Breathe Away Stress

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Stress can be effectively dispersed by deep breathing.  It’s not that the stress can be avoided or magically disappear, it’s that one can mitigate the impact of stress on the body.  Relaxed breathing, alone, or with meditation or yoga, etc, stimulates the parasympathetic nervous system which acts like a brake on the sympathetic stress response. […]