Anxiety Free: Stop worrying and quieten your mind - Featuring the Buteyko Breathing Method and Mindfulness

Without enough oxygen, your mind becomes scattered, and the rest of your body tenses up. In correct breathing, you inhale and exhale to about 70 percent or 80 percent of capacity, so that your lungs stay relaxed.

if you increased the output of the nerve by relaxing and slowing the breath, it would stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system, slowing your heart and decreasing your blood pressure.

“Breathing in, I know I am breathing in. Breathing out, I know I am breathing out.” After saying these sentences, we can abbreviate them by saying “In” as we breath in, and “Out” as we breath out. We don’t try to control our breathing. Whether our in-breath is long or short, deep or shallow, we just breathe naturally and shine the light of mindfuln

pick one aspect of breathing to focus on, one that would have the greatest payoff in health and happiness, it would be to notice when your breathing shifts up into your chest. It does that when you’re angry and when you’re scared.