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April 24th, 2026
The Benefits of Blowing Bubbles
My Husband and I live an elegantly simple, layered and beautiful life, we create, love, respect, believe, and have faith even when it seems like the world is getting worse (it’s actually healing).
We live with practical “whimsy”, aka an adult life with the magic intact…. so we, well me mostly, blow bubbles. Blowing bubbles is Practical Whimsy at its finest.
I love bubbles, round, floating rainbows! As a child I thought they were “wish-ships”. I am 55 now, I still think that, so when I blow bubbles I send wishes of peace and equilibrium into the ether.
I am also resetting my nervous system.
1. Benefits of Blowing Bubbles
– Calms the Nervous System (Vagus Nerve Stimulation)
– Long, gentle exhales activate the parasympathetic nervous system:
– Reduces stress and anxiety
– Lowers heart rate
– Helps shift the body out of fight-or-flight
– Supports emotional regulation
– Lowers heart rate
– Helps shift the body out of fight-or-flight
– Supports emotional regulation
2. Bubble Therapy: How Blowing Bubbles Can Help Reduce Stress and Anxiety
“In addition to the physical benefits, blowing bubbles also encourages mindfulness and being in the present moment. When we focus on creating and observing the bubbles, our attention shifts away from our worries and anxieties. We become fully immersed in the act of blowing bubbles, allowing ourselves to experience a moment of peace and tranquility.”
3. Relaxation Using Controlled Breathing: Bubble Blowing
[SN – this article is about relaxation strategies for children, written by an educational psychologist, for ELSA. Strategies to help teachers aid students in relaxing anger and frustration and recovering gently.
This works for children of all ages… to aid in slowing down, releasing anger and helping with recovery.
“Tell them that this exercise will help them to blow out their worry bubbles so they can begin to feel more relaxed. Using a bottle of bubbles, ask them to think about something, which causes them some upset in their life (though nothing too traumatic)
Have them imagine blowing their anxiety or anger into the bubble, as they blow into the bubble wand. Tell them to picture the event in the bubble as it floats/drifts away into the air. When it pops, explain to them that their worry has popped outside of them and can’t trouble them anymore. Have them continue blowing bubbles until they are relaxed and calm. I encouraged students to take a nice deep breath in first before blowing into the bubble wand and remind them “to blow bubbles slowly.”
4. The Health Benefits of Blowing Bubbles
“Who doesn’t love blowing bubbles? Bubbles are whimsical, effervescent, playful, and nostalgic. No matter your occupation, age, or interests, taking a minute out of your busy day to blow bubbles can be a much-needed escape from the pressures of adulting.
As you’re taking time to feel like a kid again, there’s something you may not realize: bubbles are good for your health!
5. Blowing Bubbles, It’s Not Just for Kids
‘Removing That “Stale” Air:
When you blow bubbles, your mouth, lips and respiratory muscles engage in a style of breathing called “pursed-lip breathing.” This is characterized by a narrower mouth opening and also resembles the type of breath you use to blow out candles. A “pursed-lip” exhale more thoroughly expels the “stale” air in your lungs, leaving room for fresh inhaled air and better circulation in your respiratory system.”
When you blow bubbles, your mouth, lips and respiratory muscles engage in a style of breathing called “pursed-lip breathing.” This is characterized by a narrower mouth opening and also resembles the type of breath you use to blow out candles. A “pursed-lip” exhale more thoroughly expels the “stale” air in your lungs, leaving room for fresh inhaled air and better circulation in your respiratory system.”
6. How blowing bubbles can help reduce anxiety
“Blowing bubbles is not just for kids’ birthday parties, it can also be used to fight anxiety and improve mental health.
As part of Mental Health Week 2015, community mental health organisation Lamp Inc held a Stress Less Day […] Bubble blowing was a fun technique everyone could use to relax, […] The act of blowing bubbles forces people to stop what they are doing and focus on their breathing, which can help lower anxiety levels […]
“We also use it as a focus to actually move that anxiety away. You can just imagine it’s going with the bubbles and off it goes.”
FOR INFO JUNKIES:
1. How Are Bubbles Formed?
Soap molecules are both polar and non-polar, which makes them ‘flexible’ and able to move between water polar molecules, which are incrediblly stretchy and together they form a lightweight and stretchy film, which has little to no volume. When you blow into this film the soap and water molecules stretch out, trapping the air inside and creating a perfectly round bubble.
2. Why Are Bubbles Round?
When you add volume to that soap film, such as by blowing a bubble it creates surface tension.
(Water molecules only want to hang with each other, deeper water molecules are pulled in all directions but surface water molecules are pulled ‘down’ and inward. That inward pull causes what we call surface tension because it forces surface molecules to pack together tightly and resist being separated. This creates a lateral, elastic tension on the surface.)
The water and soap stretch around the extra volume trapping the air inside. When this happens the soap film stretches into a round shape because spheres are the strongest and most efficient geometric shape. And bubbles are a law of nature.
3. What Makes Soap Bubbles Rainbow Coloured?
Light waves enter a bubble from all angles, reflect off both the outer and inner surfaces and overlap, this is called “thin-film interference“.
Light waves enter a bubble from all angles, reflect off both the outer and inner surfaces and overlap, this is called “thin-film interference“.
4. What Makes Bubbles Fly?
According to science, bubbles don’t actually fly; they fall with style. Bubble Lightyear.
According to science, bubbles don’t actually fly; they fall with style. Bubble Lightyear.
Bubbles are so lightweight that when they float through the air, they are ‘riding’ on top of denser carbon dioxide gas molecules in the outside air.
5. What Makes Bubbles Pop?
The water molecules evaporate leaving the bubble’s outer layer too thin to maintain the surface tension.
The water molecules evaporate leaving the bubble’s outer layer too thin to maintain the surface tension.
6. Can You Make an Unpoppable Bubble?
Yes but that’s boring [but supposedly if you add corn syrup to water and liquid dishsoap you get an “unpoppable bubble”.
7. Um, do bubbles carry other people’s exhaled germs.
Unfortunately yes, which is why I am meticulous with mouth and gut health. But if this really is the concern, none of us would want to breathe.
STORY:
Blowing bubbles was a healing aid for me after the bones of my brain broke when I was 51. A long time coming. The fractures started happening when I was born. When I watched my Mother getting her bones broken throughout my entire life. This fractured the bones of my brain more than the batterings I experienced, the rapes I endured.
Re the latter, I remain ‘thankful’ that my father merely battered me into comas.
The sexual assaults at 4, 10, 11, the rapes at 13 didn’t damage me, merely made me see the weakness of males, especially those, “attracted” to children and wanting ‘power’ through oppression.
Also made me value me. More.
What made me feel helpless was being unable to save my beloved Mother, even though I had been able to save Her from being murdered when I was 6. I pulled Her unconcious body to safety when my demonic father threatened to kill Her if she didn’t get out of his sight. He was a ridiculously damaged person
Now I understand why blowing bubbles helped me, I have been holding my breath, trying not to drown, for an awfully long time.