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Brief structured respiration enhances mood and reduces physiological arousal

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Re: Brief structured respiration enhances mood and reduces physiological arousal

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people interested in 'breathing' things.. let's recall a few basics.. Many humans are in different stages of life (age), of training (basic fitness), of capacity (the body you are in), and alertness (are you paying attention to things that matter?). Breathing is a minute-to-minute vital life function. You can hurt yourself, perhaps seriously, with breathing changes. But wait -- holding your breathe is harmless and th…

Are there any documented case studies of people seriously hurting themselves with breathing changes?

Re: Brief structured respiration enhances mood and reduces physiological arousal

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Not to digress but substack bas gotten quite annoying on mobile. Have to scroll through so much irrelevant BS to just get to the article, what the hell.

I think this was done by the author to create engagement with their blog.

I'm not sure if there is a against this, but it feels kinda against the spirit of posting a title like this when it seems like the goal of the linked page is 20% to communicate the topic of the headline and 80% to drive you to other topics they have been posting about.

Re: Brief structured respiration enhances mood and reduces physiological arousal

#126

Not to digress but substack bas gotten quite annoying on mobile. Have to scroll through so much irrelevant BS to just get to the article, what the hell.

it's a business, they're trying to make money first, everything else (including the actual articles) come second

Re: Brief structured respiration enhances mood and reduces physiological arousal

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post #124

people interested in 'breathing' things.. let's recall a few basics.. Many humans are in different stages of life (age), of training (basic fitness), of capacity (the body you are in), and alertness (are you paying attention to things that matter?). Breathing is a minute-to-minute vital life function. You can hurt yourself, perhaps seriously, with breathing changes. But wait -- holding your breathe is harmless and th…

Are there any documented case studies of people seriously hurting themselves with breathing changes?

Yes. You can black out. For certain practices it is not uncommon. Please take care when practicing breathing exercises.

Re: Brief structured respiration enhances mood and reduces physiological arousal

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I've taught most of my clients breathing exercises for the past 5-6 years. It's unnecessary to take it to the level of a formal pranayama practice to make fairly significant differences in physiological state, from which most everything else derives.

The "coherent breathing" work that popped up sometime in the last ~15 years is pretty interesting, too.

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