Dysfunctional Diaphragm

One thing to note is that for some, the diaphragm is dysfunctional, in which case one should focus on slow inhalation and exhalation (through the nose and pursed lips).

During stress and anger, we tend to inhale and hold our breath. The most significant, therapeutic aspect of this breathing is the exhalation---which is at least two times the length of the inhalation. The exhalation alerts the body that it can relax and resume essential body functions and not remain in a state of fight or flight.

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Proper Breathing

There are many schools of thought on proper breathing. Volumes have been written about it, and many tie deep breathing with spiritual practice, yoga for example. I would encourage you study further into proper breathing, but for now I'll give you a simple technique that I use:

• Think of the front of your torso, from the top of your lungs to the bottom of your stomach as one empty chamber
• Make sure your back is straight and your shoulders are relaxed
• You're going to breath in through your nose and exhale through your mouth
• As you take a breath feel it start to fill the very bottom of your stomach. You should notice your stomach expand as you so this. As you continue taking the breath and your stomach has filled with air start filling your lungs with air, from the bottom all the way to the top of the lungs.
• When you have filled your entire stomach and lungs with air you can hold the breath for a second then slowly release the breath through your mouth.

As you do this for the first time it's going to fell unnatural because you're working and expanding parts of your lungs that have been dormant for so long. But you will notice a big difference in the way you feel by practicing deep breathing.

Breathing, Attitude, and Posture

What ever is your posture at any given moment in time, you can bet it is influencing your breathing and attitude. It is often easy to spot someone with a distorted or negative attitude by their slumped shouldered, bent over, weak kneed hang dog posture. Posture often shapes and forms attitude. Attitude can help create good or bad posture.

Exhalation is Extra Important

In the act of respiration, Westerners give precedence to the in-drawing of the breath. Yoga, on the other hand, maintains that all good respiration begins with a slow and complete exhalation, and that this perfect exhalation is an absolute prerequisite of correct and complete inhalation, for the very simple reason that, until a receptacle is emptied, it cannot be filled. Unless we first breathe out fully it is impossible to breathe in correctly.

Abdominal Breathing = Effective Breathing

Deep and effective breathing reaches all the way down to the abdomen. The abdomen expands forward, to the sides and also towards the spine. The breathing movement can be felt all the way down towards the pelvic area and up towards the top of the lungs. Abdominal breathing has a calming and relaxing effect as we take fewer and but more effective breaths. We absorb more oxygen and release more waste products with each breath. As an added bonus we also add more life energy, Qi, to our system by using abdominal breathing.

Lung Cancer Kills!!

This is straight from the CDC...

More people die from lung cancer than any other type of cancer. This is true for both men and women. In 2004 (the most recent year for which statistics are currently available), lung cancer accounted for more deaths than breast cancer, prostate cancer, and colon cancer combined.† In that year,

108,355 men and 87,897 women were diagnosed with lung cancer

89,575 men and 68,431 women died from lung cancer

Among men in the United States, lung cancer is the second most common cancer among white, black, Asian/Pacific Islander, and American Indian/Alaska Native men, and the third most common cancer among Hispanic men. Among women in the United States, lung cancer is the second most common cancer among white and American Indian/Alaska Native women, and the third most common cancer among black, Asian/Pacific Islander, and Hispanic women.

Increase in Oxygen Helped Mammals Dominate

This is straight from the news...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mammals, once tiny creatures scampering on the forest floor, grew larger as the amount of oxygen in the air increased over millions of years, a new study says.
Today mammals, ranging from dogs and cats to elephants, dolphins and people, dominate the planet.

It's a success story Paul G. Falkowski of Rutgers University and colleagues say was helped by the more than doubling of oxygen in the air over the last 205 million years. Their findings are published in Friday's issue of the journal Science.

The researchers measured samples of material deposited on the seafloor going back millions of years. By measuring the amount of carbon-13 in the samples they were able to estimate the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere at a particular time.

They found that the air contained only about 10 percent oxygen at the time of the dinosaurs.

By 50 million years ago the oxygen level had risen to 17 percent and it was 23 percent 40 million years ago, they reported. Currently the air contains about 21 percent oxygen.

The rise of oxygen "almost certainly contributed to evolution of large animals,'' the researchers reported. The oxygen needs of mammals and birds are three to six times as high as reptiles.

The impact of an asteroid or meteorite about 65 million years ago is thought to have contributed to the demise of the dinosaurs. Their elimination also created an opportunity for the rise of mammals.

There was an increase in small and medium-sized mammals in the first few million years after the end of the dinosaurs, the researchers reported. A second surge, from medium to large sizes, was seen between 50 million and 40 million years ago, they reported.

The research was funded by the National Science Foundation.

Would You Like to Live Longer

Studies show that there is a strong relationship between better breathing, fullness of life and longevity. In a study by a thoracic surgeon and psychologist Phil Neurenberger, all 152 heart attack victims had a serious breathing irregularity. Breathing in a less than optimal way can result in shortening of life span and or illness ranging from chronic nervousness to a slowly agonizing death.

The less oxygen you take in the harder your heart has to work to gather oxygen for the body. When breathing becomes easier, the heart does not have to work as hard. When you try to breathe too quickly, as in a race or when you are frightened, you excite the nervous system and this excitation locks up the expansion potential of the muscles holding the rib cage together. This reduces the ability for the chest to easily expand and the lungs to take in extra oxygen easily.

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