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How Changing Your Breathing Can Change Your Life

The best way to calm down is so innate to our lives, we often take it for granted: Taking a breath.
September 5th, 2013 by: Carolyn Gregoire at The Huffington Post

The best way to calm down is so innate to our lives, we often take it for granted: Taking a breath.

Focusing on your own breathing can have a significant impact on your well-being and stress levels, and can even create physiological changes like lowering your blood pressure. But for many of us, when it comes to improving our health, changing our breathing somehow doesn’t spring to mind as readily as changing our diet or exercise habits.

"We take our breath for granted the way we take our heart beat for granted," Carla Ardito, a breathing expert at Manhattan's Integral Yoga Institute and creator of the Breathing Lessons app, told The Huffington Post. "The difference is we can work on our breathing."


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