The neuroscience of slow breathing
Breathing at around six breaths per minute stimulates the vagus nerve, raises heart-rate variability, and shifts your nervous system from stress into calm. It is the one bodily function that is both automatic and under your conscious control — a direct handle on your own physiology.
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