We have all been breathing all our lives. So why even think about it?

Truth is, that over the years, most of us have slipped into some bad habits. Maybe we spend too much time sitting, crouched over a screen. Maybe we spend too much time worrying about whatever it is that stresses us.

Whether a change of posture causing mechanical barriers or a change to the balance of your nervous system, our natural pattern of breathing becomes disrupted.

Most commonly this causes us to breathe through our mouth, in our upper chest, and to breathe too fast.

Our school biology classes taught us that haemoglobin carries oxygen in our red blood cells. But have you ever wondered, if it’s attached to the blood cells, how does it get to the cells around our body?

The answer is a very fine balancing act of the gases in your blood, which control the flow through your blood vessels, and also the ability of oxygen to attach or detach from the haemoglobin in our red blood cells.

Too easily, we find ourselves with a heart that is beating too fast, trying to force blood through vessels that are too narrow, to tissues that are starved of oxygen. Yet the oxygen is too firmly attached to the haemoglobin  and the blood passes by returning the oxygen to the lungs, going round and round whilst your body’s cells slowly suffocate.

With a little effort we can re-establish good breathing habits. Habits that are a natural part of your daily routine, that don’t demand hours of concentrated effort, just natural positive habits that keep your body and your brain well supplied with all the oxygen it needs.

As a result, we have the energy to do as we wish, and we are protected from many common ailments. No side effects. Nothing to lose.