Breathing to reduce stress. Breathing is an automatic function of the body that is controlled by the respiratory center of the brain. When we feel stressed, our breathing rate and pattern changes as part of the ‘fight-or-flight response’. 
Fortunately, we also have the power to deliberately change our own breathing. Scientific studies have shown that controlling your breath can help to manage stress and stress-related conditions. Breath control is also used in different practices. Many people use their breathing to help promote relaxation and reduce stress. 

The trick is based on a simple fact of anatomy. When you breathe in, your diaphragm and other muscles move in such a way that the chest expands, leaving slightly more room for your heart. In response your heart expands a tiny bit as well, causing the blood within it to slow slightly. 

Mindful Reiki Breathwork: Physiological Sigh - It looks like this: 

When a person is relaxed, they breathe through their nose in a slow, even and gentle way. Deliberately copying a relaxed breathing pattern seems to calm the nervous system that controls the body’s involuntary functions. 
Controlled breathing can cause physiological changes that include

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