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Blythe Baird // Dave Eggers

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Laura K Linke

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Want a *quick* science-backed way to reduce stress? 🙌

Have you ever heard of the "physiological sigh"? It's a natural and automatic deep breath that we take throughout the day to reset our respiratory system and calm our mind. But you can also use this technique intentionally to reduce stress and improve your focus.

To practice the physiological sigh:

Breathe in through your nose (if you can), pause, and then take a second short inhale.

Followed by one long slow exhale through your mouth

This breathing pattern helps to reduce CO2 levels in the body, slows your heart rate, and leaves you feeling calmer, less tense, and more focused. It's a great technique to use anytime you're feeling overwhelmed or need to regain your composure.

So next time you feel stressed, try the physiological sigh and see how it can help you feel more centered and relaxed. Research has even found that when done for five minutes per day it is more effective than meditation or box breathing and can have a lasting impact.

Check out this article to learn about the physiological sigh (aka cyclic breathing).

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[abnormall]

i am tired. i am exhausted. from my head to my soul to my bones i am so fucking tired.

[the-recovery-diaries]

“Why do you live in your body like you will be given another? As if it were temporary. You starve it, you let anyone touch it, you berate it. Tell it that should be completely different. You tug at your soft flesh, wish it thinner, wish it gone. You fall in love with those who praise the way it sighs under their hands, but who praises the way it holds up your weight, even when you are falling apart?”

— Warsan Shire 

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The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as I am now, didn’t exist at all. Will the same thing happen in the next five years? I hope so.

Siegfried Sassoon (via wordsnquotes)

[if-i-was-skinny94]

Do you ever look in the mirror and count every imperfection you see?

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I won’t glorify or romanticize heartbreak, for me it was a kind of death and I was forced to keep living.

Warsan Shire (via wordsnquotes)

[compljcated]

and so, i loved you. wholeheartedly, selflessly, beautifully. it was the kind of love that was in your bloodstream, in your bones, the kind of love you couldn’t wash out of your hair no matter how hard you tried. i think that was my first mistake, you know? giving my all to someone who gave me not even half of themselves. i thought, for a while, that we were in this together. that we were both in it with our fists up and our throats raw from yelling at the stars, but when i looked around, you were sound asleep and my throat was bleeding. i bled for you. i’ve always been there the instant you needed me. and so, here i am, trying to love myself. wholeheartedly, selfishly, beautifully. i am going to give myself that vein deep kind of love, the love you never bothered to even try to give me. i bet you never thought i’d leave, right? you always thought i’d be there for you to string around like a toy, right? thought i’d never run out of chances to give you, right? well, here’s to never leaving and giving all the chances i used to give you, to myself.

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Some people come into your life just to teach you how to let go.

Reyna Biddy (via wordsnquotes)

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Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything. They make you feel so alive that you’d follow them straight into hell…

Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever (via wordsnquotes)

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Ignore people who threaten your joy. Literally, ignore them. Say nothing. Don’t invite any parts of them into your space.

Alex Elle (via wordsnquotes)

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It sucks that we miss people like that. You think you’ve accepted that someone is out of your life, that you’ve grieved and it’s over, and then bam. One little thing, and you feel like you’ve lost that person all over again.

Rachel Hawkins, Demonglass. (via wordsnquotes)