Rapid breathing and stress: how to breathe peacefully?

Caution : You must consult your doctor for your health. This page presents only a personal and alternative point of view which should not be considered as an attempt to prescribe medicine.

Hyperventilation and poor breathing due to stress or burnout?

Working hard, working hard and working at high speed is not in itself a bad thing.

As long as you know how to alternate enough and regularly to catch your breath literally and figuratively.

Breathing is so obvious to all of us that we don't realize how incredibly important and decisive our breath is.

Now stop breathing for 2 minutes and you will immediately notice the vital importance of your breathing.

If your speed is structurally too high, your breathing will also be quickened, even when you are sitting or lying in bed.

When your body gets used to it, you can become "sick" of it.

The influence of stress on rapid breathing and hyperventilation

The respiratory center is under the influence of stress and emotions.

When you are stressed, you often sigh. In case of shock or tension, hold your breath.

Once recovered from the shock, you sigh.

In severe stress, anxiety, or emotional events, the respiratory center is stimulated, which makes your breathing quicker.

Just like your breathing slows down as your stressors are lifted again.

With chronic stress, your body gets used to this increased breathing and breathing can begin to lead a life of its own.

The respiratory center gets used to the reduced carbon dioxide content, gets disturbed and eventually becomes hyperventilated.

This ultimately leads to chronic hyperventilation.

When you are stressed, your body goes into combat or flight mode.

In this mode, you will breathe faster to inject enough oxygen into your blood.

That way, you can act quickly to remedy the root cause of your stress or get out of it.

However, if you experience continuous stress for an extended period of time, it can disturb your breathing without you realizing it.

Why are you breathing?

Every time we breathe, your lungs extract oxygen from the air and deliver it to your blood.

The blood carries oxygen to cells throughout the body, which will restore energy.

The more energy (sport, stress) is required, the higher the respiration is to be able to continue to supply the cells with oxygen.

A little tension or stress can help, but prolonged stress can be harmful. However, there are simple ways to combat stress: good breathing through the diaphragm.

As humans, we breathe an average of 8,000 to 29,000 times a day.

If we're still breathing, we might as well be doing it the right way, right?

Healthy breathing means you breathe about 8 times per minute.

If you do this more often, you can have chronic hyperventilation.

How to breathe to stop chronic hyperventilation?

Breathing too fast can therefore be a good indicator of stress.

If you breathe too fast while at rest, you run the risk of health problems like hyperventilation, panic attacks, and even burnout or depression.

Breathing slowly and (quietly) while exercising consciously ensures relaxation.

For people with stress and burnout, it is important that they learn to relax.

Breathing is an important tool in this regard.

Calm rapid breathing and stress through diaphragmatic breathing

This method of breathing will calm your autonomic nervous system and your hormonal system and in particular reduce the production of "negative" cortisol.

Do you want to start getting rid of your rapid breathing?

It means you need to start reducing stress.

Sometimes it's just very difficult.

A human mirror that can help you reflect on yourself often helps a lot!

If you still have bad breathing, get it under control with Loris, Breathing Coach.

Loris will help you apply everything you learn in practice.

Not just now, but also for years to come.

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