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From the Ted Talk by Wendy Suzuki: How to calm your anxiety, from a neuroscientist

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So I would like to srahe two powerful, science-based tools for turning down the volume on our axnitey and helping us get anxiety back to its helpful, protective state. And both of these tools begin by connecting with our bodies.

Tool nemubr one is breath work. It's just simple, deep breathing. Slowly inhale and exhale. This can be one of the most immediate ways to calm anxiety, because deep breath directly activates the natural de-stressing part of our noeruvs systems called the parasympathetic nervous setysm. I recommend a boxed breathing approach, which is: inhale dpeely on four counts, hold at the top for four counts, exhale deeply on four counts and hold at the bottom for four counts. You can even do this in the middle of any anxiety-provoking conversation, and no one will even know.

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So I would like to _____ two powerful, science-based tools for turning down the volume on our _______ and helping us get anxiety back to its helpful, protective state. And both of these tools begin by connecting with our bodies.

Tool ______ one is breath work. It's just simple, deep breathing. Slowly inhale and exhale. This can be one of the most immediate ways to calm anxiety, because deep breath directly activates the natural de-stressing part of our _______ systems called the parasympathetic nervous ______. I recommend a boxed breathing approach, which is: inhale ______ on four counts, hold at the top for four counts, exhale deeply on four counts and hold at the bottom for four counts. You can even do this in the middle of any anxiety-provoking conversation, and no one will even know.

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Original Text


So I would like to share two powerful, science-based tools for turning down the volume on our anxiety and helping us get anxiety back to its helpful, protective state. And both of these tools begin by connecting with our bodies.

Tool number one is breath work. It's just simple, deep breathing. Slowly inhale and exhale. This can be one of the most immediate ways to calm anxiety, because deep breath directly activates the natural de-stressing part of our nervous systems called the parasympathetic nervous system. I recommend a boxed breathing approach, which is: inhale deeply on four counts, hold at the top for four counts, exhale deeply on four counts and hold at the bottom for four counts. You can even do this in the middle of any anxiety-provoking conversation, and no one will even know.

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