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As someone who has practiced yoga for 40 years and started qigong a few years ago, the advice in the article seems fairly obvious. Still, great to see the article in the front page of HN!

I had not thought of deep belly breathing helping calm and relax me during meetings - will try that.

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Yup, I do this as part of tai chi and qi gong (referred to as 'dan tian' breathing).

Seems to be a thing of the west to take elements of yoga, tai chi, daoism et al, and distill them - mindfulness comes to mind - and as devices they're good, but together they amount to so much more than the sum of their parts, hence the eastern penchant for a 'holistic' approach.

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