I never learned to breathe. Why do I need to teach my kids?
Learning how to regulate your breathing has so many physical, mental, and emotional benefits. After reading these reasons, you'll wish you learned this as a child!
1. Calming and Stress Reduction: When kids are stressed or upset, their breathing tends to become shallow and rapid. This puts their bodies and minds into a "fight-or-flight" state, which can worsen stress symptoms like anxiety, anger, and restlessness. Learning to regulate their breathing through slow, deep breaths helps activate the parasympathetic nervous system, promoting relaxation and calmness. This allows them to regain control, think more clearly, and respond to situations in a more constructive way.
2. Improved Focus and Concentration: Shallow breathing can also hinder concentration and learning. Deep, controlled breaths, on the other hand, increase oxygen flow to the brain, enhancing focus, attention, and cognitive function. This can be especially helpful for kids with ADHD or other attention difficulties.
3. Emotional Regulation: Learning to regulate their breath can give kids a powerful tool to manage their emotions. Deep breaths can help them calm down during a tantrum, manage anxiety before a test, or cope with disappointment or frustration. It empowers them to navigate their emotions in a healthy way and build resilience.
4. Physical Health: Proper breathing techniques can also contribute to their physical health. Deep breaths promote lung function and oxygen intake, improving overall physical performance and endurance. Additionally, it can help regulate blood pressure and heart rate, contributing to cardiovascular health.
How do you teach them to do this? A membership to Breathing with Brittany will help through On-Demand Breathing Sessions!
Here's a sneak peek at one of the morning sessions available in the membership:
Breathing with Brittany Membership
Breathing with Brittany offers On-Demand Breathing Sessions to help your child build their toolbox for regulation and ideal breathing that they can use at any time. They'll learn how to harness the power of their breath and use it as a tool throughout their lives.
The breathing sessions are specifically designed for kids ages 3-8 years old and the videos are quick, fun, and easy to follow!
What's included?
Here's everything that's included for only $20/month:
- Morning Session: Start the day off right by getting the air moving and fueling the body
- Bedtime Session: Relax and get ready for bedtime with relaxing breaths
- Emotions Session: When emotions are high, use the breath as a tool to help the nervous system and the body
- Regulation Session: Breathing can be done just for fun too to keep everything as efficient as possible
- Birthday and Themed Sessions Released Monthly: Every month, a new themed session will be released with more breathing games to play
- Resources and Education: Airway health, growth, and development are crucial. It is hard to always know what to look for, what to do, and where to go; provided are resources to help your family through their journey
About Brittany
Brittany is the owner of Northglenn-based Joyful Breathing, a Myofunctional-based practice with the specialty of Breathing Education where she sees clients of all ages. Clients come to Brittany from around the Denver metro area because they want to pursue better breathing and oral behaviors, and she helps with issues like finger/thumb sucking, TMJ issues, anxiety, asthma, sleep apnea, tongue-tie care, and orthodontic treatment/relapse.
Brittany wanted the ability to make a bigger impact with kids, and created Breathing with Brittany to do that! The cost of the subscription is a fraction of the cost of seeing Brittany in her offices, and you get to take advantage of the courses every day.
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