“Breathe in, breathe out.” You certainly don’t need me to remind you to do this as breathing is involuntary and an automatic process. That being said there is something very interesting that happens when we bring our awareness to our breath. If we are experiencing stress then our body goes into “fight or flight” mode and the sympathetic nervous system is activated. This causes our heart rate to elevate, a spike in adrenaline and our breathing to quicken.