The Breathing Cure: Develop New Habits for a Healthier, Happier, and Longer Life
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“Many people believe that taking a deep breath increases body oxygenation. The opposite is the case.” — Patrick McKeown, bestselling author of The Oxygen Advantage
Imagine a breathing technique that can increase oxygen uptake and delivery to the cells, improve blood circulation, and unblock the nose. Perhaps it can help open the airways of the lungs, enhance blood flow and oxygen delivery to the brain, improve sleep and bring calmness to the mind. It might even restore bodily functions disturbed by stress, build greater resilience and help you to live longer. You might think this description sounds farfetched. But it isn’t.
The Breathing Cure will guide you through techniques that embody the key to healthy breathing and healthy living. McKeown’s goal is to enable you to take responsibility for your own health, to prevent and significantly reduce a number of common ailments, to help you realize your potential and to offer simple, scientifically-based ways to change your breathing habits. On a day-to-day basis, you will experience an increase in energy and concentration, an enhanced ability to deal with stress and a better quality of life.
The essential guide to functional breathing, learn techniques tried and tested by Olympic athletes and elite military. Clear your blocked nose, stress and relax your nervous system, improve lung function, prepare for competition and more. For use at home, in professional/amateur sports, by breathing instructors, dentists, doctors, physical therapists, strength and conditioning coaches, Pilates and yoga teachers, and anyone interested in health and fitness – from everyday wellbeing through to sporting excellence.
Breathe Light: experience optimal blood circulation, peak oxygenation, maximal exercise performance, relief from respiratory symptoms and the best sleep you ever had.
Breathe Slow: stress is a risk factor in 75 to 90 percent of all human diseases. Discover and apply the breathing rate scientifically proven to stimulate relaxation, reduce high blood pressure, boost your immune system, maximize HRV and improve blood glucose control.
Breathe Deep: physical and emotional balance comes from within. Learn how to strengthen your diaphragm muscle to achieve greater endurance and resilience, calmness of mind, focused concentration and ease of movement.
From the bestselling author of The Oxygen Advantage, The Breathing Cure: Exercises to Develop New Breathing Habits for a Healthier, Happier, and Longer Lifecovers new, ground-breaking topics such as how breathing techniques can support functional movement of the muscles and joints; improve debilitating conditions such as diabetes, epilepsy, lower back pain, PMS and high blood pressure; how the nasal breathing technique can be a weapon against influenza and related infections especially Covid-19; and last but not least, help you to enjoy deeper sleep and improved intimacy.
Tap into your innate resilience. Fire up your potential. Enhance your health.
BREATHE BETTER NOW!
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781630061975 |
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| Publisher: | Humanix Books |
| Publication date: | 07/27/2021 |
| Pages: | 434 |
| Sales rank: | 130,166 |
| Product dimensions: | 9.80(w) x 6.20(h) x 0.90(d) |
About the Author
McKeown provides international instructor breathing re-education and training to address a variety of health conditions including sleep issues and asthma through ButeykoClinic.com; and for resilience and improved sports performance through OxygenAdvantage.com.
The author lives & works in the Galway, Ireland metro area.
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Excerpt from The Breathing Cure: Exercises to Develop New Breathing Habits for a Healthier, Happier, and Longer Life by Patrick McKeown
CHAPTER ONE: A NEW APPROACH
Patrick’s Story
In 1998 my life changed forever when I discovered how the poor breathing habits I had developed in early childhood were affecting my body and my quality of life. I was constantly tired, suffering from sleep disorders and respiratory problems, and was taking ever-increasing quantities of medication to try to control my asthma. Then I stumbled across the work of the Russian doctor Konstantin Buteyko, and, after making a few changes to my breathing, my symptoms dramatically improved within just a few short weeks. I learned first-hand how effective breathing re-education can be. Over the past eighteen years, following accreditation from Doctor Buteyko to teach his method to others, and working to develop my own program of training, I have witnessed life-changing improvements to the health of thousands of women, men and children.
My story starts when I was a boy, growing up in a small village called Dunboyne on the east coast of Ireland. From a young age I suffered from asthma, persistent wheezing and tightness of the chest. My nose was always blocked, so I got into the habit of breathing through my mouth, causing me to snore at night. Sometimes I even held my breath during my sleep, a potentially dangerous condition known as obstructive sleep apnea. From the age of fourteen until my early twenties I felt constantly exhausted, with little energy to apply in school or university. In 1994 I had an operation on my nose in order to relieve fifteen years of nasal issues. However, there was no advice post-surgery on the benefits of breathing through my nose or how I might make the change. And so I continued to experience the same problems I’d had prior to the procedure, including moderate to severe asthma, sleep-disordered breathing, breathlessness, poor concentration and high stress levels. My dysfunctional breathing patterns were starving my brain of oxygen, resulting in excessive over-thinking, tension and fatigue. I drove myself to achieve a decent education by spending countless hours studying, but it wasn’t easy. I had to place high demands on myself, and despite many years of hard work, my grades remained just about average. As my conditions worsened, my asthma medication intake increased to the point of hospitalization. By the time I reached my twenties, I was desperate for help.
As chance would have it, my solution was right around the corner. In 1998, I happened to read an article in an Irish newspaper about the work of Doctor Buteyko. At the time, his discovery (which later became known as the Buteyko Method) was relatively new to the Western world. I followed Buteyko’s technique and tried out an exercise that was meant to decongest my nose, just by holding my breath. I was so thrilled to discover that this simple method worked that I made the full-time change to nasal breathing. I also worked to slow down my breathing to help normalize the volume of air that I was taking into my lungs. Within a day or two of paying a little more attention to how I was breathing, my energy levels improved considerably, the tension in my head lifted, and for the first time in my life my breathing was easier. During that first week, I experienced what it was like to have a good night’s sleep and wake up feeling energized. For the first time in years I didn’t have to drag myself out of bed in the morning and spend hours trying to come round. The huge improvements to my health, energy and wellbeing that I felt within just a short period of time compelled me to learn more about the method, change my career, and train to teach the Buteyko Method to others. In 2002, I received accreditation from the founder of the method, Dr. Konstantin Buteyko, and ever since, my life has changed for the better in so many ways.
I am now forty-eight years old. My wellbeing, focus and quality of life are immeasurably superior to those of my sixteen-year-old self. Had I not read that article in the newspaper I dread to think how my health would be today. I was one of the lucky ones. I’ve brought about massive positive changes in my life simply by learning how to reverse the poor breathing habits I had developed innocuously over the years. Now, I hope to impart the same information to you.
A New Approach
The practice of breath control for health and spiritual progression has existed for millennia in Eastern cultures. For instance, the yogic practice of Pranayama is an ancient way of exercising the breath primarily to vary its speed. It encompasses things like alternate nostril breathing, abdominal breathing, forceful breathing and chanting. However, even amongst yoga practitioners it’s considered in some of its manifestations to be an advanced technique. The methods detailed in this book have a few commonalities with yogic breathing. They are also backed up by decades of scientific research in order that you fully understand why they work and how to use them. They are immediately accessible, take a short time to learn, incorporate easily into your daily routine whatever your current level of fitness, and will provide you with the tools to continue to improve your health for the rest of your life. It’s time to go back to basics.
Functional Breathing Pattern Training
Functional breathing can help improve quality of focus, concentration, posture, and sleep, support the spine, reduce anxiety and take the hard work out of breathing. It can help you to move better, meaning there’s less risk of injury in sports and in day-to-day tasks such as lifting and carrying your child. It can also reduce the onset and endurance of breathlessness and exercise-induced asthma (bronchoconstriction). Physiologically, it results in long-term improvement to blood circulation, dilation of the upper airways (nose) and lungs, and oxygen delivery to the cells, optimizing important connections between the respiratory system, heart and blood pressure.
At this point, I’d like to note that what we’re talking about here is a re-training of functional breathing habits for daily life. You may at some point have learned breathing exercises in a yoga class, with a personal trainer or on YouTube. You may have experienced good results, then promptly forgotten about your breathing the minute you stepped outside the studio or gym. Sometimes we aren’t given the context that allows us to carry those exercises as part of a daily routine. In this book, we’ll look at how your breathing is affecting your health, and how to use that knowledge to feel better. Every day.
Understanding the Problem: Causes of Suboptimal Breathing
In order to begin to grasp the importance of breath training, it is first necessary to understand what the problem is. When breathing is such an intrinsic function, it can be hard to accept that we could do it better unless there’s an obvious issue that causes regular discomfort. Even then, we might not realize that the problem could be addressed by simply improving our breathing patterns.
A breathing pattern disorder, otherwise called dysfunctional breathing, is a condition in which breathing is problematic and produces symptoms such as breathlessness. It manifests as a psychologically or physiologically based habit such as breathing too deeply, breathing too fast (both symptoms of hyperventilation), upper chest breathing during rest, or breathing irregularly with frequent breath-holding or sighing . Breathing pattern disorders affect 9.5 percent of the studied adult population, rising to 29 percent among people with asthma and 75 percent in those with anxiety. These figures are unsurprising, given that asthma, anxiety, panic attacks and stress all negatively influence breathing patterns, feeding back to create a vicious cycle of inefficient breathing.
The tendency to breathe too much air, which is called chronic hyperventilation and was first described in the literature in 1938, is the most common and extensively studied trait in breathing pattern disorders. One typical characteristic of chronic hyperventilation is fast breathing, often through an open mouth. This can occur both during the day and while asleep. Other signs include using the upper chest to breathe and having noticeable breathing patterns. The term chronic hyperventilation is often used synonymously with dysfunctional breathing, but it is only one type of breathing pattern disorder, and when strictly classified by its biochemical definition it refers to breathing in excess of metabolic requirements, causing blood carbon dioxide levels to drop.
While it may seem that dysfunctional breathing is a problem confined to the respiratory system alone, it has a significant impact on overall health. For example, excessive breathing is closely linked with cardiovascular disease. A research study of an intensive coronary unit in a Minneapolis hospital found that of 153 heart attack victims, 100 percent breathed predominantly using their upper chest, 75 percent were chronic mouth-breathers and 70 percent demonstrated open-mouthed breathing during sleep . In terms of the widespread impact on general health, a 1998 study reported that patients with just fourteen common symptoms were responsible for almost half of all primary healthcare visits in the US. Of these complaints, which included abdominal pain, chest pain, headache and back pain, only 10 to 15 percent were found to be the result of organic illness. However, every one of these ailments is recognized as a common symptom of disordered breathing. Put simply, the quality of breathing has significant implications for health and longevity.
In the book Behavioral and Psychological Approaches to Breathing Pattern Disorders by Beverly Timmons and Robert Ley, the authors share a comprehensive list of the symptoms and signs of hyperventilation. This list was drawn up by L C Lum, an Emeritus of the Department of Chest at Papworth and Addenbrooke's Hospitals, Cambridge, UK, and sent in personal communications in 1991. We will meet Dr. Lum again later in the book.
Faulty breathing can affect any organ or system producing symptoms including:
- General: fatigue, poor concentration, poor performance, impaired memory, weakness, disturbed sleep, allergies
- Respiratory (breathing): breathlessness after exertion, a tight chest, frequent sighing, yawning and sniffing, an irritable cough, the inability to take a satisfying breath
- Cardiovascular (the heart and blood vessels): irregular or fast heart beats and palpitations, Raynaud’s Syndrome, chest pain, cold hands and feet
- Muscles: muscle pain, cramping, twitching, weakness, stiffness and tetany (muscles that spasm and seize up)
- Gastrointestinal (the digestion): heartburn, acid regurgitation or hiatus hernia, flatulence or belching, bloating, difficulty swallowing or the feeling of a lump in the throat, abdominal discomfort
- Neurological (the nervous system): dizziness, headaches and migraines, paresthesia (tingling or numbness, pins and needles) of the hands, feet or face, hot flashes
- Psychological: anxiety, tension, depersonalization, panic attacks, phobias
L. C Lum, 1991
As explained earlier on, there are three main factors at play in the development of breathing pattern disorders.
- Biochemical
- Biomechanical
- Psychological
While the cause of problem breathing may vary from one person to another, environmental factors, lifestyle habits and genetic predisposition are common triggers. In many instances these disorders are simply the result of a lack of awareness, and a lifelong habit of breathing through the mouth.
Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS for The Breathing Cure: Exercises to Develop New Breathing Habits for a Healthier, Happier, and Longer Life by Patrick McKeownFOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
- Are You Breathing Comfortably?
- What is the Oxygen Advantage®?
CHAPTER ONE: A NEW APPROACH
- Patrick’s Story
- A New Approach
- Functional Breathing Pattern Training
- Understanding the Problem: Causes of Suboptimal Breathing
- The Three Dimensions of Healthy Breathing
- CO2: Not Just a Waste Gas
- Is Your Breathing ‘Healthy’ Breathing?
- How to Measure Your Breathing
CHAPTER TWO: HOW TO BREATHE
CHAPTER THREE: THE HEART-BREATH CONNECTION
CHAPTER FOUR: THE SECRET OF MOVEMENT
CHAPTER FIVE: WHEN BREATHING HURTS
CHAPTER SIX: WHEN SLEEP MAKES YOU SICK
CHAPTER SEVEN: HEALTHY, HAPPY CHILDREN
CHAPTER EIGHT: THE SECRET TO HEALTHY BLOOD PRESSURE
CHAPTER NINE: FREEDOM FROM RESPIRATORY DISCOMFORT
CHAPTER TEN: INTIMACY
CHAPTER ELEVEN: DIFFERENT FOR GIRLS
CHAPTER TWELVE: FEMALE SEX HORMONES AND THE BREATH
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: SUGAR, SUGAR (DIABETES 1 & 2)
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: SEIZURE CONTROL AND THE BREATH
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: BREATHING EXERCISES
- Checking your BOLT Score
- Important Guidelines for Practice
- Detoxification
- Exercise 1A: Unblock the Nose
- Exercise 1B: Box Breathing
- Exercise 2: The Three Aspects of Breathing
- Exercise 2A: Breathe Light, Biochemistry
- Exercise 2B: Breathe Light, Biomechanics
- Exercise 2C: Breathe Light, Cadence
- A Question of Air Hunger
- Exercise 2D: Breathe Light, LSD
- Exercise 3: Breathe Light, Walking
- Exercise 4: Breathe Light, Jogging
- Breathing Recovery Exercises for Asthma, Stress, Anxiety, Panic Disorder
- Exercises to Stop a Panic Attack
- Exercise for Reduced Breathing Before Bed
- Program Based on Bolt Score, Age and State of Health
- Exercises for Children
APPENDIX ONE: PHENOTYPES OF OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA
APPENDIX TWO: THE BREATH AND THE SINGING VOICE
APPENDIX THREE: ABC (ADULT BREATHING CLASSIFICATION)
RESOURCES
REFERENCES
Preface
Are You Breathing Comfortably?
Imagine a breathing technique that can increase oxygen uptake and delivery to the cells, improve blood circulation, and unblock the nose. Perhaps it can help open the airways of the lungs, enhance blood flow and oxygen delivery to the brain, improve sleep and bring calmness to the mind. It might even restore bodily functions disturbed by stress, build greater resilience and help you to live longer. You might think this description sounds farfetched. But it isn’t.
This book will guide you through techniques that embody the key to healthy breathing and healthy living. My goal is to enable you to take responsibility for your own health, to prevent and significantly reduce a number of common ailments, to help you realize your potential and to offer simple, scientifically-based ways to change your breathing habits. On a day-to-day basis, you will experience an increase in energy and concentration, an enhanced ability to deal with stress and a better quality of life.
Following on from my work The Oxygen Advantage, I’ll also explore new topics including how breathing techniques can support functional movement of the muscles and joints, improve debilitating conditions such as diabetes, epilepsy, lower back pain, PMS and high blood pressure, and help you to enjoy deeper sleep and better sex.
We enter the world with a breath and the process of breathing continues automatically for the rest of our lives. Although breathing is an involuntary action to which we don’t usually give much thought, the manner in which we breathe has an enormous effect on our health. Because breathing is an innate bodily function which most of us take for granted, it only gets our attention when something goes wrong. However, minute-by-minute, the breath fulfils its vital role, providing the body with oxygen, regulating physical mechanisms within the lungs, heart and blood vessels, and even moderating the stress response.
When breathing is below par, it creates problems throughout the body’s systems. Researchers have listed up to thirty common symptoms and conditions in which poor breathing patterns are a factor . However, because many sufferers breathe normally at least some of the time, it may be hard to know if your breathing patterns are unhealthy. The fundamental rule of thumb that I give to my students is this: Breathing during rest and light movement such as walking or yoga should be imperceptible, never noticeable.
Healthy breathing during rest should be through the nose, driven by the diaphragm. It should be regular, quiet, slow and almost undetectable. Unhealthy or dysfunctional breathing involves breathing through the mouth, using the upper chest, or breath that is irregular or audible during rest.
There are many forms of dysfunctional breathing, commonly referred to as breathing pattern disorders. These exist at different levels of severity. The most common is something called chronic hyperventilation, which involves breathing too fast and taking in too much air. Signs of breathing pattern disorders include the inability to take a satisfying breath, disproportionate breathlessness during rest or physical exercise, frequent yawning or sighing and the feeling of just not getting enough air. Other quantifiable dysfunctions include asthma, hay fever, snoring, sleep apnea, and associated psychological conditions like anxiety, insomnia and panic disorder. Across the board, poor breathing is implicated in poor physical and mental health.
If you were to observe and monitor the breathing of a random group of people as they sat together in a room, you’d soon start to notice differences. Some people may breathe through their nose, while others might breathe through their mouth. Some will have gentle, slow, quiet breathing, and others will be taking faster, larger, more audible breaths. Some people sigh habitually every few minutes, others breathe in a nice regular pattern. Some may use their diaphragm to breathe abdominally, and others breathe from the upper chest.
Since breathing is a natural process and so vital to life, this begs the question: Why do we all breathe so differently? The answer is that breathing habits are greatly influenced by lifestyle, environment and genetic predisposition. Everyday habits that may come from choice or necessity (things like sedentary deskwork, watching TV, eating processed foods and excessive talking) and psychological conditions such as stress and anxiety, can result in persistent faulty breathing, along with all its negative repercussions. If this doesn’t make sense to you yet, think of a person who has developed a habit of eating too much. In times of stress, this person may turn to emotional eating, using food as a crutch to help them relax. If they continue eating in this way over a period of weeks or months, their body will soon adapt to habitual over-eating and begin to demand more food than they need. In the same way, our breathing patterns can alter over time, becoming unhealthy.
Three fundamental aspects impact the functioning of the breath:
- Biochemical - The exchange and metabolism of oxygen (O2) and carbon dioxide (CO2)
- Biomechanical - The physical aspects of breathing; the function of respiratory muscles including the intercostal muscles (these run between the ribs and help form and move the chest wall) and diaphragm (the major breathing muscle, located below the lungs)
- Psychological - This may manifest as stress caused by poor breathing or poor breathing caused by stress
These factors are at the root of breathing pattern disorders, and this is what we’ll explore and address in this book. While the three causes of breathing pattern disorders are biochemical, biomechanical and psychological, the solutions fall into three slightly different categories:
- Biochemical - Addressing blood sensitivity to carbon dioxide
- Biomechanical – Breathing from the diaphragm
- Cadence – Reducing the respiratory rate to between 4.5 and 6.5 breaths per minute in order to influence the autonomic functioning of the body
The breathing method I will share forms a straightforward, unique series of exercises that you can easily apply, both during rest and physical exercise. This is no ordinary breathing technique. Welcome to the Oxygen Advantage®.
What is the Oxygen Advantage®?
The Oxygen Advantage® is a program of simple exercises designed to retrain the breath. The focus is light, slow, deep breathing (LSD) which targets the biochemistry and biomechanics of the body and taps into the autonomic nervous system (ANS). All too often, the emphasis on breathing is placed only on its biomechanics – the way it functions muscularly and mechanically. The student is encouraged to take big, full breaths, drawing air deep into the lungs. In the process, the diaphragm is engaged, but the biochemistry is neglected. The act of taking too big a breath causes blood vessels to narrow and actually reduces oxygen delivery to the cells. When teaching or practicing breathing exercises, it is vital to consider that the biomechanical and biochemical functions and respiratory rate are inextricably linked. Think of these three dimensions of the breath like a three-legged stool. If one leg is missing the stool will fall over!
Throughout this book, you will find all the information you need to understand how breathing impacts your health. You will also find all of the exercises necessary to develop new breathing habits. You will learn how to measure your BOLT score in order to assess your health and will be able to choose the program most suitable for you.
The BOLT (Body Oxygen Level Test) is a simple test designed to provide feedback on how well you breathe. The test involves exhaling normally through the nose, pinching the nose to hold the breath, and timing how long in seconds it takes to reach the first definite physical desire to breathe in. The goal is to reach a BOLT score of 40 seconds. A score of less than 25 seconds is strongly suggestive of breathing pattern disorders. The technique, which will be explained in more detail later on, is interchangeable with the three dimensions of breathing as a measure of progress. As your BOLT score improves, you are more likely to find yourself breathing at a slower rate and engaging the diaphragm. I’ll share breathing exercises that focus on:
- Using air hunger to improve biochemistry
- Using lateral expansion of the lower two ribs to improve biomechanics
- The optimal respiratory rate as explored in detail by scientists
I always tell my clients that they will continue to experience asthma, nasal congestion, fatigue, anxiety and panic attacks until their BOLT score, taken first thing in the morning, is at least 25 seconds. You can achieve a higher BOLT score by breathing only through the nose and by practicing the exercises contained in this book. If you have a low BOLT score, changing your breathing patterns can be utterly transformative.
One of the most rewarding things about working with students, even from a distance, is seeing the difference that healthy breathing can make to their lives. I’m lucky enough that I can experience this in person through coaching, and I am also able to reach people through the books, videos and podcasts that I’ve produced or been involved with.
To give an example, in May 2020, I had an email from a lady called Ariella, thanking me for writing my book, The Oxygen Advantage. Ariella had previously subscribed to my online newsletter and had seen such good results from practicing the breathing exercises she received in her inbox that she got hold of a copy of the book. She said, “Your teachings - in just a few days - have already been life-changing.”
Ariella lives with a complex set of rare and chronic conditions that challenge all of her organs. These include dysautonomia (dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system), Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Hypermobility Type (a connective tissue disorder that impacts the strength and function of connective tissue), and mast cell activation disease (an immune cell disease that causes her body to respond to anything and everything with an allergic reaction). She has struggled with breathing for most of her life, and while her doctors always agreed that she didn’t have asthma, she was never able to find out why she found breathing so difficult. This was compounded by the fact that each of her underlying conditions is known to impact on the breath.
Until Ariella found The Oxygen Advantage, she struggled tremendously on a daily basis. She was often breathless and constantly felt like she was fighting to get enough air. She had a BOLT score of just 8 seconds. This discomfort with breathing often prevented her from sleeping, and once she did get to sleep her sleep quality was poor. She frequently lost her voice in connection with her breathing challenges and often couldn’t go outside because the allergen levels were so high that her symptoms immediately became worse. Despite consulting with ENT doctors, pulmonologists, immunologists and more, none of her specialists could identify the cause of her breathing problems or help her to resolve the issue.
Ariella remembers an incident that happened about a year before she wrote to me, which illustrates just how unwell she was: “One day, after pushing myself to have a brief conversation through my lost voice and painful breathing, my heart rate spiked, my blood pressure dropped, and I felt like I truly could not get air into my lungs. This episode went on for at least twenty minutes. I texted my husband, who came home to find me crying on the floor, completely exhausted, still trying to gain my breath.”
This was Ariella’s worst day, but similar experiences had become normal for her. By the time she wrote to me, although her underlying conditions were still quite severe, she no longer struggled to breathe on a daily basis. She explained: “Learning how to efficiently and effectively breathe and learning exercises that can help to bring me back to a place of calm breathing has been life changing for me.”
Ariella still manages symptoms including fatigue, brain fog and thirst, but improving her breathing has vastly improved these symptoms. While allergens such as pollen, dust and mold have always been hugely problematic for her because of her mast cell disease, again, her symptoms have improved. She began taping her mouth at night to ensure nasal breathing during sleep and said: “I feel a noticeable difference when I wake up after sleeping with my mouth closed (the paper tape is so helpful!). When I sleep with my mouth closed, I have more energy, less fatigue, less thirst and my lips are less chapped.”
She also believes that the breathing exercises are proving beneficial in her struggle with dysautonomia, specifically in helping to stabilize her low blood pressure.
By simply integrating the breathing techniques into her daily routine, Ariella has experienced a tremendous impact, not only in terms of breathing comfort, but also to her levels of fatigue and her autonomic nervous system. She describes the breathing work as “incredibly simple, profound and fundamental to health and wellness,” and has been excited to share her discoveries with her healthcare providers and other people suffering with chronic disease.
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