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1060 The Truth About Breathing & Why You’re Doing It Wrong w/James Nestor
The School of Greatness
Chest Breathing or Lower Belly Breath?
When we chest breathe, this is associated with a sympathetic or fight or flight response. If we stay in the sympathetic chest breathing state for too long, we are cutting off other organs. So to answer your question, you want to breathe lightly fluidly and deeply. This does not mean you have to just go for it every breath and push out your stomach. It means you should be breathing through your nose. Nasal breathings are are deeper. And the bottom of the lungs is where we have the largest profusion of blood,. so that's where oxygen exchange can happen much more efficiently. That's how we should be breathing.
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