If we breathe more we think we will have more energy.
However if we breathe over our metabolic needs our bodies have to struggle to get oxygen because we are causing such vasoconstriction.
You can breath 30 or 40 breaths and you’ll feel some tingling in your fingers, some lightness in your head, that’s not from an increase of oxygen – it’s from a DECREASE of oxygen to those areas.
The way to get the most energy in breathing is to breathe LESS, because by breathing less we will be breathing in line with and more closely with our metabolic needs.
Vast majority of us are breathing way too much – like so many of us are eating way too much.
Our bodies want to operate at the state of EFFICIENCY , so we should be giving them the amount of oxygen they need, not constantly forcing them to work to get oxygen and air into the lungs just to push it back out without any use of it.
So when we breathe very quickly (average rate at the moment of approx. 20 breaths per minute) we use about 50% of that air – if we breathe slowly at around the rate of about 6 breaths per minute (deeper breaths) we use about 85% of that air.
35% difference over the day even when working out, doing your work, thinking – this is going to make a huge difference.
This is FREE to help our health… yet people look to all these fancy full on programs to lose weight and feel better!
2021 – The Year of Wellness … slow down your breathing.
