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Breathing has a massive effect on the quality of the physical body and on the state of mind.
Breathing can help with pain, fear and stress; or it can literally paralyse us.
For some reason, we believe that holding the breath helps us to move. We close the throat to create inner tension to support us from the inside of the chest.
We spend more energy on using surface muscles, rather than utilise core muscles.
We use surface muscles when we engage in strenuous physical activity when we are stressed, shocked when we feel pain, and when we want to be precise…
By holding the breath we naturally tense up, we are in effect expending more energy.
By holding the breath, oxygen ceases to flow to your body! We need oxygen for the brain and muscles, especially in stressful situations.
Another usual restriction is binding breathing with movements. E.g. exhale on exertion: during push-ups exhale on the push, and inhale as you bring yourself down… Are you free to inhale on the push? Are you free to breathe in a different rhythm than the rhythm of the movement? Cutting off the link between your motion and breathing brings you a new kind of freedom.
We have a tendency to hold or restrict our breathing during some hard of specific work.
Breathing aerates your internal fire, your mitochondria in a similar way that oxygen aerates a fire.
Deep inhale to your lungs it’s like a deep blow to the fire.
Holding breath usually cause resisting the flow of kinetic energy.
Free-breathing – breathing that is not restricted and interrupted by undesirable tension makes you look younger, feel younger and live a higher quality of life!