Effective exercises to help in this work. These include exercises to help us overcome breathing faults of one kind or another. exercises to promote diaphragmatic breathing, belly breathing, back breathing and so on exercises to open up the various breathing spaces of the body, and exercises for emotional well being and spiritual realization. But all such exercises are just part of a story to actually transform our breathing and bring about a lasting change. The re education exercises we do must be based on the laws and principles of natural breeding, and must be carried out in such a way the body mind can either remember these laws or learn them anew. To gain optimal benefit from these exercises.
We must learn to be conscious of their influence not just on our body, but also on our mind and emotions. Sometimes the best exercise that seems easy is not the one that would bring you the most benefit. Just as is easier to do push ups if you had been doing them every day. The patterns of muscle use resulting in taking a breath that are likely to be most comfortable are the patterns you already practice in your current breathing style. To reach your long term goal of improved breath conditioning, you need to practice all the exercises including the ones that are not so easy to master. Breathing induced altered states of consciousness are another huge aspect of certain breathing exercises.
Under the guidance of a skilled practitioner, they can be very beneficial and sometimes inconceivably powerful. I've also seen these ultra states turn into chronic zealotry or erratic, ungrounded or weird behavior, including what may in accurately be classified as psychosis as an uncontrolled Kundalini rising. You can learn more about that and Dr. Lisa nellas writings. The breathing inspiration or bringing in of spirit may also be trying to help one go beyond one's limitations or his all various emotional, homeostatic or spiritual energetic issues and in the process may also be causing toxic overload as extra breathing helps him balance the mind body spirit relationship and release the body's poisons. Breathing fundamentals program is not meant to replace exercise, but it is a general form of that. We believe many modern exercise programs are too arduous.
You can read Dr. Majid Ali's oxygen protocol for the treatment of cancer. For more on exercise excessiveness or consult Jay Michael Woods work and medical chicken To understand the possible results of what traditional Chinese medicine calls key deviations, ask nslp gasping and breath heating might adversely influence the voice. This exercise excessiveness causes or worsens many breathing issues, not the least of which is exercise induced asthma or hyperventilation. Our exercises are a starter set for some people and good breathing maintenance for others. They are also designed as an aid to energetic rebalancing to be used alongside more intense forms of activity, training or exercises and to facilitate recovery from loss of energy related to insufficient breathing or overtraining. This program in addition to our online reading, self tests can also be used as an assessment I believe that most should be able to do these exercises.
If not, that is an assessment that invites a goal to achieve better breathing. As you learn to do them or improve upon ones you could not do well before, you can be assured you're making progress. Much of this program is to be addressed as a process. Yes, we have goals and skills and things to measure, but no one skill or measurement is the all to be all. More important is the actual doing of these techniques and exercises, and the insights experiences, challenges and successes we have with and stemming from them. Started journal and day after day add insights and questions and answers that present themselves.
Use them for dialoguing about life and living with us and others. You can take 30 days or more of repetition Develop a permanent habit. Some habits require months to set in ever trying to drive a golf ball. I encourage you to watch this video at least once a month, you may want to vary the portions you do on a monthly basis. If they are benefiting greatly, it may be best to stay with them. Many learn that stopping them loses the abilities they're gained.
Learn to spend at least 30 minutes total on the series you're doing for that day. Longer is better. Because they all relate to breathe in development. Each approach in this program may have a few qualities of the other. First watch all of them in the order in which they are presented. If you need to relax, recover, first learn the strapping techniques, then go to the calming exercises.
If you need more energy, first learn the strapping techniques then fast forward to the energizing exercises. If you want better focus first on the strapping techniques, then fast forward to the focusing exercises. Do these hourly, daily and anytime you feel a need after waking and needing more sleep or rest hourly daily in the morning before you get up for the day, begin while lying and and standing. A few will prefer before bedtime or in bed or whenever fatigue sets in. Or when you just want more positive energy. Morning or hourly is best but anytime can work.
The more you practice, the more you can stay focused facing east as an Eastern tradition you may adopt if you choose Rest or walk it off to integrate the energy. move around a lot as with the other energy exercises such as optimal hemispheric integration, internal cleansing maybe in order if fatigue or confusion persists. That may be something you need to address with professional assistance such as an experienced breath worker, chiropractor, osteopath, somatic psychotherapist, nutritionist nature path, complimentary alternative medical doctor, she Gong practitioner or teacher of tai chi h1 or Tai Chi. Anywhere society will allow bad bathroom beach backyard standing in line with the market or theater facing the rising sun. You mastering all these techniques and exercises may seem daunting at first. But you would not use all the spices in your kitchen every day would you?
Over time, our program will actually reduce or eliminate the effort in these and other forms of exercise because we become more aware of our breathing and exercise around that, instead of in spite of it. I want you to become intimately familiar with your breathing. Practice the parts that feel right for you today, and proceed at your own speed. Even if it is only one exercise per day, though some will become favorites, no one technique or exercises they all reveal. The Riot is definitely the spice of life and breath is our main source of life. Think of the program variations as colors of your breathing palette.
The picture will change over time. Come back to others over time to see if they feel better or Not experiment, learn from doing they will pick up new ones and replace some others. The best ones for ease of breathing and states of calm relaxation and quiet yet sustainable energy will present themselves unless you have a severely deviated septum are practicing or to be to learn later in this program and have a cold and cannot breathe quietly. breathe through your nose as often as possible. When you make noise, you're either breathing very rapidly and too fast for the relaxation parts of this program. And or have a stuffy nose which obviously can not apply to this request.
Try a breeze right bandaid nose strip, or nasal irrigator to open your nostrils nocona congestion effective nostrils And still noisy breathing. You're probably breathing too much from your nose or head instead of your gut or breathing foundation. energy can work for that but relaxing will not. You can use the search engine for quote nose breathing quote on the breathing comm website. We need to get into the habit of regularly checking in with our breathing and body. Exactly how we feel before and after any given technique or exercise.
Otherwise, we might not be aware of our progress and be discouraged to continue. check ins are brief five to 10 second internal awareness assessments. Close your eyes. Breathe gently but deeply say to an OB windows seven or eight now Let the breath come and go. Ask yourself, how is my breathing Now, notice what you feel. Don't judge it or measure it.
Just notice it. Then immediately move on to the given exercise. Do the exercise, then check in again to reflect on any way your body and your breathing feels better or more than before. If in the beginning, you don't feel any progress, you either not trying hard enough, trying too hard, or have too much body tension to feel the progress or are improperly following our guidelines. If this happens often, please call or email us for guidance. soreness stemming from our programs is very rare.
A very small percentage of people might feel some soreness after working with the exercises or strapping techniques. Our experience tells us soreness most often stems from overtype muscles and ligaments. With repetition of the techniques and exercises, it should rapidly fade away. I believe it is better to risk a few hours or days of soreness than a lifetime of breathing restriction. Of course, if it continues, you should probably stop the program and see a health professional. Please know that if you have had a recent surgery of the back chest size or abdomen, you should use extreme caution when doing any form of exercise, especially the strapping technique.
The self strapping technique can be very powerful but Whatever your condition, you should always use them with a watchful sense of self care. The other exercises and techniques should be safe for most people, and are no more arduous than forms of gentle yoga, tai chi, classical voice training or just stretching. first priority is to show you ways to help breathing look, sound and feel optimal in simple ways you can understand and remember, our second priority is to help you develop your breathing to make it permanently larger, smoother, stronger, easier and more balanced. We have a school for advanced aspects of these techniques and exercises. Once you get fairly good with the various aspects of this program, you might be able to guide a family member through some of them. We are here to back you up when needed for a small phone consultation fee.
If you wish to work outside the family, you want to attend our school and become eligible for the advanced training this work might entail. Now, I want to invite you to learn our optimal breathing development techniques and exercises to enhance your ability to sense and feel and change your life in wonderful ways you may have never imagined possible. Squeeze in brave. First, take your thumbs and put it in a soft spot between your ribs and your pelvis. Take your fingers and wrap them around towards your belly button. Now squeeze your fingers and thumbs together, don't pinch, squeeze and then squeeze them together and then widen your fingers and thumbs against their will with the strength of your breathing.
So and then just let go your fingers and thumbs and your breathing. That's the squeeze and breathe. Hello there. I'm Dr. Danielle rose. I feel that Mike's analysis of the breathing and use of multiple techniques and exercises to help patients and clients develop a better pattern and give them the feedback to feel that pattern is exponential. helpful to their overall health.
The patients and clients receive almost immediate feedback as to what a proper deep breath should look and feel like and to begin to experience their bodies in a new, more relaxed way. As they do the breathing work long enough to be able to recognize when they fall back into poor patterns, they can make good forward progress on their healing journey. Mike has taught a man to fish rather than giving him a fish, which is significantly more healing because of the inner empowerment that occurs for the patient. Moreover, he does it in a manner that produces absolutely minimal side effects, reactions or interactions. Unlike most pharmaceuticals, I highly recommend this video to those of you who are healthcare professionals and your staffs. as practitioners you are already in the habit of taking your patients respiratory rates with vital assessments.
And this video will enable you to improve your skills exponentially knowing the basics of optimal Breathing development will enable you to quickly assess and improve your patient's breathing and thus well being, which will ultimately build trust in and compliance with your recommendations for their care. I personally had began using some yoga breathing instruction in my practice, for those whose breathing was backwards. I had long been bothered by the significant variation in patients abilities to take a deep breath on exam, but was always taught that it was due to individual variation. hindsight being 2020 I now know their breathing mechanics were out of balance, and needed some coaching to be put right. Mike's instruction has expanded my understanding so much more deeply. Also, giving me greater empowerment as a physician is my desire to help Mike find ways to get his teaching to other physicians and health practitioners.
As a first line of intervention for many chronic and stress related diagnoses. I believe medical schools should begin incorporating Mike's techniques into their Teaching of physical exams. Other allied health programs, particularly those in speech, physical and respiratory therapies, would do well to include studies and practice of Mike's work.