Positive responses from your body.

Did you know? Taking slow, deep breaths can prompt several positive responses within your body.

Deep breathing can:

• Help to manage stress and even pain
• Reduce feelings of anxiety and depression
• Stabilize (or lower) your blood pressure
• Send more oxygen to your body’s organs
• Promote calm, by affecting your nervous system

Involuntary, but also controllable.

Of course, you go on breathing without ever thinking about it. But you can control your breathing, with just a little effort. That means you can get the many benefits of deep breathing whenever you need to!

Try “4-7-8 breathing.”

There are a handful of deep breathing techniques you can try. For example, with “4-7-8 breathing,” you inhale through your nose for four counts, then hold that breath for seven counts. Finally, exhale through your mouth (slowly) for eight counts.

Make it part of your routine.