{"id":1150,"date":"2017-03-05T23:06:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T07:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2018-02-21T11:58:35","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T19:58:35","slug":"reset-with-5-deep-breaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/2017\/03\/05\/reset-with-5-deep-breaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Reset with 5 Deep Breaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring Break is right around the corner, and so are midterms, papers, and qualifying exams. Your chances of\u00a0squeezing a meditation session into your schedule this week are probably zero, but you can still use this simple, portable, breathing technique to calm yourself down when you start to feel crazy:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>1.<\/strong> Take a deep breath, expanding your belly. <strong>2.<\/strong> Pause. <strong>3.<\/strong> Exhale slowly to the count of five. <strong>4.<\/strong> Repeat four times.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">When you have a little more time, learn more about other controlled breathing tools:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/2016\/11\/14\/unsure-what-to-do-breathe-exhale-repeat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unsure What To Do? Breathe. Exhale. Repeat.<\/a> (A Quiet Place, 14 Nov 2016)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring Break is right around the corner, and so are midterms, papers, and qualifying exams. Your chances of\u00a0squeezing a meditation session into your schedule this week are probably zero, but you can still use this simple, portable, breathing technique to calm yourself down when you start to feel crazy: 1. Take a deep breath, expanding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,18,47,5],"class_list":["post-1150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-breath","tag-instructions","tag-reset","tag-stress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1496,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions\/1496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}