Hormones and your nervous system affect your breathing. Your breathing pattern is a result of your life history and your body’s current emotional and physiological condition. When we need to be alert and active, our breathing pattern is a little quicker. When we’re at peace and relaxed, our breathing pattern is a little lighter, softer, […]
What is anxiety and does breathing help? Anxiety is a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something an uncertain outcome. From psychiatrist and neuroscientist Dr. Jud Brewer’s book, Unwinding Anxiety: Anxiety is everywhere. Many people don’t notice that they have anxiety since it hides in bad habits. Anxiety is
What does breathwork have to do with inflammation? To explain this connection, let’s first start by explaining why the body creates inflammation. Inflammation is the body’s response to a threat. This threat could be a bacteria or a virus, or this perceived threat could be physical, psychological, or emotional stress. Inflammation is your body’s defense
We need Carbon Dioxide. When we first learn about breathing, we learn that humans inhale in oxygen and exhale out carbon dioxide. While that isn’t wrong, it’s not completely correct either. We actually exhale most of the oxygen we inhale. We don’t exhale out all of the carbon dioxide we produce. The stimulus or urge
Your tolerance to carbon dioxide determines when you feel the urge to breathe. We must breathe to get rid of excess carbon dioxide produced during cellular metabolism. However, we also need to keep some carbon dioxide in our lungs and blood so that our red blood cells are able to let go of oxygen and
