Chronic Symptoms? Let’s Fix Your Breathing
In many ways, your breathing pattern reflects your health status and health resiliency. It’s a gateway to your nervous system, cardiovascular system, and your body’s biological homeostatic mechanisms (how the body maintains balance). A Breathing Pattern Disorder can be subtle but extremely impactful: They show up in a variety of seemingly disparate symptoms and undermine many people’s attempts to heal chronic illness. Addressing Breathing Pattern Disorders is one very important way we can strengthen your entire body and help you heal.
Symptoms of a Breathing Pattern Disorder
People with a Breathing Pattern Disorder often experience a few of these symptoms:
Eastern and old-world medical approaches that existed for thousands of years before our Western conventional model, teach us that every part of our mind, body, and spirit, is connected to all other parts. Our body works like an ecosystem: Pull on one string and the others react.
Cancer diagnosis can change the course of one’s life due to the huge uncertainties brought about by the course of the disease, the treatment, the prognosis, as well as debilitating complications of treatment. Consequently, patients might experience difficulties in many important areas, such as their social relationships, personal and professional performance, and their mental health.
About one year into the pandemic, the renowned medical journal, The Lancet, published a study in which 34% of COVID-19 survivors were diagnosed with a new neurological or psychological condition within 6 months of infection.1 It’s one of the many reasons why so many members of our community are struggling with low mood and mental health concerns right now. Many conventional treatments for depression hinge on the entrenched theory that serotonin deficiency causes depression. But this theory has been questioned many times, including very recently by authors of a large review paper, who emphasize that we have no convincing evidence for this established Serotonin Hypothesis.2 It’s time to leave this myth behind us and seriously explore additional avenues of treatment for depression.
Can you prevent depression and anxiety? The research says that yes, sometimes you can! By practicing the skill of optimism.
Change can be tricky to navigate. Creating and keeping new habits can be even trickier. It’s important for us to remember that anything new will take some time and effort to become part of our new “normal”.
If you’re feeling more anxiety than usual right now, you’re not alone. Many of our clients are reporting feelings of anxiety that interfere with relationships, work, and sleep. It’s a natural and common response to this pandemic and the uncertainty that comes with it. It’s further amplified when our stress-relieving activities like social gatherings and weekend getaways, are not options. Here are some activities, approaches, and natural health supplements that might help you get through the next few months with less anxiety, more energy, and a greater appreciation for our inherent human resiliency and adaptability.
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Psychotherapy, counselling, or “talk-therapy” is a very individual process that varies greatly based on the personality and theoretical framework of the therapist, and the personality and needs of the client. I primarily work with people who struggle with high stress and anxiety and this is how I approach my work.
True or False: In healthy people, the heart rate should be stable and consistent, like a metronome.