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louiseds
January 25, 2012 - 9:05am
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Buteyko breathing
Hi Octaviel
I am so glad you are finding deep abdominal breathing helpful for panic attacks. It is great to have tools you can pull out when you need them. Deep abdominal breathing means you are not pulling up your shoulders, so you can keep your shoulders and neck relaxed. It is harder to panic when you have relaxed shoulders.
Yes, Buteyko breathing sounds contradictory but it is not. The breathing is very deep, but you don't exhale completely. When your lungs are still haalf-full of air you can't breathe in as deeply. There isn't the lung room, but there is room for your belly to expand. It *is* shallow breathing, but with your lungs half inflated. You can keep your lungs half-inflated quite easily with training. It is easy when your chest is lifted in WW posture. It is also harder to empty your lungs completely in WW posture because you need to lower your ribcage into a slouch to do it.
You can learn to breathe less times in a minute. You can learn to breathe very little air in each inspiration. You also need to learn to only breathe in through your nose.
Nose breathing, less volume, less times per minute, minimises the germs, dust, and cold, dry air that goes down your throat and into our lungs. Your nasal passages are convoluted to catch all the irritants in the air and to warm, and possibly moisten the air before it hits your lungs. This is precisely why your nasal passages are twisty and turny.
If I am taking in less oxygen, why don't I pass out? Because I am taking in way too much for my body to use when I breathe deeply and more often. The body needs residual Carbon dioxide in your lungs. CO2 is used by the body to help get the oxygen into the tissues. If you keep breathing deeply and exhaling completely there is little CO2 left in your lungs.
II am just a person who has learned it. I am not a teacher. You really need to learn from a teacher. Apart from anything some of the symptoms of not doing it properly can be very unpleasant and you need a teacher to monitor you while you learn.
Is that clearer?
Louise
octaviel
January 26, 2012 - 7:56am
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Thank you Louise
Many thanks for explaining all this Louise. You are a star! I am investigating getting a course of lessons. It all seems to make a lot of sense.
vizslamadness
January 26, 2012 - 11:00pm
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Buteyko
Buteyko Breathing is a type of breath retraining. Dr. Buteyko believed that hyperventilation was at the root of a lot of disease. The volume of air that is breathed by asthmatics is 3 times that of a normal rate. To achieve a normal volume of air he created breathing exercises to slowly change the volume and increase the level of carbon dioxide which, in turn, helped release more oxygen into the tissues. Six double blind, randomized studies have been done on the Buteyko Breathing Method with good results in the area of asthma. This method increases the efficiency of oxygen in the body so it affects all systems in the body. A good book is "The Carbon Dioxide Syndrome" by Jennifer and Russell Stark. For a qualified teacher in the Buteyko Method go to www.buteykoeducators.org. Proper breathing has an effect on everything.
louiseds
January 26, 2012 - 11:12pm
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buteyko
Welcome, Vizslamadness
Well put.
Louise
cleo
January 27, 2012 - 10:25am
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Acceptance Of Your Symtoms octaviel
Hi octaviel,I had miserable post natal depression when i was young after having my first baby.I have bought several books on how to conquer your nerves.One very good book i have is called Self Help For Your Nerves by an Australian doctor named Claire Weekes.She is very good and helped me.She is simple in her approach and says just face your nerves,accept them and float,which means keep all negative thoughts out of your mind and let yourself go because you can let the worst happen with nerves and nothing really gets any worse.Face, Accept, and Float is what she writes.I used to breathe into a paper bag for awhile cupped around my mouth so i didn't get the overbreathing which can lead to a tingling feeling in your body and other symtoms.