
You Are Heroic with Brian Johnson +1: #485 The Rules of Breathing
Aug 3, 2018
06:40
In our last couple +1s, we've talked about your breathing. If you haven't checked out the full Optimal Breathing 101 master class yet, you might dig it. For now, how about a quick look at the THREE simple rules of optimal breathing? Here they are:
- Breathe through your nose
- Into your belly
- And exhale slightly longer than you inhaled
- You breathing through your nose? (Most people don't. Go look around and/or in the mirror. Do you see a mouth gaping open?)
- Do you breathe deeply (yet calmly) into your belly? (Most people don't—especially if you breathe through your mouth!)
- And, is your exhale slightly longer than your inhale? (This is the fastest way to relax!)
- First: Your nose filters, humidifies and conditions air in ways your mouth simply can't.
- Second: Know that we NEVER used to breathe through our mouths except for the most extreme instances of physical exertion. (Think: Lion chasing you.)
- Third: When you breathe through your mouth, you tend to "overbreathe" via short, shallow, fast breaths that disrupt the oxygen to carbon dioxide levels in your body. Although it might sound weird, it's the CARBON DIOXIDE that actually gets the oxygen out of your red blood cells and into your tissues and organs and you need to slow down your breathing (via your nose!) to get the CO2 right and, as a result, the O2 where you want it.
