Breathwork Fallacies, How to Tap Into Your ANS & a Slow Breathing Exercise

When you stimulate the parasympathetic wing of the ANS, calming, soothing, healing ripples spread through your body, brain, and mind.

Breathe Light and Slow to help activate your body’s relaxation response (exercise #1).

example, take five breaths, inhaling and exhaling a little more fully than usual. This is both energizing and relaxing, activating first the sympathetic system and then the parasympathetic one, back and forth, in a gentle rhythm. Notice how you feel when you’re done. That combination of aliveness and centeredness is the essence of the peak performa

While doing anything and between thinking for practical purposes, bring attention into your body and reduce your breathing. You follow each breath and feel the air shortage. You breathe through your nose at all times: during exercise, while sleeping and when engaged in any other activity. You feel your inner body throughout the day.

Practice deep breathing. Simple yet effective. Exhaling activates the parasympathetic nervous system, responsible for the body’s “rest-and-digest” processes.

You can create a sense of calm by breathing in slowly, then making a very long, slow exhalation, over and over. At the start of each breathing cycle (the inhale) your sympathetic nervous system slightly elevates your heart rate.