Personal Experiment 10: How to Breathe (1)

Xue Zing
4 min readAug 7, 2021
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The title may seem like a joke to everyone but I really did do an experiment on how to breathe.

To be precise, I did multiple experiments on how to breath but all with the same goal, breathing better.

Do I not know how to breathe? Why would I learn how to do so?

When we were babies, deep belly breathing was the default but as we grew older, we got into the habit of taking shorter breaths using only our lungs.

The benefits of breathing properly as mentioned include better focus, better recovery, better relaxation, and lower anxiety and reduced stress

Lower anxiety!

Based on previous Personal Experiments 3 and 4, anything that might help lower anxiety and reduce stress is a must-try.

Furthermore, it’s just breathing, zero cost besides time.

Awareness of the issue,

Everybody says, just take deep breaths when you’re feeling stressed out or anxious.

That is absolutely trash advice since it only gives a very general and brief solution to a problem.

It is just advice that tells you what to do as I categorized it in my previous article. The equivalent of telling someone to just build a bridge since they need to…

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Xue Zing

Writing about thought provokers that go against conventional self-help