Breathwork Fallacies, How to Tap Into Your ANS & a Slow Breathing Exercise
When you're excited or stressed, the aperture of your visual window shrinks. When you're relaxed, the aperture of your vision expands.
Charlotte Grysolle • Breathwork Fallacies, How to Tap Into Your ANS & a Slow Breathing Exercise
Here’s a tool you can immediately try out to activate the parasympathetic nervous system and push back the stress response in real-time:
The physiological sigh.
It’s simple:
The physiological sigh.
It’s simple:
- 2 inhales through the nose (one long until you feel you can do no more, and then a second small one)
- 1 long extended exhale through the mouth
- 1–3 times
Charlotte Grysolle • Breathwork Fallacies, How to Tap Into Your ANS & a Slow Breathing Exercise
To activate the sympathetic nervous system (autonomic arousal ⬆️): emphasize longer and stronger inhales. To activate the parasympathetic nervous system (autonomic arousal ⬇️): emphasize longer and slower exhales.
Charlotte Grysolle • Breathwork Fallacies, How to Tap Into Your ANS & a Slow Breathing Exercise
To activate the sympathetic nervous system: narrow your vision. Go into “Portrait Mode” and let everything else fall into the background. To activate the parasympathetic nervous system: widen your visual field. See as much of your environment as you can.
Charlotte Grysolle • Breathwork Fallacies, How to Tap Into Your ANS & a Slow Breathing Exercise
When you're excited or stressed, the aperture of your visual window shrinks. When you're relaxed, the aperture of your vision expands.
Charlotte Grysolle • Breathwork Fallacies, How to Tap Into Your ANS & a Slow Breathing Exercise
- To activate the sympathetic nervous system: narrow your vision. Go into “Portrait Mode” and let everything else fall into the background.
- To activate the parasympathetic nervous system: widen your visual field. See as much of your environment as you can.