9 key facts

  1. correct breathing is fundamental to our long term health and happiness
  2. most people don’t breathe correctly
  3. even a small lack of oxygen causes tiredness, poor concentration, fainting, hyperventilation and confusion
  4. most people don’t realise their breathing is causing their mind and body to live in a constant state of stress, to them a stressed state is a normal state
  5. your autonomic nervous system is a two way switch controlled by your breathing
  6. breathing into your chest stimulates your sympathetic nervous system putting your mind and body into a stressed state
  7. breathing into your belly stimulates your parasympathetic nervous system putting your mind and body into a relaxed state
  8. on average adults breathe between 17,000 and 26,000 times a day
  9. with every breath you take you are choosing to be stressed or relaxed