For the next 7 days, there will be a lot of benefits to collect, and the best is the first 12 hours, or let’s say the first day. Begin with the decision to stop mouth breathing, and breath holding. These are the most important sources of CO2 loss or CO2 dilution, which are equally detrimental. We will take more steps to increase vigilance in a week. For now you will use the awareness you gained in step 1 to guide you in situations where you caught yourself in need of correction. Now you will know, and anticipate where correction is needed, because you know your most preferred ways to depreciate the CO2 concentration in the lungs.

What happens if your nose is clogged already, and you cannot do it? Take a mint or eucalyptus or you doctor’s prescribed nasal spray medication to help you for the next few hours. Just a few hours or relief will be enough, because by removing the mouth breathing the nose will unclog by itself.

What to expect first to happen? Shortly after you begin to increase CO2 concentration in the lungs, the nose will unclog. This could take 1 to 2 hours, more only if you do not or cannot keep the mouth closed. Secondly, the digestion which at best was intermittent, will resume, and the chronic bloating (that falls unnoticed in the diagnostic of asthma), will go away. It will never return again, should you decide to stick to corrective behavior of your breathing and help a little by avoiding certain foods. Remember, shortly, all of these “efforts” will become automatons. You will not even know that you will be doing it. It will be “as easy as breathing”.

Try to picture in your mind that bloating and nose congestions are not symptoms, but signals to you to correct your pattern!!! Take these two as the wordless messages of the body to you.