Hello, I'm Mike quiet, the optimal reading coach. Welcome to our breathing development fundamentals program. After years of studying different spiritual and psychological disciplines, it became obvious that almost every well known or broadly accepted spiritual approach had hidden within it, one or more specific ways of addressing the way we breathe. If they all had one thing in common, it was a strong respect for prana Chi, Qi alumni town spirit is numa Kundalini or what I call it Life Force. If it was so important to all these spiritual disciplines, I suspected there must be many secrets kept about it that could benefit the human condition. I resolved to discover as many as possible.

My father, a police detective, counseled me to look for the common denominators. The common denominators became more than the simple fact that we breed, which is often taken for granted. That is, until one can do it anymore. But brother, why, when, how, and in what ways do we breathe, discovering the ways the how's and the whys pointed me towards something I could without expensive science and distorted opinion, feel and measure on my own, giving me a sense of tangible evidence. Eventually, I realized there was something terribly wrong with the way I was breathing. has taken me almost 25 years to discover what was wrong and how to improve it.

During that time, I spent a fortune looking for answers in all the wrong places. I mostly discovered what did not work. I hope that this video will ensure that you do not have to spend as long as I did, and it will save you a lot of frustration, confusion, relationship problems and money. From my research, I found that the breath and the optimal life force flowing with it affects every aspect of our existence. Learning this open my life to monumental personal change. One cannot understand the breath without making a study of it.

Breath is somatic, kinesthetic, insightful, emotional and spiritual as well as physical, mechanical and by Chemical to know the breath, one must experience it directly. Therefore, this is not a program where you quick fix your breathing in four weeks or less. It is a serious study of how to improve your breathing and both short and long term ways. What we like to say is breath is life. Study the breath for life. I believe that the secret of life is creating energy, then managing it.

Breathing is our primary source of energy. We will demonstrate several major breathing development exercises, key ergonomics and the optimal strapping technique because breathing is your main source of oxygen and major influence to your various nervous systems. Working with this program can greatly improve all aspects of your physical health as well as your mental, emotional and physical your well being. specific goals related to improved voice or better sleep maybe further enhance with our supplemental programs. Nutritional and internal cleansing are key elements of health and vitality, so be sure to check our website for relevant programs. health professionals will find both touch and non touch approaches to add to their various protocols.

Optimal breathing is a qualified and quantified look and feel that is reflective of the best that can be had in the moment. It stems from a strong foundation and allows for freedom and depth and range of maximal experience. It allows for singing athletics, meditation, laughing, bliss, crying, speaking out and performing delicate or mind boggling mental or physical tasks. It aids recovering from the stress of habituated activities that cause shallow or distorted breathing, and supports the quickest and most thorough healing of the wounds and illnesses in the physical, as well as in the emotional and spiritual. It allows us to run the full range of emotions, and yet come back to deep peace within. We have our emotions without our emotions having us what is reasonable is defined by our individual values.

Hopefully, we seek those values that support our highest way of being a great teacher I wants new counsel to never go past a word I did not understand providing you were not tired in the first place. If you start to yawn or feel sleepy during any of my lecture portions, go back to the material and see if there is a word you did not clearly understand. We Heat the material until you stop yawning and to understand it clearly, then proceed where the exercises themselves are designed to make you sleepy or yawn. A misunderstood word may not be the cause. This will be a challenge for some prone to anxiety or winning in a contest of some sort. Please try not to be in a hurry, speed kills.

Plan on repeated use of the replay and pause buttons on your remote press primary goals are to teach you breathing development from the outside in and the inside out, along with a simply understood vocabulary of breathing. Breathing related words such as noisy, futile, pleasing, gasping, breath heaving, shallow, restricted bumping High chest over breathing, hyperventilating and under breathing. For the good ones like quiet, larger, greater, more than before, deeper, easier, hyper inhalation, smoother, longer, balanced, rhythmic, free, natural, paced, measured, spacious, fluid, side breath, back breath, belly breath, rim breath more as one movement or wave instead of a series of events. And in general during periods of rest or recovery slower we also want you to get more insight on how all this relates to your day to day doing and being There is a direct relationship between breathing and alive eveness the better we breathe, the more alive we can become.

Breathing is our primary source of energy. Our website tests artistics show us that the way we breathe can have a huge influence on health challenges such as anxiety, asthma, depression, high blood pressure, attention problems, brain function, weight management, sleep issues, and any other condition that depends on oxygen and nervous system function. We use these insights to greatly enhance all our health, longevity and performance programs. Reduce fear, improve relaxation, increase energy, improve posture, isolate primary breathing muscles From accessory breathing muscles improve strength and endurance of respiratory muscles, improve coordination, allow sequencing and balance, improve overall fitness reduce weight. Secondary benefits are being healthier, looking younger, feeling more rested, getting more done, living longer, and having more fun. Forced labored breathing and or speech can often invite tension and more breathing work unnecessary, as well as an increased oxygen cost of breathing.

By contrast, better speaking or singing can be a part of a breathing awareness feedback loop, which invites moment to moment states of presence, calm and or Courage Under Fire. One of our goals is to get to the point where speaking can be an opportunity to relax. You might notice as you progress through the program Your voice becomes more resonant, and you tend to speak in a more relaxed way. To become more familiar with this program, I encourage you to watch this entire video set one time before you try any of it. over the weeks and months ahead, you will hone in on the ones that make you feel more calm or energized, or both. Do not let anything other than your own body awareness.

Be the final decision maker in which ones you choose. Vary them at least quarterly. You should always consult your health practitioner before beginning any exercise program. Because poor breathing puts a strain on the heart and all of your body functions. You may have developed a health condition or tendency towards one that you are not aware of. Even if you do have a diagnosed illness is probably a good idea to develop your breathing because study have shown that the body's oxygen supplies and nervous system function play an important role in attaining and maintaining health and well being.

I caution you against self diagnosis or self treatment. Though they may not be widely known in many health professional approaches, our research has shown that there are numerous health conditions in addition to just the respiratory condition associated with poor respiratory chemistry and breathing muscle function. Please be mindful that many traditional or alternative health practitioners may know too little about optimal breathing and try to downplay its importance. We hope this program will inspire them to learn more about breathing. Remember, to best manage it. You need to be able to measure it I'll demonstrate a way to measure what I call the optimal breathing window.

Stop right now. And fighting for every bit of breath. You can. Oh, you feel the strain. Breathe in as deeply as you possibly can. Even that your eyes get very wide open your shoulders raised your neck muscles bulging out.

Exhale, letting the breath go. Call that uppermost in breath at 10. Now take a deep breath but stop when it gets full but not strained. Exhale, then breathe naturally. Call that comfort. uppermost in breath, and eight.

Now breathe into your aid and just let the breath escape in a relaxing exhale. So if you were to breathe out more, you would have to force it. Call that point three. Then read naturally. Now read into an aide and let the breath go to three. Then immediately exhale, forcing the breath out with your belly muscles like blowing out the candles on a birthday cake to as close as you can, no breath left at all.

The only strain and tension in your body from three to zero then breathe naturally. Try that again. In the eight, then relaxed out to three, then four star to zero. Breathe naturally. Many do not breathe very deeply. So they mostly breathe into say four or five.

Then they use or spend 345 or more of the air while speaking or singing and ended up Add zero to 2.9. In other words, below three, the point where tension begins. This causes a great deal of restriction in the same area as does the abdominal startle response. Then one is so out of breath, they pull in or gasp they're causing friction and further tension. Cycle keeps repeating and worsening with every sentence. So when I say breathe during practice between the window of three and eight or four and seven as a soft perform, you breathe a seven or eight and never strain on the inhale.

Then make sure you do not go past three on the exhale. In this way, you begin to develop a habit of staying mostly between three and seven. One of the key factors as to why and how optimizing your breathing enhances your health and vitality is through its interplay with the autonomic nervous system stimulating chest breathing, or calming belly breathing functions, including the balance between the two. Keep in mind that the phrase belly breathing does not give us enough information to breathe properly. We should see and feel expansion in the full 360 degrees around the lower torso in the belly sides and lower back as well. Working with your breathing is the main way you can enter into this inner world of your autonomic or automatic body functions and systems to influence them for improved self maintenance.

Repair. And body mind spirit rebalancing. Basically, each extreme of breathing is either strictly stimulating as shown on the left side or chest of the seesaw, or strictly calming, as shown on the right side or belly of the seesaw. But there is never an only of either, it was always a mixture of the two I'll be it sometimes way too one directional, such as overstimulation, overcharged or reactive or over relaxation, undercharged, lethargic, or passive. The key is the balance between the two sides of stimulation and calming. The right or belly side of a seesaw will represent your parasympathetic nervous system or PNS responses, which can be influenced by the quality and quantity of your breathing the level A or head side will represent the sympathetic nervous system or SNS part of your autonomic nervous system, which has an equal capacity to be influenced by your breathing.

The parasympathetic side has buzzwords like rest, digest and heal. But to us, it is more about calming when energized even when the sympathetic is at its peak. It is also a major source of rest and recovery. These responses can be influenced by breathing more diagrammatically a lot lower in the body, where the lower torso, pelvis, legs and feet are much more directly or indirectly involved via their support. This kind of grounded or consistently stabilized breathing foundation helps sustain the body's calming responses, including courage and creativity. Under Fire or quote, walking calmly through the gates of hell and quote, The buzzwords most often used for sympathetic activation or quote fear fighter flight.

There are many other responses though like freeze, faded, faint, fumble, mumble or stumble, and even with enough PNS energy to balance it fun. Certain types of fun, often called adrenaline rushes can arise from the safely balanced mix of sympathetic innervation and parasympathetic, expensiveness and calming. The sympathetic side is often typically a reaction to stressors, whether they are from within or outside. This internal stress reaction can be triggered also by too rapid or too high chest breathing and the chest. Think anxiety, asthma or phobias We generally recommend a 70%, parasympathetic to 30% sympathetic ratio, so that more than twice of the foundation and strength of our inhalation happens in the lower torso two feet area with lesser happening and the higher chest. You can review the pair, a cone and the wave portion of this introduction for an illustration of that.

So here goes our teeter totter. Notice that the fulcrum or blue pyramid that represents the solar plexus starts off as low which represents shallow breathing. Notice it doesn't have very far to go before it hits the ground. It could wouldn't like it. No fun. shallow breathing is also no fun for your body.

It lacks excitement, energy and stimulation. It results in low oxygenation and it doesn't produce much detoxification. It makes us try to breathe for me into the upper chest or highest story of the office building and in this way causes us to lose the support of the basement and parking garage. The parasympathetic is weakened and it's calming forces diminished, it's an all around bummer. It also gets over very quickly, so you need to breathe a lot more breaths per minute to keep yourself going which wears down your system. Now notice as we move into quiet breathing and then into deeper breathing, that the fulcrum rises, giving rise to greater elevation of the teeter totter.

Now greater heights of both the parasympathetic and the sympathetic sides can be reached deeper calm and greater excitement, for good or for bad. When we get into the deepest breathing, the teeter totter goes even too high to feel safe. kids would like it too high either. Scary. On the left or sympathetic side, this would represent anxiety, fear, panic, etc. for kids and adults, this may get labeled as hyperventilation or over breathing.

There's often erroneously gets called asthma a lot when the real issue is just the breathing pattern.