamland . . . until I open my eyes and my mind has a 30 meter head start on me and I’m trying my best to catch up. I’ve learned if I keep chasing my mind, my sleep is over for the night. I may as well get up and make coffee. I’ve picked up a few tricks that shuts my anxious mind down and before you know it I’m back in dream land. The deep breathing works. One trick I use is to arbitrarily pick a number, say 72. I visualize my mind drawing 72. Then I work down to 71 and so on. I visualize my mind drawing the number. I’ll begin to drift and I’ll find myself not counting down but counting up say to 73. I stop and start over again at 72. I’m usually sound asleep in 10 minutes. Make up your own silly head games, they usually work to get the mind to change tracks. Here’s wishing you a good night’s sleep.

Maintain Good Health During Long Flights

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Leslie Kaminoff, a yoga therapist and breathing specialist, explains that airplane cabins, simulating altitudes of 8,000 feet, have less oxygen and low humidity, challenging passengers’ respiratory systems. He recommends taking long, deep breaths. Kaminoff advises plane travelers to contract calf muscles, not perform strenuous exercises. Simple movements like foot tapping help pump blood from the lower body. Drinking water promotes movement by necessitating bathroom visits. Laurie Steelsmith, a naturopathic doctor and acupuncturist, emphasizes the importance of protecting the immune system during flights. The closed, dry environment with potentially sick passengers necessitates avoiding sugar, which fosters bacteria and viruses.

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