To reduce your stress, you can do many things – like improving your posture when sitting, standing or moving, accepting what’s happening and not basing your life on things that change (like the weather), lowering the demands on yourself, drinking water, eating natural food, laughing, loving, enjoying physical activity, etc. etc. Another very effective way to reduce your stress is to improve your breathing habits. Imagine life as a tennis match. Sometimes you are close to the net and on other occasions, you find yourself far down in one corner. Sometimes you hit the ball on the volley, sometimes on the rise; sometimes you have plenty of time while at other times you are under time pressure. Sometimes the ball goes over, sometimes it goes into the net, and sometimes you miss the ball altogether. It’s just like that in life. Sometimes it goes up and sometimes it goes down. A good tennis player knows that the most important thing after a hit is to strive to return to the starting position at the baseline to be optimally prepared to meet a new ball.  

When you experience stress or don’t feel well, it indicates that your body is imbalanced, either emotionally, physically or mentally. You are thus outside the baseline. If you haven’t slept at night or haven’t eaten for a long time, the stress consists of sleep deprivation and hunger, and you naturally resolve it by sleeping and eating. By taking control of your breathing and making it relaxed, you can make your whole body follow, becoming more relaxed and therefore able to function better. As you improve your breathing, your stress experience decreases and you become more and more relaxed. With the help of breathing, you can find home again when you’re lost, and return to your baseline.