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How you breathe impacts how you think |
Scholars and philosophers have linked the breath to thought for many thousands of years. Some of the early Upanishads, philosophical Sanskrit texts from Hinduism’s oldest scriptures, directly coupled stability of the mind to stability of the breath. And in the West, this connection was made explicit in Homeric epics, The Iliad and The Odyssey, as Ancient Greeks thought the lungs were the seat of thought, emotion, and deliberation. |
Modern cognitive scientists have identified still more explicit links, finding that the breath can have profound impacts on memory, attention to sensory signals, and sensitivity to emotions such as anxiety. But new research suggests the relationship between breath and thought may be even more intimate and subtle than scientists had thought. A team of scientists found that the electrical signaling deep in the limbic and cortical parts of the brain may track the specific shape of each breath on a millisecond basis, like a fingerprint. |
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