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This Breathing Exercise Could Make You Feel Like You’re Tripping on LSD. But Does It Actually Work?

This specialized breathing technique could trigger profound changes in consciousness and surprising effects on the brain.

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Breathing is such an automatic function of our brains that we often take it for granted. We forget, or simply don’t know, how transformative it can be when done properly and with intention.

You can calm yourself, relieve anxiousness or anger, or, in the case of findings published in a real mouthful of a scientific journal, Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, it might even help you reach an altered mental state that’s a bit like the one you’d experience if you took psychedelics.

Presented at the ECNP Congress in Munich, researchers from........

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