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The Optimal Breathing Window. 
(OBW)

To best manage it, you need to be able to measure it.

Stop right now and, fighting for EVERY BIT OF BREATH YOU CAN,
while you feel the strain, breathe in as deeply as you possibly can.
Even let your eyes get very wide open,  your shoulders raised and
your neck muscles bulged out. THEN
Exhale letting the breath go.

Call that uppermost in breath a 10. (The uppermost deepest breathing
included in Total Lung Capacity TLC)

Now take a deep breath but stop when it gets full, but not
strained……………….. (
demo included in the new 176 video to be published
Feb-March 2010 and taught at the speech clinics.) Then breathe naturally.
Science does not have a description for this one but I call it the Optimal Breathing Window or OBW.

Call that comfortable uppermost in-breath an 8.

Now breathe into your “8” and just let the breath escape
in a relaxing exhale. So if you were to breathe out more,
you would have to force it. Then breathe naturally. Call that point a 3.

Now breathe in to an 8, and let the breath go to 3, then immediately exhale,
forcing the breath out with your belly muscles like blowing out the candles
on a birthday cake to as close as you can to no breath left at all. Feel the
strain and tension in your body from 3-0. Breathe naturally.

Try that again. In to 8 ……then relaxed out to 3, then forced out to 0.  
Breathe naturally. 3-0 = Expiratory reserve volume  ERV

Call that uncomfortable lower-most out-breath a 0. 0=Maximum expiration
(10 to minus 2 = TLC Total lung capacity).

SHALLOW and EFFORTED BREATHING

To clarify, many do not breathe very deeply, so they mostly breathe in to
say 4 or 5  (or overcompensate to 10 inviting accumulating tension,
restriction and eventual shallow breathing).

Then they use or "spend" 3, 4, 5, or more of the air while speaking or singing,
and end up at 0-2.9, in other words, below 3, the point where tension begins.

This causes a great deal of restriction in the same area as does the abdominal startle response.  Then one is so out of breath, they pull in or gasp the air,
causing friction and further tension. The cycle keeps repeating and worsening
with every sentence.
 
So when I say breathe during practice between the window of 3 and 8 or
3.5 & 7 as a softer form, you breathe to 7 or 8 and never strain on the inhale,
then make sure that when you speak you do not go past 3.5 on the exhale. 
In this way you begin to develop a habit of staying mostly between 4-7 or 8.

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The breathing improvement techniques, practices and products outlined in this publication are extremely gentle, and should, if carried out as described, be beneficial
to your overall physical and psychological health. If you have any serious medical or psychological problem, however, such as heart disease, high blood pressure,
cancer, mental illness, or recent abdominal or chest surgery, you should consult your health professional before undertaking these practices.

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