The psychologist Daniel Kahneman has written extensively about the benefits of slowing our thought processes in order to access not just our intuitive and automatic conclusions, but our more reflective reasoning capacities. The more we understand about the brain, the more we realize that a slower pace can be beneficial. For example, we’re often told to “take a deep breath” in order to calm down, but slowing your breathing doesn’t just relax your muscles—it can also have an effect on your brain. Coherent breathing is a method that trains people to slow respiration down to six breaths (or fewer)
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