You therefore finish the session feeling both peaceful and awake. And those who are in too low an energy state are lifted up. Those who are too activated therefore calm down. It balances your nervous system and connects to the rhythm of your heart - Because the in and out breath are of equal lengths, coherent breathing activates both your energising and relaxing systems of your body and mind in equal measure. I think coherent breathing seems to be so good for people’s heath for several key reasons My Thoughts on Why Coherent Breathing Works Yet after 2 months, patients achieved significant improvements after doing coherent breathing a couple of times a day. Brown said he saw people transforming even with just 5-10 mins of this breathing exercise per day.īrown and Gerbarg used this coherent breathing on survivors of the 9/11, who had ‘ground glass lungs’ and no known cure. Renowned Professors and Doctors, Richard Brown and Patricia Gerbarg tried experimenting with coherent breathing on people with anxiety and depression. When the subjects went back to talking and their usual breathing rate, their heart skipped around once again. Heart, circulation and your nervous system come into coherence and start operating at peak efficiency. The researchers in Italy found when doing coherent breathing, blood flow to the brain increases. Heart rate variability increases our resilience and boosts our wellbeing. One interesting finding is that coherent breathing practices increase your Heart Rate Variability, which leads to many other health benefits. Studies have been carried out on coherent breathing. It seems like ancient cultures could feel and sense the benefits of breathing at this rate, and the prayers they chanted matched this healing breathing rate. And they subsequently found Hindu, Taoist and Native American Prayers to be almost the same too. They were amazed that the number of breaths for each cycle was almost exactly 5.5 breaths per minute. Researchers in 2001 from the University of Pavia, Italy, measured heart rate, blood flow and nervous system feedback as people chanted either a Buddhist mantra or a Christian Latin Prayer (Rosary). Coherent Breathing Comes Up in Many Different Cultures A great chance to slow down your breathing and move from overbreathing to breathing at a more healthy rate. It’s the one time of the day when you focus solely on your own body and mind. Some believe many of the issues we have could be linked to overbreathing - it’s certainly possible.Īs breathing is done automatically most of the day, meditation is an ideal opportunity to retrain our breathing. There is a theory (with some evidence) that asthma, and other chronic conditions may be partly or fully caused by overbreathing (hyperventilation), and certainly seem to get worse because of it. This is slower than the normal breathing rate than most of us are used to, but there’s evidence to suggest many people overbreathe, and this leads to all sorts of ailments. It could be anywhere between 5 and 6 breaths per minute. It doesn’t have to be exactly 5.5 seconds. That works out conveniently to be 5.5 seconds for each inbreath and 5.5 seconds for each out breath. What is Coherent BreathingĬoherent or resonant breathing, is breathing at a rate of about 5.5 breaths per minute. And just like overeating isn’t good for us, overbreathing could also be having an unhelpful impact on our wellbeing during the day, as well as at night when we’re sleeping. This mouth breathing leads to overbreathing as well as many other issues. It affects our breathing too.įor example, it’s estimated 25-50% of the population breaths through the mouth. Living in our rapidly changing and stressful times is having an impact on our minds. As you’re probably into mindfulness, I’m guessing you practice mindful breath awareness from time to time, if not everyday.īut is just an awareness of the breath enough? I’m going to be sharing with you a way to make your experience of mindful breathing even more healthy and even healing.
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