Breathing Practice

Alright, it's time that you start putting in the action to align the concepts i have been and will be teaching.

This practice is to put you in a good foundational space to start bring about to breathe well, inhale deeply without obstruction, clear obstructions, recognize and enhance your base rate of breath ( and by increase here's the measurement, your base rate of breath is how long one cycle of inhale and exhale takes when you're not thinking about it or forcing it) The longer you breathe, the better your base rate, which also shows how poised and in control you are of yourself. How this ties into the emotions i will further explain in another chapter.

Now onto the practice - First measure your base breath rate. breathe normally and time your breaths, multiple (3) cycles to get an average.Now stand up on your feet ( sitting down will be different) with your feet in base ( feet shoulder width apart) and relaxThen fix your posture, going down your entire chain: head upright, neck upright straight, shoulders back and down, chest upright and proud, hips securely squared to support your torso... At this point most people feel their first wall due to the void spots and imbalance in their body. This feels like a pull out a strain on your system. Which cause your feeling of being upright to feel unnatural, it feels forced. However this is wrong, it's not unnatural, it's your muscles signal that they have been out of alignment for so long that realigning will take some work. Mostly characterized by shaking or a feeling of being restrained. But don't be discouraged, take note of everything you feel in your body because this is important information.

This is how deep yet simple everything boils down to. Without a strong frame the house collapses upon itself. So not only if you slouch, or train your muscles in s certain way, you will feel how hard it is to breathe deep and the wall against which the lungs hit. From the relaxed point of which you relesed all your breath, up until the pint you hit that wall when you inhale, is your base breathe rate point, which is measured in time and relaxation. Meaning the shorter that space is, not only the more tired easily you become and recovery is less, however, since motion creates emotion, even on the physiological level, shorter breaths mean your body puts itself in a state of stress, which aligns with certain emotions, such as anxiety, fear, anger, all the emotions tied with shortness of breath, even if not a certain reality, is called to your body becuase of the limits of your breath.

Now that you've straightened up straighten your arms down to your side in their natural alignment( natural alignment is out to your side outstretched at a slight angle.) Roll your hand arm and shoulder until your palms are facing outwards straight and flat.Now straighten your hands out fully and extend as if your reaching your fingers into the ground. Focus your energies to keep this going.

Now at this point most people feel a significant burden placed on their ability to breathe and maintain this stance, if that's you, THIS IS A SIGN OF HOW DYSFUNCTIONAL AND DEGENERATED YOUR BODY IS CURRENTLY! You're sooo far away from a normal body, that being positioned in a natural way feels burdensome. That's not good. That's wasted potential. Note to annoy all the things physically you are able to do while being in this state of dysfunction, so far from being normal... Isn't the body amazing!

So since you're here now we'll continue.After you have engaged everything take notice of your chest, i want you to inhale as deeply as possible, push it to your limits, and then exhale slowly.Do this a few timesKeeping the tension as you breathe

This is one of the foundational ways i'll be guiding you on how to practically and functionally breathe. Knowing and practicing this WILL help you unlock more of that unrealized potential.