A minute with Neel
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Keep it gentle. If you feel light-headed at any point, go back to breathing normally. This is a simple practice, not a treatment.
General education, not medical advice. Works alongside your GP and specialists, never instead of them. If you are unwell, contact your GP or call NHS 111. In an emergency, call 999.
If you feel light-headed, breathe normally.
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The breath sits between the automatic and the voluntary: you do it without thinking, and you can also change it on purpose.
When the out-breath is a little longer than the in-breath, and the pace slows towards about six breaths a minute, studies in healthy adults link it with steadier heart-rate patterns and a calmer felt state. A daily five-minute practice with long out-breaths improved mood in one randomised trial.
Maybe nothing dramatic happened. That is rather the point. Sometimes regulation begins with noticing.
Sources: Zaccaro et al. 2018 · Balban et al. 2023.