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One hour of slow breathing changed my life

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Re: One hour of slow breathing changed my life

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Post by martindbp »

throwaway_USD wrote: post #27
martindbp wrote: post #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.

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.

But how could we be "conditioned" to breath in a certain way? It reads like a conspiracy to me but maybe that's not what they meant?

To me, breathing is a highly personal thing, I doubt there is any outside force able to change how we breathe for the worse. I just don't see the attack vector. We breathe how we feel we need to breathe.

Re: One hour of slow breathing changed my life

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Post by jcims »

impendia wrote: post #32

I started reading his book Breath , and he made the starting claim that, in essence, you could choose to be either energetic or restful by picking one nostril to breathe out of for awhile. (Naturally we breath out of one nostril at a time, and the body goes back and forth, but "it's a balance that can also be gamed"). I found this claim a bit... suspicious, and Googled, and didn't find much scientific evidence for th…

It could be constructive application of the placebo effect. Try it.

Re: One hour of slow breathing changed my life

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Post by whoisjuan »

impendia wrote: post #32

I started reading his book Breath , and he made the starting claim that, in essence, you could choose to be either energetic or restful by picking one nostril to breathe out of for awhile. (Naturally we breath out of one nostril at a time, and the body goes back and forth, but "it's a balance that can also be gamed"). I found this claim a bit... suspicious, and Googled, and didn't find much scientific evidence for th…

> In essence, you could choose to be either energetic or restful by picking one nostril to breathe out of for awhile.

Why not just try it? This is such a simple and safe experiment. You can do it and generate your own conclusions.

Re: One hour of slow breathing changed my life

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Post by wolco »

martindbp wrote: post #41
throwaway_USD wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

But how could we be "conditioned" to breath in a certain way? It reads like a conspiracy to me but maybe that's not what they meant? To me, breathing is a highly personal thing, I doubt there is any outside force able to change how we breathe for the worse. I just don't see the attack vector. We breathe how we feel we need to breathe.

The idea is to control breathe for different affects.

"We breathe how we feel we need to breathe". The key word is feel. Change your breathe change the way you feel

Re: One hour of slow breathing changed my life

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Post by controversy »

vl wrote: post #16
spekcular wrote: post #5

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.

In the article he says he inhales for 5.5 seconds, then exhales for 5.5 seconds.

Have to watch when applying this. I was dehydrated and in the ER. Very stressed. I hate needles and giving blood. Had to do that. Then had a sit up, stand up test. Stated to panic. Counted. Then started to pass out.

Re: One hour of slow breathing changed my life

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Post by dcuthbertson »

impendia wrote: post #32

I started reading his book Breath , and he made the starting claim that, in essence, you could choose to be either energetic or restful by picking one nostril to breathe out of for awhile. (Naturally we breath out of one nostril at a time, and the body goes back and forth, but "it's a balance that can also be gamed"). I found this claim a bit... suspicious, and Googled, and didn't find much scientific evidence for th…

> Naturally we breath out of one nostril at a time

I don't understand how anyone can make that statement with a straight face. Unless one nostril is blocked, we use both simultaneously. There's no balance to be gamed.

Re: One hour of slow breathing changed my life

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Post by bravura »

impendia wrote: post #32

I started reading his book Breath , and he made the starting claim that, in essence, you could choose to be either energetic or restful by picking one nostril to breathe out of for awhile. (Naturally we breath out of one nostril at a time, and the body goes back and forth, but "it's a balance that can also be gamed"). I found this claim a bit... suspicious, and Googled, and didn't find much scientific evidence for th…

I mean, you have a dominant hand. Doing everything with the non dominant will affect your experience.

You have a dominant eye. Focusing on the other eye will also affect your experience.

Why not a dominant nostril?

Re: One hour of slow breathing changed my life

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Post by ivank »

dcuthbertson wrote: post #46
impendia wrote: post #32

I started reading his book Breath , and he made the starting claim that, in essence, you could choose to be either energetic or restful by picking one nostril to breathe out of for awhile. (Naturally we breath out of one nostril at a time, and the body goes back and forth, but "it's a balance that can also be gamed"). I found this claim a bit... suspicious, and Googled, and didn't find much scientific evidence for th…

> Naturally we breath out of one nostril at a time I don't understand how anyone can make that statement with a straight face. Unless one nostril is blocked, we use both simultaneously. There's no balance to be gamed.

70-80% of adults have a alternating congested nostril

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasal_cycle

https://www.rhinologyonline.org/Rhinology_online_issues/2018...

Re: One hour of slow breathing changed my life

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Post by sg47 »

I'm a recovering thyroid cancer (good cancer) patient. My breathing and immunity had become bad due to my surgeries/treatment but also stress, occasional hookah smoking, etc. After suffering from severe bronchitis and cough for the first months of this year, I started doing the breathing exercises in this video (https://youtu.be/iUKjuni-6l8?list=PLxdtWIiZAUhoD6mxvZ0gO9ohE...) regularly (4-6 times a week) based on a HNer's recommendation. All my symptoms have completely disappeared, my breathing has become slower and I have become a much calmer person. My lungs feel really clear. Highly recommend doing these breathing exercises regularly (every day for the first month if possible).

This guy, Michael Bijker, also has a lot of good videos on breathing exercises. Here's an example - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBZInO0-ZHk&list=PLxdtWIiZAU...

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