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Apparently among the other things it develops are a contempt for most of humanity?
Saying that science done in Europe and the US about ancient Asian breathing techniques is embarrassing is way less offensive than thinking that Europe and the US are most of humanity.
Searching for the strawman doesn’t make your point stronger.
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Have you read the post you are defending? Calling anybody who needs some evidence for psychic abilities a football-watching mindless drone is... Kind of a canonical insulting contempt.
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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.
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.
Where should one begin with this?
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.
Would you share some of your breathing lessons here? I only ask because there are several other commenters on here offering breathing tips, and you sound like an expert on this.
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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.
I follow these simple rules for breathing
1. Breathe to stomach not chest.
2. Breathe by nose (unless swimming or underwater).
3. Inhalation time and exhalation time should be equal and gap between inhalation and exhalation should be sum of it. If it takes x seconds to inhale exhalation should begin after 2x seconds and should finish in x seconds
Retention (2x) = inhalation time (x) + exhalation time (x).