No. 66 of 108
August 18, 2025
The Associated Press carried an article in its business section on breathing. Various business folx, scientists and health care providers promoted various methods of a few minutes of slow, conscious breathing to disable and release stress, clear the cluttered mind, and reset.
“Breathing made it to the news :)” said the person who sent me the article. It is the kind of news we need every day. Not the news that breathing is in the news, to be clear; rather, the news that the simple act of taking many few moments in each day to consciously breathe low in the body and much slower has tangibly felt benefits. The point of the article is slower breathing can happen anywhere, including at work, have immediate benefits within three to five minutes and interrupt the escalation of stress. Longer breath practices (20 minutes or more on a regular basis) have been found by researchers to lessen the activity of genes associated with inflammation and thereby lessening inflammation. Slower breathing impacts us at a cellular level, not only at the level of calm. That’s what the research says. The good news is that you can prove it on and to yourself.