You’re Breathing Wrong and It’s Probably Keeping You Sick

They’ll give you pills for anxiety. Pills for blood pressure. Pills for sleep.

Nobody asks how you’re breathing.

I spent years on medications before I learned something embarrassing: I was breathing like I was being chased all day long.

Shallow. Chest-high. Fast.

Your body can’t tell the difference between real danger and shallow breathing. Both trigger the same stress response.

Cortisol spikes. Blood pressure rises. Sleep suffers. Inflammation increases.

Then your doctor adds another prescription instead of teaching you to breathe from your belly.

I start every day with breath work. Not because I’m spiritual. Because it drops my heart rate 15 beats in two minutes.

Because proper breathing activates your parasympathetic nervous system. The part that heals. The part that digests. The part that lets you sleep.

Big pharma can’t patent your breath. So nobody teaches it.

But your body responds immediately. Not in six weeks. Not after you lose weight. Right now.

One slow breath from your belly does more for your nervous system than any pill I was ever prescribed.

We teach breath work in every RiversZen class. Not as a warmup. As medicine. Live instruction or on-demand when you need it most.

Because learning to breathe properly is learning to turn off the stress response that’s killing you.

Your doctor won’t mention it. The pharmaceutical companies definitely won’t.

But your body is waiting for you to remember how.

When’s the last time you took a breath that went all the way down to your belly?

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