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Are breathing problems at night causing or worsening your anxiety?
If you suffer from anxiety, you probably know the feeling of not being able to breathe.
Breathing is how you control your subconscious mind and anxiety is often linked to your nervous system being stressed.
If you suffer from anxiety, you probably also suffer from poor sleep.
Both anxiety and depression present alongside sleep disorders and poor breathing patterns during sleep. These include mouth breathing and shallow noisy breathing that occurs during sleep, such as snoring.
What’s the solution? Breathing exercises can help you to calm the nervous system, brain, and heart so that you sleep better, and wake up feeling rested and energized.
Dr. Rosalba Courtney is a trained osteopath and has a Ph.D. on the topic of dysfunctional breathing and breathing therapy She believes that breathing combined with movement, mind-body techniques, and 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 Ph.D. 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/
