Unbalanced Dysfunctional Breathing - UDB©
Does your breathing feel small, unsatisfying, or inadequate or weak, stuck, sometimes as if it's barely there, suppressed or held back, it seems to go in the wrong place when trying to breathe deeply. Your breathing just doesn't "feel right", but you're not sure what's wrong or why.
The Way You Breathe Can Make You Sick!
Read about the conditions below that seem to fit your situation. Print a copy or download the pdf here
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Our
breathing tests show that as
breathing volume, depth, balance and ease decrease,
there is a much higher correlation of diagnosed illnesses. |
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This UDB check sheet is an alert to increase your awareness related to health conditions in life that are directly and indirectly impacted by the quality of how well you breathe. This check sheet below calls to our attention many factors of life that we may not have considered as being connected with breathing. The "hidden" conditions that serve to encourage further investigation about whether your breathing might be lessening and your health might be negatively impacted without your knowledge.
The U in UDB stands for Undisclosed Undetected or Unbalanced
The D stands for Deep and/or Dysfunctional B stands for Breathing
Unbalanced Deep Breathing. Undisclosed Dysfunctional Breathing. Undiagnosed Dysfunctional breathing. breathing pattern disorder
UDB ruins breathing exercises, meditations and attempts at stress management. UDB causes or worsens high blood pressure, shortness of breath, hyperventilation, overbreathing, anxiety, panic attacks, seizures, nervous disorders, depression, pain, asthma, COPD and most illness. Also, it is probably present in most if not all aspects of psychosomatic (mindbody or bodymind) disorders.
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116. Sunken chest 117. Superman Syndrome 118. Sustaining low tone difficulty 119. Swallowing difficulty 120. Swim-can’t as well as you use to or tried and get short of breath. 121. Talking on the phone makes you short of breath 122. Tension around the eyes 123. Tense overall feeling (hypertension) 124. Thoughts run amuck 125. Ticklish in your ribs or armpits 126. Tightness around mouth 127. Thoracic insufficiency syndrome 128. Tightness, soreness or pressure in chest or below breast bone 129. Type “A” personality 130. Upper note singing problems 131. Upset stomach or irritable bowel syndrome 132. Vertigo 133. Vision blurred, better in AM than PM 134. Voice is: VCD -vocal chord dysfunction, clear, labored, held back, strained, natural, thin, strong, weak, dynamic, heavy, smooth, clears throat often, chest, whispery, stutters, quiver, squeaky, restricted, choppy, laryngitis, hoarse, crackly, disconnected, raspy, broken, breathy, erratic, monotone, tentative, nasal, throaty, mumbles, nervous, slurred speech, spasmodic dysphonia 135. Voice feels weak 136. Wake from sleep suddenly not breathing 137. Use a mechanical breathing device while sleeping 138. Washboard abs 139. Wake up tired a lot 140. Wheezing 141. Worsened breathing following laughter Breathing is mainly (SH)=Shallow; (L)=Labored; (F)=Fast; (SL)=Slow; (D)=Deep; (B)=Belly; (HC)=High chest; (CO)=Cough; (HB)=Hold breath; (E)=Erratic; (EA)=Easy; (SM)=Smooth; (FO)=Forced; (O)=Other |
Do you or someone you care about have UDB?
UDB can make you anxious, make you sick or sicker, make you think you are sick or crazy, destroy your energy, keep you fat, steal your personal power, hinder your voice and shorten your life. Your may know there is something wrong with your breathing. You may feel ok but your breathing may still still be severely unbalanced.
First, bend over and notice how much harder it is to breathe. Please just do that right now so you get the feel of what I am saying.
This breathing difficulty is because your muscles are restricting the ease and depth of your diaphragm and rib expansion as they relate to 360 degree functionality. There are many expressions of this, without even being aware of them. More about that in a few paragraphs. Properly supported breathing is similar to the foundation or basement of a building supporting the upper structure but having little else to do with its internal functioning.
Many breathing related health issues are sub-clinical.
They are not detected by traditional diagnostic methods. The diaphragm and rib cage do the inhaling and exhaling. Any other
muscle being engaged is purely supportive. Proper support/guidance from
accessory breathing muscles is similar to how an elevator shaft guides the
elevator but does not carry the passengers though it may enclose them.
Bend the shaft (poor posture) and the elevator will not rise or if you are
used to thinking of this as an umbrella opening, it will not open as
easily or at all; or book stacking, the books will reach a certain height
and prematurely cease rising, inhibiting ease and depth of the next
inhale. As a result, the oxygen cost of breathing greatly increases and
the Autonomic Nervous System functioning becomes over-stressed and
distorted. Keys to my own breathing development lay hidden for 45 years. It
took so long because I had, what I learned to describe as
Unbalanced Deep Breathing Mechanics or what I now call UDB©.
I’ve observed that, MANY others live 24/7 with UDB,
just as I did. Some KNOW there is something wrong with their
breathing but don’t know what it is and what to do about it.
Others go from health professional to health professional, spend
thousands of hours and small fortunes in medical expenses that
often include harmful medications. Their breathing development
problem remains undetected
Attempts at taking a forced deeper breath, or struggling against shallow or restricted breathing can trigger or worsen UDB. UDB can act like a warning sign much like hypoglycemia can be a predictor of potential diabetes. This “Hidden” or tendency towards UDB lies waiting to present itself.
UDB and its relationship to living.
Deeper easier breaths bring deeper
people friendly feelings. We feel more strongly and live more passionately. With more
passion comes bigger mistakes, bigger dreams and bigger dreams coming
true. When the deeper breaths are out of
balance the deeper feelings invite distorted responses. Life and living
comes out bent, misshapen, crooked.
BEWARE
You cannot tell bad, good or great breathing by merely observing it. The
breathing development student MUST be trained to sense and feel it from the
inside out so that he or she can guide self and others properly. Function
and or skill levels
may also be extremely relevant.
UDB
STRIKES or is WORSENED by stress, trauma, fatigue, fear,
anxiety, panic or even positive emotions. Because it can hide
itself so well, Many with UDB seem “normal”. These "normal"
people worry me.
One of our long term goals is to
enable health professionals, coaches and trainers to quickly spot what
might be a breathing issue so it can be addressed instead of overlooked
and cause a direct or indirect worsening of a health or performance issue.
This check sheet is step one.
Step two is attending
our school or getting one of our
home study courses.
Begin by observing someone breathing,
having asked them to take deep in- breaths and relaxed out breaths on their belly, on
a fairly hard surface such as a hard mattress, massage table or a carpeted floor. The breath should begin in the low back and
slowly rise /move
upward to the mid back but without the lower back reducing in size. If it begins in the mid or upper back
or the low back gets smaller this is a
sure sign of UDB.
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Dear Mike, I could not breathe, I was having terrible pain in chest, in my back, in my neck and I couldn't breathe. I thought I was dying!! So I decided once again to get on the internet and this time I searched on this subject..."......" before I was doing a search on chest pains and nothing...just lots of fear that I was dying from a heart failure (since my dad's side has lots of heart failures and strokes) which maybe could have been from anxiety something I have really bad. But back to the pain and gasping for air, I did the optimal breathing steps for chest pain...and OH MY GOD. I feel so much better!!! Still a little dull pain but nothing like the stabbing, sharp, unbearable pain I was having. Now maybe I can go sleep for awhile instead of listening and watching my husband sleep soundly and comfortably while I lay there and panic with very intense pain wondering what I am dying of and when it will be. I have suffered a long time from this chest pain...too long!! And I have suffered long enough with anxiety and panic attacks, I have had without knowing it since I was a little girl. My mom was very abusive emotionally and physically. I read a lady's testimony and just cried.. We both suffered from the same abuse growing up...when I would get a beating I would hold my breath, or get yelled and so on...it hit me yes that's why I can't breathe...I would hold my breath, and emotions came out of me that I did not know were there. It feels so good to get some air into my lungs!! As soon as sleeping beauty wakes up I will take the free breathing tests and order the right tape for me. I cannot wait to get some air in me and get rid of the chest pains!!! Thank you so much for giving me this chance to breathe again!!! Sincerely, Stephany as I am very tired, so please excuse me if I wandered off a little with my story". From Mike to everyone: Please go into all this more deeply to help guide you toward effective methods of developing your breathing and/or reducing or eliminating UDB. Our Deepest Calm, Breathing Development Fundamentals
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