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    What happens when we breathe deep?

    Breathing is something that happens automatically, all day every day. It’s an automatic process driven by the brainstem, an area of the brain which controls life-sustaining functions like heartbeat, hormone release, and sleeping patterns. We can move through life without giving it much thought. However, we know it changes as we move through various emotions. When we’re stressed, it can become very slow and shallow, when we’re anxious it can be fast and relentless. On the contrary when were calm & focused it becomes deep and elongated. Amazingly humans are the only species who also have conscious control over this automatic system, we can change our breathing pattern just by…