170 - The Science Behind Deep Breathing
Tiny Leaps, Big Changes
Gregg Clunis
4.3 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2017
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I talk about why deep breathing calms you down.
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youtube.com/watch?v=FseAiTb8Se0
Resources:
livestrong.com/article/136646-why-does-deep-breathing-calm-you-down/
med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2017/03/study-discovers-how-slow-breathing-induces-tranquility.html
time.com/4718723/deep-breathing-meditation-calm-anxiety/
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| 0:33.0 | In this episode, I want to talk about breathing. |
| 0:37.1 | Take a deep breath, hold, and release |
| 0:41.1 | because you are now listening to tiny leaps. |
| 0:45.0 | Big Chape. Oh, Welcome to another episode of Tiny Leaps, Big Changes, where I share simple strategies |
| 1:27.9 | you can use to get more out of your life. My name is Greg Klunis and in this episode I want to explore why deep breathing |
| 1:37.2 | calms us down. It's been a pretty poorly held secret that taking a deep breath is a useful tool to calm you down. |
| 1:45.4 | In fact, one of the most basic ideas exploited by screenwriters is as follows. |
| 1:51.5 | Someone is upset and they go into their therapy session. The therapist |
| 1:55.6 | asks what's wrong and they start yelling. Maybe they're talking about something their |
| 2:00.4 | husband did that piss them off. Maybe they're talking about how upset they were |
| 2:04.4 | when a friend ditch them. |
| 2:06.2 | Whatever it is, usually it ends with the therapist |
| 2:08.9 | saying something along the lines of, |
| 2:11.4 | okay, take a deep breath, sit down, and let's talk about it. |
| 2:17.2 | When something is used as often as this general idea, you tend to start believing that it must work, right? |
| 2:25.0 | Well, it does. |
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