Improve memory by nose breathing

Your breathing pattern influences your brain activity For example, your hippocampus neural activity patterns are synchronized with your respiration.  Not only does your breathing influence oxygen going to cell tissue, when you breathe through your nose, you create an air pressure stimulation across the olfactory bulb of your nose. Your olfactory bulb sends signals directly

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Coherent or Resonance Breathing

Coherent or Resonance Breathing You have many internal rhythms. Rhythms exist all over your body. You heart beats with a certain pattern. You breathe a certain way and muscles often move with a rhythm. Your stomach and intestines pulsate to digest your food. Your spinal and cerebral fluids flow. Inside your body, many systems move

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Interoception

Increase your interoception or body sensing skills. Become less reactive and more resilient by developing your 8th sense, your sense of internal sensations or Interoception.

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Yawning

Why do we yawn? Why is yawning so contagious?  What causes our body to yawn?  I’ve been taught that yawning is your body’s attempt to rebalance your oxygen & carbon dioxide levels in your blood.  In other words, if you hadn’t been breathing efficiently, you’ll body will want to reset by taking a yawn. And

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Breathing & Female Hormones

Hormones affect your breathing.  Progesterone (key hormone in reproductive health and women’s menstrual cycle) and Thyroxine (Thyroid Hormone) are respiratory stimulants, increasing the frequency of breathing. Other hormones that regulate the body’s energy, stress response, and metabolism also influence breathing. For example, corticotropin-releasing hormone and leptin have been suggested to act as respiratory stimulants. Whereas,

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