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, ...

How you breathe influences all sorts of things in your body. Most significantly, how you breathe directly influences your nervous system, which is responsible for how you feel and interpret the world ...

When your nervous system is on high alert, it signals to your body that your muscles shouldn’t relax, so you can’t sink into a stretch. To ease this neural tension, Felder suggests a simple deep ...

British ultrarunner Tom Evans has set course records, like his 5:44:22 finish at the South Downs Way 50 in 2018, and placed first in some of the most challenging running events around the world, ...

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, ...

The connection between breathing and our nervous system represents one of the body’s most remarkable biological relationships. While most autonomic functions—like heart rate, digestion, and hormone ...

Holiday stress adds up fast. This hour-by-hour guide shows how small shifts throughout the day can make the season feel lighter.

Humming stimulates the vagus nerve and has other health benefits, and is the base of the yogic breathing technique ‘humming bee breath’.

Researching a person's breathing patterns while exercising is underway at ASU and could help health professionals rehabilitate patients faster. When people lose physical capabilities and are trying to ...

A few months after receiving a diagnosis of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), a neurological disease often triggered by an infection in which serious fatigue leaves many ...