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Alternate Nostril breathing
lowers heart rate, blood pressure, and symphathetic nervous system.
- place thumb over right nostril, ring finger on left nostril, and middle finger between the eyebrows.
- close the right nostril with thumb and inhale on left nostril very slowly.
- at top of the breath pase briefly, nostril closed, lift thumb to exhale on right nostril.
- after exhale close the nostril for a moment, then inhale through the right.
- continue for 5 to 10 cycles.
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Resonant Breathing
a calming practice that places heart, lungs and circulation into state of coherence, where the body is working at peak efficiency.
- Sit up straight, relax the shoulder and belly, and exhale.
- Inhale softly for 5.5 sec., expanding the belly as air fills the bottom of the lungs.
- Without pausing, exhale softly for 5.5 sec., bringing the belly in as lungs empty. Each breath should feel like a circle.
- Repeat at least 10 times, more if possible.
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Breathing coordination
helps to engage more movement from the diaphragm and increase respiratory efficiency. Breath should feel soft and enriching.
- Sit straight, chin perpendicular to the body.
- Take a gentle breath in through the nose. At the top of the breath count softly aloud from 1 to 10 over and over.
- As you reach the natural conclusion of exhale, keep counting in a wispher, letting the voice softly trail out. Then keep lips moving until lungs completely are empty.
- Continue for 10 to 30 more cycles.
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Breathing is just sucking air right?
When you look at history there are many mystical practices that people believe people believe to give practitioners super powers. Be it in kungfu, swordsmanship, etc, one commonality in them is that proper breathing is greatly emphasized.
In the book "Breath" by James Nestor, it shows that different breathing patterns can influence body weight, affects size and function of our lungs, hack the nervous system, control our immune response, and restore our health. Breathing isn't simple as it seems.
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Lung capacity determines how long you will live
The smaller and less efficient lungs became, the quicker subjects got sick and died... comparing lung capacity in a group of more than thousand subjects over three decades result were the dame.
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Lungs are weight-regulating system of the body
Carbon dioxide in every exhale has weight, we exhale more weight than we inhale.
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