Preview — The Goal
🎯 The Goal: Panic impairs decision-making precisely when decisions matter most. A critical alert, a scary email, a sudden confrontation — your body floods with cortisol and adrenaline: heart pounds, hands shake, and the smart part of your brain (prefrontal cortex) gets its budget slashed in favor of fight-or-flight. Box breathing — 4 seconds in, 4 hold, 4 out, 4 hold — is the manual override. It's what special forces and ER teams use, it takes 60 seconds, and it works mid-crisis, invisibly.