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Timely- I was in a lecture last Friday when the presenter started talking about the "Breath" feature on his I-watch. Sounded hokey, which he jokingly admitted, but he went into the virtues of stopping what you were doing, clearing the mind of everything, and taking a single deliberate deep inhalation/exhalation focusing only on the quality and the depth of the breathing. "If it is important enough for Jobs to come back from the dead to remind us to breath, it must be realllllllly important." he joked.

As someone (like everyone else) with own my fair share of stress and anxiety, as I was laughing at the silliness of it, I was also open to suggestions and willing to give it a shot.
After all, breathing certainly couldn't hurt.

Not having an I-watch (and not about to get one), I decided to use some other beeps and random buzzers in my clinic. I also decided to try it any time I was getting worked up over the usual mental BS occupying my mind (which is a lot- concerning several different areas of stress).

The whole point is that when people get all worked up, we enter a fight or flight mode. Stress rises, breathing becomes shallow, and we go through life in a sympathetic response. The simple act of stopping everything is "supposed" to reset everything, like turning off the computer and restarting.

I've been doing it for a week, jokingly informing coworkers I have visited a shaman and am employing new techniques of positive orb energy and ritualistic breathing.

Funny thing is- As silly as it sounds- It works.