Does 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.
One hour of slow breathing changed my life
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#22"No breathing can heal stage IV cancer"
I like how this sentence is true in two very different ways...
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#23Mental health Tangent-
I wonder how far the American Medical Association/physicians have set back medical discoveries.
The traditional solution is Drugs. Some recommend exercise (although a friend recently couldn't get a prescription for Physical Therapy until after trying steroids for 2 weeks). Even fewer recommend diet changes.
Could this breathing method be a drug free solution to various psychological disorders? (Don't get me wrong, people may need drugs, but it's something to consider before a Physician gets someone addicted to Drugs for the rest of their life.)
It just seems like every industry has made huge strides in technological progress and scientific knowledge, then you have medical which is still unknown. Engineering and Medicine are both applied sciences, it seems either bizarre or corrupt that medical is far behind and has low quality outcomes, despite high costs.
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#24Does 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.
I read the book it was pretty good. He talks about his experience and a lot of history of breathing techniques and at the end of the books has basically a reference guide and things to look up. Might be worth looking for a digital copy to just cut right to that.
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#25Does 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.
the following as a 5 min intro video to one of the techniques :
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP-dNd1xTcs
if you want to learn more: https://yogananda.org/practice
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#26The Science of Breath (1903)[1] by William Walker Atkinson[2] is a fundamental read on the subject.
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#27> 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.
Probably something to do with shallow breathing so you inhale and exhale more often the one should without maximizing oxygen intake per breathe nor efficiently regulating oxygen/co2.
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#28Mental health Tangent- I wonder how far the American Medical Association/physicians have set back medical discoveries. The traditional solution is Drugs. Some recommend exercise (although a friend recently couldn't get a prescription for Physical Therapy until after trying steroids for 2 weeks). Even fewer recommend diet changes. Could this breathing method be a drug free solution to various psychological disorders?…
> it seems either bizarre or corrupt that medical is far behind).
It’s not bizarre. It’s simply very difficult to conduct experiments with a complex subject such as human beings that can produce clean results linking actions to results.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Although it might be done for pure marketing purposes in this case, I think sometimes calling something differently can help losing some "spiritual baggage", and open the topic up to people that would otherwise not engage with it. Also, "slow breathing" is very descriptive, just reading it I know what to do (even if I might not know how slow), whereas if I wanted to meditate I would have to read up first what I'm sup…
It's not just slow breathing. It's in one nostril, pump stomach muscles, out the other, pump stomach, repeat. There are YouTube videos demonstrating it.
I haven't read the whole article, but in the beginning the author describes his first sessions as nothing more complicated than breathing slowly.
"The voice instructed us to inhale slowly through our noses, then to exhale slowly. To focus on our breath. [...] The next day I felt even better. As advertised, there was a feeling of calm and quiet that I hadn’t experienced in a long time. I"
So does one need the more advanced techniques or do you get like 80% there by just explicitly taking some time out of your day to slow down?
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#30Mental health Tangent- I wonder how far the American Medical Association/physicians have set back medical discoveries. The traditional solution is Drugs. Some recommend exercise (although a friend recently couldn't get a prescription for Physical Therapy until after trying steroids for 2 weeks). Even fewer recommend diet changes. Could this breathing method be a drug free solution to various psychological disorders?…
I mean diet and exercise can have profound effects on your health. My personal experiences have been that doctors I have been to are likely to prescribe something and then toss in “also you should exercise and lose some weight”. I herniated a disc and basically my options were steroid shots or surgery. I opted for the steroid shots just to get rid of the constant numbness and pain down my leg. But there had been no real help on what to do now. “Strengthen your core” um ok thanks. All that to say a lot of time is spent treating the symptoms and not the cause. Meanwhile I’m stuck finding the cause and then trying to remedy it.