GO AHEAD AND YAWN..IT’S HEALTHY!

Yawn. Yawn some more. Don’t be bashful..yawn even more! Newberg and Waldman call yawning “one of the best kept secrets in neuroscience” for both relaxation and heightened cognitive awareness. It helps you stay focused, as well as more introspective and self-aware. Waldman says that studies of deliberate yawning at Moorpark College are producing surprising results. Students who yawned before taking tests raised their grade point averages; Cs moved up to Bs, and Bs to As. He also asks his “profoundly anxious” therapy clients to yawn and has found that it reduces their anxiety by a significant amount

Source: Science of Mind