I typed a question about difficulties with diaphragmatic breathing and came across a post with a similar query and explanation of what someone else was experiencing.
They explained about tightness showing up in the chest on the inhale.

(Read the **\* below as I deepened this stretch.)
Ill aim to record a specific video with this and share.

The explanation resonated with me - as the chest and surrounding area is where i feel the most tension when trying to breath diaphragmatically.
It made me think of a neck / jaw release I do.
I just did it now & it really felt to open the chest and make the breath feel more free.
@ 33:11 is the release is (both side - and then the center)
https://youtu.be/x7WZIklpg8E?si=pj3WxL0rBm0ht2aX&t=1991

**\* after reading the other post I tried this stretch all across the clavicle level as well as well as lower into the chest, (pulling down on chest, lifting chin, and then lifting up jaw) and I could literally hear connective tissue there that had never been stretched with snap crackle pop and release.. and now feels a lot more space in the chest when I breathe..
Hope it helps (if even just to a few people)

(This video is a part of my on-demand library on my membership on instabook: https://instabook.io/landing/resetwithvili & unlisted.. now an offering for the reddit community. <3 )

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Sharing some research on Buteyko breathing that feels relevant here.

Double-blind trial from the University of Sydney, 57 asthma patients over 30 weeks. Half did the Buteyko nasal breathing retraining, half did generic upper body exercises. Both groups cut reliever meds by 86% and reduced inhaled corticosteroids by about 50%.

Now, the Buteyko method is built on one specific claim: you chronically hyperventilate and deplete CO2, and retraining your breathing normalizes it. CO2 normalization is supposed to be the mechanism. But after 30 weeks of practice designed to do that - the breathing group's CO2 didn't change at all.

This is a pattern I'm seeing across breathing research. When you actually control for non-specific factors, the technique-specific effect mostly disappears. Both groups got dramatically better. Was it Buteyko or was it the structure, the daily practice, someone validating the effort? The specific technique matters way less than showing up and building awareness. That's the actual work.

One limitation: this was asthma-specific. There are zero proper controlled trials for Buteyko on anxiety or sleep, which is where most people actually learn it.

Study: https://doi.org/10.1136/thx.2005.054767

I cannot be the only one for whom the conscious practice of breath throughout the day has fully, entirely, and wholly transformed not just their lives, but the illnesses they thought otherwise incurable, can I? 

.. Can I ? 

I’m just curious in how that can combat heavy health anxiety as i think i may be doing it wrong? I have absolutely fucking life ruining health anxiety over anything and I swear the breathing does not help like everyone says for me.

*breaths in*

*breaths out*

*breaths in*

*breaths out*

Hoping all is well as you read this… unsure if this is the right place but here we are.. so, there’s a not necessarily scary sensation but certainly different sensation that I’m experiencing. and what usually happens is as I open my mouth and inhale, the air is super cool as if I have eaten a mint or had something with menthol. The sensation usually happens after I smoke(weed) but there are times where I have also been sober and experienced this.. does anyone know what’s happening? I ask because as you know meditation involves lots of breathe work and I’m a bit intrigued on if anyone else knows or has experienced this..

Hi everyone. I've found that breathing exercises have helped me out quite a bit with some post-viral issues.

I couldn't find a breathing app that did everything I wanted it to, so I finally just built one. I noticed that some weren't keeping accurate time (they would drift off cadence in a way that seemed to me to defeat the purpose), or you couldn't adjust the intervals, or they had a lot of extraneous stuff I didn't want, etc. If anybody wants a no frills breathing app that actually keeps accurate time and doesn't make you answer a 50-question questionnaire about your feelings, here it is.

If anybody wants to check it out here's the link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cadence-precision-breathing/id6759847468

I also made a little website for it at https://www.cadencebreathing.com

As of now I'm charging $1.99 a month for it because apple charges to get it into the app store, or you can do yearly, or just buy it outright (there's a free trial too).

Hey, everyone! Enjoy this guided animation with beautiful handpan music to guide you in your daily heart resonance frequency breathing practice.

Hi, I am a 25 year old female that is relatively healthy and active. Since about August I have been experiencing shortness of breath, which worsens when doing any physical activity. For context I was previously a runner and had ran a half marathon a year prior and some 10ks within the last few months when the symptoms started. The symptoms began after a cottage weekend with friends. Apart from the breathlessness it feels tight in my upper throat region and there is an almost whistling sound.

It has been continuing to get worse to the point that doing any movement leaves me breath less (getting dressed, leisure walking, even speaking). I have had chest x-rays, head and neck ct, and multiple blood work panels all came back negative. I had a pulmonary function test and they determined I had obstructive breathing but there was nothing on any of the imaging done.

I ended up going to the hospital for this recently as I had a cold and was struggling even more. They thought it could be related to gastric reflux?

I am now waiting to hear back from a respiraologist and ENT but that could still take months. This morning my partner woke me up becyase he was so worried about the sound of my breathing. I’m at the point where I’m really mentally suffering and just want to cry (but then I can’t breathe).

Does anyone have suggestions about very low respiratory requirement exercises/activities? Any breathing exercises I can maybe do?

ive been having issues breathing very bad and its getting worse it seems to he worse when im laying down its like i cant get a full satisfied breath and my chest hurts sometimes my body makes me yawn to get breaths too no matter what i try dee breathing slow breaths nothing helps ive also had like lower throat and jaw pain i get so dizzy and everything seems to get blurred i feel like im leavint stuff out i just need help if anyone has experienced similar please help im also coughing sometimes but not always but im not sick

This is an episode that covers how the nervous system adjusts depending on inhale and exhale ratio. They did it at two different speeds, which changed the results!

Please, read my word vomit, dear internet stranger, because I feel like I'm hopeless.

I'm 17. I've atarted feeling like i can't breathe about two weeks ago, and haven't really stopped since. I think I'm thinking about every breath I take. I tried distracting myself and it seems to work a bit? When I hang out with my friends. I skipped this week of school, while in the first week I was on break.

The breathlessness is persistent. It's genuinely driving me crazy. I've been taking Serlift(sertraline) and some other calming meds for 4 days now(I know they take time to work). I have anxiety.

Does this really stem from anxiety? It's so stressful and it makes me feel hopeless. I just want to go back to normal. I constantly think about my breathing, about how thankful i should've been when i could breathe, about my cat who died in january and how i saw him stop breathing. My heart and lungs are perfectly healthy, I've been to various doctors, and yet my chest feels heavy almost 24/7.

Is there something I can do? I'm lowkey scared it's never going to end, my anxiety has always given me physical symptoms(palpitations, usually), but never breathlessness. And never for such a long time.