Niraj NaikFounder & CEO of SOMA Breath | Music-Powered Breathwork Pioneer | DJ, Speaker & Author

How mental chatter effects your body | Niraj Naik | SOMA Breath®️

17 Feb 2023 · 1 min

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Speaker Niraj Naik explains that loud or intense mental chatter (negative, fearful, or anxious thoughts) increases brain activity and energy demand, causing people to breathe more than necessary. This over-breathing (hyperventilation) and sympathetic nervous system activation raise adrenaline and cortisol levels, which under negative stress constrict blood vessels, worsen oxygenation, and produce erratic, excessive breathing.

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Now, the more loud this voice in the head is, the the mind chatter, the more intense it is, actually. It's like you're talking, so you end up breathing more than you need to. Right. Because your brain's actually very active, and your demand for energy goes up when you don't really need the energy because you're sitting down, not doing anything. Right. So if your mind's going and if you're thinking fearful, anxious thoughts, also the sympathetic nervous system is more charged up. You produce more adrenaline. You're also producing cortisol. Right. And adrenaline and cortisol under negative stress, it constricts blood vessels. It makes you hyperventilate, makes you breathe too hard, erratically, and this also messes up your oxygenation. Right. So this voice in the head, as well as this voice, both have the same effect. If that's a negative voice.