Breathe Deeply

[GregoryJoseph]

One of the biggest contributors to stress and overall poor physical and mental health is shallow breathing. Most westerners breathe from their throats or their chest.

This is wrong.

Breathe from your tan tien, as the Chinese call it. It's approximately 2 inches below your belly button, and it's where Asians believe the life force flows from.

Concentrate on breathing from here for awhile, and soon it will become second nature. You will be amazed at how strong and alive you feel merely from breathing properly.

[Suspect Chin]

I tried it and now my abs hurt. Thanks.

[Chigworthy]

30 days of practicing breathing from the belly will make it second nature to you. Your body will embrace all that oxygen. Choose an act that you repeat frequently, like checking your watch or phone, or texting, and use that as a pnemotic to trigger your breathing practice. Various breathing patterns can help you deal with elevated states of emotion and fight or flight reactions. The easiest, triangular breathing, in its most basic form would be breathing in for an interval, holding it for an equal interval, and exhaling for an equal interval. There have been multiple incidents where someone has sustained massive injuries and have prevented death from massive blood pressure loss by using these tactical breathing patterns to slow their heart rate, and subsequently slowing their bleed out. A police officer in Ukiah, CA was shot multiple times as he had a gun fight with armed robbers. After the bad guys were dead, he lay dying from his injuries and used tactical breathing to save his life.

[sailor]

don't be afraid to care.

[Foster]

“If you do not breathe correctly, you do not move correctly”
~Chiun: Master of Sinanju

[spankyfrank]

Breathe Deep the gathering gloom....

[GregoryJoseph]

I posted this because I saw a friend last night who looked like a raw nerve. You could literally see the aura of tension surrounding him. He's a stress mess, through and through.

If only people knew how they're killing themselves by subjecting themselves to so much anxiety.

Weakened immune systems, hypertension, ulcers, chronic back and neck pain, depression - all from stress.

[furie]

Breathe from your tan tien, as the Chinese call it. It's approximately 2 inches below your belly button, and it's where Asians believe the life force flows from.


So my soul lives in my lower intestine?


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[GregoryJoseph]

So my soul lives in my lower intestine?

Ha!

Not your soul, your chi. The life force.

And it's not your lower intestine.

Scientists and doctors may argue that "chi" or the "tan tien" don't exist and they're merely tools to help us visualize what we're doing, but they don't deny meditation, Yoga, Tai Chi, etc. relieve stress and contribute to greater overall health.

Perhaps chi (or prana, in Yoga) doesn't really exist, but I have felt its physical manifestation.

You can tell me it's my mind convincing me I felt something and attempt to give scientific explanations, but does it really matter if it works?

[SatCam]

but my lungs are up here !

[Freakshow]

Breathe Deep the gathering gloom....

watch lights fade from every room

[GregoryJoseph]

but my lungs are up here !

Very true, my young friend.

Just as you swing through the ball in baseball, or punch through your target in boxing, you must breathe through your lungs, not into them.

[disneyspy]

i use this method when i call katja late at night

when she yells"I'M GOING TO STAR 69 YOUR ASS!!" i hang up

[lillywilliam]

Thanks for sharing with us its quite interesting,,,,

[smiler grogan]

i recently changed my breathing while running and wowzers what a difference.

[sailor]

Ha!

Not your soul, your chi. The life force.

i think "qi" is preferred nowadays.

[yojimbo7248]

One of the biggest contributors to stress and overall poor physical and mental health is shallow breathing. Most westerners breathe from their throats or their chest.

This is wrong.

Breathe from your tan tien, as the Chinese call it. It's approximately 2 inches below your belly button, and it's where Asians believe the life force flows from.

Concentrate on breathing from here for awhile, and soon it will become second nature. You will be amazed at how strong and alive you feel merely from breathing properly.

excellent post and thread. simply paying attention to your breath can transform your life. thank you, Gregory Joseph

[Patient zer0]

What if you have gas, and everytime you breath real deep you let out atrocious dumpster farts?

[yojimbo7248]

i think "qi" is preferred nowadays.

"chi" is the old Wade-Giles system that you still see outside of Mainland China, especially Taiwan. "qi" is Beijing's pinyin system. It used to be a political statement which one you used - you support 'Our China' rather than Red China. I don't think that is the case anymore and you see a lot of pinyin on Taiwan. Anything you see in the press will always be pinyin.

Some historians still stick to Wade-Giles because they used texts that were initially translated with that system. There was no pinyin before 1949 so if you are reading an initial translation of something from an earlier dynasty, they will use Wade-Giles. Many Buddhist and Taoist ("Daoist" in pinyin) scholars stick to the older transliteration for the same reason.

[GregoryJoseph]

Thank you, yojimbo.

[~Katja~]

last time I breathed deeply from my stomach and concentrated really hard on it I popped out a kid... I am not falling for this trick again

[A.J.]

Who the hell are the Chinese to lecture us about healthy breathing?

http://symonsez.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/chinesekid.jpg

[jauble]

I know we aren't supposed to quote the spammers, but you full mods are asleep at the wheel.

Thanks for sharing with us its quite interesting,,,,

[sailor]

"chi" is the old Wade-Giles system that you still see outside of Mainland China, especially Taiwan. "qi" is Beijing's pinyin system. It used to be a political statement which one you used - you support 'Our China' rather than Red China. I don't think that is the case anymore and you see a lot of pinyin on Taiwan. Anything you see in the press will always be pinyin.

Some historians still stick to Wade-Giles because they used texts that were initially translated with that system. There was no pinyin before 1949 so if you are reading an initial translation of something from an earlier dynasty, they will use Wade-Giles. Many Buddhist and Taoist ("Daoist" in pinyin) scholars stick to the older transliteration for the same reason.

yeah, i worked at tao (restaurant) and people would tell us all the time it should be dao.

Thank you, yojimbo.

i'm pretty sure he said you were wrong. or at least out-dated.