Breathing and breath support
The wind blows effortlessly but it takes effort for you to breathe.
Why the difference? The wind just blows: you think you have to do this and that to make yourself breathe. Your ideas get in the way.
These articles target those wrong ideas you have and help you let yourself breathe as effortlessly as the wind.
So get reading. If you don’t know where to start, email me. Tell me what’s happening for you at the moment and I’ll point you in the right direction.
Breathing and breath support articles |
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1. These two articles describe how good and bad breathing work |
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| The Science of Breathing | |
| Breathing: the Abdominal Support for the Diaphragm | |
2. Carl Stough’s priceless video x-ray of good breathingThis page in Jessica Wolfe’s website shows a video x-ray of someone breathing correctly. There’s nothing like seeing it to help you understand the correct breathing that I describe and analyse in the above two articles. You really should take a look. Click on the video at the bottom of the page. The breathing in this demonstration is, however, much too fast. Someone breathing as efficiently as this would need to take less than four breaths a minute. Continuous breathing at this speed would quickly result in hyper-ventilation (an oxygen overdose). The video was taken by Carl Stough. Carl Stough, who died in October 2000, did some excellent work on breathing. He was lucky enough to be the first person ever to use the technology of cinefluorography to see exactly what happens in breathing. He was gifted enough to put his findings to very good use. Jessica is a fellow Alexander Technique teacher who also studied breathing with Carl Stough. So far as I know, there is no other such video available anywhere, so this one is truly priceless. 3. My other breathing articles help you improve your breathing |
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| How to stop your breathing giving you a painful bad back (and you didn’t even realise it was your breathing) | |
| How to stop your Demented Mechanic giving you that bad back | |
| Don’t let your Demented Mechanic mess your breathing up | |
| The only way to breathe effortlessly (it also gives you the deepest breath) | |
| Demented Mechanic: hands off my back while I breathe out | |
| Asthma and the Alexander Technique: quick relief or lasting solution? | |
| Some more breathing articles on BackMagician.com | |
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