Relaxation Through Breathing: A Functional Medicine Approach

Life can be stressful. Often, the things that trigger our anxiety are beyond our control. How we react to them, however, is always within our power.

More specifically, it’s in our bellies.

If we had to choose the quickest way to relax, taking slow, belly breathes would win hands down. Many people, however, engage in a breathing pattern that produces the opposite results, a pattern associated with the stress response, our “fight-or-flight” reaction.