Benefits of
Somatic Breathwork
- Improves blood circulation (blood pressure)
- Increase oxygen circulation
- Rids the body of carbon dioxide
- Creates clarity in the mind (change)
- Has helped decrease addictive behaviors
- Potential to relieve pain
- Clear negative emotions
- Strengthen the mind and body connection
- Emotional healing
- Helps to reduce stress and anxiety
Articles on breathwork!
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Stress Effects on the Body (2017)
- "A stressful incident can make the heart pound and breathing quicken. Muscles tense and beads of sweat appear."
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Understanding The Stress Response (2020)
- "Chronic stress causes the muscles in the body to be in a more or less constant state of guardedness. When muscles are taut and tense for long periods of time, this may trigger other reactions of the body and even promote stress-related disorders."
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The Impact of Stress on Body Function: A Review (2023)
- "It can be postulated that stress causes autonomic nervous system activation and indirectly affects the function of the cardiovascular system (Lazarus et al., 1963[59]; Vrijkotte et al., 2000[120]). If these effects occur upon activation of the sympathetic nervous system, then it mainly results in an increase in heart rate, strength of contraction, vasodilation in the arteries of skeletal muscles, a narrowing of the veins, contraction of the arteries in the spleen and kidneys, and decreased sodium excretion by the kidneys (Herd, 1991[40])."
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Brief structured respiration practices enhance mood and reduce physiological arousal (2023)
- Breathwork Improves mood and
physiological arousal
- Daily 5-minute breathwork improves mood and reduces anxiety
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