(#110) The Oldest, Single-Most-Efficient Intervention

Here are two of the most powerful sentences I’ve read in a scientific publication (a book chapter, in this case):

“Controlled respiration is one of the oldest and certainly the single, most efficient acute intervention for the mitigation and treatment of excessive stress.
Any clinician treating patients who manifest excessive stress syndromes should consider controlled respiration as a potentially suitable intervention for virtually all patients.”
— Everly and Lating (2019)

P.S. I separated them to make it easier to read, but they were the opening sentences to the abstract…so good 👏

“Controlled respiration is one of the oldest and certainly the single, most efficient acute intervention for the mitigation and treatment of excessive stress.

Any clinician treating patients who manifest excessive stress syndromes should consider controlled respiration as a potentially suitable intervention for virtually all patients.”