One must be very aware of their own breathing. Feel, watch and listen to your breathing as much as you can during the day and pay attention to what makes you take big breaths.

Ask yourself some questions:

1. Is your breathing a still, silent activity or does it involve large inhalations and body movements?
2. Is your mouth open during your daily activities?
3. Do you take a big breath as you stand up from your chair or before talking?
4. Do you gasp for a breath, yawn or sniff regularly?
5. Do you wake in the night or early morning with a dry mouth?
6. Is your nose blocked when you wake or do you wake feeling that you have not had a good night’s sleep?

Only when you have become aware of your bad breathing can you take steps to correct it. At our practice we make children aware of their breathing patterns. Most often they are totally unaware and some children find them alarming and quite amusing. Awareness of our own incorrect breathing can also be increased by observing other family members who are perhaps breathing through the nose or with their mouths open. Even though all of these people may seem to enjoy good health, many of those who have bad breathing may already have or are likely to develop health problems in the future.

Learn to breathe through your nose. Breathing through your nose at all times is the correct and only way to breathe.

Some individuals seem to spend most of their lives with a blocked nose and many have tried, without success, every nasal spray and therapy on the market. We can teach you an effective exercise for unblocking the nose in a matter of minutes. This will be the first step on the road to permanent and comfortable nasal breathing.

All the breathing exercises that we use involve breathing less air than the body has become accustomed to which helps to reset the respiratory system to accept the higher levels of carbon dioxide that it really should have for your body to get a more supply of oxygen.