Breathing is something we do every minute without actively or consciously thinking about it, but it’s a fascinating process that is essential to life.
Three key concepts of healthy breathing:
- Breathe in and out through the nose with your mouth closed, jaw relaxed, tongue resting on the roof of the mouth with the tip of the tongue behind the teeth
- Breathe slowly, approx. 10-12 breaths per minute, and rhythmically
- Breathe less. We tend to breathe at a higher volume than is necessary to serve our body. Breathing more than we metabolically need negatively affects the body just like eating more than we metabolically require stresses most of the body systems
