Breathing For Stress Relief
Stress plays a big role in our lives, because most experience a great deal of it these days. Unfortunately, conventional advice to “breathe deep” to release tension only worsens the situation, one of the most effective ways to address stress is to slow down your breathing.
Stress makes you breathe faster and promotes sighing, so to counteract or release stress, you need to do the opposite: breathe slower, softer, and make your breathing more regular. Ideally, your breathing should be so light, soft, and gentle enough that the fine hairs within the nostrils stay motionless.
Make sure to breathe through your nose, not your mouth.
According to the late Dr. Maurice Cottle, who founded the American Rhinologic Society in Y 1954, your nose performs at least 30 functions, all of which are important supplements to the roles played by the lungs, heart, and other organs.
One of the benefits of nose breathing is related to the fact that there is nitric oxide in your nose, and when you breathe gently and slowly through your nose, you carry a small amount of this beneficial gas into your lungs.
Nitric oxide not only helps maintain homeostasis, or balance, within your body, it also helps to open your airways (bronchodilation), open your blood vessels (vasodilation), and has antibacterial properties that helps neutralize germs and bacteria.
Nose breathing also helps normalize your breathing volume. This is important because when you chronically over-breathe, the heavier breathing volume that is coming into your lungs can cause a disturbance of blood gasses, including the loss of carbon dioxide (CO2).
Breathe though your nose…
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Paul Ebeling
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