What’s the logic behind breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth?
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Your nose is a big filter on your face, hairs and mucus helps catch dirt and germs. It’s also a longer trip to the lungs, giving your body more time to warm the air (more important in cold temps) meaning it’s less of a shock to your lungs.
Edit: spelling
You can’t breathe as fast through the nose. So if you were to inhale through the nose, you won’t be able to hyperventilate as easily. Then the coordination of in through the house and out through the mouth distracts you from focusing on other thoughts.
I think it’s less about biology and more about psychology. It forces you to focus consciously on your breathing, because you’d never naturally breathe like that.
The goal is for the person to concentrate on their breathing, making them think less about what made them panic or be emotional. You can breath and exhale through both, so by inhaling through one, and exhaling through another one you need to concentrate a little bit, instead of just letting your inconscious part of your brain do the work. Why specifically exhaling through the mouth? Well it’s hard to control the speed at which you exhale through your nose. So by inhaling through your nose and exhaling through your mouth you have the most control over it and so you can concentration easier on that. It’s really about the psychology, not for a biological reason.
You can unblock your stuff nose by breathing in through your nose and out through your mouth. Breathing in cool air through your nose can reduce any swelling of the tissue in you sinuses and nasal passages. Once the air has warmed in your lungs and throat, breath it out through your mouth so it doesn’t warm, and thereby swell, your sinuses and nasal cavities. Obviously it doesn’t remove mucus, but it can help.
I wake up at night clearly breathing through my mouth, I try to go to sleep with my mouth closed and breathing through my nose.
It’s actually called Pursed lip [breathing](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/325555%23:~:text%3DPursed%2520lip%2520breathing%2520is%2520a,out%2520slowly%2520through%2520the%2520mouth.&ved=2ahUKEwibw6y-rtnpAhWBJ80KHWHvD3cQFjAEegQIKRAM&usg=AOvVaw3HeAWW9lX2PT4NttKHCQMN)
Pursed lip breathing is a simple technique for slowing down a person’s breathing and getting more air into their lungs. With regular practice, it can help strengthen the lungs and make them work more efficiently. The technique involves breathing in through the nose and breathing out slowly through the mouth.
In the psychology sense with anxiety and the like; it’s a change in breathing technique that requires your attention and gives you something to focus on. It helps lessen hyperventilation and panic.
I had heard that its a focusing method.
When used in times of anxiety and stress, when you are breathing this way, you are focused on your breathing instead of what is causing you the stress.
my old ENT and respiratory specialists told me years ago that its easier to pace your breathing this way, especially when you are doing breathing exercises to increase lung capacity. in through your nose is slower and more filtered air. out though your mouth is more forceful and powerful exhale than it is with your nose. try blowing air hard out your nose, then try blowing air hard out your mouth. which can you do longer? which one is more powerful and forceful?
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