By Linda Graham — 2020
Resilience expert Linda Graham shares three ways to use awareness and deep breathing to ground ourselves throughout the day.
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Everything you ever wanted to know about meditating, but didn't have a teacher to ask.
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Breathing is the only autonomic (meaning automatic--like heart rate, blood pressure, and body temperature) function over which we also have conscious control.
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