Is the Way You Breathe Making You Anxious?

Is the Way You Breathe Making You Anxious?
The body needs oxygen in volumes that many people fail to deliver due to inadequate breathing. Meditation and other disciplines often focus on this critical biological need. fizkes/Shutterstock
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Scrolling social media, amid frantic election-related posts and news of escalating COVID-19 cases, you may have come across a friend reminding everyone to just breathe. In online magazine Greater Good’s advice for Americans post-election, University of California–Berkeley professor john a. powell (as he prefers to style his name) first suggested we “take a breath or two; get grounded in body, mind, and spirit.”

Kira M. Newman
Kira M. Newman
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Kira M. Newman is the managing editor of Greater Good. Her work has been published in outlets including The Washington Post, Mindful magazine, Social Media Monthly, and Tech.co, and she is the co-editor of The Gratitude Project. This article was originally published on the Greater Good online magazine.
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