Alexander Lowen, psychiatrist, who created “Bioenergetics” and was a student of Wilhelm Reich, said:

“Shallow breathing is both the cause and effect of anxiety”.

Mary Oliver says in one of her poems:

“Are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?”

Shallow breathing makes us:

• Go numb or tense, or anxious
• Turns us into robots
• Cuts us off from the heart
• Cuts us off from feeling exuberant and joyful,
• Cuts us off from trusting life and living carefree (free of worry)
• Cuts us off from feeling our true feeling nature
• Doesn't allow us to have empathy or compassion for ourselves and our fellow humans.
• Cuts us off from the love we are
• Diminishes our life-forces
• Doesn't fuel our cells with enough oxygen

Sheldon Paul Hendler, M.D. said:

"We have approximately 75 trillion cells in our body and they are all breathing, or should be breathing."

Steve Martin said:

"I've got to keep breathing. It would be my worst business mistake if I didn't."

To learn more about changing your breathing habits go to this page.

"Without mastering breathing nothing can be mastered!" G I Gurdjieff