How to Reduce Work Stress and Anxiety With Simple Breathing Techniques

When people did a conscious breathing practice, and when people did their everyday for seven days, stress and anxiety went down by 48%, brain fog went down by 56%, ability to switch off and relax increased by 54%, and energy levels increased by 49%. In this episode, we wanted to talk about some sort of practical ways that you can bring better breathing into your work. So what we have done is we've taken three when's at work that we think breathing might be able to help you. So like situations where perhaps you might be feeling a sense of stress or uncertainty.

And based on the research, this could be a moment where thinking intentionally about breathing could help you in that situation. So we've got a when, we've got a then and then we also got a why like what's the science behind it? Hi, I'm Sarah. And I'm Helen. And this is the Squiggly Careers podcast, where every week we borrow some brilliance from a person, a place, an object, a thing of some description, and we try to turn that curiosity into useful action for your career.

And today, our thing is Breathing. I'm so I'm so feeling like we've gone back to basics. I'm so happy I've committed you to do this episode. I think you I mean you must have been skeptical about us doing uh an episode on breathing.

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