Revive Your Breath: Improve Well-being and Reduce Overbreathing Habits

🌬️ The video discusses a breathing meditation practice that involves exhaling all the way and holding the breath at the bottom.

⏱️ During the meditation, a 'perfect breath' technique of inhaling and exhaling for five and a half seconds is also employed.

🧪 The video explores the science and reasoning behind the steps of the breathing meditation practice.

💤 Getting enough sleep, eating good food, and exercising are important, but breathing properly is often overlooked.

👃 Breathing through the nose is essential, as chronic mouth breathing can have negative effects on our health.

🌬️ Scientific experimentation showed that nasal breathing improved overall health and reduced various negative symptoms.

👃 Breathing through the nose is important for filtering, heating, and moistening air.

🏃‍♂️ Training to run without breathing can teach the body to do more with less.

🌬️ Hyperventilation is a problem in our generation and causes various symptoms.

💨 Hyperventilation is a silent assassin that often goes unnoticed in society.

🌬️ Breathing too fast helps us remove carbon dioxide from our body and make room for new CO2.

💪 Fast breathing increases blood pressure, activates muscles, and improves reflexes.

💨 When we anticipate a danger or stressful situation, our body goes into fight or flight mode, causing muscle contraction and hyperventilation.

🧠 Hyperventilation leads to high blood pressure, low CO2 levels, and a decreased supply of oxygen to the brain.

🏃‍♂️ By intentionally holding in CO2 during physical activity, our body becomes more efficient at utilizing the oxygen it has, improving oxygen transportation to the brain, organs, and muscles.

:clock1: Breathing less helps to get oxygen to where it needs to be in the body.

:cyclone: Breathing too much is unnecessary and can lead to hyperventilation.

:balance_scale: Practicing breath holds can make the body more comfortable with CO2 and reduce the need for excessive breathing.

🌬️ Coherence breathing merges the rhythms of the respiratory and cardiovascular systems into one optimal rhythm.

⚖️ Coherence breathing has numerous benefits, including lowering blood pressure, helping with anxiety and mood, and treating PTSD and depression.

🔒 Engaging in coherence breathing allows us to take control of our autonomic system and respond better to stress.