In this article you will learn two respiratory errors that may subject your body to chronic stress, reduce mental acuity, and cause health problems. You will also learn simple remedies. That's pretty easy. As you read this you can practice it.
How did you pay much attention to breathing? Perhaps you have during meditation, in a yoga class, during exercise, or when you are crowded. But in most cases, you probably have breathing. Your body will naturally do without involvement of your consciousness. Even if you do not need to pay attention to this basic and life-supporting behavior, it is wonderful how your body looks after.
On the other hand, your body may fall into poor breathing habits.
• Anxiety,
• Insomnia,
• Forgetfulness,
• Asthma,
•Infection,
• High blood pressure,
•Heart disease,
• COPD,
• Increased weight,
• Dyspepsia,
• Chronic low energy ...
Two breathing mistakes
Do you know that your body may breathe twice even if you do not know? These mistakes can cause unexplained symptoms in this host in general, such as anxiety, insomnia, cerebral fog, asthma, inflammation, hypertension, heart disease, COPD, weight gain, dyspepsia, chronic low energy. Are you suffering from any of these? If you have not done yet, do you want to prevent them?
The two mistakes are "mouth breathing" and "breathing excess". Mouth breathing means breathing in and out through the mouth and excessive respiration means taking too much breathing and too much breathing.
Now, this may sound counterintuitive. Are you invited to spit out of your mouth to release a large, deep breath and emit carbon dioxide? In the yoga class you may be instructed to take 'cleansing brace' which breathes forcibly from the mouth to release tension. Are not these good ideas?
It turns out that it is not healthy as in normal customs. The reasons are as follows. If you regularly breathe through your mouth, you will spit out a lot of carbon dioxide. Too much breathing will exacerbate the situation frequently.
Why is this a problem?
In order to relieve oxygen load in your blood, dilate blood vessels and airways, and adjust body pH, it is necessary that you have a certain level of carbon dioxide in your blood. (Source: "The Oxygen Advantage", Patrick McKeown, 2015, p. 28). Carbon dioxide is needed to ensure that the oxygen you breathe is supplied to the cells. If your system does not have enough carbon dioxide, your body will become oxygen deficient.
When you feel that your body is in an oxygen deficiency state, it causes more breathing and more mouth breathing, exacerbates the problem and historically leads to all the above health, energy, spiritual acuity I will.
(If you need more information or research, Patrick McKeown's "The Oxygen Advantage" is strongly recommended, teach doctors, athletes and patients around the world about breathing mistakes, offer simple therapies and a series of exercises Please put it into practice).
Remedy
So, what kind of remedy?
Nasal breathing and gentle complete breathing. Nasal breathing means entering and leaving through only the nose. Gentle, perfect breathing means taking as much breath as you need and allowing your breath to fully fill the lungs from bottom to top.
Nasal breathing is important for many reasons. First of all, you get in and out through your nose, breathing warms up, clean up the air on the way, making your nose come in and out. Secondly, nasal breathing stimulates the production of nitric oxide that will expand your blood vessels and airways, allowing for more blood and oxygen flow.
Nasal respiration also limits carbon dioxide emissions, so keeping more CO2 in the system. CO2 stimulates erythrocyte production and red blood cells that carry oxygen are necessary for releasing oxygen to the cells. The end result is a greater oxygen supply to your whole body.
Practice
To breathe in your nose, just close your mouth while breathing. You can start this now while you are reading.
Put your hands on your abdomen and chest and notice the slight expansion of the abdomen and chest so you can practice your breathing gently and full. Apply light pressure with your hand to prevent breath from becoming full. This will guarantee that you are breathing deeply, but will not breathe excessively.
If you feel comfortable to relax and practice sitting in a gentle, perfect, nasal breath, try it while you are sleeping. (McKeown actually closes his mouth during sleep so that the body is returned to the breathing of the nose.) Finally, after trying it while walking, try to do it during more intense exercise please. This should take several exercises and should not be forced. Please gradually adapt to nasal breathing through consistent gradual exercise.
My experience
I learned such breathing style many years ago with qigong meditation, but I could not apply it widely until I read McKeown's book. As a result, I had chronic breathing and mouth breathing for years. In my 50's, this leads to sleep disorders, low energy, more pain, pain, tension, and inflammation in the body, leading to a feeling of breathing during exercise. I noticed that I was taking my breath all night and was really taking a deep breath. My metabolism was slowing down, I felt cold. All of these are signs of chronic mouth breathing and over breathing.
When I first attempted to breathe in exercise, I had to reduce exercise intensity to about 50%. It took me about 3 months to train my body to the breathing of my nose thoroughly. It will take time for your body to be comfortable with more carbon dioxide.
Now I am always breathing, I have good energy, I am comfortable in general, I am aware that the movement is strong and the meditation is deep. I am more relaxed and I am relieved during the day. My head is clear, my body is warm, I do not have much pain and pain.
I encourage you to try perfect, calm, nasal breathing and see what you can do for you.
