Every other Friday, the Outside/In team answers one listener question about the natural world. This week, Monica in West Hartford, CT asked, “We’ve all heard the phrase, ‘take a deep breath,’ and ...

From coherent to 4-7-8 breathing, these simple exercises can be implemented every day to aid rising cortisol For all its ...

How hard can breathing be? Most babies master the skill in the first few seconds after birth, after all. It turns out, though, that most of us could probably breathe more effectively. And doing so, ...

Box breathing is a basic but effective relaxation method to calm the mind and combat stress. It helps engage the body’s ...

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Each Olympic cycle, athletes and support staff chase the latest cutting-edge knowledge in pursuit of Gold. In the Winter ...

Picture this: The stakes are high—or they seem that way to an athlete (or student or performer) you care about. One glance and you can feel the obvious tightness in their chest in your own. There's a ...

I was working with veterans with trauma, and we were trying to figure out some interventions we could use to help them, because many traditional interventions like therapy or pharmaceutical ...