One hour of slow breathing changed my life
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One hour of slow breathing changed my life
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#2James Nestor’s podcast episodes with Ben Greenfield and Joe Rogan both are very interesting. Obviously there is some material crossover between the two, but I found unique things from each.
I really the breathwork will become the new fad, but for good reason. It’s amazingly powerful.
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#3Pranayama
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#4> We’ve become conditioned to breathe too much, just as we’ve been conditioned to eat too much.
How is one conditioned to breathe too much? We eat too much because there is so much available to us and it's engineered (by trial and error) to be as delicious as possible. That has not been done to air.
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#5Does a quick practical guide about how to do this and reap the benefits exist anyway?
I'm also curious about finding references for the studies he mentions.
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#6Isn't this meditation? What is the difference?
EDIT: rereading this - yes, it is meditation. Why is it being rebranded and written about as if it is some new discovery?
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#7I've done a lot of breathing exercises due to freediving. I think the main benefit for me was that it's almost like meditating.
While lying there and breathing up or holding my breath, my mind is completely clear. No thoughts, just staying as relaxed as possible focusing on my diaphragm. No scrolling on my phone thinking about my day, nothing. Just relaxing. Except the last minutes when the body screams at you to breathe because of the co2 buildup, heh.
But not sure if there's anything more to it than that? I don't do it as often anymore, but get the same focus from working out.
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#8Isn't this meditation? What is the difference? EDIT: rereading this - yes, it is meditation. Why is it being rebranded and written about as if it is some new discovery?
Probably because this is basically an ad for the author's new book (mentioned at the bottom of the article).
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#9> We’ve become conditioned to breathe too much, just as we’ve been conditioned to eat too much. How is one conditioned to breathe too much? We eat too much because there is so much available to us and it's engineered (by trial and error) to be as delicious as possible. That has not been done to air.
> people with anxieties or other fear-based conditions typically will breathe way too much. So what happens when you breathe that much is you're constantly putting yourself into a state of stress. So you're stimulating that sympathetic side of the nervous system
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/05/27/8629631...
> you can over breathe when people at a gym or when people are jogging you see them really going to get the maximum amount of oxygen in that's not what is happening to your body so you are offloading the co2 by offloading too much co2 you're causing constriction in your circulation
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#10Does a quick practical guide about how to do this and reap the benefits exist anyway? I'm also curious about finding references for the studies he mentions.
You have to buy their book to find out.