Don’t Take a Deep Breath:
Allow &
Stimulate Demand for Air
It is of limited value to force a deep inhale in isolation from structure and function:
Structure:
The constraint is misalignment of the body, when removed allows the breath to fill and slow naturally.
Function:
To deliver oxygen and Co2 as demanded by the rate of circulation from movement.
The breath works naturally when it is freed from the constraints for misalignment of the entire body structure. Then the breath blows up like a balloon effortlessly.
Breath rate follow demand for oxygen by cells and muscles as they get more active. Blood delivers the products of respiration, but the interstitial fluids must be cleared of metabolic waste and toxicity to fully receive from the blood. Thus blood, lymph and also cerebral spinal fluid work together as total circulation.
Lymph flow relies on movement of using muscles pumps the lymph fluid.
Use of muscles can als increase demand for oxygen.
If that movement also aligns the body to open the ribs and abs then the breath can open more freely and deeply--this is structure and function working together.
Function can be isolated by increasing lymph circulation by massaging lymph nodes with fingers: this is relaxing and you can feel the breath open and become deeper naturally. There is no muscle movement pumping lymph in this case, but this appears to activate the smooth muscles of the vessels. There is no direct realignment of the body to free the rib cage or abdominals with a lymph massage.
How a lymph massage leads to increased breathing could be because:
The diaphragm works directly to stimulate the lymph system, with many vessels around the intestines and the central channel and largest nodes passing up through the diaphragm on their way to dumping in the veins behind the collar bone to send waste and toxicity to the liver. Some lymph therapies include breath work.
Increased circulation of the blood as lymph clears interstitial fluids to lower hydrostatic pressure drawing blood in to deliver oxygen and increase demand for oxygen.
Also stretching muscles and releasing tension in the hips and neck, for example, can blow up the breath as constraints are lifted and circulation gets to new areas.
Taking a deep breath as the first move often feels tense to me, although some people use such techniques to great benefit. It is movement, afterall, and movement is good. As far as isolated techniques go, I like pushing the exhale as done naturally with singing, and then the inhale happens naturally.
Deep sometimes means big, sometimes lower in the belly
Deep as from lower in the belly can be helpful if people are doing abdominal breathing when they were doing chest breathing, as seen in lifting the shoulders when they take a deep breath, but this is a separate variable Breath should be both but starting lower generally.
More is not always better because hyperventilation is possible.
Hyper ventilation is when too much Co2 is expelled, which is a problem because Co2 is needed to utilized oxygen, it is not just a waste product. As breath increases past a certain point the ratio is less ideal and too much Co2 can be expelled.
The science of hyper ventilation is well known in Russia as the Buteyko breathing method is used for all kinds of respiratory and other conditions.
Buteyko breath training is based on the assumption that the brain has made a mistake and set the rate of breathing too high for the activity level, due to stress or something like that. The explanation does not seem complete. Buteyko works for some people, but not for me. To me it is manipulating a symptom. It would have to be part of larger theory of autonomic nervous system dysregulation and circulation to make sense to me.
Related to the nervous system and neurology, another possible reasons that increasing lymph flow and circulation is relaxing is that brain perceives that parts of the peripheral nervous system and cells may have been suffocating are finally getting nutrients so they will not die.
To fully understand things knowledge from numerous specialties needs to be integrated.
I am beginning to explain the profound results I have had with alignment techniques that relax and release the breath as well. Practice has been ahead of theory. Just like many traditional primal practices used by people for thousands of years to survive are now being studied by science. The way the body moves is a complex and fascinating puzzle.
Structure:
The constraint is misalignment of the body, when removed allows the breath to fill and slow naturally.
Function:
To deliver oxygen and Co2 as demanded by the rate of circulation from movement.
The breath works naturally when it is freed from the constraints for misalignment of the entire body structure. Then the breath blows up like a balloon effortlessly.
Breath rate follow demand for oxygen by cells and muscles as they get more active. Blood delivers the products of respiration, but the interstitial fluids must be cleared of metabolic waste and toxicity to fully receive from the blood. Thus blood, lymph and also cerebral spinal fluid work together as total circulation.
Lymph flow relies on movement of using muscles pumps the lymph fluid.
Use of muscles can als increase demand for oxygen.
If that movement also aligns the body to open the ribs and abs then the breath can open more freely and deeply--this is structure and function working together.
Function can be isolated by increasing lymph circulation by massaging lymph nodes with fingers: this is relaxing and you can feel the breath open and become deeper naturally. There is no muscle movement pumping lymph in this case, but this appears to activate the smooth muscles of the vessels. There is no direct realignment of the body to free the rib cage or abdominals with a lymph massage.
How a lymph massage leads to increased breathing could be because:
The diaphragm works directly to stimulate the lymph system, with many vessels around the intestines and the central channel and largest nodes passing up through the diaphragm on their way to dumping in the veins behind the collar bone to send waste and toxicity to the liver. Some lymph therapies include breath work.
Increased circulation of the blood as lymph clears interstitial fluids to lower hydrostatic pressure drawing blood in to deliver oxygen and increase demand for oxygen.
Also stretching muscles and releasing tension in the hips and neck, for example, can blow up the breath as constraints are lifted and circulation gets to new areas.
Taking a deep breath as the first move often feels tense to me, although some people use such techniques to great benefit. It is movement, afterall, and movement is good. As far as isolated techniques go, I like pushing the exhale as done naturally with singing, and then the inhale happens naturally.
Deep sometimes means big, sometimes lower in the belly
Deep as from lower in the belly can be helpful if people are doing abdominal breathing when they were doing chest breathing, as seen in lifting the shoulders when they take a deep breath, but this is a separate variable Breath should be both but starting lower generally.
More is not always better because hyperventilation is possible.
Hyper ventilation is when too much Co2 is expelled, which is a problem because Co2 is needed to utilized oxygen, it is not just a waste product. As breath increases past a certain point the ratio is less ideal and too much Co2 can be expelled.
The science of hyper ventilation is well known in Russia as the Buteyko breathing method is used for all kinds of respiratory and other conditions.
Buteyko breath training is based on the assumption that the brain has made a mistake and set the rate of breathing too high for the activity level, due to stress or something like that. The explanation does not seem complete. Buteyko works for some people, but not for me. To me it is manipulating a symptom. It would have to be part of larger theory of autonomic nervous system dysregulation and circulation to make sense to me.
Related to the nervous system and neurology, another possible reasons that increasing lymph flow and circulation is relaxing is that brain perceives that parts of the peripheral nervous system and cells may have been suffocating are finally getting nutrients so they will not die.
To fully understand things knowledge from numerous specialties needs to be integrated.
I am beginning to explain the profound results I have had with alignment techniques that relax and release the breath as well. Practice has been ahead of theory. Just like many traditional primal practices used by people for thousands of years to survive are now being studied by science. The way the body moves is a complex and fascinating puzzle.
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Systematic
enough to make a difference
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enough to implement
Sensitive
to individual needs
