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Symptoms of Poor Breathing Habits
Abdominal bloating |
Anxiousness, Tension, Apprehension |
Asthma |
Audible breathing during sleep |
Bed Wetting |
Belching, Flatulence |
Blocked nose |
Chemical sensitivities |
Chest pains that are not heart related |
Chest tightness |
Chronic exhaustion |
Clamminess |
Cold hands or feet |
Colic |
Confusion |
Coughing |
Depression |
Difficulty swallowing |
Disturbance of consciousness |
Dry mouth |
Easily tired |
Excessive sweating |
Exercise intolerant |
Falling asleep sitting, reading, watching TV, driving |
Fast or heavy breathing |
Fear of sultry air |
Fear without reason |
Feelings of unreality |
Food allergies |
Frequent or urgent urination |
Frightening/intense dreams |
Generalised weakness or "weak at the knees," |
Grinding Teeth |
Hay Fever, Sneezing |
Headache |
Heartburn |
Increased thirst |
Insomnia |
Irregular, pounding, or racing heart |
Irritable bowel |
Light-headed or dizzy |
Loss of sense of smell |
Lung congestion or Bronchitis |
Mouth- breathing in day |
Mouth- breathing in sleep |
Mucous congestion |
Muscle pains |
Muscle spasms |
Muscle weakness |
Nasal/sinus congestion on waking |
Number of toilet visits per night ( ) |
Number of wakings per night ( ) |
Numbness or tingling hands, feet, limbs, face |
Pains in bones or joints |
Panic attacks |
Pollen, dust allergies |
Poor concentration/memory |
Post nasal drip |
Prone to Colds |
Restless Legs |
Runny nose (number of tissues used/day ( ) |
Sense of "losing the mind" |
Short of breath at rest |
Short of breath on exertion |
Sinusitis |
Sleep Apnea (breathing stoppages) noticed by others |
Sleepiness during the day |
Snoring |
Spaced out feeling |
Throat Clearing |
Tremors and twitching |
Unsteadiness or fainting |
Upper chest breathing |
Wake self with gasp/snort/choke -Times/night/week( ) |
Waking up tired |
Waking with a headache |
Wanting a day nap |
Weight gain |
Weight loss |
Wheezing |
Yawning or Sighing |
Most of these are also symptoms of the fight-or-flight state of the nervous system.
Breathing Retraining Center offers individual and group training and coaching on self-management techniques to identify and correct poor-breathing habits. Breathing Retraining Center's educational products, courses and coaching are designed to improve breathing skills for people whose issues may be related to habits that have the potential to be improved, as a self-care/wellness activity. Breathing difficulty may be a warning sign of a life-treatening heart or lung condition, infection or other illness. Always check with your doctor about your own situation.
The Buteyko Breathing Technique and other breathing-retraining strategies we teach are an alternative approach and are not the practice of medicine, psychology or a form of psychotherapy, nor are they a substitute for seeking medical or psychological advice from an apporpriate professional health-care provider. We want to make the important distinction between using the Buteyko Breathing Technique and other breathing-retraining strategies for health and well-being and the practice of medicine, psychology or any other licensed health-care profession.
Breathing classes, coaching and other services from Breathing Retraining Center are offered by teachers who are not licensed by the State of California as physicians or other healing-arts practitioners unless so noted. We offer alternative non-medical/non-psychological techniques and our services are considered to be laternative or complementary to the healing arts that are licensed by the State of California.