Conflict strikes all of us with about 22 stressors on a normal day. So why do some take stressors in stride well yet others snap back? 
Recent research puts new emphasis on breathing deep when stressors hit. A deep breath helps you to tame the amygdala triggers for emotional outbursts.
Take a few more deep breaths today and you can expect calm under pressure, according to neuro-scientist Joshua Gordon at Columbia.
Have you seen it happen?
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on Jul 17th, 2009 at 8:53 am
Good advice – and timley – I’m breathing!!!
on Jul 17th, 2009 at 10:03 am
Thanks for your kind words Scott – seems like next week’s stressors are all here at the Brain Center today too:-) So folks here also suck it in:-) a bit more than usual today.
Hope we are all surprised by joy before the day ends – because we breathed:-)!
on Jul 17th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
Thanks for the reminder Ellen. Breathing, being basic to life, it seems that we would try no to skimp. I will be breathing better this weekend after reading your post.
on Jul 17th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
Hey Chris, what’s up? Thanks for stopping by!
In your work perhaps the deeper breathing becomes a bit more of a pattern since you are moving around more. Have you found that to be so, and have you noticed that breathing impacts your ability to come up with insights you need in decision making?
on Jul 18th, 2009 at 10:38 am
Thanks for the great information! I have been learning a lot…and I, too, will be breathing better this weekend after reading this and other past posts!
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on Jul 18th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Thanks Genni for stopping by and for your kind words. Spent part of this morning out weeding along a creek in my yard and it’s fun to breath is fresh air too:-). You?
on Apr 29th, 2010 at 4:20 pm
Is there certain breathing equivolent to certain brainwaves ?
on Apr 29th, 2010 at 4:22 pm
Woops! retake: Is there a certain breathing rate equivolent to a certain brainwave ?