Traditional Chinese Medicine or TCM, connects the pair with the lungs as being energetically synergistic. Think pair as in parasympathetic or the common alkalizing portion of your autonomic nervous system. Imagine a stem of the pair hanging downward from near the middle of your breastbone, and the bottom of the pair descending all the way down and resting on the bottom of your pelvis like this. Think of the lung diaphragm relationship as that pair. an optimal quiet inhalation should consist of 70% expansion of the lower torso pair and perhaps 10 to 15% in the relaxed, quiet breathing, unexpanded chest area. The inhale then moves seamlessly upward in a way Like motion to engage the full expansion of the ribs and chest, or as you see here to create a cone about 30% of the total volume of both pair and calm together.

Watch this animated breathing pattern and imagine the 7030 ratio as you do The bottom of the pair needs to be able to get and stay large and strong enough to support the increasing draw and exertion of the diaphragm and the expansion of the lungs of rib cage. The ribs must expand to allow the filling of the lungs. The combination of the pair and cone above, allow the breathing to occur as one smooth continuous wave like motion again The pair plus the cone equals the way we develop breathing as a balance between support in the foundation and properly sequence then balance rise and fall, the diaphragm and expansion of the lungs and ribcage. all working together in synchronicity and including the voice, hundreds of muscles and thousands of nerves in unison. It's easy when you learn it correctly. A relaxed balanced breath is like the general wave of a sea like the Mediterranean or one of the great lakes in the USA, or in a bay.

Not a crashing surfer waves, rather a gentle surge into shore up over the sand a bit, then receding back to its debts. breathing pattern that follows maybe too fast or too slow for you, but try breathing with it anyway. How does it make you feel energized, calm, anxious is just a beginning introduction, like a friendly handshake and eye contact, leading to a deeper relationship with you and your breathing, and many other incredible possibilities. Rest a hand on your belly watching the animation, breathe through your nostrils into your belly. Notice the feel of a slowly rising wave as it raises the belly first than the belly and chest simultaneously. Then lastly, raises the chest as the ribs expand.

See it fill the space under the neck Then it all backs away at the same time and pauses, then repeats. Hopefully, your belly always stays relaxed, but if not, we will address that later. Follow the animation for this feel of rise, fall and paws. Another way of saying the pear cone is to think of your breathing mechanics as an office building, one with 10 storeys above ground for volume and 20 storeys below ground for lower level storage expansion and foundational structure, including bed rocker concrete flotation. This support is as critical to breathing voice function and parasympathetic strength as a solid foundation is to the stability of an engineered structure. Think of the differences between sand and rock Recall the biblical suggestion to build your house on a rock.

See how a building built on sand or loose ground shakes apart when an earthquake or severe storm occurs? I think the worst villain against your breathing window is the startle response. There are several aspects of a human startle response including blinking the eyes forward head movement, drying the shoulders forward and stiffening or over bending at the knees. But the one that mostly impedes healthy breathing is the tightening of the abdominal muscles and where the diaphragm connects to the bottom of the sternum. This causes chronic tension throughout the rest of the body and it inhibits breathing. This tension increases our nervous system survival response.

We've also constrict meaning our blood vessels we Do some diameter and our muscles tense up. lay on your back and place your hands on your belly. Now raise your head very quickly as if a gunshot just occurred. Make sure you raise your head quickly. Notice how your belly muscles tightened. Pause the video and try this a few times.

This sit up crunch type of action is a classic and pretty much generic muscle action of a major form of chronic stress response only. You do not need to do a sit up to make it happen. Some stresses are beneficial but other forms are harmful either by intensity or excessive repetition can sell you call them distresses Repeated often enough, they become more damaging to breathing and nervous system function. Those distresses cause muscles to remain inappropriately tense, as well as shape postures that invite worsening tensions and restrictions in doing and being. As children and adults we do this enough times in this area habitually stays tight. Another huge impediment to optimal breathing as it relates to calming relaxation recovery and speaking, is not letting the belly soften when breathing in and or making sound.

Yes, abdominal tone is helpful for many physical activities, including back muscle support. But we must add to this that many health professionals too often view the abdominal muscles as being the chief expiratory muscles and work with them as such. overdeveloped or too often repeated startle response can make letting go in the belly, full body relaxation and easy voicing next to impossible. According to Alexander lowen, MD, this abdominal tension often invites various forms of neuroses trying to simple test, first cup one hand in front of your mouth, and your other hand behind your ear. Take a big breath to say an OB window seven or eight. Then move your belly in and out as much as possible while trying to make a loud but even the voice sound such as an AA, stop video and try this.

I'll demo at first Ah, Ah notice if your voice pitch changes to higher or lower. The more of the pitch or volume raises, the more your belly muscles are interfering with your breathing when you speak. How much of your breathing and voice Are you willing to sacrifice for abdominal strength? Valley attention has a few primary origins, fear reactions and slouching postures being primary ones. For example, in their formative stages, children receive hundreds of yeses and thousands of nose. verbal and physical abuse aside, those noes often save them from falling down a flight of stairs or pulling a pot of boiling water onto their heads.

But children still get startled and momentarily tense up. With enough of these startles, the belly tension pattern becomes semi permanent or a tendency develops towards over engaging during stress. This tendency often remains throughout one's entire life. Letting go of this tension can be a huge challenge. One of my favorite and tragically humorous 12 step sayings reads, quote, everything I ever let go of had claw marks all over it. And while your situation may not stem from neuroses or addiction, I encourage you to mostly head in the direction of letting go and simply allowing your breathing instead of holding on and trying to force it.

There was often a time Perforce but let's save it for when it is more serviceable such as with projecting across the room, sharing phrasing, applauding or shouting out an occasional alarm. protest. The soft belly differs from yoga or Qigong breathing. The advanced work is definitely not something one wants to experiment with until they have a good natural breathing plus a very experienced teacher with Sterling credentials. Such a person may be very hard to find. We call the primary obstruction in the breathing wave caused by stress, trauma, poor posture and possibly or self image.

The speed bump is located underneath the bottom of the breastbone or z Floyd process where the diaphragm connects to the front of the ribcage when this area is restricted, the speed bump functions like a breakpoint. Water that restricts the natural forward rise or the incoming breathing way. It often feels like a hitch or shuttering movement, as the breathing wave tries to travel upward into the mid and high chest. We often experienced this as stealing air hunger, breathlessness or our breathing feels stuck or cannot get over the hump. When we try to take a deep breath, breath is life. And this speed bump of life is literally and figuratively, a moment to moment physical and energetic bump or obstruction in the breathing waves and the pathway of our everyday breathing and living.

Because it interrupts our natural breathing wave. The speed bump gets in the way of every possible energetic and nervous system function imaginable. It shows up more when we breathe deeper, or try to breathe deeper. The speed bump inhibits a full breathing cycle and therefore increases the natural resting breathing rate. per our free breathing test statistics, a faster resting breathing rate is correlated with overtaxing the nervous system and an increased oxygen posture breathing. Or tests statistics show that faster than six breaths a minute rate is correlated with significant increase in many health challenges.

It is a little like running your car engine at 5000 RPM while standing still at a stop sign. It is because of this that I coined the words unbalanced deep breathing or udb, which stands for unbalanced dysfunctional breathing. as well and undetected dysfunctional breathing, you will learn more about udv. In this program. The speed bump is the center or hub of the solar plexus or celiac ganglia solar meeting Central. The ancients called this area the abdominal brain.

According to ancient teachings, the solar plexus controls the sympathetic nervous system, and its fight or flight responses, and is the seat of the emotional nature of man. It can be consciously manipulated by the way we develop our breathing. For example, if you studied opera singers and the intense emotions they must reproduce, you will notice their solar plexus being more developed than with non opera singers. Their belly area might look or actually be larger, but The most important largeness is the developed Solar Plexus and the diaphragm directly above the speed bump and visible in the path of the breathing wave and the mid portion of the chest is often a concave sunken area. Not the lungs where the chest caves in. The speed bump may cause the caved in portion to stay that way, instead of expanding with the deeper upper part of the end breath.

At that point, it is like trying to bring four liters of volume into a two liter bottle and or depression, anxiety or shallow breathing, or all three. If it isn't visibly sunken or concave, its energetic counterpart may take the form of a dip in one's ability to focus or function. I refer to these collectively as depression. As in a depressed chest. Think slouched posture as well. When feels depressed or less than.

The speed bump is often experienced as something getting in the way of taking a deep breath. Getting over the hump, tightness in the chest, or making breathing seem like a series of events instead of one smooth, effortless flowing motion. It can also be so subtle that you don't realize that you're breathing, personal power or full self expression has been compromised. through any combination of surgery habit, improper exercise, negative attitude or a chronic startle reflex. The breathing wave may be further restricted by overtype shoulder, abdominal or pelvic muscles which we will refer to later The speed bump gets in the way of one somatic or body sensing integration of diaphragm function and life sustaining air supply, including sometimes a sense of being split in half between top and bottom. To me, it's because of funny or multiple personality may often include at least part of a breathing component similar to this.

I have seen diagnosed manic depressives change within seconds to a deep state of calm when the speed bump is reduced by my hands on techniques that we will teach in our school. Through this self help program, we can wear down the speed bump and experience the breathing is getting Fuller, deeper, easier, smoother and more like one continuous fluid or wave like movement and interrupted state of ease and flow are what Cherokee sign language says is schwa way. There are other restrictions or obstructions to breathing in the front sides and back of the torso, pelvis and even legs. Many will be addressed throughout this program. Though this program is not a voice program per se, voice improvement is a key marker for some aspects of breathing progress. Voices simply wind passing membranes, and as your breathing develops, your voice should get relaxed, stronger, more smooth, clear and steady.

And perhaps the vibrato will appear or become more easily managed. Or speaking hinders good breathing and or breathing. hinders good speaking to make sure one has enough breath behind the sound to effect strong and clear voicing, without sounding strained or going below the OB window for to 3.5 easy exhale level. Practice various combinations of vowel sounds and consonants, songs and sentences with systematic, well spaced reminders to breathe. Use the OB window as a guide. Always stay above ob w 3.5.

While you learn to push your belly out gently to stronger when you raise the volume of your voice or wish to project your voice further. Get so your diaphragm is isolated from your belly muscles. Eventually, you may relax your belly muscles to make that louder sound but for a great while, you will need to push the belly outward. This will help offset the tendency for the belly to come Word while speaking or singing, which lessens the foundation CRR speaking and singing program for exercises and techniques that take this further. While the deepest breathing levels including more intense states of stimulation, maybe too much for kids, I know certain safe circumstances, even phenomenal self healing and personal growth results can be achieved with adults. processes such as integral breathwork spiritual breath work or transitions breath work, whole body consciousness or more intense levels of sports such as extreme skiing, bungee jumping, skydiving, horse or auto racing, moves Nat calm or even in public speaking or singing.

All require deep yet balanced breathing, mental focus and overall improved energy matters. judgement. A warning here about factors like emotions, detoxification and release of recreational and prescription drugs. These are huge issues but some I have observed that most negative emotions you can properly breathe through long enough will lose their grip on you. This is akin to taking a walk or run if you feel depressed but even the runner walk may not be enough for adequate resolution. Some psycho therapist suspect to run and quote runner's high unquote, maybe muffling or sublimating various negative emotions while allowing them to come out crooked in other parts of their life.

This is a bio energetic study in itself and not within the scope of this video. You in the area of detox I personally witnessed a man exhale The ether that he had acquired 30 years prior during a surgery, it had remained lodged in his tissues. The breath seems to want to cleanse and integrate the body, mind and spirit. But sometimes it is a little very scary as the energy does its cleansing work. When some breathe more they want to sleep. So a good pattern might be to just allow that.

Do the breathing, then take a nap. A long term internal cleanse might be in order. As you breathe more or less than usual, try to invite new ways of being instead of demand and let your intention be one of allowing instead of forcing. If you still feel out of sorts after doing any of our techniques or exercises, you might want to consider professional guidance. I would suggest a non drug approach but the final decision remains with you The third phase of this animation represents the balance of energizing and calming. Even with high levels of sympathetic activity, you will be emptying, filling and energetically balancing at optimal levels.

You will be able to withstand good levels of excitement, handle increased levels of stress and enjoy good calming influences. Without going to extremes. Your cells will be happier because of better oxygenation and detoxification. Your whole life can be easier, better and happier. Though the body has various needs of either acid or alkaline dominance depending on the organ system involved. The general tendency should be more to the alkaline side.

Slowly slowing the breathing down and making it more parasympathetic or lower. deeper smoother abdominal pelvis legs heels, thus making it more grounded should help to maintain an overall lesser acidity and therefore a better balance. But do not think you can easily maintain a healthy percentage of alkalinity with breathing alone. Your diet and water quality and quantity will play a huge part in this. The breathing is too shallow, high chest and fast, the alkaline parts of the body have a much harder time buffering the acidity to maintain alkalinity. I encourage you to learn more about acid alkaline balance on our website.

Faculty member j. Michael wood offers the following. A Harvard studies show that habituation, Once fully ingrained only took 10 micro volts of stimulus energy to activate a habit while the diversion of the stimulus Through a preferred response or new neuronal pattern, that being a more parasympathetic PNS response required 100 micro volts of stimulus energy to activate the new pattern. This equates to the willpower and repetition to make a change of the current learned pattern. As time goes by, which was approximately 10 to 12 weeks, with constant effort of changing the breathing pattern to the PNS mode, these numbers will reverse themselves and the new habit that is PNS based will only need 10 micro volts of stimulus energy to activate and the old pattern of SNS will require 90 to 100 micro volts of stimulus energy to activate. What is occurring over that period of sustained effort is similar to the electrical resistance created Any wire have small gauge versus less resistance if you put the same charge through a wire of a gauge 10 times larger.

Over time, the gauge of the neuronal pattern increases with use, while the gauge of the neuronal pattern less used, decreases and creates more resistance. This creates a default system and the ins and is reflected in our human nature that has made of our habituated patterns, good or bad. Take the way of least resistance or perhaps better thought of as ease by habituation of a parasympathetic nervous system breathing pattern, abdominal dominated, but with proper balanced chest expansion. The diaphragm can be used to promote the TNS habituation The diaphragm is the largest muscle organ connected to the ANS over which you have conscious control. Therefore, you can make the change you desire by changing the habituation of the diaphragms, action.