Can Breathing Better Reduce Your Carbon Footprint & Lower Anxiety?

Why should we lower our own carbon footprint is like asking why should we lower our anxiety and why do we need to learn to breathe better - because climate change and increasing toxicity is affecting how we breathe and increasing our anxieties.

We can learn to consciously breathe better and we need to learn to lower our own anxiety as it inadvertently helps to also lower our own carbon footprint and cope with these changes better.

We all need to lower our own carbon footprint because each one of us is connected to the environment and utilises a certain amount of the oxygen and atmosphere every day through, breathing, moving, thinking, feeling and living.

How we breathe is as important to life itself and it affects how we feel and our anxiety levels - it is essential to life and directly impacts our carbon footprint.

As breathing becomes inevitably more difficult as the temperature rises and toxicity increases, and as we live and age, we should be more aware of how we breathe, and our posture and how it affects us and how we breathe and behave affects others.

According to lung.org every day we breathe in just over 2,000 gallons of air—enough to almost fill up a normal-sized swimming pool and it is the amount needed to oxygenate approximately 2,000 gallons of blood we must pump through your heart daily in order to live, think, eat and be.

Now because our lungs are constantly exposed to the external environment, they also need some protection from dust, germs, and other unwanted matter and that's where mucus comes in because our health and how we feel is affected by what we breath in.

Your lungs' bronchial tubes are lined with cilia (they are like thin little hairs) that carry mucus up into your throat to trap those yucky intruders until you cough, sneeze, clear your throat or swallow to get rid of them.

But do we really need to think about this? Yes, if we have allergies as they increase anxiety or if we live in an environment which is becoming more and more toxic everyday which is everywhere and it will increasingly affect how we feel, think, live and breathe.

As on average, a person at rest takes about 16 breaths per minute it means we breathe about 960 breaths an hour, 23,040 breaths a day, and 8,409,600 a year only seldom do we think about our personal breathing and how it directly affects our mood. Breathing differently affects how you feel, your health and potentially your anxiety levels.

Our breathing tends to get more and more shallow or different (or unhealthy) as we age or when we become unwell and for greater health we need to exercise daily to enhance our lung capacity, support our breathing and for many significant important reasons including lowering our carbon footprint.

Keeping our body healthy and maintaining our health can help to reduce our carbon footprint and fill the environment with healthy space, less stress and anxiety which has the potential to affect many others that we come into contact with.

Our carbon foot print is incredibly important and without conscious effort each one of us is increasing it instead of decreasing it which adds to the pollutions of the world as we know it and raises our stressors and our anxiety.

From a personal perspective and a business occupational health safety and environment perspective, it takes a conscious effort to decrease one’s carbon footprint but can be done by simply taking some action by;

1. Being aware of our mood if we are influencing others positively or negatively

2. Enhancing our ways and how we interact with ourselves and others and maintaining a balanced approach and staying calm rather than agitated or angry

3. Doing some form of activity daily that increases our breath healthy ways such as walking, swimming, yoga or simple stretches

4. Being aware of how we are sitting in the car or at work and whether we need to change our posture or way of sitting more often rather than keeping the same position to assist our breathing better.

Reducing one’s carbon footprint is not just about waiting for big companies to take action, it is about everyone making a difference. All of us personally need to make a small but significant change to maintain a healthy approach as we share our space and air and the environment everyday with others.

Lessening our own anxiety and being able to reduce our own personal stressors are simple ways of lowering our carbon footprint and breathing calmer alone can help not only us but those in our close proximity as well.

Drinking enough water or healthy liquids to stay saturated and not feel dehydrated can also assist with lessoning the effects of anxiety and making steps to balancing our bodies naturally and also greatly assists how we breathe. Staying saturated is essential for our lungs and body in general.

Offering someone a hand when we see them suffering if it does not over extend our own sensibilities goes a long way at reducing the world’s stress one step and one breath at a time.

Thinking and being calm contributes to the world around us and,

"Keeping your understanding of how you feel and a healthy mind body connection is essential for you to be able to adapt to different things during each day including breathing well...

Whether you realise it or not the impact of your brain hertz is affecting your everyday life and breathing well, hypnotherapy and a great coaching session can help alleviate pressure and achieve greater balance for work, play and home and help modulate better breathing."

Everything has the potential to either increase or decrease your own carbon footprint and these simple steps are a reminder of how we can simply modulate our ways of living and being each day to create a calmer and less stressed lifestyle one breath at a time.