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by calebio 1247 days ago
A lot of breath work is very specific to the individual. Guides, how-tos, videos can often make people more anxious because their body is behaving slightly differently than their "source".

Surprisingly, you don't need to learn it as much as you just need to do it and think about how your body feels as you do it.

When you exhale, just exhale like you were just relieved of something horrible... or like you're saying "whewwwwwwwwww" as in "whewww, that's a relief".

Don't worry about how many seconds it was, don't really count unless you like to, just breath and feel the feelings.

When you do that a few times, especially after a slow inhale... it starts to feel really good, really natural, and in a weird way when you think it's going to work and think it's going to feel good, it actually ends up feeling good and relieving stress.