By Meredith Maran — 2009
People who give to others give healthier, happier lives to themselves, argues Meredith Maran.
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CLEAR ALL
Scientists now have more evidence than ever before revealing the intimate, intertwined relationship between the mind and body.
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“In the moment, how many times have you felt something was off and your well-meaning friends have met you with, ‘Well, are you sure? Where’s the evidence?’” asks Jasmine Marie, an Atlanta-based breathwork practitioner and the founder of Black Girls Breathing.
It’s far from news that there is a lack of space and resources allocated for Black women to heal.
Your breathing rate and pattern is a process within the autonomic nervous system that you can control to some extent to achieve different results.
A few years ago, a friend told me about an underground breathwork circle she’d attended in Venice Beach—back when breathwork outside of yoga studios was still hush-hush. It was totally trippy and cathartic she told me. People were convulsing, shouting, sobbing uncontrollably.