Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

In 2007, Linda Stone, a former Microsoft executive, realized that even though she did breathing exercises every morning, when she sat down at her laptop and opened up her inbox, it all went out the window. "I would be like, 'Huh, I was just breathing, but I'm not breathing anymore,'" she said. Her inhales and exhales became barely detectable and shallow, she noticed.