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 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)
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