Researchers are answering the question: What’s going on in the body when we take slow, deep breaths?
The evidence clearly shows there is something you can do—no matter where you are or what the circumstances are. Take a few slow, deep breaths.situations, human nature actually drives us to take deep breaths. If you’re getting ready to give a speech to a large crowd or standing at the starting line for a community running race, you may find yourself taking a deep breath without even thinking about it.
Across the globe and throughout centuries, cultural traditions such as yoga and Tibetan Buddhism have drawn on our natural instincts to promote breathwork as a way to achieve calm and relaxation.Now researchers are asking, what’s going on in the body when we take slow, deep breaths? A systematic review published inaims to shed light on this topic. The article includes data from 15 separate studies that investigate the mechanisms at play during slow breathing exercises.
Breathing exercises also trigger changes in the central nervous system, which is made up of the brain and spinal cord. Here, breath exercises are associated with increased alpha wave activity, a sign of good cognitive performance. The review also found that study participants who engaged in slow, deep breathing reported increased feelings of comfort, relaxation, pleasantness, vigor, and alertness and reduced feelings of arousal, anxiety, depression,
The review authors have two theories about why these emotional changes occur. One theory is that slow breathing promotes enteroception, or the ability to know and feel what’s going on in your body. Essentially, they are arguing that slow breathing helps you to better recognize and voluntarily regulate your feelings.bulb, the neural structure in the brain that processes information about smell.
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