Improve health, wellbeing and performance through
regular relaxation and optimal breathing techniques
Regulating breathing is the key to improving health and performance in many different areas.
A lot of people have breathing problems. These can vary from serious asthma to a little gasping for breath when going upstairs. Others do not achieve the (sports) performance for which they have the potential.
More than ever before, modern man is subject to tension: tension due to a hurried lifestyle, increased pressure at work, financial problems, problems with personal relationships, lots of traffic jams, to name but a few. Just like HRV, breathing is a meausure for someone’s level of stress and responds immediately if stress levels change. You can see that from the many common expressions relating to this: I was gasping for breath’ , ‘My breath just stuck in my throat’, I found it really oppressive’, ‘we listened, breathless'; and also: ‘ a sigh of relief’ and ‘a breath of fresh air’. All these expressions are connected with activities that evoke emotional stress. By so doing they cause bad breathing patterns that become habit forming and can lead to various illnesses or stand in the way of good performance.
Through developing awareness of how to breathe optimally (regulating their breathing) people are in a much better position to influence the functioning and exercising of the heart, the brain, the nervous system and hormonal system. Optimal breathing patterns have a direct effect on stress reduction, clarity of thought, strategic decision making and on the way people comunicaate.
An optimal breathing pattern brings greater vitality and quality of life. Naturally,healthy eating, physical exercise and attitude are also extremely important, but breathing effectively is for many the most important way to stay healthy and effectively achieve their aims.
A lot of people have breathing problems. These can vary from serious asthma to a little gasping for breath when going upstairs. Others do not achieve the (sports) performance for which they have the potential.
More than ever before, modern man is subject to tension: tension due to a hurried lifestyle, increased pressure at work, financial problems, problems with personal relationships, lots of traffic jams, to name but a few. Just like HRV, breathing is a meausure for someone’s level of stress and responds immediately if stress levels change. You can see that from the many common expressions relating to this: I was gasping for breath’ , ‘My breath just stuck in my throat’, I found it really oppressive’, ‘we listened, breathless'; and also: ‘ a sigh of relief’ and ‘a breath of fresh air’. All these expressions are connected with activities that evoke emotional stress. By so doing they cause bad breathing patterns that become habit forming and can lead to various illnesses or stand in the way of good performance.
Through developing awareness of how to breathe optimally (regulating their breathing) people are in a much better position to influence the functioning and exercising of the heart, the brain, the nervous system and hormonal system. Optimal breathing patterns have a direct effect on stress reduction, clarity of thought, strategic decision making and on the way people comunicaate.
An optimal breathing pattern brings greater vitality and quality of life. Naturally,healthy eating, physical exercise and attitude are also extremely important, but breathing effectively is for many the most important way to stay healthy and effectively achieve their aims.
How breathing works
With every breath our body is provided with oxygen through the lungs and the blood.
The blood transports the oxygen around the rest of the body where it is turned into energy. Waste products are similarly taken back to the lungs where they are breathed out in the form of carbon-dioxide.
Almost any health condition can be improved with optimal breathing. Clinical studies have proven that oxygen, wellbeing and duration of life, are completely dependent upon effective breathing. Lung capacity is an important indicator of how long someone will live. Breathing in supplies more than 99% of the total oxygen - and energy provision.
An average person achieves their maximum breathing functionality and lung capacity when they around 25 years old. After that, every ten years the breathing potential decreases by between 10% and 27%. Therefore unless you undertake to maintain or improve your breathing capacity, this will decrease, and with it, your overall health, your life expectancy and your spiritual well-being.
The lungs themselves consist of millions of tiny lobes that are covered in hair like bloodvessels. Through these, the oxygen is transferred from the air to the blood. This is a continual process; for an adult at rest this happens about 12 times a minute.
The blood transports the oxygen around the rest of the body where it is turned into energy. Waste products are similarly taken back to the lungs where they are breathed out in the form of carbon-dioxide.
Almost any health condition can be improved with optimal breathing. Clinical studies have proven that oxygen, wellbeing and duration of life, are completely dependent upon effective breathing. Lung capacity is an important indicator of how long someone will live. Breathing in supplies more than 99% of the total oxygen - and energy provision.
An average person achieves their maximum breathing functionality and lung capacity when they around 25 years old. After that, every ten years the breathing potential decreases by between 10% and 27%. Therefore unless you undertake to maintain or improve your breathing capacity, this will decrease, and with it, your overall health, your life expectancy and your spiritual well-being.
The lungs themselves consist of millions of tiny lobes that are covered in hair like bloodvessels. Through these, the oxygen is transferred from the air to the blood. This is a continual process; for an adult at rest this happens about 12 times a minute.