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But I really noticed a shift in just my mental, it's quite stressful trying to do a podcast, make sure I'm doing a good job.

And interestingly, I immediately felt, oh, obviously it's more relaxing now.

Okay.

We will find a way to have a link in the show notes so you can get this exercise.

That sounds fantastic.

Thank you, James.

Let's say that I'm listening to this, realize I'm a mouth breather, realize that I'm breathing too fast and I work to try and fix.

I start doing those five minute exercises that you're describing.

I start to think about this.

How quickly might I start to feel the benefits of working on this?

James, that's been fascinating.

I'd like to do a quick summary and correct me if I get anything wrong.

The number one thing I'm taking away is I'm breathing wrong.

Everyone else I know is breathing wrong.

And part of that, it's a little bit like the story with our food, that we're now living in an environment which is very different from the environment we all grew up in.

And so part of that is that, you know, I'm sitting in a chair all the time and I'm sort of hunched over.

And therefore, as I breathe, I'm actually sort of just breathing with the top part of my body with my...

mouth and then only into the top of my chest.

And so I'm not really getting it down to the bottom of my torso.

And so then I'm having to breathe a lot more and this is telling my brain I'm stressed out and this is all bad.