I hope you have enjoyed our series on Anxiety thus far. We've been talking a lot about CO2, breathing, and there relationship to anxiety. I'd like to dive deeper now into the breath. On average we breathe 20k to 24k times. The question to ask then is how are you breathing these breaths?
Several lines of research aswell as my own clinical observation through working with real patients demonstrates to me that many people are breathing too quickly. An optimal breath rate s generally between 4.5 and 7 BPM.
Now this doesn't mean you need to be breathing 6 BPM when you're out running. Just breathe the rate thats meets the demand of your activity.
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