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What is stress?

Stress is a state of worry or mental tension caused by a difficult situation.

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How our body responds to stress.

Our body responds physically and emotionally. Heart racing, palms sweating, shoulders tensing up, shock, fear, anxiety, and anger.

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What exactly are breathing exercises and how does it help manage your stress?

First, let your breath flow as deep down into your belly as is comfortable without forcing it. Try breathing in through your nose and out through your mouth. Breathe gently and regularly. Deliberately copying a relaxed breathing pattern seems to be able to calm the nervous system down that controls the body's involuntary functions.

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The history and/or background of breathing exercises.

It originated thousands of years before the dawn of the Roman Empire, people believe that breathing exercises were incorporated into exercise and relaxation routines.

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How to practice breathing techniques.

Let your breath flow as deep down into your belly as is comfortable without forcing it, try breathing in through your nose and out through your mouth, breathe in gently and regularly, then let it flow out gently counting from 1 to 5 again.

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A guided demonstration of how to practice the breathing techniques.

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Reducing Stress Through Deep Breathing (1 of 3)

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Implementing it to your day to day life 

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Implementing it to your day to day life 

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How often should you practice breathing techniques?

Ideally you should be practicing breathing exercises from about 5 to 10 minutes a day.

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The sources I used for this presentation.

https://nida.nih.gov/sites/default/files/NIDA_YR19_INS3_DownloadAll.pdf

https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/healthyliving/breathing-to-reduce-stress#:~:text=Relaxation%20response,-When%20a%20person&text=Deliberately%20copying%20a%20relaxed%20breathing,stress%20hormones%20in%20the%20blood

https://www.goodtherapy.org/learn-about-therapy/types/breathwork#:~:text=Breathwork%20has%20roots%20in%20Eastern,were%20formed%20during%20this%20era.