Breathing and why it's so crucial

Wonder why I always talk about breathing or start with the breath with my clients?

Here are the multiple reasons why the breath is so important not only for life and air exchange but it’s also a way too down regulate or calm down the nervous system from fight or flight.

Most of us anymore live in a sympathetic state in which we are in constant fight or flight, we very rarely get into a parasympathetic state. This over time will compromise the vagus nerve. I teach how to stimulate your vagus nerve which will calm down your nervous system. If you want a full dive into the vagus, read my latest blog. If you are chronically ill, your vagus will be affected.

When we chew and digest our food we should be in a parasympathetic state, it allows us to digest and assimilate and produce enzymes to break down the food much easier than in a stressful environment. We should be appreciative of our food and gift thanks for our food, which is why many other religions and countries pray before you eat.

Breathing is also a way to lose weight. You won’t lose weight if you’re in a sympathetic state. When you exercise you exhale fat for leptin. So move and start breathing.

Breathing is also important because if you can’t control your breath you won’t control your core. The diaphragm and the pelvic floor must think and work together to create core stability. If you lack control here, you will have shoulder pain, hip pain, back pain and neck pain.

Breathing and using the diaphragm is also a way to circulate our lymph. We want our lymph to be circulating and not stagnant. We do not have a pump to pump the lymph, we are the pump which means we need to move and we need to breathe. The lymph and autonomic nervous system are one.

I’m sure there are even more reasons, but for now this is what I have in my mind. If you want to dive into more of this, read any of my blogs or take a home study course on my website to learn more.

Happy breathing y’all! It’s FREE stress relief