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treat your breath like your budget

Published about 1 month ago • 1 min read

treat your breath like your budget

having your wallet to buy something isn’t the same as having money in your wallet.

breathing works the same way.

simply being alive + breathing doesn’t automatically mean your breathing your best breath.

remember, our brains love to be efficient so it will borrow movement where ever it needs to in order to get some air in and move on to the next thing.

although breathing is so much more than getting air in to stay alive.

breathing how we were designed is crucial for increasing our strength, decreasing our pain and refining our coordination and balance.

ignoring how you breath is like never checking your bank accounts. then it’s time to put new tires on the car only to realize you’ve never set money aside for it.

if only you’d been saving few dollars here and there over the last several months you would have been able to buy tires without hesitation.

now, you’ve got to borrow money from your vacation fund to in order to get tires. not cool.

it’s time you treat your breath like your budget…

2 minute subtle shift…

learn when you’re borrowing to breathe so that you can start to find subtle shifts out of those patterns.

use my fresh new checklist, breathing edition, to see if your blowing your “breathing budget” 🤓

see you next week, Brooke ✌🏻

if you checkmark 5 or more on this list you might consider checking out my workshop, build your best breath, so that you can stop borrowing to breathe.

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suburban hippie life | movement designer

brooke frontiera

for the fascia-curious. my weekly 'fascia facts' newsletter shares a quick nugget of info. about our internal architecture that dictates our posture, our breath, and ultimately how much we feel at home in our body. plus a 2 minute 'subtle shift' to easily apply the learning to daily routines ✌🏻

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