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Re:Breathing Through the Nose May Offer Unique Brain Benefits by ssvss on Sunday November 25, 2018 @11:58AM (#18527632)
Don’t try all the exotic practises in the initial 1 or 2 years. Initially it is recommended only to observe breath, and may be the 4/4/4/4 technique mentioned in another comment, you can try the 4/4/4/4 technique by inhaling through one nostril and exhaling from the other. And gradually increase the count from 4 to whatever you are comfortable with.

https://www.banyanbotanicals.com/info/ayurvedic-living/livin...

Recent Yoga teachers, try to teach all types of Pranayama to a beginner, but when reading books written 100 years back, it is mentioned that mind and breath are linked tightly, and practising techniques which isn’t recommended for your condition, by an experienced guru, can actually make you mad.

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Re:Breathing Through the Nose May Offer Unique Brain Benefits by nradov on Sunday November 25, 2018 @02:28PM (#18528467)
The notion that a normal mentally stable person could be driven mad by these practices is absurd. Citation needed.
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Re:Breathing Through the Nose May Offer Unique Brain Benefits by abledon on Sunday November 25, 2018 @03:14PM (#18528757)
Ugh the mindset that everything in the universe needs a previous citation in a scientific journal for it to be possible. barf
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Re:Breathing Through the Nose May Offer Unique Brain Benefits by EForEndeavour on Sunday November 25, 2018 @03:39PM (#18528883)
The more extraordinary the claim, the stronger the evidence required. The claim that trying to learn Pranayama from an "experienced guru" can "actually make you mad" is an extraordinary claim indeed.
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Re:Breathing Through the Nose May Offer Unique Brain Benefits by nradov on Sunday November 25, 2018 @11:58PM (#18531187)
Never mind a journal citation, I'd settle for a clear hypothesis with a plausible method of action. All I've seen so far is woo.
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