How to Fix Breathing Problems During Anxiety with Rosalba Courtney - MBC#10

The Mouth Brain Connection

https://www.drstevenlin.com/fix-breathing-problems-at-night-anxiety/

Is breathing causing or worsening your anxiety?

If you suffer from anxiety, you probably know the feeling of not being able to breathe. The issue is that breathing is how you control your subconscious mind, so if your breathing is 

The reality is that anxiety and depression can often be worsened by dysfunctional breathing patterns. These include mouth breathing, shallow breathing, or audible noisy breathing that occurs during sleep such as snoring. 

What’s the solution? Breathing exercises to retrain yourself to calm the nervous system, brain, and heart so that you sleep better, waking up feeling rested and energized. 

Dr. Rosalba Courtney is a trained osteopath and has a PhD on the topic of dysfunctional breathing and breathing therapy She believes that breathing combined with movement, mind-body techniques, other health practices has enormous potential as a tool to heal the mind and body. 

Rosalba has developed a system called Integrative Breathing Therapy based on the models and tools she developed during her PhD and subsequent research. 

You can read more about Dr. Courtney’s work here:

https://www.rosalbacourtney.com/

Read her research articles:

Relationships between measures of dysfunctional breathing in a population with concerns about their breathing: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21147415/

Breathing retraining in sleep apnoea: a review of approaches and potential mechanisms:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31940122/

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