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the body's involuntary reset button, pressed every five minutes whether your soul agrees or not
means To release a long, audible breath, usually expressing tiredness, relief, longing, or resignation.
from From Middle English sighen, likely a back-formation from the old past tense of siken, meaning 'to sigh.' It traces to Old English sīcan, of the same sense — a word that's essentially imitative, the spelling itself a little exhalation. Cousins ripple through the Germanic family, and the gh, once pronounced as a soft throaty rasp, has long since fallen silent, leaving only the breath behind.
- survival reflex
- keeps lung air sacs from collapsing shut
- frequency
- humans sigh roughly every five minutes
- brain cells
- a tiny neuron cluster triggers each one
- contagious
- sighs spread between people like yawns
- emotional release
- resets nervous system after stress or relief