Re:Diaphragmatic Breathing Exercises and the Vagus Nerve (2017)
by mistrial9 on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @03:22PM
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People! please be careful with these casual references to breathing exercises and other mind-body techniques. Breathing changes can hurt you. Please seek an experienced teacher.. for example, another post mentioned a cessation of breathing rhythm as a gateway.. BS, and dangerous too. Blood pressure, cardiac rhythm, mental balance, are all deeply effected. thanks and take care
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Re:Diaphragmatic Breathing Exercises and the Vagus Nerve (2017)
by fsloth on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @05:56AM
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" Breathing changes can hurt you. Please seek an experienced teacher."
Could you provide some reference of the dangers? That sounds like a generic marketing speech for yoga instructors.
I don't mind finding guidance, but empty scare tactics are the cheapest trick in the salesmans arsenal.
If there are explicit dangers, give external reference. Otherwise you just sound like a snake oil salesman.
Re:Diaphragmatic Breathing Exercises and the Vagus Nerve (2017)
by nsouth on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @04:01PM
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The key word is spontaneous breath retention. Google "kevala kumbhaka". Not BS at all, in fact it is a primary aim of the breathing exercises known as pranayama and is very widely documented within yogic texts, both old and current.
Re:Diaphragmatic Breathing Exercises and the Vagus Nerve (2017)
by djtriptych on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @06:46PM
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While breath retention is part of pranayama techniques, they are NOT beginner techniques, and misuse certainly does have the capacity to do damage.
Consider the inner breath as a pneumatic tool. Can you imagine holding in a powerful sneeze or cough and hurting yourself? That’s the power of the diaphragm. Getting it under control cannot be done overnight, and retention techniques increase the risk of accidental injury.