Better Breathing Means Better Health

Mar 31 2020 17 ep. 6 mins 83

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Most of us in the West breathe badly and this has an adverse effect on our health. Almost every disease is associated with poor breathing, and by simply improving our breathing with a little training, whatever health problem we may have will also be improved and even, in some cases, eliminated.

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Your Progress & Feedback - Can I Help?

Mar 31 2020 7 mins

Your Progress & Feedback - Can I Help You? It would be good to get your feedback about this training course so that we can improve it in any way and offer you more personalized help. If you could email me your starting Control Pause and your most recent Control Pause you achieved after completing the course. During December I will send a free copy of my eFlipBook "The Breath Connec

What you eat affects how you breathe & how you breathe affects what you eat!

Mar 29 2020 7 mins

This episode explains the remarkable relationship between our eating habits and our breathing quality. It is based on research of over two hundred and fifty patients over the past three years. The good news is that as you improve either your breathing or your diet, your eating choices or your quality of breathing will also improve. To learn more about diet check out my podcast “T

General Health Questions

Apr 26 2019 7 mins

Hi, this is Michael Lingard, your Buteyko Educator, welcoming you to the final episode of Better Breathing Means Better Health and offering you my congratulations on completing this course. You now have the understanding and tools to continue improving your breathing and health in the future. Just to remind you of the powerful impact on your health that improved breathing will have

Some Important Points

Apr 26 2019 8 mins

Hi, this is Michael Lingard, your Buteyko Educator, welcoming you to episode 14 and offering you my congratulations on completing this course. You now have the understanding and tools to continue improving your breathing and health in the future. Chronic Hidden Hyperventilation is a serious condition and as such safety is paramount with the management of this condition. This final

Stopping Buteyko Exercises & Taping

Apr 26 2019 4 mins

Hi, welcome to episode thirteen of Better Breathing Means Better Health. I hope by now you are really making progress and feeling the benefits of better breathing. One of the great attractions of the Buteyko Method breath training is that people don’t need to carry on doing exercises indefinitely, but once their carbon dioxide receptors have been re-set and they are achieving goo

Sealing the Leaks & Talking Like The Queen

Apr 26 2019 6 mins

Episode # 10 Sealing the Leaks & Talking Like The Queen Hi, welcome to episode ten of Better Breathing Means Better Health entitled Sealing the leaks and Talking Like The Queen. As you will now know, our breathing is controlled automatically by the level of carbon dioxide in our body. It is a good image to hold in one's mind that our lungs are not just the means to get oxygen for

When You Are Ill

Apr 25 2019 6 mins

With the best will in the world and despite your greatest care, it is still possible that you might fall ill at some stage, with a bad dose of a cold, some random infection or just be run down. When you are ill you are more liable to over-breathe and your Control Pause may fall & your pulse rate may rise. All infections are stressors, whether flu, a common cold or viral infection.

Posture, Sleep & Taping

Apr 25 2019 4 mins

So how does posture affect our breathing? The raised shoulders, expanded chest, and tense upper muscles are to be seen on most patients who normally over-breathe. With habitual heavy breathing, these ancillary respiratory muscles need to be used repeatedly and they become chronically tense with over-use. We should breathe primarily with just our diaphragm, the large dome-shaped mus

Anti-Hyperventilation Exercises

Apr 22 2019 5 mins

Episode # 9 Anti-Hyperventilation Exercises Hi, this is Michael Lingard welcoming you to episode nine of Better Breathing Means Better Health. With the best will in the world, every now and again you may find your breathing is getting out of control. This may happen at times of severe stress, when ill or after some trauma. Wouldn’t it be useful to have a simple exercise that yo

Step Exercises & The Extended Pause

Apr 22 2019 5 mins

Episode # 8 Step Exercises & The Extended Pause Hi, this is episode eight of Better Breathing Means Better Health, entitled “Step Exercises and The Extended Pause”. As part of your breath retraining wouldn't it be good if you could speed up your breath training while out for a walk or while walking to work each day? Well, this is exactly what the step exercise allows you to do