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Cyclic Sighing to Calm Yourself and Lower Anxiety
Want an easy way to calm yourself, and potentially remove any anxiety? Enter Cyclic Sighing. Researchers at Stanford University have found this simple breathing technique can relax you quickly as well as lowering anxiety and have you in a better mood all day! And it only takes about 5 minutes! And such powerful results for…
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Longer Exhales Than Inhales for Stress Relief and Health Benefits
Many people today enjoy breathing practices for improved health and stress relief. The breathing pattern itself matters, as does how you breathe. When you lengthen the exhale, you start engaging the parasympathetic side of the nervous system, which involves rest and digest. The more you sit in “rest and digest” mode, the more you are…
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Box Breathing for the Busy Brain
Many clients I meet have busy brains. There is so much going on up there; so much processing, so many thoughts, so many things to think about across many dimensions. Many of them know they need relief from this and are seeking help to calm their minds. Given how much has been written about mindfulness…
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Intra-Abdominal Pressure Development for Crawling
In the Original Strength forums, a user asked for my prescription of training for crawling and avoiding aching wrists. When I see symptoms like aching wrists, it is likely the result of insufficient generation of intra-abdominal pressure during crawling. The wrists (and other body parts) will start to compensate for poor stabilization, causing inevitable aches…
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Beginning to Integrate Intra-Abdominal Pressure Generation into Movement
I recorded this video and never posted it here! If you’ve been working through my drills to promote diaphragmatic breathing, you’ll want to explore this drill next. Otherwise, you may find yourself capable of breathing diaphragmatically but still find limitations when you try to move or add load and can only generate IAP when you…
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Breath Training for Intra-Abdominal Pressure from the Total Immersion Forums
I thought I’d repost this thread from the Total Immersion forums. It touches on some key points I’ve learned about IAP generation, and the context is for swimming. The full thread is entitled Reasons for the arched back and how to fix it?. User sachintha writes: In a recent underwater video I was surprised to…
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How to Train for Abdominal Breathing and Generating Intra-Abdominal Pressure
I’ve gone through the importance of abdominal breathing in Optimal Breathing: The Case for Diaphragmatic Breathing. In this post, I’ll talk about how to train for it, and then a basic method for training for using your diaphragm and abdomen breathing to generate intra-abdominal pressure (IAP), the optimal way for stabilizing your torso for movements.…
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Optimal Breathing: The Case for Diaphragmatic Breathing
What is optimal breathing? It is much more than just standing around and sucking air in and pushing it out. In my research regarding breathing, western medicine has little to offer about breathing as a solution to health problems. However, it seems that all the knowledge and research comes out of Europe and through the…
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About Nasal Breathing
I’ve finally decided to write about what I’ve learned about proper breathing. Starting here with nasal breathing, I’ve dug into the importance and ramifications of breathing via the nose: Today I plowed through some books I had on breathing mechanics and have some references. The best book i found so far is “Recognizing and Treating…
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