Good Day! I hope you are Well!!
There are two types of breathing there is shallow breathing which occurs mostly in the chest and deep breathing which occurs mostly in the abdominals. Shallow breathing only brings air into the top two lungs & deep breathing brings oxygen into all five of your lungs. Because the oxygen in shallow breathers only reaches the top two lungs, the overactive nerve receptors turn on the “fight or flight” response. The continuous “fight or flight” response causes a build-up of stress chemicals and stress hormones. Whereas when you take deep rhythmic breaths you turn on nerve receptors that have a calm and regenerative effect on the body.
According to Dr. Robert Giller ,M.D., who wrote maximum metabolism, “of the factors affecting metabolism there are more under our jurisdiction than those that aren’t.” This means two very key things, you can change your metabolism and you can change the rate at which your body burns food. Pam Grout in her book Jump start your metabolism stated “ for every 4.8 calories the average person’s body burns 1 Liter of oxygen. In other words, your metabolism is nothing but a measure of how much oxygen you burn.” If you take in more oxygen naturally you are going to burn more oxygen, so the key to weight loss is as simple as taking in more oxygen.
It may surprise you but what you wear can play a big role in your breathing. Have you ever noticed that some clothes are just tight and they don’t allow you to move very well, these are clothes I am talking about. These shirts and jeans can cut off circulation and can cause muscles to turn on or turn off due to a change in how we move.pam grout suggests in her book Jumpstart Your Metabolism to watch out for these clothes:
• “clothes that pinch your waist or squeeze your stomach
• clothes that are too small press enter type belts or waistbands
• tight bras, underwear or socks
• tight belts or waistbands
• tightly knotted scarves or neckties
• high heels or shoes that pinch
• girdles, corsets,” control top” anything”
To increase your metabolism:
1) Take 10 deep breaths, 5 times throughout the day
-it helps if you set an alarm
-do ten deep breaths up waking, with breakfast, with lunch, with dinner, and before bed
2) to take a deep breath allow your abdominals to expand and let your diaphragm drop( this sends chemical messages to your brain to stimulate production of chemicals to relax)
Thank you for reading and remember!
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Take care! God Bless!
Dirk
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