People Do the Weirdest Thing Just Before They’re About to Die
This surprising observation highlights how the living can live happier, healthier, and longer as much as the dying can die more peacefully
Some moments in my life have been more significant than others. Watching someone take their last breath was one of them.
It was simultaneously the most peaceful and heartbreaking experience I’ve ever had.
Yet it highlighted something important: The breath is bloody important and when it stops, everything stops.
Ever since then, I’ve been practicing breathing exercises, teaching breathwork, writing about the benefits of breathing correctly, and continuing to research and learn as much as possible.
Over the last fifteen years and among the hundreds of studies I’ve researched, there is one that I’d like to focus on today. It observed how people breathed on their death beds but it also highlighted how the rhythm of the breath influences our mood and energy levels in everyday life.
This is known as Cheyne-Stokes breathing which are cycles of faster and slower breaths followed by periods of apnea (pausing or stopping the breath).
