The work of breathing works on 3 levels:
- Motor-muscular
This is about the topics of muscle tension and posture as well as movement
- Emotional-cognitive
This is about thoughts, images, experiences and how the unconscious can get into consciousness. Because the breath reacts directly to a wide variety of influences.
- Vegetative
Here everything revolves around sympathetic and parasympathetic as well as the influence of breathing on metabolism, digestion and sleep, among other things
Benefits of breathing work:
- Increases performance in private and professional areas
- Reduces exhaustion as well as anxiety and panic states
- Promotes the ability to concentrate
- Reduces your own stress level and promotes inner peace
- Strengthens psychosocial health (self-efficacy, recognition of one's own patterns, social competence)
- Builds confidence in yourself
- Promotes clear communication and decision-making skills (less emotional)
- Promotes creative thinking
- Has a positive influence on the voice
- Activates your own vitality
- Increases your own motivation and has a life-affirming effect
- Has a soothing effect on tinnitus
- Improves the quality of sleep
- Relieves gastrointestinal discomfort
- Reduces stress-related hot flashes and sweats
- Reduces back pain and headaches and promotes physical mobility
- Lowers blood pressure
With regular training, physical breathing improves mental strength and awareness. It is an internal process which becomes visible by ones external behavior.