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Re: Box Breathing

#101

Post by maaaats »

Gracana wrote: post #73
curun1r wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is only because you're not able to recognize your urge to breathe for what it is...a buildup of CO2 rather than a need for O2. With practice in breathing exercises, you learn to recognize the start of contractions (in the diaphragm) as a stage in the breath hold that's typically around 1/3 of your maximum. With more practice, you can start to recognize more subtle symptoms of low O2...tingling in the extremities…

> And running out of O2 underwater leads to black outs, especially in shallow water as water pressure drops fastest when surfacing those last 10m-20m. Because people swim faster when they're close to the top?

When I freedive, I'm often weighted so that I'm neutral buoyant at -10m. So the last 10 meters I will start to float upwards, and thus go faster.

But that's not the issue here. It's the pressure difference when ascending.

> [1] Ascent-induced hypoxia is caused by a drop in ppO2 as ambient pressure is reduced on ascent. The ppO2 at depth, under pressure, may be sufficient to maintain consciousness but only at that depth and not at the reduced pressures in the shallower waters above or at the surface

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freediving_blackout

Re: Box Breathing

#103

Post by drc0 »

TamDenholm wrote: post #17
koolba wrote: post #2

If you're ever in a " hold your breath " contest do this right before it starts. You'll crush the competition by a wide margin (assuming they're not doing the same) and be amazed at how many minutes you can go.

If anyone is interested, David Blaine has an interesting TED Talk on holding your breath. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFnGhrC_3Gs

TIL: The longest time breath held voluntarily (male) is 24 min 3.45 secs and was achieved by Aleix Segura Vendrell (Spain).

How is that thing even possible? your body would work in an entirely different manner!

Re: Box Breathing

#104

Post by lngnmn »

It is nice to see a demonstration of the fundamental principle, described in the Patanjali's Yoga Sutra, in contrast to the cascades of bullshit of the Yoga Pradipika.

Humans bullshit everything, painting degrade to the modern colorful Warkshok inkblots, music - to sophisticated noise, yoga became a method of hipster's public snowflakery. Philosophy - Hegelian nonsense, politics - vagina marches.

Re: Box Breathing

#105

Post by kristofferR »

mappu wrote: post #36
kristofferR wrote: post #32

Weird, I was just playing Wolfenstein: The New Order today, where the main protagonist uses this technique all the time. I'd never heard of this technique before that. What's the phenomena called - where you encounter the same new thing multiple separate times within a short time frame?

Baader-Meinhof phenomenon.

Thanks, that was what I was thinking of. :)

Re: Box Breathing

#106

Post by fsiefken »

anonaoeu wrote: post #50
pbhjpbhj wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>The advice is to count on the finger of one hand. [...] count breaths in increasing cycles: 1; 1 2; 1 2 3; ...; 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 // Is this hand counted? Knowing BSL I can count to 0-19 with one hand using unique gestures. Is there an acknowledged way: knuckle counting, binary, other? I note one can get to 19 (from 1) by moving ones gaze from finger joint to joint if you include finger tips. Always curious to see alter…

I find binary the easiest. You can get to 2^10 = 1024 easily.

cognitive load would be higher

Re: Box Breathing

#107

Post by veli_joza »

mindfulgeek wrote: post #33

Playing with your breath is the ultimate hack of the human mind. There are seemingly endless combinations of techniques that each have a unique physiological impact on the body. Use the right one at the right time and life flows smoothly.

Can you give more examples or provide a source? The only examples I encountered are breathing cycles during exercise and stress-relief techniques.

Re: Box Breathing

#108

Post by matt4077 »

function_seven wrote: post #68
eeZah7Ux wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Slapping "navy" on it is a prime example of cultural appropriation. (Before someone claims that this technique is modern: there are hundreds of technique similar to this one in Yoga and Buddhism)

The more cultural appropriation, the better off we all are. I’m being serious.

Mostly agree – except maybe in cases where the practice devolves into a cliché. American Indians and feathers come to mind.

Re: Box Breathing

#109

Post by Veen »

function_seven wrote: post #68
eeZah7Ux wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Slapping "navy" on it is a prime example of cultural appropriation. (Before someone claims that this technique is modern: there are hundreds of technique similar to this one in Yoga and Buddhism)

The more cultural appropriation, the better off we all are. I’m being serious.

It boggles my mind that anyone thinks cultural hybridity and cross-fertilisation are a bad thing, regardless of whether proper attribution is given. Which, as in this case, it never is and almost never can be.

It's one of the more stupid ideas from a cluster of stupid ideas.

Re: Box Breathing

#110

Post by eeZah7Ux »

shripadk wrote: post #75
eeZah7Ux wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Slapping "navy" on it is a prime example of cultural appropriation. (Before someone claims that this technique is modern: there are hundreds of technique similar to this one in Yoga and Buddhism)

Here is the fun part. Everyone thinks Pranayama and Yoga are from Buddhism. But really it's from Hinduism (it is mentioned in Vedic scriptures). Buddhism adopted these techniques which invariably resulted in cultural appropriation. However, it doesn't matter what the source is as long as the technique is useful for the end user.

> Everyone thinks Pranayama and Yoga are from Buddhism

Not me, as written.

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