Breathing is so simple. We all do it every moment of our lives and the vast majority of the time don't even think about it. But, what if we did think about it. What if we intentionally took a few minutes just a few times a day to breath fully in and fully out.

Would you believe that simple action could reduce your anxiety, reduce physical pain, give you more energy, help you heal faster, protect from getting sick, improve your decision making skills, make you a more compassionate more insightful version of yourself and on and on. The best part is, there literally are no negative side-effects. Unlike anti-anxiety meds and anti-depressants, regular deep breathing can have much the same impact as these meds but with no side-effects and no cost (hence the drug companies don't want you to know this as there is no profit for them. In fact, it will actually cost them money as people learn to breath!).

In this podcast, I go into more details about the benefits of intentional slow deep breathing and then, at minute 15 and 10 seconds, I spend the last 10 minutes just doing some simple guided breathing exercises.

Special thanks to James Nestor's book Breath, from which I extracted some information for this podcast.

If you have questions, feel free to contact me at [email protected].

May you always be compassionate in your thoughts, kind in your words and actions and curious in all things.

Alan Pennington - The Curious Counselor