{"id":467693,"date":"2010-03-24T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/03\/24\/better-breathing-for-better-health-six-common-ways-people-breat\/"},"modified":"2010-03-24T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T17:00:00","slug":"better-breathing-for-better-health-6-ways-people-breathe-incorrectly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/467693","title":{"rendered":"Better Breathing for Better Health: 6 Ways People Breathe Incorrectly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filed under: Advice<\/a>, Happiness<\/a>, Health<\/a>, Fit Yoga<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nPeople are so unaware of how they breathe; I see it every day. Most of us assume that because breathing is one of the most natural things we do, that there is nothing to be done, but our breathing is greatly affected by life’s ups and downs and many times it suffers greatly for it. As breathing guru, Donna Farhi says in The Breathing Book<\/a>, the challenge is to uncover and reawaken the essential breath by learning how we interfere or block this natural process.<\/p>\n

Obviously, we all know that if we cannot breathe, we cannot live. We breathe in oxygen and we breathe out carbon dioxide. When we breathe properly, we improve concentration, eliminate toxins<\/a>, strengthen the immune system<\/a>, reduce stress<\/a>, and get the metabolism going. Yoga, tai chi, and qigong all share these same breathing benefits when performed properly.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, not breathing correctly can cause many problems in the body such as to the immune, circulatory, endocrine and nervous systems and produce a number of symptoms including dizziness, anxiety, chest, neck and shoulder pain and digestive problems<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Six ways we breathe incorrectly after the jump<\/p>\n

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Filed under: Advice, Happiness, Health, Fit Yoga People are so unaware of how they breathe; I see it every day. Most of us assume that because breathing is one of the most natural things we do, that there is nothing to be done, but our breathing is greatly affected by life’s ups and downs and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1669,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1669"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}