5 Min Guided Breathing Exercise For Relaxation
from Mindful Moments with Shirley Archer Hosted by Podcast with Shirley Archer
In this video, Shirley, a professional health educator, teaches you how to do paced breathing for relaxation. This scientifically proven technique naturally reduces stress, lowers borderline high blood pressure and creates feelings of calm and a positive mood. It has also been proven in studies to help women ease menopausal symptoms. What's great about this method is that it is drug-free and there are no adverse side effects, but it provides benefits that some use medications to achieve. This is a method that I've taught my own mother, who has heart disease and high blood pressure and it has helped her to reduce her medications. It's also great for healthy people simply as an exercise to feel more calm or to wind down at the end of a hectic day. I've been a health educator at the Stanford University School of Medicine for 15 years. Many people don't realize that there are many self-care options available to help reduce symptoms of hypertension or menopause. To skip intro, go straight to exercise at 1:00. The guided paced breathing exercise is 5 minutes.
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