Mouth Taping: Improve your breathing

Have you ever taped your mouth before you went to sleep? If you think this is Gestapo torture, trust me, it is not.

You are training yourself to breathe through your nose.

A surprising number of us breathe through their mouths. When they are awake and also when asleep.

You are not meant to.

Your nose filters air. It has a unique combination of structures and processes to do so. Hair traps dust and dirt. Tiny structures known as cilia, sweep everything away to be destroyed.

The cavities within your nose help warm and moisten air, improving the quality before it reaches your lungs.

Together, these processes make the air optimal for you.

None of this happens when you breathe through your mouth. Which is why it is not advisable to breathe through your mouth, awake or asleep. At the very least, to inhale.

Which is why mouth taping.

To do so, you would buy high-quality tape, and typically use it at night to train your body.

You could of course do this during the day as well, but then your work colleagues might think of you as strange.

Using a mouth tape, which closes your mouth completely, forces your body to switch to nasal breathing.

Those who breathe through the mouth typically do so because they are struggling to do so through the nose.

But dont worry.

Your body has amazing capacity to self-regulate. Especially when you force it to. Especially for something as vital as breathing.

So when you train, the body will clear up your nasal passage. It will remove blockages and debris to improve your breathing.

The more you do, the easier it will get.

Your body can then switch back to the natural way to breathe. Through your nose.

That is the only way you are meant to breathe.

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