Posted on March 20, 2026
Posted on March 19, 2026
If you are someone who feels deeply, who notices the subtle shifts in energy in a room, who carries other people’s emotions as if they were your own, then your breath matters more than you may realise.
As Empaths, we often live in a world that feels loud, fast, and overwhelming. Our minds can be busy. Our nervous systems can feel constantly “on.” You may already know I have written before about breathing exercises to calm the busy Empath mind. But recently, after reading Breath by James Nestor, I felt called to go deeper.
In his book, Nestor explains that many modern humans have forgotten how to breathe properly. He connects poor breathing to anxiety, sleep problems, dental issues, inflammation, and more. What struck me most is how something so simple, something we do every moment of our lives, can either gently support our wellbeing or quietly undermine it. Yet it is a subject that is not being discussed enough.
And this feels especially important for Empaths.
Most people never stop to think about how they are breathing. They just assume that because they are alive, they must be breathing “correctly.” But the way you breathe shapes your body, your mind, and your emotional world.
So are you breathing in a way that truly supports you? Or is your breath shallow and tight?
What Is Shallow Breathing?
Shallow breathing is when the breath stays high in the chest instead of moving deeply into the belly. Instead of the diaphragm (the large muscle under your lungs) doing the work, the upper chest, shoulders, and neck try to take over.
The breath becomes quick, light, and restricted. It may feel like you can’t quite get enough air. You might find yourself sighing often. Or taking sudden big breaths as if you’ve been holding your breath without realising.
For many Empaths, shallow breathing becomes the default. Especially when:
Shallow breathing is subtle. Easy to miss. But its effects run deep.
Here are some signs your breathing may be shallow:
Healthy breathing, by contrast, feels light, quiet, and effortless. It flows gently through the nose. The belly and lower ribs expand. There is a steady rhythm.
When we breathe shallowly, it changes more than just our lungs. It changes our chemistry, posture, emotions, and energy.
Let’s explore what that means.
1.It Disrupts Sleep
For Empaths, who need quality rest to process emotions and energy, this matters deeply.
If you breathe through your mouth at night or breathe irregularly, your body struggles to reach deep, restorative sleep.
Even mild snoring or subtle mouth breathing can keep the nervous system slightly alert.
You may sleep for eight hours but wake feeling unrefreshed.
Gentle nasal breathing supports deeper sleep and allows the body to fully switch off.
2. It Keeps Your Nervous System in Survival Mode
Your brain does not know the difference between a real threat and an imagined one.
When your breath is fast and high in the chest, your brain reads this as danger. It activates the stress response. Cortisol and adrenaline rise. Your body prepares to fight or flee.
As an Empath, you may already spend a lot of time in quiet stress, scanning, sensing, anticipating.
Shallow breathing locks you into this state.
Stress creates shallow breathing.
Shallow breathing creates more stress.
It becomes a loop.
When you slow the breath and bring it into the belly, you send a powerful message to your brain: “I am safe.”
And the nervous system begins to soften.
3. It Fuels Anxiety and Overthinking
Fast breathing lowers carbon dioxide levels, which can create sensations like dizziness, tightness, and unease. These sensations can trigger anxious thoughts. Those thoughts then disturb the breath even more.
For Empaths, who already feel deeply and think deeply, this cycle can feel relentless.
When the breath becomes slow and nasal, thoughts naturally quiet. Emotions feel less overwhelming. You become more resilient to the emotional waves around you.
The breath becomes an anchor
4. It Can Leave You Feeling Starved of Energy
When breathing is fast and shallow, carbon dioxide levels in the blood drop too low. This might sound like a good thing, but it’s not.
Carbon dioxide actually helps oxygen move from the blood into your cells. Without enough of it, oxygen stays stuck in the blood instead of nourishing your tissues.
This means you can feel tired, foggy, or drained — even if you are technically getting enough oxygen.
For Empaths, this can feel like emotional exhaustion layered on top of physical fatigue.
Slow, nasal breathing restores balance. It helps your body use oxygen properly. Over time, energy and clarity begin to return.
5. It Drains Your Physical and Mental Stamina
Shallow breathing relies on the small muscles of the neck and chest. This creates tension and extra effort. It also reduces blood flow to the brain.
The result?
When you restore diaphragmatic breathing, your body becomes more efficient. Energy production improves. Focus sharpens. Physical stamina increases naturally.
6. It Affects Your Body Stability
The diaphragm is not just a breathing muscle. It also helps stabilise your spine.
When it moves properly, it creates gentle internal pressure that supports your back. When breathing is shallow, this support disappears.
Over time, this can lead to:
For Sensitive people who already carry emotional weight, physical tension often mirrors inner strain.
Deep, diaphragmatic breathing restores internal support. The rib cage expands. The spine feels more stable. The body relaxes into better alignment.
So, the question is what can you do about it?
As mentioned, I have shared breathing exercises both in my books and articles, mainly yoga breathing techniques. However, here I want to share with you a Buteyko breathing technique that I came across in James Nestor’s book:
A Simple Practice for Empaths
A gentle Buteyko breathing exercise:
There is no forcing. No strain. No dramatic breathing.
Just soft, steady, nourishing breath.
With consistent practice, your diaphragm strengthens. Carbon dioxide balance improves. Oxygen reaches your tissues more efficiently. Your spine feels supported. Your nervous system settles.
Most importantly, your Sensitive System feels safer.
As Empaths, we cannot always control the world around us. We cannot stop feeling deeply. But we can shape the way we breathe.
And in doing so, we create a quiet, steady foundation inside ourselves.
Your breath is always with you. Let it become your ally.
Until next time,
Diane Kathrine
Post on March 18, 2026
The old earth operated on fear and sowing fear, divisions, to keep everyone under control and easily manipulated.
When you finally become aware of the game, you simply will not play the game anymore.
This is truth of what awakening is all about.
To finally realize and reclaim your own sovereignity and more than this choose to live life from an inner state of love, peace, equilibrium, even while everything seems chaotic and turbulant.
This does not mean a withdrawal of life, but the full embodiment of soul mastery.
You see the game clearly, know how it is played, and choose to not participate in it any longer, for it no longer interests you.
To me this where the greatest shift in ascension is now pushing us through the massive portals of ascension into the full reclaiming of our sovereignity, where we have faced the darkest hours of the old humanity, also within us, and choose to return to purity, integrity, truth, light, love, wisdom and true soul empowerment.
Taking full responsibity for all that we think, say and do, all we are creating.
We are witnessing the deepest darkness, in order to be the balancing act of light, love and truth, but even more so: The tipping point!
For where pure blinding white light enters, darkness is lit up.
So let us ascend in blinding light, so filled with unconditional love, compassion, wisdom, insight and vision, that we now transmute and transfigure the fears and old modus operandi, and cocreate the new.
From the ascended pure intentional consciousness, which creates unity, harmony, fully embracing life, and life more abundantly, which is already omnipresent.
And not with great announcements, but silently.
All true miracles and changes silently manifest into form, for as we change within, we send out ripples of light and change to everyone else and everything.
Posted on March 18, 2026
This past week, we shifted again, a significant shift that was very exciting. This established the New Earth firmly and securely in the midst of the old and made it our home. We’ve been going back and forth, dipping back into the old, but now we are in the new. There were some accompanying symptoms with this (blurry vision, headaches, queasiness, wooziness, and sleep issues, to name a few), and some noticed feeling very tired last weekend right before this took place.
I was given an intuitive picture of this shift on Thursday morning, and it came with immense excitement and giddiness. This intense excitement has happened a few times since this big shift and this is why we have been preparing our nervous systems. The energy of New Earth is high-frequency and feels very intense until we acclimate. This can take a day or two or more. As we acclimate this becomes our new energy system and it is a welcome change to feel this fresh, vibrant energy coursing thru us.
The unbridled joy and excitement of our new experience is incredible and makes us realize how limited we have been in the old world. We can see how everything was inverted. We find our relationship with all things changing, as we feel that everything is alive. Our relationship with nature becomes more profound. Our happiness rises from within for no reason, and we feel gratitude. We feel a sense of connection. We are part of everything. And we see things lining up and coming together in the most beautiful way, like the cosmos is creating a divine tapestry with us. This is the way it is supposed to be.
We are each passing thru a reset where our orientation is shifted from the old to the new. In the past, most have had a negative orientation because of the way 3D was set up. This is shifting so that we begin to see in a positive or supportive way, and this will be a relief. There is an affirmation that can help with this process:
I now realign my system to be in the new experience.
Terry Andrews
