{"id":586,"date":"2018-03-13T16:51:39","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T16:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielmaxwell.co.uk\/?p=586"},"modified":"2018-03-13T16:53:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T16:53:53","slug":"breathing-for-healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielmaxwell.co.uk\/?p=586","title":{"rendered":"Breathing for healing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielmaxwell.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Deep-breathing-and-high-blood-pressure-blog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-568 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielmaxwell.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Deep-breathing-and-high-blood-pressure-blog-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"Iere there is an inscription on the sand &quot;Breathe Deeeply&quot;.\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielmaxwell.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Deep-breathing-and-high-blood-pressure-blog-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.danielmaxwell.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Deep-breathing-and-high-blood-pressure-blog-1024x610.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.danielmaxwell.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Deep-breathing-and-high-blood-pressure-blog.jpg 1795w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I find myself speaking to so many patients about the importance of breathing, I thought I would collect the basics on this short blog post.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to find out about the basic science of breathing properly, the best place to start reading is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jcm.co.uk\/the-transformative-power-of-deep-slow-breathing.html\">here<\/a>\u00a0(an excellent Journal of Chinese Medicine article by Peter Deadman). The best place to start viewing is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uSJIp-OCCgs\">here<\/a>\u00a0(a public talk on the same subject by Peter Deadman).<\/p>\n<p>In terms of books, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shambhala.com\/the-healing-power-of-the-breath-2121.html\">The Healing Power of the Breath<\/a>\u00a0is an excellent place to start, and the publisher has put up\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shambhala.com\/healingpowerofthebreath\/\">audio files<\/a>\u00a0of the guided breathing practices on their website.<\/p>\n<p>For patients with high blood pressure, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.harvard.edu\/blog\/stress-raising-your-blood-pressure-take-a-deep-breath-201602159168\">here<\/a> for details of a breathing practice approved by the FDA in America to lower blood pressure, although the basic practice is essentially the same as above.<\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of breathing Apps available for smart-phones, which guide breathing practice in a variety of ways. I particularly like the use of tones &#8211; the app plays a higher tone for the in-breath and a lower tone for the out-breath. See <a href=\"https:\/\/productivitybytes.com\/deep-breathing-apps\/\">here<\/a> for some examples.<\/p>\n<p>If you can develop a daily practice of deep, slow breathing, it will provide significant health benefits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find myself speaking to so many patients about the importance of breathing, I thought I would collect the basics <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielmaxwell.co.uk\/?p=586\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Continue Reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielmaxwell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielmaxwell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielmaxwell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielmaxwell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielmaxwell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielmaxwell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":594,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielmaxwell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions\/594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielmaxwell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielmaxwell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielmaxwell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}