7-Minute Breathing Exercise to Reset Your Nervous System

Feeling stressed? This short breathing exercise calms your nervous system in about seven minutes. No mat, no space, no experience needed.

Breathing exercise starts at 2:44.

You'll learn a simple technique: inhale for four, exhale for seven that uses your vagus nerve to shift your body out of stress and into rest. Unlike the popular 4-7-8 method, there's no breath hold, so there's no strain and nothing to force. Just a steadier state you can return to anytime: before a hard conversation, between meetings, or at 3 a.m. when your mind won't quiet down.

Keep this one in your back pocket for stress, anxiety, or trouble sleeping. Press play, breathe, and reset.

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