Talk:Motivation and emotion/Book/2024/Breathing exercises and relaxation

Changing layout

Hello, I've just finished reading your chapter so far, and it looks like you're off to a great start! One thing I would recommend in the 'Mechanisms of breathing exercises' section is to put the 'types of breathing exercises' at the beginning of this section before discussing the psychophysiological mechanisms. Or, you could even do a seperate section for the types of breathing exercises before the 'mechanisms of breathing exercises' section. This way, I think your reader will be better able to visualise the breathing exercises before you begin talking about how they impact the brain, nervous system, etc. Hope this helps! --U3236447 (discuss • contribs) 08:59, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

Comment

Hi there,

I'm very eager to see what information you put together for this topic. I feel like our two topics are very closely related - Mine is Guided Meditation and Emotion Regulation.

It's very early on in the semester so I don't expect you to have thought of all points you are going to make in your chapter, however some food for thought - How might breathing exercises help with pain management?

Best of luck this semester! SMurray24 (discuss • contribs) 08:19, 31 July 2024 (UTC)

Initial suggestions

@MGibb.23: Thanks for tackling this topic. Some initial suggestions:

• Check out other related chapters and see how you can build on, link to, and integrate with that work:
  • Category:Motivation and emotion/Book/Stress
  • Category:Motivation and emotion/Book/Relaxation
• Also search past book chapters for related topics
• For the topic development, consider:
  • What psychological theory(ies) can help to understand and explain this topic? Broadly speaking, physiological theory/theories make sense. But perhaps also consider e.g., cognitive perspectives?
  • What is the main research in this area?
• Let me know if I can do anything else to support the development of this chapter.

Sincerely, James -- Jtneill - Talk - c 21:42, 8 August 2024 (UTC)

Topic development feedback

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-- Jtneill - Talk - c 00:53, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

Suggestions

Hi!

Really interesting chapter, wanted to give a few thoughts and suggestions I had going through it.

One thing to make sure of is having the capitalisation correct for headings and subheadings, with only the first word having its first letter capitalised and not the following words. I noticed this on a few of the main headings/subheadings, just a minor thing to easily fix up.

Another thing that may help improve the readability a bit is in the Breathing Exercises section . Perhaps presenting the information for the specific benefits as more complete sets of sentences if you can find a way to have them flow together or connect them. Or possibly having some of the information in small tables.

A final suggestion is that you could present your quiz lower down in a box, just to make it look a bit more colorful. Purely a cosmetic point and nothing else, if you wanted to do this though here is the code for it.

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Your quiz information, layout, template etc, as you have it now

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Then just change the theme in its edit for different colours.

I hope some of this may be of use or helpful, but regardless your chapter is incredibly interesting to read and wish you the best of luck on anything left with it! StephenBlume (discuss • contribs) 11:43, 17 October 2024 (UTC)