Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

Dr. Michael Gelb is a renowned New York dentist who specializes in treating snoring, sleep apnea, anxiety, and other breathing-related problems.

Hof’s ten-week video course,

Take a deep breath’ is not a helpful instruction,” Meuret wrote. Hold your breath is much better.

parasympathetic nervous system, stimulates relaxation and restoration.

panic, like asthma, is usually preceded by an increase in breathing volume and rate and a decrease in carbon dioxide. To stop the attack before it struck, subjects breathed slower and less, increasing their carbon dioxide. This simple and free technique reversed dizziness, shortness of breath, and feelings of suffocation. It could effectively cure

slowing their breathing to increase their carbon dioxide. This technique worked for panic attacks, too.

Feinstein of carbon dioxide therapy.

Holotropic Breathwork created by a Czech psychiatrist named Stanislav Grof.

sympathetic, has an opposite role. It sends stimulating signals to our organs, telling them to get ready for action.

Parasympathetic stimulation opens the floodgates in our eyes