When You Breathe: The Most Powerful Thing You Do
Imagine if we had to remember to breathe. Thank goodness it’s involuntary, right? Except—here’s the kicker—the fact that we don’t think about it is precisely the problem. We breathe wrong all our lives, then wonder why we’re stressed, anxious, fatigued, or dealing with health issues. We think the problem is out there—the job, the bills, the news, the neighbors blasting music at 2 AM. But nope. The real culprit is often inside—how we manage our breath. Or rather, how we don’t. Breathing is the most fundamental function of life. It fuels every cell, controls energy, regulates emotions, and even alters brainwaves. But in the modern world—especially in Western cultures—nobody teaches us how to breathe. Not our schools, not our doctors, not even our religions (unless you’re deep into certain Eastern philosophies). Yet, babies breathe perfectly—until they start mimicking the stressed-out, shallow-breathing adults around them. By adulthood, most people take shallow chest breaths, barely...
