On the right or parasympathetic side, this might represent an almost comatose state of non reactivity. This would also be true, taken to an extreme that is to be avoided the ability of our own breathing to influence our internal nervous system and thereby all the organs and systems of the body for good or for bad. To some this looks like hyperventilation or something bad. I call this deep PNS dominant breathing hyper inhalation, as it is a good thing and more from a wellness perspective. breath is life. I do not want people to be afraid of breathing deeper or more often.

Elevated states of excitement as in sports or when someone is performing on stage for example, can be beneficial. Negative stimulation comes from things like the giving of Taking in a fear or anger, or even drugs that dumbed down the body's responses. Though it is possible to train yourself to safely do that for a while, you probably wouldn't want to externally stimulate negative bodily states by over breathing forcefully into the higher chest for very long. However, doing extra breathing in the lower extremities can help you calm down from most any stressful situation and will even help you to prepare for sports so performing as well as stimulate more of the creative alpha brainwave state. Now notice the colors in the two test tubes on the size and how they influence the color changes within the fulcrum. It's like you are pouring into the triangle, the various levels of red and blue to create various shades of purple or what one might call balance.

This represents the various amounts of input that the solar plexus and actually all the organs and nerve ganglia of the body are receiving from either the fighter flight nerves or the calming nerves. You see, it's rarely a situation of total black or white, or in this case red or blue. It's usually a mixture of the two with our preference being towards the parasympathetic. Both the sympathetic and the parasympathetic sides are working in concert with each other as they constantly adjust and attempt to keep a balance among both our exterior and interior stimulators. Be they stressful or pleasant. What are some of the internal stimulators?

Well, your overall state of health has a big influence your relative state of oxygenation and detoxification cells that are clogged with toxins and classes. We start for the right nutrients and for oxygen are very unhappy and stressed out cells indeed, they will be communicating that to you in all kinds of ways, pain, inflammation, even a vague sense of unease, anxiety or disease. Are you listening here? Dennis Lewis Eckhart Tolle and ROM das talk about staying present and the power of now are some staying present is a huge challenge as always being ahead or behind ourselves may add stress. on the good side, we can be stimulated or calmed by pleasant music, a good conversation and by positive thoughts and feelings. And as we pointed out, the breathing will influence all of this either for good or bad.

Breathing optimally will help you keep this balancing act within healthy, manageable ranges. The air left in the lungs after exhale can be too much in volume. This animation shows it for the purposes of this video. There is always a reasonable residue of air in your lungs that you want to keep on the exhale. You don't want to force out every last bit of air when you exhale that can develop tightness and restrictions and easy breathing. Neither do you want to try to fill your lungs to an absolute 100% as your shoulders and collarbones be forced to rise and neck muscles bulge out while you're straining too hard to fill your lungs.