I tried this 1-minute breathing exercise every day for a month, and it was surprisingly effective

I don’t usually think about how to breathe. My body does it automatically, and that’s fine for me. But sometimes my brain gets so focused on breathing that it suddenly becomes difficult to breathe regularly and deeply. That doesn’t happen during meditation, so it’s a strange experience.

During my daily meditation, I can focus on my breath without altering it, but that’s not the case when I let my attention wander throughout the day, so when I stumbled across this one-minute deep-breathing exercise from Centr, I decided to give it a try.