Why is it that we don’t often breath to our full capacity, we take shallow breathes and rarely take full breath

Question

Why is it that we don’t often breath to our full capacity, we take shallow breathes and rarely take full breath

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Answer 1

Many of us (at least in US where I live) don’t know how. We breathe through our bellies as babies, but it is rarely reinforced by parents while growing up. We end up mostly breathing through our chests instead. Getting into yoga was how I learned full body breathing again