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[00:02.30] “If you set a priority for yourself ... you can make the time,” Deleveaux said.

[00:09.23] With one breathing exercise, she breaths in through one nostril and then out through the other.

[00:18.80] She uses a thumb or forefinger to hold one nostril closed at a time.

[00:27.83] “It relaxes my mind. It makes my mind so full of ease.

[00:34.47] It brings you back to the present moment,” she added.

[00:39.51] To get ahead of anxiety before starting her workday, sales representative Lindsay Carlisle of Michigan does breathing exercises with her seven-year-old daughter during their drive to school.

[00:58.11] They breathe in for seven counts, hold their breath for five, and then breathe out for seven counts.

[01:08.48] They repeat this several times.

[01:12.20] “Throughout that process, my shoulders start to drop on their own, and it really is calming,” Carlisle said.

[01:23.09] Suze Yalof Schwartz was an overworked magazine editor when her mother-in-law taught her a three-minute meditation method.

[01:34.25] Yalof Schwartz says it changed her life.

[01:37.97] She left her career and founded Unplug Meditation, a Santa Monica, California, company with a meditation studio, an app, and programs for corporate customers.

[01:53.66] “When we slow down our breath, we send a signal to our brain that everything’s OK, even when it’s not,” she said.

[02:05.61] Another 16-second breathing exercise is called box breathing.

[02:11.72] You breathe in for four counts, hold for four, breathe out for four counts and hold for another four.

[02:22.88] Yalof Schwartz has taught it to people in stressful jobs including firefighters, police and doctors.

[02:33.50] “It is the best thing that you can do at work before you have a meeting, before you send out an email that you wish you didn’t send, before you have a difficult conversation, because it just calms you down, gets rid of your negative energy,” she said.

[02:53.96] Employers such as Coca-Cola, Mattel and Netflix have used Unplug Meditation to teach breathing or meditation.

[03:06.70] It is not always easy for workers to find space for deep breathing exercises.

[03:14.67] For example, salespeople often work alongside their customers.

[03:21.85] Yalof Schwartz suggests doing breathing exercises when making a sale or organizing items.

[03:33.01] Carlisle, the sales representative, sets a timer on her phone telling her to breathe deeply.

[03:41.77] She also keeps a note near her computer that simply says “Breathe.”

[03:49.20] “The anxiety is always going to be there,” Carlisle said.

[03:54.79] “But at least I know I have one small tool. ... It sounds so simple and silly, but it works.”