30/07/2025
๐ข๐ฌ๐ช๐ป๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ ๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐ญ๐ผ๐ฝ ๐๐ซ๐พ๐ท๐ญ๐ช๐ท๐ฌ๐ฎ: ๐๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ต๐ฒ๐ท๐ฐ ๐๐ป๐ฎ๐ช๐ฝ๐ฑ๐ต๐ฎ๐ผ๐ผ ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ต๐ฎ ๐๐ป๐ธ๐๐ท๐ฒ๐ท๐ฐ ๐ฒ๐ท ๐๐ฒ๐ป
Your mind is the greatest trickster of all time. Doesn't it baffle you how easily you can misunderstand and confuse things even when you feel like you understand them?
One of the brain's greatest tricks is conning you into believing that you are out of breath when you hyperventilate. In reality, it's quite the opposite. Behind the veil of misconception, what actually happens is this: during hyperventilation, you may feel like no amount of air could satisfy your need for it โ when you're actually suffocating from it. From a scientific lens, hyperventilation occurs when a person breathes too fast or too deeply. This physiological condition often happens during panic, anxiety, or stress. And if we were to dissect its explanation, it would be due to breathing out too much carbon dioxide, which lowers COโ levels in the blood and disrupts the bodyโs balance โ not because of a lack of oxygen, but because of too little carbon dioxide.
As a result, a person may feel dizziness, chest tightness or discomfort, blurred vision, muscle cramps, palpitations, and shortness of breath โ ironically so. These aforementioned symptoms can be mitigated by keeping your cool and refusing to give in to the screaming anxiety and panic of your entire system. Panic makes you breathe even faster, thus creating a cycle.
Due to the inevitability of life, and when push comes to shove, just remember to breathe in through the nose, then out through the mouth. Additionally, a paper bag might just save the day when hyperventilation is the villain. Just do the aforementioned method: breathe in through your nose, then out through your mouth โ however, this time, cover your mouth and nose with the paper bag. Why? Because breathing into a paper bag lets you rebreathe some of that COโ, helping to restore the balance in your blood.
So, you see, your mind really is the greatest trickster of all time. The common misconception that surrounds hyperventilation is definite proof of that. Because while your mind gasps for air, your entire body screeches codes of help for refusal.
Engrave in your souls that it should always be mind over matter. Remain calm and cool-headed during hyperventilation, and your body will eventually return to internal equilibrium.
โ๐ป: Daphne Jill P. Alferez
๐จ: Isabel Olee De Joya
