This is super effective! Use your breath to calm your nervous system immediately #biohacking #andrewhuberman #hubermanlab #nervoussystemregulation #breathwork

how to calm your nervous system immediately. The fastest and most thoroughly grounded in physiology and neuroscience for calming down in a self-directed way is what's called the physiological psi. Turns out you're all doing this all the time, but you are doing it involuntarily. And when you stress, you tend to forget that you can also activate these systems voluntarily. This is an extremely powerful set of techniques that are very, very useful for reducing your stress response in real time. When you're feeling stress, you can do a double inhale. Long exhale. Now, I just told you a minute ago that if you inhale more than you exhale, you're gonna speed the heart rate up, which would promote more stress and activation. When you do the double inhale exhale, the double inhale reinflates those little sacs of the lungs. And then when you do the long exhale, that long exhale is now much more effective at ridding your body and bloodstream of carbon dioxide.