How Your Breath Affects Your Vision

A Tri-Breather came up from interstate on the weekend keen to have a quick tune-up on her techniques. Asking how she was going with it, she replied, “It’s changed my life! I never realised how often I held my breath. By staying in contact with my breathing rhythm, particularly the 5-step when I walk or go for a gentle jog, I don’t feel like talking anymore because I like the space I go into. I feel I can really feel me and be with me. It’s not easy to describe. And I’m sure my eyesight has improved.”

This came to no surprise to me. Did you know that the visual system - the eyes, nerves, muscles and processing centres in the brain - consume over 30% of the oxygen we breathe?

When your well practiced at holding your breath, or you know your breathing is shallow, you're carrying unnecessary tension and hindering the oxygen supply and circulation to your visual system. And you're probably straining to see, perhaps unconsciously.

Ask yourself regularly, “Am I breathing?”

Just like there are techniques for building, sewing, healing, arts and crafts, there are techniques for breathing. The Tri-Breath techniques are specifically designed to improve the way you distribute implosive (inhalation) energy and explosive (exhalation) energy.

BALANCE is the operative word.

Breathe with balance in mind when you walk, run, paddle, surf, push a pram, ride a bike, climb a mountain and you will realise (see with your real eyes) how much more there is out there.

Give yourself the gift, you deserve it!