Breath techniques to try to calm and balance your emotions

We always seem to find excuses to fill our time with things to do, people to see, jobs to do. But in reality how many of these things can we hold back from for a moment to give some nourishment back to ourselves? 

Stress affects important parts of the brain, including the hypothalamus, pituitary gland and amygdella, which impact our chemical balance, e.g. hormones, which in turn impact our emotional states and the quality of the conversation between all our vital organs through the vagus nerve