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Problem: Overwhelming Stress

Solution: 10-Year Breathing Exercise

Use this two-minute timeout when you're feeling completely overwhelmed. Take a series of 10 breaths, inhaling and exhaling for six seconds each. During the first breath, vividly imagine how whatever you're stressed about will realistically affect your life one year from now. During the second breath, imagine the effects two years later. Then three years for the third breath, and so on until you're imagining the significance of your stressor 10 years in the future. In most cases, you'll find the answer is none at all.

Credit: Some guy named Jason Brick, freelance writer.

Thanks Jason

Problem: Overwhelming Stress Solution: 10-Year Breathing Exercise Use this two-minute timeout when you're feeling completely overwhelmed. Take a series of 10 breaths, inhaling and exhaling for six seconds each. During the first breath, vividly imagine how whatever you're stressed about will realistically affect your life one year from now. During the second breath, imagine the effects two years later. Then three years for the third breath, and so on until you're imagining the significance of your stressor 10 years in the future. In most cases, you'll find the answer is none at all. Credit: Some guy named Jason Brick, freelance writer. Thanks Jason

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[–] • 6 pts

This technique doesn't work when the cause of your overwhelming stress is the jews. By the time you reach the ten year breath, you will have realized that Whites will all be extinct if we just sit and breath and imagine for ten more years. Some may even realize that by the second breath. We can't breathe our way out of this.

[–] • 3 pts

I did that once when I had a "real job". It really works.. I ended up quitting the next day.

[–] • 2 pts

A technique similar to this is the basis of "magic"

[–] • 2 pts

Tell me more.

[–] • 0 pt

You've got to imagine that what you want you already have. Then you need to live as if you've already received it. There's more to it, but like I said this is the basis of all magic. You manifest what you hold true in your mind.

[–] • 0 pt (edited )

And so what have you successfully manifested? So far.

[–] • 1 pt

Yeah that shit won't work for stress related to an upcoming surgery.

[–] • 1 pt

It will if you're confident in the surgery going well and you won't even really ever think about it in 10 years. But yea, I hear ya. If you were that confident you would not be so stressed over it. I hope it goes well for you.

[–] • 0 pt

It went well.

[–] • 1 pt

My one coworker recommended 'box breathing'... I'd explain, but I'm about at a job site

[–] • 0 pt

I'll GTS

[–] • 1 pt

Gts? I'm retarded

[–] • 0 pt

Google That Shit

[–] • 1 pt

We’ll fuck that. I don’t have time for 10 breaths. Is there no way to get something faster?

[–] • 3 pts

Just yell "serenity now!" until you're relaxed.

[–] • 2 pts

Such an awful, shitty kike show. But I still like it…less than unused to now that I know how jewy they are, but still…

https://pic8.co/sh/waDxlQ.jpeg

[–] • 1 pt

lol, just do them all at once. Try not to pass out though.

[–] • 1 pt

Failed. Ended up inhaling an entire taco. I’m more stressed than ever.

[–] • 1 pt

My old man taught me that technique but used a month/year/5 year/10 year timeline. I've passed it on to my own spawn. The benefits of an intentional activation of the parasympathetic nervous system coupled with an intentional orientation of envisioned perspective keep things cool.

[–] • 1 pt

Variation on the box breathing technique. Thanks!