Breathing Better To Reduce Pain

 BREATHING BETTER TO REDUCE PAIN 

Breathing is absorbing oxygen that's essential to cell life and expelling carbon dioxide which is the residue of cellular metabolism, is very acidifying, so the better we eliminate it, the better we protect the body from excess acidity.

This physiological dimension aside, breathing is like a thread between your conscious will and your unconscious biological life. it's the only one of your bodily functions that you can modulate at will just by thinking about it. try it now: without putting down this book, try holding your breath for a few seconds, then speed up your breathing, then slow it down. You can do this easily. Try to do the same with your heartbeat. it's impossible! however, by controlling your breathing, you can also modify your heart rate.

This is of great help in managing stress and emotions. By changing the pace of your breathing to make it slower, deeper, and more regular, you will rebalance your autonomic nervous system and modify the production of neurotransmitters.

Finally, breathing exercises have a calming effect at the psycho-emotional level. beyond calming you physically, slowing down your breathing acts as a psychological sedative. just focusing on your breathing will help to divert your attention from obsessive negative thoughts. this simple action is enough to reduce emotional attacks and even keep them at bay.

Breathing exercises establish a state of mental relaxation that becomes automatic over time when you practice them regularly. after a few weeks, the secretion of neurohormones will level out naturally, favoring calm and pleasure-inducing once(mainly dopamine and serotonin) at the expense of those released in response to stress and nervous tension(adrenaline and cortisol). Notably, your pain-perception threshold will gradually change.