8 Unusual Reasons Why You Should Be Interested In the Way You Breathe

There’s more to breathing than you think

Photo by Indian Yogi (Yogi Madhav) on Unsplash

The guy had lost his mind. I was sure of it.

I also thought he was the most arrogant man I’d ever met.

But there was something magnetic about him too. Something I couldn’t stop listening to.

Lay down and I’ll show you something that’s more uplifting than coffee and feels better than sex.

Almost to prove him wrong, I laid down and waited for instruction.

He then pressed play and some music started.

After 20 minutes of deep breathing followed by a breath hold, I was converted.

That experience was the catalyst for my 8 year ongoing journey. As cheesy as it sounds, it changed my life.

I couldn’t believe something as simple as breathing could hold such hidden depths.

I also couldn’t believe these eight unusual things.

1. Your nostrils take turns breathing

A few thousand years ago, yogis in the East developed a series of breathing exercises called pranayama (prana means life force energy in Sanskrit and yama means control). As they were experimenting with the…