Breathing, the New Science of a Lost Art

James nestor is a journalist who investigated how we breathe, and what he discovered is really fascinating. He found that the vast majority of people are breathing too much at some time during the day - for about 25% of the population all the time. The best way to breathe that any one can practise right now is to take in a breath about five to six seconds, slowly through the nose, and exhale that same amount of time. When we do this, we increase our circulation. We greatly decrease the burden on the heart by suck in all that blood into our thoracic cavity when we inhale, and letting that blood go out through the rest of our body when we exhale

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