Breathing
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Balanced Breathing

Train your system to default to better quality equal breaths.
Balanced Breathing
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Why it matters?

Often dysregulation is hard to detect because we have become so accustomed to breathing poorly. Therefore, it’s always good to improve your breathing quality by training a better baseline through balanced breathwork.  

Indicators of being out of balance can be a chronic sense of tiredness or the desire to sigh occasionally with shortness of breath. Proneness to both hyper or hypo arousal can mean you have a narrow window of tolerance that could be expanded with better breathing techniques so that you can remain calm and be alert despite changes in your external environment. 

You can’t really overdo the benefits of Balanced Breathing (minus time loss) as it’s a helpful technique to improve your default breathing, and also a slew of other benefits throughout your system because of it. 

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How it works?

5.5 x 5.5: optimizing the equal lengths of an ideal inhale/exhale.

Box Breathing: training breath quality consistency.

Nadi Shodhana: alternate nostril breathing to balance the nervous system.

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Examples

5.5 x 5.5

Box Breathing

Nadi Shodhana

Take aways

Be the master of your nervous system by practicing controlled, balanced breathing often for its physiological and psychological benefits. 

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