The short answer is probably. The long answer is here.
If you eat meat or drink milk or consume any dairy products then you should read this page.
The video about half-way down grossed me out and made me wonder about eating undercooked food ever again. I'm sure I will though because I love me some sushi.
Anyways, if you are interested in cleansing yourself in a more thorough manner than proper breathing then I cannot recommend this program enough.
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Saturday, September 27, 2008
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.
Monday, September 22, 2008
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.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
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.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
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.
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