Your evening longread: Can breathing more slowly change your life?

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And now, every weeknight, we bring you an evening longread to enjoy which will help you to escape the news cycle.Breathe deep James Nestor was feeling very tense and stressed when he went to a breathing class. He thought it might be a load of bunkum… until it changed his life. She told us to close our eyes. The voice instructed us to inhale slowly through our noses, then to exhale slowly. To focus on our breath. I kept breathing, but nothing happened. No calmness swept over me, no tension released from my tight muscles. Nothing. Ten, maybe 20 minutes passed. I started getting annoyed and a bit resentful that I’d chosen to spend my evening inhaling dusty air on the floor of an old Victorian house. I thought about getting up and leaving, but I didn’t want to be rude.

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