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Breathing Methods

Rapid, deep breathing lowers your vitality, reduces your resistance to disease, and leads to an agitated state of mind

You need to breathe better!

Your brain requires a careful balance between oxygen and carbon dioxide for clear thinking. Your muscles need it for vitality. And your digestive system needs it to utilise the food you eat and to get rid of waste products.

Our breathing mechanism is automatic and is based on past habits. Many of us develop bad breathing habits which result in an overall reduction in health.

Better breathing - your route to calmness

Altering your breathing instantly alters your state!

For example sitting quietly and allowing your breathing to become calmer, slower and shallower can produce a calmer state within a few minutes.

So being able to alter your breathing - to temporarily move from 'automatic' to 'manual' control puts you more in the driving seat of your own emotions and the general rule is

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Deep breathing tends to produce more agitation

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Shallow breathing produces calmness

Becoming skilled at changing your state through altering your breathing boosts your confidence in your state-management ability. So that unwelcome moods become just that - unwelcome. Not fearful, or threatening, nor in same way indicative of personal weakness or inadequacy.

Having the breathing skills to alter such unwelcome moods puts you in charge of yourself.

Incidentally, while you can very quickly change your state using breathing methods you also need to change your thinking patterns to ensure that the change of state continues. If you only alter your breathing but continue with the same old thoughts the unwelcome moods will quickly return.

The Breathing pages

(NB: these are being revised and will change over the next few weeks)

Breathing CalmWhy better breathing helps with anxiety
The Sigh BreathA quick anti-anxiety tool
Easy BreathingUse this tool to relax and let go
Feet BreathingUse breathing and mental imagery to relax
The OUT-breathThe key to anxiety management
Breathing tipsTo get the most from using your breathing methods
Diaphragmatic BreathingThe healthiest way to breathe
Buteyko BreathingReportedly good for overall balancing of oxygen/carbon dioxide

 

 

 

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