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The key to the perfect exhale is slowing down. Many people new to belly breathing tend to inhale a huge amount of air, then end up exhaling too quickly because their body isn’t yet used to this new style of respiration. Exhaling too quickly, though, causes you to expel too much CO2. If you lose too much CO2, your precious O2 can’t get where it needs to go. (This is called overbreathing, and it not only impedes delivery of oxygen to the brain by 30 to 60 percent, it can actually exacerbate feelings of anxiety, anger, or pain.) Keep things slow to take full advantage of the power of your exhale. Breathing through a slightly opened mouth is an easy way to slow things down. Picture yourself blowing on a spoonful of hot soup, and you’ll see what I mean. With belly breathing, you’ll learn to breathe in a way that not only stimulates all those calming lower lung parasympathetic receptors with each inhale but also strikes the ideal ratio of O2 to CO2 on the exhale.
Heart Breath Mind
Leah Lagos
I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.
Malcolm Gladwell, writing in the New Yorker, put it succinctly: “Choking is about thinking too much. Panic is about thinking too little.”
Deep Survival
Laurence Gonzales
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