Box breathing to reduce stress

Speakers: Michelle Flynn

Michelle Flynn: Actually focusing on our breathing, it calms our nervous system, it tells our body we are safe and our body can go back to balance and we can operate at our optimal- whatever that might be. So this breathing pattern, you can do any point in the day when you are stressed or anxious, you can do it just before you go into that difficult conversation or just after you find out that that candidate is not accepting the job, you can do it when you're trying to get to sleep or if you wake up in the middle of the night and you're struggling to get back to sleep. It's called tactical breathing. It's done by the military. The idea is they do it before they go into battle to help them calm themselves down to think clearly. It's also known as box breathing.