Dr. Giulia Enders

It has an easier job, you could say.

And so there is actually a direct impact

on the ratio of how long we breathe in and how long we breathe out on the heart, on the nerves around the heart, and the stress hormones.

So if you just breathe out a little longer than you breathe in, the heart can relax a little longer.

And when you do this for just one minute, very focused on that, let's say, then you can have measurably less stress hormones in your blood.

Your heart rate will actually reduce a little bit.

And you will just have a little bit more of a relaxed time, just for one minute.

And what does this do?

Not much.

It's just one relaxed minute.

But over the course of weeks and months, people who have this ratio of breathing out a little bit longer than they breathe in show that over the course of their lives, they have a way reduced risk of stress associated diseases like heart attack or, you know, burnout.

Both.

It has an immediate effect and actually special forces from like US military and German police, they use these techniques in high stress situations.

We know midwives use these techniques to alleviate symptoms of pain and stress during childbirth.

And when we look into history and cultures, it's always been used.

When we sing, we breathe out way longer than we breathe in and singing calms our nerves.

You know, we have chantings and all kinds of religions.

So we already kind of know.

But this is the funny thing during these high technology digital times that we're in.

We forget.