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If
you breathe more than eighteen breaths a minute, you are under very heavy
stress. As you already know well, chronic heavy stress can lead to serious
health problems, even death.
When your pace is eleven breaths or slower, your pituitary gland begins to
function more efficiently. When you breathe seven breaths or less, your
pineal gland is activated. The simple, astonishing fact is that when you
breathe seven breaths a minute or less, your entire metabolism changes!
Not only do people perceive your personality differently, they also
experience you as more composed, authoritative, and vivid—because you
actually are.
The breath, which is an incredibly subtle register of all the shifts in
your thoughts and feelings, is the single most potent tool for releasing
your charisma. Recent studies confirm what everybody has always known
intuitively: when we're happy we breathe deeply and fully. Nervous or
angry people breathe shallowly, unevenly, and mostly from the upper chest.
Depressed people tend to have uneven, labored breathing.
Not only are these emotional states characterized by specific breathing
patterns, but the breathing itself can actually induce the emotions!
Chest breathing, all by itself, can produce unsteadiness of mind and
nervousness. (Any well-trained actor can produce hysterical sobs at will
within moments by breathing chaotically.)
The average adult inhales about half a quart to four or five quarts of air
on each breath. This is shallow chest breathing. Abdominal breathing can
more than double this. During strenuous exercise, a person can take in
more than 100 quarts of air. You can increase your vital energy and take
in thirty or forty quarts of air, probably ten times what you're now
getting. This produces a tremendous change in the way you feel and what
you project to others.
Increased oxygen means better heart and lung condition, better skin, more
complete digestion, and improved morale. When the lungs fill with air
from the very bottom upward, they compress, giving a gentle massage to
your heart. The diaphragm, too, by contracting and relaxing, massages the
heart, liver, and pancreas, and it improves the functioning of the spleen,
small intestine, stomach, and abdomen.
Nostril
Dominance - Effects
Nostril
Dominance - Changing
Emotion
Cooler (or
Left-Nostril Breathing)
Quick
Energy via Nostril Breathing
