Similarly, what your diaphragm function looks like on the outside, clasp your fingers and put your thumbs resting on the bottom part of your breastbone. ozai process. Do this with me. When you breathe in, the diaphragm flattens and goes downward. When you exhale, it relaxes and rises up into the ribs and its natural dome shape. When you breathe in, the diaphragm flattens and goes downward.
Exhale, and it relaxes and rises up into the ribs in his natural resting dome shape position. We often hear take a breath, take a deep breath. This gives many a sense of relief or calm however it is not always breathing deeply When repeated often enough, it can actually be harmful or exacerbate existing, undetected, unbalanced dysfunctional breathing. This unbalanced deeper breathing can cause accessory or supportive muscles to engage in appropriately. They should not be doing anything but be supportive, similar to how the shaft of an elevator should guide the elevator, but not cause it to go up and down. One marker for optimal breathing is the best possible depth and balance combined in any action in any moment in time.
Ever take a hot bath after being exhausted from a long stressful day. Remember the sound you make as you sink into the incredibly relaxing, perfectly warmed or hot water. When you inhale, you create a slight tension in the diaphragm with the release of this tension via the hot or warm water, a clear strong sound should then be reproducible with hardly any effort. Breathe in an exhale, making a gentle, effortless, relaxed, um sound. do that now. I'm good.
So you exhale by releasing the tension as the diaphragm rises. This allows an effortless resting inhale to occur. It should all be pretty smooth and easy. And it is not but that will be one of the goals in this video. If we want to exert extra force in or out this effortless This changes to tension. Enough of this excessive tension caused by say yelling, screaming or holding your breath too long unbalances the breathing and it continued often enough, will invite distorted breathing and possibly organ systems dysfunction.
For most of our purposes in this program, we are addressing the stronger, easier, effortless aspects of inhales and exhales. conditioning and extra power are important, but our focus is on volume is relaxation and the achievement of certain optimal breathing skills. Studies and our own websites statistics show that improvement in some of these skills are correlated with significant to 100% reductions in many diagnosed illnesses.