Question: If you are actively practicing to improve your breathing, when can you expect an effect?

Answer: It differs a lot from person to person when an effect can be expected. Some people will notice improvements immediately, while it will take a little longer for others.

In general, as in most other cases, a tiny effort produces a tiny result. So we highly recommend that you do the entire training program for 28 days and use all four tools included in the conscious breathing training:

• Breath awareness. Awareness is often the first step to change. The first step in the 7 steps of the Conscious Breathing program is, therefore, to become more aware of your breathing by answering the 20 questions in the breathing index.
• Mouth taping at night. Many of us have our mouths open while we sleep. Mouth breathing at rest automatically means that we are overbreathing. This hyperventilation creates an imbalance between oxygen (too much) and carbon dioxide (too little). Taping your mouth shut at night with Sleep Tape is an extremely simple, yet very powerful tool. Since it is not easy to keep an eye on your breathing while sleeping, using Sleep Tape ensures that your mouth stays closed during the night and ensures nasal breathing only. Nasal breathing provides a calmer sleep and minimal energy leakage, which increases the opportunity for your body to engage in healing, repairing, and recovery.
• Train with the Relaxator. By using the Relaxator Breath Trainer, you can change your breathing habits so that they meet the needs of your body. The Relaxator will help you breathe lower, slower, and more rhythmically. It will also improve the muscle tone of your upper respiratory tract and strengthen your diaphragm, your most important breathing muscle.
• Physical activity with closed mouth. Optimum breathing begins in your nose. If your nose is tight and you have difficulty breathing through it, it is often a sign that your breathing has room for improvement. In your nose, under the turbinates, there are erectile tissues. They will puff up if your carbon dioxide pressure is too low, as a defense mechanism, a way to help prevent carbon dioxide outflow, since carbon dioxide leaves your body upon exhalation. Physical activity with your mouth closed will improve your ability to breathe through your nose. As you improve your breathing and restore your carbon dioxide pressure, the nasal erectile tissue will decrease in size, and your nose will then feel less narrow.

More information on the 28 Days Breath Training Program can be found here.