In a passage from Alan Watts’s 1969 book The Wisdom of Insecurity, he talks about the importance of Breathing in order to regulate your body and react more calmly during stressful times.
Breathing can be an easy way for us all to have better self-control when it comes down between situations as we often tend to act quicker than think with our emotions being what drives them rather than logic or reason which leads some people to make bad decisions out of anger frustration sadness etc…as long you know where they’re coming from beforehand by taking deep breaths through nose+mouth