Daniel Borschel explains how breathwork shifts your nervous system: longer exhales activate calm, longer inhales activate energy. The real goal isn't just relaxation. It's having the choice to move between states when you need to.
All of the different breath work techniques, I feel like, are beneficial for different things. You just need to kind of understand what the goal is that they're trying to do on a physiological level. If you are elongating your exhales, then you are sending yourself into a parasympathetic state. If you are elongating your inhales, you're sending yourself into a sympathetic state. And neither of those are bad or good. It just depends on what your. What the goal is. Nervous system regulation is not, can I maintain a state of calm? It's can I maintain a state of choice? Can I turn it on fully? Yeah. And then can I shut it off?
