Breathe, Stretch & Move: Get Rid of Workplace Stress

Don’t try to stop thoughts — simply dominate centre stage with the rhythmic flow of numbers.

If you wish to improve your range of movement, the stretch should be maintained. Research suggests that people with normal muscles should hold the stretch for a duration of 30 seconds, and repeat it five days a week, for at least six weeks. It is possible to achieve gains in the range of motion of about 20–25 percent. A general rule of thumb is tha

Stretching and breathing maintain a range of movement and provide good nutrition via re-oxygenation of the brain and body, improving clarity of thought, focus and energy levels. Movement dissipates toxin build-up. Good movement and good breathing provide feedback to the brain, sending the information that everything is OK. Chemicals are released in

OSH recommends that all computer users have a micro-pause every three minutes.

It has been suggested that we should have a brain rest approximately every 50 minutes. The combination of breathing and body awareness is an excellent tool to focus attention on the moment, the here and now. Just stop, move, think about your body and breathing — this helps to still the constant mind chatter we all have.

Take care not to hold at the top of the in-breath. Breathe out gently, relax, and let the in-breath start. This letting go can be a very strange feeling, but relax — your next in-breath will start all by itself with no prompting from you.

Chances are, the negative thoughts arrived on an upper-chest in-breath. So as they leave — breathe them out

you have fewer red blood cells if you are anaemic, which means less oxygen is available in the body. You breathe harder to try to get more oxygen.

If you are stressed and you try to meditate you can’t do it, but if you are stressed and breathe you can calm yourself, and then what stressed you does not stress you any more.