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Sleep
Sleeping badly affects your whole life and those around you because sleep is so important to good health. Buteyko is a natural, drug-free way of improving sleep patterns by reducing insomnia and the incidence of snoring, sleep apnoea, vivid dreams and nightmares. This will enable you to wake refreshed, start the day with vigour and have more energy.
Hyperventilation
Hyperventilation means breathing more air than your body needs at a particular time. Snoring is an example of this, because healthy people breathe quietly when they sleep. Other examples include breathing through your mouth while driving a car and sighing or yawning a lot.
People who hyperventilate will be familiar with some of the following indicators of poor sleep:
- Repeatedly waking during the night
- Waking up tired instead of refreshed
- Vivid dreams and nightmares
- Night sweats
- Blocked or runny nose, especially on waking
The body will do whatever it can to regenerate itself and to stay healthy. Sometimes a condition like sleep apnoea occurs because the body becomes unbalanced in some way and is the end result of the body trying its best to take care of you.
When you are asleep the airways are more floppy than when you are awake and so they are more likely to collapse. Breathing heavily is one way of making this happen because it causes narrowing, swelling and inflammation in the airways.
The root cause of your abnormal breathing pattern needs to be addressed so that the poor sleep pattern becomes less of a problem. Buteyko is a wonderful tool for resetting the automatic breathing pattern to operate at the correct level for any activity, including sleep.