Do you want to add five years to your life? Then breathe --deeply. The stress-cortisol connection is a well-known fact in health and wellness circles and is documented to inflame your body with a cornucopia of diseases, and the holidays seem to add oodles of cortisol and stress. Breathing can combat the stress.

Every time you nuke a cup of water for your tea. do one minute of deep breathing (taking air in through my nose to a count of ten, holding to a count of eight, and expelling through your mouth for a count of ten).

Ten cups of tea a day times one minute is ten minutes! In that short time, you can slow down your anxious body ,and calm your plugged-in brain and your inner Energizer Bunny. This regimen has an accumulative effect of adding five years to your life. .