Xisca
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I was usually doing some reduced breathing, but I did not like to do them because of the stress on the diaphragm. I do not know how to breathe slowly without having to control a lot the movement of the diaphragm, especially on the exhale, that should be relaxing. I considere that the inhale only is the muscle effort.
Very often, as the CO2 increase does relax, I could feel the relax as if I was sunking deeper into myself, and it caused a SIGH.
Sighs are not supposed to be in the Buteyko method, as far as I read about it. Sighs and yawns are deeper breathing, so not reduced at all!
BUT, they are also signs of an increase in the parasympathic side of the autonomic nervous system... So I always welcome them, and notice them consciously, when they occur. I am not in favor of controling and stopping them at all.
One day I had a lot, and decided to try a different exercise, and this is what I now often do.
It is VERY relaxing and ENJOYABLE.
I feel it as a real rest of the diaphragm.
Easy, I do ONLY sighs and yawns.
And stay relax asif doing CP, the rest of the time.
I usually breathe 3 times per minute when I do this.
So, I measure my CP, when I swallow as a reflex, I let myself breathe in, it ends up as a sigh, and sometimes as a yawn, I really let it be as it wants.
It finishes with a sort of exhale that is a real relax, I can feel that muscles are going at rest.
Then I stay in a lung-empty state, 15 seconds at the moment.
Then I have a spontaneous inbreathe and sigh, etc.
I can go on with this sort of CPs a long way, that is usually not posible. I have no hyperventilation because I breathe in fully but not fast. It is only the end of it that goes into a sigh or a yawn.
Another proof of non hyperventilating is that sighs and yawns do not happen when hyperventilating.
The other aspect is that the exhale feels as effortless.
If you have noticed, or try to ask people this question: In the breathing pattern, what is the effort, the inhale or the exhale? People answer the exhale, which is the reverse! Outbreathing is felt as an effort, and that is what I wanted to change.
Thus, the diaphragm can REST!
Very often, as the CO2 increase does relax, I could feel the relax as if I was sunking deeper into myself, and it caused a SIGH.
Sighs are not supposed to be in the Buteyko method, as far as I read about it. Sighs and yawns are deeper breathing, so not reduced at all!
BUT, they are also signs of an increase in the parasympathic side of the autonomic nervous system... So I always welcome them, and notice them consciously, when they occur. I am not in favor of controling and stopping them at all.
One day I had a lot, and decided to try a different exercise, and this is what I now often do.
It is VERY relaxing and ENJOYABLE.
I feel it as a real rest of the diaphragm.
Easy, I do ONLY sighs and yawns.
And stay relax asif doing CP, the rest of the time.
I usually breathe 3 times per minute when I do this.
So, I measure my CP, when I swallow as a reflex, I let myself breathe in, it ends up as a sigh, and sometimes as a yawn, I really let it be as it wants.
It finishes with a sort of exhale that is a real relax, I can feel that muscles are going at rest.
Then I stay in a lung-empty state, 15 seconds at the moment.
Then I have a spontaneous inbreathe and sigh, etc.
I can go on with this sort of CPs a long way, that is usually not posible. I have no hyperventilation because I breathe in fully but not fast. It is only the end of it that goes into a sigh or a yawn.
Another proof of non hyperventilating is that sighs and yawns do not happen when hyperventilating.
The other aspect is that the exhale feels as effortless.
If you have noticed, or try to ask people this question: In the breathing pattern, what is the effort, the inhale or the exhale? People answer the exhale, which is the reverse! Outbreathing is felt as an effort, and that is what I wanted to change.
Thus, the diaphragm can REST!