Deep, slow breathing relieves stress and relaxes you, and also engages your sympathetic in ways that work for you, not against you. In this way, deep breathing helps send your body signals of safety so that you can enter into a higher state of functioning – one that is healing, regenerat...
Learning slow, diaphragmatic or effortless breathing at about six breaths per minute (resonant frequency ) is also an ‘active ingredient’ in heartrate variability (HRV) training (Steffen et al., 2017; Shaffer & Meehan, 2020). 1. Factors that interfere with slow, diaphragmatic breathing ...