Breathing. A Learner’s Guide
“To live you must breathe with your throat, but to truly exist you must breathe with your heels” – The great Taoist sage, Chuang Tzu.
Ever thought that maybe your most important autonomic function is only performing at its minimum capability? It may very well be. Most of us take breathing for granted – air goes in, air goes out… High five! But many, if not most of us, are ‘shallow breathers’, meaning that we only utilize the narrow top areas of our lung surface for oxygen exchange and our breath halts at the diaphragm, a band of tissue that Dennis Lewis, author of “Free Your Breath, Free Your Life”, calls the ‘spirit muscle’.
The consequences of shallow breathing are negative – the nervous system can become unbalanced, airways can get tighter, blood vessels can constrict, and energy production can suffer… Read this informative (and humourous) guide to conscious breathing and learn to get the most out of those 20,000 or so precious breaths you take every day.
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