Breathing Devices Solve Social Anxiety Problems

Look at this image. It shows brain oxygenation in 2 conditions: normal breathing and forceful overbreathing. After only one minute of forceful hyperventilation, we have about 2 times less oxygen in the brain. Why? First, of all bear in mind that with heavy or deep or super-deep breathing, you cannot improve blood oxygenation. The arterial blood is about 98% saturated with oxygen during tiny normal breathing (only 6 L/mi at rest but with the use of the diaphragm). Hence, however heavy you breathe, your blood oxygenation remains the same. The main effect of hyperventilation is CO2 losses.

But CO2 is probably the most potent known vasodilator (dilator of blood vessels, like arteries and arterioles). Hence, when we hyperventilate, our brains (and other organs) get less oxygen. This is exactly what we see on this picture.

Furthermore, CO2 is a powerful sedative and tranquilizer of the nerve cells, while low CO2 leads to "spontaneous and asynchronous firing of cortical neurons" (from Experimental Brain Research).

Pay attention to your breathing. When you have anxiety, it gets faster and deeper causing further CO2 losses. But even before you have anxiety, your breathing and body oxygen levels are already abnormal. Check your breathing and body oxygen now with this simple test. Exhale normally, pinch the nose and count your stress-free breath holding time. As soon as you get first signs of stress, release the nose.

This specific tryout quantifies two of your factors at once. First of all, the final result measures body oxygen content. Also, it measures how intense the individual or personal breathing pattern is. Assuming that your breath pattern is actually standard, you will be capable to hold the breath for as much as 40 seconds with no stress. If you have only around twenty sec, you breathe approximately double the scientific norm and have twice less oxygen in the brain.

If you manage to slow down your breathing so that your body oxygen level is normal (40 seconds), you will solve all your problems with social anxiety. This clinical observation is based on experience of hundred thousands of people who mastered the Buteyko breathing method, Frolov device, Samozdrav breathing device, hatha yoga, and other techniques. Even 30 seconds could be enough for feeling confident and in flow again.

Solutions? You need to restore your normal breathing pattern or learn how to breathe in accordance with medical norms for breathing (about 6 L/min, 10-12 breaths per minute during automatic breathing, including sleep; 40 mm Hg CO2 in the arterial blood, 40 s for the body oxygen test, and so on). There are no medical studies that found people with anxiety and normal breathing parameters. They all breathe faster, deeper (more air per breath), with less CO2 and oxygen in body cells. You need normal breathing as the final and permanent solution to anxiety problems.

How to get it? You should slow down or retrain your unconscious or automatic breathing pattern using breathing retraining: breath work and/or lifestyle changes. Among the most professional breathing retraining techniques are: the Buteyko therapy (it has the most amazing arsenal of lifestyle techniques), Amazing DIY breathing device, and Frolov breathing device and Samozdrav (breathing device, also known as Cosmic Health).

Resources (web pages of NormalBreathing.com)
Samozdrav Breathing Device: Overview and effects
Pranayama Benefits Who and how can get benefits from yoga pranayama breathing exercise
Breathing Techniques Analysis: Overview of the most popular breathing methods, including the Buteyko method, pursed lip breathing, yoga breathing and pranayama, Breathslim, Frolov device, and many others.

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