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 ...

It’s pretty common to feel nervous before taking a big test. Your palms sweat, your head pounds and you might even feel short of breath. When we get anxious or scared, we tend to take shorter, ...

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 ...

For some people, falling asleep or coming down from anxiety feels impossible. But some experts believe simply counting 4-7-8 might just do the trick. The 4-7-8 technique is a relaxation exercise in ...

Lying in bed with a head full of thoughts? Might as well try this simple breathing trick. You can do the 4-7-8 breathing method anywhere, at any time—while you’re lying in bed trying to fall asleep, ...

CNN — 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 ...