This 10 second breathing technique will leave you feeling calmer inst...

Breathing is a powerful way to not only reset your stress response, but also to help you get out of these moments of overwhelm. I'm sure you're thinking the same thing that I'm thinking, which is, okay, what am I supposed to do with the breathing? How am I breathing? So there's a specific form of breathing that has a lot of different names, okay? Some people call it cyclic breathing. Other people call it a physiological sigh or physiological breathing. I was first told about this type of breathing by Dr. Russell Kennedy, who is an expert that has appeared on this podcast. He's also quoted in the Let Them Theory book. And in order to simplify it, because I'm gonna teach it to you right now, because I use it all the time in moments when I'm overwhelmed, I've given it a name I can remember, and here it is. When life's too much, just double in, then flush, okay? And let me explain the science behind this form of breathing. There's a lot of research coming out of Stanford that explains why this form of breathing is particularly effective in moments of overwhelm or even anxiety. If you love Huberman Lab and the work of Dr. Andrew Huberman, he talks a lot about this in terms of the physiological sigh. But the bottom line is, this has been around for a long time, and the clinical definition is cyclical breathing. And it was explained to me by Dr. Russell Kennedy. So when you're in a state of overwhelm, your breathing can be really quick, right? And so are your thoughts, because you're at capacity. Or you can be so kind of overwhelmed that you're not even aware of your thoughts or aware of your breathing. And that's because your body's fight-or-flight on-edge response is now activated. So Dr. Russ Kennedy, who calls himself the anxiety MD online, taught you and me this technique when I interviewed him on this podcast. I love it. Double inhale through the nose. Pfft. Ah. Flush it out with one long exhale through the mouth. Now, if you repeat that cyclic breathing technique for a minute, you will feel different. If you do it for five minutes a day, the research out of Stanford shows it can reduce anxiety more than meditation. Double in. Ah. Exhale and flush that overwhelmed out.