Did You Know This About Your Nose?
If you did, you must be really nosy. Or just really into breathing techniques.
Tell me, through which nostril are you breathing right now?
Cover one and breathe through the other. Switch and notice.
With one unobstructed nostril, you’re breathing easier than with the other. That’s the one currently more active.
Don’t worry, your nose is not stuck like that.
Here’s a little nasal awareness
Breathing is asymmetric and nostrils work one at a time. Or sort of.
We never breathe equally through both nostrils. There’s this thing called the nasal cycle that most people are unaware of.
Researchers don’t know how to reason with it. They assume why it happens, but can’t tell for sure.
And you just found out that we do 75% of the breathing through one nostril and 25% through the other, at any given time. Even when the nose isn’t congested.
Does one nostril go to one lung?
Some people have this question…
After all, we have two lungs, and two nostrils. Do they team up or switch turns?
