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4 times you should pay attention to your breathing
3. To relieve chronic anxiety
Breathing exercises are particularly effective in people with psychiatric disorders such as phobias, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.
In 2015 Stefania Doria and her colleagues at Fatebenefratelli e Oftalmico Hospital in Milan, Italy, offered 10 training sessions of two hours each, spread out over two weeks, to 69 patients with anxiety or depressive disorders. The training included a varied set of breathing techniques (such as abdominal breathing, acceleration, and deceleration of rhythm, and alternate nostril breathing), combined with some yoga stretches. The researchers observed a significant decrease in symptoms at the end of the protocol. Even better, the improvement was maintained two and six months later, with follow-up sessions just once a week and some home practice during this period.
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