Hello and

in today's human, the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.

I'm your host, Corey Muscarra, and in today's episode I'm going to share a breathing technique called the 4-7-8 breath.

More to come on that in a moment.

First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. You're going to be. So this is called the 478 breath.

And it was created by Dr. Andrew Weil.

Now I'm going to walk you through it.

We'll do it together.

Doesn't matter if you're driving, lying down, sitting.

We can all engage in it while we're listening. Now what this entails is

we're going to breathe in for four seconds, we're going to hold it for seven seconds, and

then we're going to exhale over the course of 8 seconds.

Just a heads up, the exhaling for 8 seconds tends to be the hardest.

So we'll try this out.

I'll walk you through it. First thing, exhale all the air that's still in your lungs. So breathing out.

Now breathe in fully through the nose for four seconds.

Breathing in, one, two, three, four.

Now hold it for one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Now exhale through the mouth for one, two, three, four, five, six, 8, nice. That's the 478 breath. Let's do it one more time together.

Exhale all the air out of the lungs.

Breathing in for Exhale all the air out of the lungs.

Breathing in for four through the nose. One, two, three, four.

Hold for seven.

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