Short YouTube talk (Sachin Patel) contrasting chest (shallow) breathing with belly breathing. The speaker observes many people—notably women—tend to inhale primarily into their chest when speaking, which produces quick, shallow breaths. He claims chest breathing signals the brain to enter sympathetic (fight-or-flight) mode and occurs during stress, intense emotion, or exercise. The speaker recommends practicing belly breathing instead.
The importance of breathing, which is breathing through your chest versus breathing through your stomach. So what we find a lot of women are doing, and I see this in a lot of my calls, I'm sure you see the same thing too, is that when people are speaking to you, they're speaking in very shallow breaths. You see that their chest is intaking majority of their of their air versus it coming into the stomach. And why that's so important is because when you're actually chest breathing, you're sending a signal to your brain that you are in the sympathetic mode or the the fight or flight mode. And the reason that is is because you have quick breath access. And the only other time that you're really using that is in stress situations. So either when it is that you're working out, when you're really emotionally distraught or upset, or when you're really stressed out, that's only when you're breathing very shallow breaths in your chest. So what we recommend to do is really focus on belly breathing.
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