Better Breathing Means Better Health

Your Progress & Feedback - Can I Help You?

It would be good to get your feedback about this training course so that we can improve it in any way and offer you more personalized help. If you could email me your starting Control Pause and your most recent Control Pause you achieved after completing the course. During December I will send a free copy of my eFlipBook "The Breath Connection" for every feedback I get. Just to give you an idea of the eFlipBook and to further boost your health this is my eFlipBook on diet. Download and enjoy:

This episode explains the remarkable relationship between our eating habits and our breathing quality. It is based on research of over two hundred and fifty patients over the past three years. The good news is that as you improve either your breathing or your diet, your eating choices or your quality of breathing will also improve. To learn more about diet check out my podcast “The World’s Finest Diet”.

Hi, this is Michael Lingard, your Buteyko Educator, welcoming you to the final episode of Better Breathing Means Better Health and offering you my congratulations on completing this course. You now have the understanding and tools to continue improving your breathing and health in the future.

Just to remind you of the powerful impact on your health that improved breathing will have, you can download leaflets on the subjects covered below:

If you don’t have access while listening to this podcast, go to my website at , where you will be able to download them there.

Hi, this is Michael Lingard, your Buteyko Educator, welcoming you to episode 14 and offering you my congratulations on completing this course. You now have the understanding and tools to continue improving your breathing and health in the future.

Chronic Hidden Hyperventilation is a serious condition and as such safety is paramount with the management of this condition. This final episode will highlight areas that you should take particular care over and remember that this course is a general presentation and each individual is unique. No responsibility can be taken for any adverse reactions to the training or your failure to follow the safety recommendations given; always, if in doubt, consult your doctor, or your own Buteyko Educator for advice.

You are recommended to check all the following important points now and from time to time in the future to ensure you are following the best practice of the Buteyko Method.

Hi, welcome to episode thirteen of Better Breathing Means Better Health. I hope by now you are really making progress and feeling the benefits of better breathing. One of the great attractions of the Buteyko Method breath training is that people don’t need to carry on doing exercises indefinitely, but once their carbon dioxide receptors have been re-set and they are achieving good control pauses of 35 to 45 seconds all the time, then they can begin to reduce their exercises and eventually stop them altogether.

So at some time in the future, you will have established a new habit of breathing normally, you will have a morning control pause of over thirty-five and will often achieve control pauses of over forty. You will have achieved ideal breathing when your control pause is between forty-five and sixty seconds.

Episode # 10 Sealing the Leaks & Talking Like The Queen

Hi, welcome to episode ten of Better Breathing Means Better Health entitled Sealing the leaks and Talking Like The Queen.

As you will now know, our breathing is controlled automatically by the level of carbon dioxide in our body. It is a good image to hold in one's mind that our lungs are not just the means to get oxygen for our body but act as reservoirs or tanks of carbon dioxide that need to be kept at just the right level.

Maintaining this image of the lungs as reservoirs or tanks of Carbon Dioxide that help maintain the normal 6% CO2 in our body, we can think of activities that may lead to “leaks” from the tanks.

With the best will in the world and despite your greatest care, it is still possible that you might fall ill at some stage, with a bad dose of a cold, some random infection or just be run down.

When you are ill you are more liable to over-breathe and your Control Pause may fall & your pulse rate may rise. All infections are stressors, whether flu, a common cold or viral infection. So how can you combat the adverse effect on your breathing and how can you recover more quickly?

There are many ways you can help yourself, some may be common sense but others may be new to you.

So how does posture affect our breathing? The raised shoulders, expanded chest, and tense upper muscles are to be seen on most patients who normally over-breathe.

With habitual heavy breathing, these ancillary respiratory muscles need to be used repeatedly and they become chronically tense with over-use.

We should breathe primarily with just our diaphragm, the large dome-shaped muscle under our lower ribs, and we should not normally use the upper chest for normal activity breathing.

During Buteyko training, the effects of different postures on our breathing, when awake and asleep are discussed, based on Professor Buteyko’s research.

Episode # 9 Anti-Hyperventilation Exercises

Hi, this is Michael Lingard welcoming you to episode nine of Better Breathing Means Better Health.

With the best will in the world, every now and again you may find your breathing is getting out of control. This may happen at times of severe stress, when ill or after some trauma. Wouldn’t it be useful to have a simple exercise that you could rely on to bring your breathing back to normal? This is the job of the three anti-hyperventilation exercises I shall tell you about now.

Episode # 8 Step Exercises & The Extended Pause

Hi, this is episode eight of Better Breathing Means Better Health, entitled “Step Exercises and The Extended Pause”.

As part of your breath retraining wouldn't it be good if you could speed up your breath training while out for a walk or while walking to work each day? Well, this is exactly what the step exercise allows you to do.

Remember what we are trying to achieve is a change in your breathing through a re-setting of your carbon dioxide receptors in your body that control your rate of breathing. For everyone who is over-breathing habitually, their receptors are trying to maintain a lower level of carbon dioxide than is normal and healthy. The Buteyko exercises you have been doing have been gradually accustoming these receptors to accept a higher level of carbon dioxide through relaxation and perhaps reduced breathing with the accompanying slight “air hunger”.

If we could apply more pressure on your receptors to get used to a higher level of carbon dioxide, that would speed up your recovery of normal breathing and reduce all your symptoms. Step Exercises do just that.