🎧 A Powerful Nervous System Breathing Reset in 30 Seconds. This simple and effective breathing exercise will bring you into the present moment, and into a state of calm: the best place to tackle anything from.
I was reading your text on the train on my way home after a long day filled with lots of thinking and cognitive activities. The reset helped me instantly to come back into the body and calm down. It's a good reminder to return to our breath from time to time, f.e. when having micro breaks during our days. Thank you for this reminder - I'm going to practice it with my son tonight who also tends to over-think things and sometimes needs help with finding into sleep.
I’m so glad you tried it Ela. Yes share with your son. If he has trouble falling asleep he can slow his breath down a bit (still deep) to the rhythm that mimics what breath is like when we are asleep. This triggers the sleep hormone to be produced. 😴
This is so helpful Kate! I know various breathing techniques but most have you holding then exhaling. This is nice and simple and I used it yesterday when I got in a fluster while catching a bullet train out of Tokyo for the weekend. You gotta know the place to be at the right time with the right kind of ticket etc. it all worked out, I made the train but I was left in a heightened state of nervousness which I was having trouble getting out of…. Any way your help plus the view of snow capped Mts helped calm me down. Thank you for that and all the other useful reminders you gave!
This was great! I often do 4-7-8 or box breathing to calm down too, but this was a nice short in the moment option. Thank you! (Also I love the illustration!)
Thanks for this, which chimes do strongly with my experience...I would be signing in for your course, except that I have recently started therapy, and don't want to muddy the issues, or overwhelm my mind... Maybe I'll buy the whole link later in the summer.
A practising though escaped Buddhist and dabbler in yoga, learning about breath has been really crucial for me - and a lifetime of undiagnosed ADHD means my overwhelm response has been haywire for many years.
A recent digression has led to a BP and pulse monitor for a week, and a realisation that I live on constant unnecessary and shiftable high-alert.
Here's to much more understanding of Breath and its centrality to our health, mental and physical.
PS do you know the 'mindfulness bell' app? I call it my 'pause-button'...
Try the reset now, and let me know what impact it had. What else you do when you need to calm down? 🕊️
You can't say 'no' to a 30-second break! Thanks for reminding me to go back to my breath and press the 'reset' button, Kate! 🫁
It’s so east to forget how helpful our bodies are! 💛
I was reading your text on the train on my way home after a long day filled with lots of thinking and cognitive activities. The reset helped me instantly to come back into the body and calm down. It's a good reminder to return to our breath from time to time, f.e. when having micro breaks during our days. Thank you for this reminder - I'm going to practice it with my son tonight who also tends to over-think things and sometimes needs help with finding into sleep.
I’m so glad you tried it Ela. Yes share with your son. If he has trouble falling asleep he can slow his breath down a bit (still deep) to the rhythm that mimics what breath is like when we are asleep. This triggers the sleep hormone to be produced. 😴
This is so helpful Kate! I know various breathing techniques but most have you holding then exhaling. This is nice and simple and I used it yesterday when I got in a fluster while catching a bullet train out of Tokyo for the weekend. You gotta know the place to be at the right time with the right kind of ticket etc. it all worked out, I made the train but I was left in a heightened state of nervousness which I was having trouble getting out of…. Any way your help plus the view of snow capped Mts helped calm me down. Thank you for that and all the other useful reminders you gave!
Im so glad it helped you Jan, it works doesn’t it! I’m sure snow capped mountains help too!
I love this. I do it a lot and find it so helpful to get back to sleep or just down regulate.
Yes it’s a good way to settle down at night, I do this too ✨
I usually do this with a guided meditation, but recently tried just breathing with a stopwatch (to make it intentional). It worked wonders.
That’s good. I like this as it only takes three breaths so you don’t need a timer. A pocket version! ✨
Very nice, Kate, thank you.
I’m so pleased you like it, ☺️🕊️
This was great! I often do 4-7-8 or box breathing to calm down too, but this was a nice short in the moment option. Thank you! (Also I love the illustration!)
Hi Bonnie, yes that’s also a good one, on the PDF I mentioned. This one is a bit simpler and still works! 🕊️
Yes, and less visible perhaps if you’re at work or out and about! Thanks so much
Haha yes! 🙏🏻
Beautiful Words 🤍🌸
Thank you so much Neha! Have a good day 🕊️
Thanks for this, which chimes do strongly with my experience...I would be signing in for your course, except that I have recently started therapy, and don't want to muddy the issues, or overwhelm my mind... Maybe I'll buy the whole link later in the summer.
A practising though escaped Buddhist and dabbler in yoga, learning about breath has been really crucial for me - and a lifetime of undiagnosed ADHD means my overwhelm response has been haywire for many years.
A recent digression has led to a BP and pulse monitor for a week, and a realisation that I live on constant unnecessary and shiftable high-alert.
Here's to much more understanding of Breath and its centrality to our health, mental and physical.
PS do you know the 'mindfulness bell' app? I call it my 'pause-button'...
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Yes I agree stick to your therapy though you’re welcome afterwards. Keep it simple!
heard of that app, sounds good! I hope you find ways to shift down from high alert - I’m sure therapy will help that, and keep your exhale long. 🙏🏻
Thanks for the reminder ❤️ Iteach yoga and meditation, but I sometimes forget to do for myself what I teach others!
Hi Leanna, haha! I’m the same! 🤣
I appreciated the point you made about how important breathing and breath work is, even as we make adjustments to what we eat or other health areas.
Yes it’s a simple one and often overlooked ✨
Great reminder to stop and BREATHE. Thank you, Kate!
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