The 4-7-8 breathing may help you better manage your breathing. It involves inhaling for 4 seconds, holding your breath for 7 seconds, and exhaling for 8 seconds. This is typically practiced as a cycle ...

TAKE A DEEP BREATH. That’s good advice for when you feel overwhelmed, stressed, or anxious. It helps you center yourself and relax. Ad taking it a step further to focus on a pattern of inhaling and ...

The 4-7-8 breathing technique involves breathing in for 4 seconds, holding the breath for 7 seconds, and exhaling for 8 seconds. This breathing pattern aims to reduce anxiety or help people get to ...

Falling asleep or coming down from anxiety might never be as easy as 1-2-3, but some experts believe a different set of numbers — 4-7-8 — comes much closer to doing the trick. The 4-7-8 technique is a ...

When life gets a bit much, it’s easy to forget something as simple as breathing. I’m not talking about the automatic kind of breathing we do all the time to keep us alive. I mean the deliberate, deep ...