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    The magic number

    Dec 27, 2020 2 minutes

    It turns out the answer to life, the universe and everything is not 42 at all. It’s 5.5.

    Various religions through the ages, along with more recent scientific researchers, have found that 5.5 is the magic number when it comes to praying or chanting with the ideal breathing pattern, says James Nestor. “By various

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