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lowers heart rate, blood pressure, and symphathetic nervous system.
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a calming practice that places heart, lungs and circulation into state of coherence, where the body is working at peak efficiency.
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helps to engage more movement from the diaphragm and increase respiratory efficiency. Breath should feel soft and enriching.
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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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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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Carbon dioxide in every exhale has weight, we exhale more weight than we inhale.
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