I think this is where many people go wrong: we think that perhaps it benefits some people and not others, or that there are limits. We should teach children breathing exercises from a very early stage and it’s something that all of us should learn to practise.
Effective breathing regulates your heart rate and your blood pressure, it improves the pH balance in our blood – all these benefits have been proven. We’ve got lots of evidence for it, we just don’t tend to talk about it much.
It’s been shown that for people with chronic lung disease, teaching them breathing exercises actually improves and enhances their oxygen transfer.