Breathing for Better Health

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Our brains need: fuel (oxygen and glucose) and activation (use it or lose it principle). If you want a healthy brain, then you have to be well fueled. Thus breath work is key! This is not just about deep breathing, this is about a balance of O2 to CO2 in a steady breath.

Breathing… a necessity of life! You breathe 20,000 times per day! Are you breathing well? Are you efficient at it? Why is quality of breath so important and why in particular now more than ever?

Increase immunity – Breath is the first place that triggers our immune system. It also allows our lymphatic system to flow and clear away dead particles that the immune system has killed while defending our body.
Calm state of mind – Each of your breaths can trigger stress or calm you down. Learning breathing mechanics can help create a connection to your breath that reduces fears, anxiety and excess stress in every breath. Not just when consciously focusing on breathing.
Pain reduction – If you breathe incorrectly, it has huge consequences. Conversely, learning to breathe better, learning to breathe well can pay off in so many different ways. It can improve pain. In other words, if you have pain kind of chronically in your body, learning better breathing may help you not only decrease it but even get rid of it.
Strength and movement – Breathing well is a cornerstone of high-level athletes, so really working on your breathing mechanics can improve your tennis game, your golf game, hiking, and anything else that you’re involved in.

If you look around the world, there are hundreds, literally hundreds of different breathing systems out there. If you look behind the scenes and kind of peel back the curtain, what you find is that all the breathing systems out there really have one thing in common, which is getting you to consciously focus on your breathing, rather than just having it happen automatically.

Breathing in general is an unconscious process so what we have to do to change it and improve it is we actually have to think about it. We have to focus on it.

Our brains need 3 things: fuel (oxygen and glucose) and activation (use it or lose it principle). If you want a healthy brain, then you have to be well fueled. Thus breath work is key! This is not just about deep breathing, this is about a balance of O2 to CO2 in a steady breath.
Breathing... a necessity or life! You breathe 20,000 times per day! Are you breathing well?Are you efficient at it? Why is quality of breathing so important and why in particular now more than ever?
Increase immunity - Breath is the first place that triggers our immune system. It also allows our lymphatic system to flow and clear away dead particles that the immune system has killed while defending our body.
Calm state of mind - each of your breaths can trigger stress or calm you down. Learning breathing mechanics can help create a connection to your breath that reduces fears, anxiety and excess stress in every breath. Not just when consciously focusing on breathing.
Pain Reduction - If you breathe incorrectly, it has huge consequences. Conversely, learning to breathe better, learning to breathe well can pay off in so many different ways. It can improve pain. In other words, if you have pain kind of chronically in your body, learning better breathing may help you not only decrease it but even get rid of it.
Strength and Movement - Breathing well is a cornerstone of high-level athletes, so really working on your breathing mechanics can improve your tennis game, your golf game, hiking, and anything else that you’re involved in.
If you look around the world, there are hundreds, literally hundreds of different breathing systems out there. If you look behind the scenes and kind of peel back the curtain, what you find is that all the breathing systems out there really have one thing in common, which is getting you to consciously focus on your breathing, rather than just having it happen automatically.
Breathing in general is an unconscious process so what we have to do to change it and improve it is we actually have to think about it. We have to focus on it.