Breathe To Improve Your Mental Capacity
Marjon van Opijnen
This one runs as an interactive workshop: the hour includes exercises your colleagues do themselves, not only a talk.
Is there a correct way of breathing? Many of us think there is and it is very likely that now we talk about our breath you start adjusting it to a deeper belly breathing. But what if there are many correct ways of breathing?
Although we do it our entire life, we know very little about it. Which also implies that we are unfamiliar with how it affects the physical and mental processes in our body and how we feel. Our busy and fast way of living has also increased our speed and depth of breathing, with physical and mental consequences.
In this interactive and practical Leqture you will learn how you can use your breath to improve your mental capacity, gain more energy and have more focus with simple exercises and a bit of knowledge.
During the expert session, Marjon engages the audience through a Q&A session, live demonstrations of breathing exercises, and using the Mentimeter app for interactive audience polls about common breathing patterns and their effects on health. Marjon highlights various dysfunctional breathing patterns like sleep apnea, screen apnea, and excessive sighing and yawning, discussing their potential physical and emotional consequences.
She encourages listeners to strengthen their diaphragm through deep breathing exercises, use nasal breathing for calmness, and maintain rhythmic breathing for stress reduction. Marjon emphasizes that focusing on our breath can improve mental capacity, reduce stress, and enhance overall well-being.
She concludes the session by addressing a question about hiccups and offering techniques to improve breathing habits for their prevention.
Practicing deep breathing using your diaphragm is essential for optimal respiratory health and improved mental capacity. Deep breathing helps strengthen your primary respiratory muscles, prevents musculoskeletal pain, and enhances overall energy levels.
Becoming aware of negative breathing habits such as holding the breath or sighing excessively can lead to various physical symptoms including headaches, anxiety, and chest pressure. By recognizing these patterns, you can take steps to correct them and enhance your overall wellbeing.
Consciously focusing on your breath can help reduce stress, increase creativity, and improve mental clarity. Proper breathing techniques can also provide better oxygenation and energy levels, contributing to a healthier body and mind.
In this expert session, Marjon van Opijnen delves into the mechanics of breathing and its impact on both physical and mental well-being. She begins by explaining the roles of primary and secondary respiratory muscles in our breath.
The primary muscles, such as the diaphragm, are responsible for deep breathing and maintaining overall health when at rest. Meanwhile, secondary muscles, located higher in the body, are used during intense activities or high-stress situations but can cause issues like pain in the shoulders, neck, and head if overused.
Marjon highlights that neglecting proper use of primary respiratory muscles can lead to various conditions, such as lower back pain and poor posture. On the other hand, misusing secondary muscles for functions they aren't designed for can result in symptoms like musculoskeletal pain, chest pressure, anxiety, fatigue, and headaches.
The expert goes on to discuss various breathing patterns and their potential effects on our bodies. For instance, she mentions the dangers of sleep apnea, where one stops breathing during the night followed by sudden inhalations.
Additionally, she touches upon screen apnea, a condition characterized by holding one's breath or taking shallow breaths while looking at screens for extended periods.
Marjon emphasizes that proper breathing is essential for optimal health and mental capacity. She encourages conscious practice of deep breathing exercises to strengthen the diaphragm and improve overall respiratory function.
Moreover, she explains how focusing on our breath can lead to reduced stress, increased creativity, better oxygenation, and higher energy levels.
The session also touches upon the relationship between stress and breathing patterns. Marjon notes that stress often results in shallow or erratic breathing, further exacerbating feelings of anxiety and tension. Chronic stress can negatively impact our respiratory system and overall health.
Throughout the session, Marjon provides practical tips on improving breathing habits, such as utilizing nasal breathing, rhythmic breathing exercises, and training ourselves to breathe through our noses instead of our mouths during sleep. She also discusses the importance of proper CO2 tolerance for regulating our breathing patterns and offers insights into techniques to manage hiccups and related issues.
In summary, Marjon van Opijpen's expert session explores various aspects of breathing and their significance in maintaining overall health and well-being. She emphasizes the importance of consciously focusing on our breath to improve physical and mental functions and offers practical tips for addressing common breathing patterns that can negatively impact our health.
From the survey every participant gets when the session ends, in their own words.
This was great! Thank you for organizing this, much appreciated and a great start to the day!
A very fine initiative to organize these types of webinars! thank you!
Goede en leuke sessie. Met bruikbare tips. Bedankt! :-)
Goed onderwerp, fijn dat ik kon meeluisteren
It is interactive, and the block above says exactly how for this session. Nobody has to speak up who does not want to: the chat and the polls carry most of it, and the questions can come in anonymously.
Is there a correct way of breathing? Many of us think there is and it is very likely that now we talk about our breath you start adjusting it to a deeper belly breathing. It is built for a general working audience: no prior knowledge is assumed, and people who already know the subject get the research and the practical side rather than an introduction.
A workshop. The description of this session says so itself: the hour includes exercises and activities that participants do, not only an expert speaking. It still runs live and online, for as many colleagues as you want to invite.
Marjon van Opijnen is one of the experts we auditioned ourselves, and we produce every session so we see how each one lands. Participants rate this session 4.2 out of 5, across 57 responses, and rate Marjon personally 4.4 out of 5.
It runs 45 min / 15 min: the talk, then live questions. All you do is pick a date. We brief Marjon, produce the session, host and moderate it, run the Q&A, and send you the report within an hour of the end.
A team, a department, an employee network or every single employee at once, with no cap and no per-seat price. It runs inside your own Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Google Meet, or on a branded page we build. No integration, no login, no company device or e-mail.
The session is delivered in English/Dutch. You can add high accuracy live subtitles in 8, 16 or 24 languages, so everyone follows in their own. That is a paid option, priced by the number of languages you need.
No, and that is by design. There is nothing to install, nothing to integrate and no connection to your systems, so there is nothing for IT to validate: we join your own Teams, Zoom or Meet as a guest speaker, or we host a page and your people open a link. No software, no accounts, and no data of yours that we can reach. It is why hundreds of companies, among them some of the largest technology and financial firms in the world, were able to start within a day.
We never receive or hold personal data about your employees. Because the session runs in your own environment, attendance and identity stay with you, and what we report back is aggregated: numbers, ratings and survey answers, not people. That is also why IT approval usually takes minutes rather than weeks.
You keep the recording and can share it internally. You also get attendance over time, participant ratings for the content and the speaker, the survey answers, and the topics your people asked for next.
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