It started a week before my best friend's wedding.. My nervousness has reached epic levels. I couldn't sleep at all. What worried me the most was my congratulatory speech. My shyness and horror of what was to come kept me awake for three days in a row, according to Pannochka, an online publication for girls and women aged 14 to 35.. net When I met the dawn, unable to close my eyes for the third time in a row, the mother of the bride advised me to try one technique. According to her, she saved her for more than a decade.

I believed. After all, the advice was given to me by a woman who has a license to conduct wellness practices.. She has been studying meditation, stress, breathing practices for many years.. And her advice changed my life.

The easiest way to remember this method is to call it “4-7-8”. In general, you just need to stretch your breath through your nose for four seconds.. Then we should hold our breath for 7 seconds. Finally, you need to exhale through your mouth, stretching this case for 8 seconds..

It's so simple. This breathing exercise slows down our heart rate and calms. And it happens very quickly: in just a few repetitions. " Even though it looks like madness,” I realized..

How it works.

In general, the first time I fell asleep so quickly that I didn’t even have time to realize it.. I slept like a baby for the next four days before the wedding.. Later, I studied tons of literature in an attempt to find out how and why it works..

When you feel stressed or anxious, adrenaline rushes through your veins, your heart beats fast, and your breathing becomes fast and shallow.. The trick I told you about works like a sedative..

As you artificially slow down your breathing, your body is forced to slow down your heart rate as a result.. Oxygen for pumping “fresh” blood to the body is still not enough. Holding the breath with deliberately slow exhalation inevitably slows down the heart rate.. It's physiology.

This practice also calms the mind.. Simply because you constantly have to count in your mind and focus on your breath.. And also because shortness of breath and anxiety always go hand in hand.. You really don't realize it.

So, by exerting a physical influence on the symptoms, you can suppress the cause. The effectiveness of this method of calming down will be confirmed by any neurophysiologist..

As a result, your whole body relaxes.. So hard and so fast, like someone gave you anesthesia.

Harvard MD Andrew Weil says the 4-7-8 practice has been known to Indian yogis for thousands of years.. They are used for stress suppression and relaxation. So you can consider it absolutely safe.

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