Today's topic: Remember to Breathe. Hi I'm Doug Holt with Author of Your Own Story
and this is your daily growth hack where each day we give you a tip trick or
insight to help you up level what we call the five to thrive that is your
mind your body your soul your relationships and your business now
today I want to talk about something that happened the other day as I was
talking to a client of mine and I could actually feel viscerally through the
videoconference they were getting tense and I stopped and asked them are you
breathing and all of a sudden you solve something clear up on them you solve
visually them actually lose about 5 to 10 pounds of weight they took a deep
breath and they've exhaled and they just relax their bodies and when I was
talking to them about was a trigger that it happened at their work see they're a
high-level business owner they run a seven-figure business and they were
being stressed out about some of their employees and situations that were going
on in their enterprise now when I was talking to him about it I could just see
them getting more and more tense but I also noticed they were holding their
breath this is extremely common it's extremely common for us to do it
throughout the day and what you'll notice is actually just
by simply breathing or exhaling in this sense you actually reduce the stress
instantly it's is easy and quick fix and besides losing 5 to 10 pounds in your
appearance isn't a bad thing for most of us so what he did is I Adam just take
them to this exercise take a second breathe are you breathing
check in with yourself and then exhale now so what reason I bring this up is I
see this throughout my day as well often times running several businesses
coaching clients raising a son a family I'm oftentimes in stressful situations
even knowing what I know I find myself hitting dents I get very tense and next
thing I know I'm like I'm stressed out and I go huh oh I was holding my breath
I was taking shallow breaths you see what happens as part of our stress
response is where we get stressed our body doesn't perceive outside stressors
so things that could kill us like a bear for example versus internal stressors so
those things our environment that we create or take
on ourselves and when we do that we hold our breath we hold our breath and that
fight-or-flight response and that actually creates more stress it actually
even creates inner abdominal pressure at times and the inner abdominal pressure
raises our blood pressure and in raising our blood pressure a lot of
physiological responses happen which releases chemicals which also affect our
mood and our minds so just by simply taking deep breaths conscious breathing
throughout the day you'll find that your days become more and more stress less
now that's not really a word but less stressful is what I'm trying to say
something you can do is set an alarm go to your cellular device whether it be an
iPhone or an Android and set alarms throughout the day
maybe it's six or seven alarms throughout your workday or if you're
staying at home maybe it's six or seven alarms spread out throughout the day
whatever it is for you have something relaxing you know someone told me today
you know listen to three little birds by Bob Marley that'll chill you out every
time so maybe that's a song you put on for your alarm it's completely up to you
but the idea is when you hear that alarm I want you to check in to yourself check
with inside yourself and ask yourself am i breathing fully am i taking full
diaphragm ik breaths am i relaxing and then if you're not do it if you are
celebrated either way don't beat yourself up but take that time to
actually breathe and I'm going to ask you to as authors of your own story take
it a step further this is your own story so I want you to check in with yourself
when you feeling tense when you're feeling stressful you're feeling anxiety
why don't you just take a second go am i breathing then take four to five deep
breaths in through the nose relaxed out through the mouth I want you to notice
if your stress levels diminish if your anxiety diminishes then we want you to
journal about it take out your journal write out what
happened what's going on with your body your mind your spirit your business
what's going on in these situations with your relationships I love you to see the
power of just breathing this is a very simple tip but like most simple tips
it's also very easy not to do it's easy to forget pretty listen
to practice is just like anything else you have to do it more and more often
like learning a language if you stop putting into practice you simply forget
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for me have a great day and remember be the author of your own story
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