Dr. Giulia Enders

these things help.

And sometimes it's things like actually looking out for your breath, because breath is a great mediator between the outside and the inside world.

And it can really tell the brain, oh, now we can calm down when we breathe slowly, for example.

So sometimes it's so simple.

It's just one minute at 12 o'clock and one minute at four o'clock during a stressful day, for example.

I'll take and just breathe slow for a minute and it

takes me to a place of more calm, serenity, and it's just this simple, short minute.

In studies, it shows that you have reduced stress hormones if you just take it.

Julia, you're saying even just like this minute twice a day to slow down my breath,

can reduce my stress in the moment and that over time that can have an impact on whether my immune system is sort of like dialed up too high or it's at a sort of more steady level if the rest of my life is stressful, which I suspect for almost everybody listening to it, they're like, they'd say, oh yeah, my life is stressful.

It can take the edge off.

It can't take away all of your stress, but it does shift a little bit in an important aspect, which is value.

Suddenly you give your body this value.

And even if it's just those two minutes, you say, at least it's worth that.

And for a lot of people, that sometimes is more than they had before.

So two minutes is more of a value than they had before.

Isn't that insane?

What does that tell us about our relationship to our inside world?

What about sleep?

Because I've already heard you mentioned that that influences the immune system.