There are times where I take a whole lungful of air, and yet feel like the breath is somehow incomplete, unsatisfying. Other times I may take only a half breath, except there is a point where my lungs will feel as if they are fully expanded to a “satisfying” level, as if I got exactly the breath my body needed in that moment. Is there a known cause of this feeling?
Happens a lot when I yawn. I will yawn to this point where my lungs get this last little extra bit of breath that feels wholly satisfying.
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When I have a panic attack I can’t yawn all the way. Chest is tight. I take a Xanax and wait it out and the second I yawn all the way down I know I’m okay. Do you otherwise have breathing problems? Asthma, smoking, chronic bronchitis can cause this.
when you’re panicking, you start breathing faster bc you think you need more air. as you breathe faster you stop breathing out enough air which gives you the feeling you don’t have enough air bc you didn’t fully exhale, so when you’re inhaling you still have some of the previous breaths stale air. which causes a domino effect where you keep trying to breathe IN more to get more air while breathing out not enough thus ensuring you will not get it.
the solution is to breathe out more than in and eventually you will get a full breath of air. box breathing- in for 5 seconds, hold for 5 seconds, out for 5, hold for 5, repeat- helps. as does breathing in for 5, and then out for 6. in thru nose (less air), out through mouth (more air)
I know exactly what you mean and I have been wondering the same. It has nothing do do with any particular mental state.
It’s like when you feel you need to take a full breath in. You do and either your lungs get full **before** you feel that it is a satisfactory full breath, or you **do** get a satisfactory full breath (lungs full or not). And the difference in “feeling” between the two possible states is very noticeable but in a way that is very hard to convey. It is almost like you have oxygen level meter internally, and the satisfactory feeling comes when the breath you take fills it to green level, so to speak.
When taking one or a few nice full breaths the o2 rises in your blood. Can even be euphoric. Check out pranayama exercises or Wim Hof. Super interesting stuff!
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