Health Q and A
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Breaths Per Minute
- Why is 10 Good? It isn't.
Religions and Breathing
Can I
learn to breathe optimally on the net?
Vipassna
Bronchial Asthma - Can't Walk and Talk
Chest Size
Bronchitis
Can Deteriorate to Pulmonary Fibrosis
Tremors and Breathing
Asthma - Right Side Only
Bronchial Asthma - Can't Walk and Talk
Can you help me?
The Doctors have diagnosed me with Bronchial Asthma. I am on inhalants
and other medications for asthma.
When I am NOT talking, I feel fantastic! As soon as I start to talk, I become drained of energy and when I talk I have to PUSH every word out of my mouth. I literally could cry and have cried after hanging up the telephone because I am exhausted and it feels like my nerves are stretched to the hilt.
I can run on the treadmill and feel fine, but if I am walking and talking to someone, I become very short of breath and have to practically gasp for breath to talk.
When I talk in normal conversation, i.e., just sitting around, if I take in a lung full of air, I can talk okay in short spurts. BUT, once I use up my lung of air, I have to pause take another lung of air and continue to talk.
In my business I talk a lot! And it is affecting by business. I do not say everything I want to say to my client, because I don't have the energy to do so. And I definitely try to avoid being asked to do any type of public speaking, because I definitely would have to refuse to do any public speaking because there is no way I could speak continuously without becoming breathless.
My pulmonologist said he did not know what I meant when I said I could not walk and talk at the same time! So he has not helped me at all!!!
Can you help me?
From Mike:
The last person that could not walk and talk did so after 2 private sessions with me. Another with asthma used her inhaler 8 times the day of our first session and after that no times in the next three months.
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Dear Breathing.com:
I have heard that breathing exercises such as slowly in and out for 4
counts each way and holding in between for 10 counts will gradually
increase ones chest size. I believe the term is a "barrel chest". I am
just wondering about the mechanics of this. How effective is this and how
exactly does it work and can be maximized? Would this be worthwhile for
someone with a flat chest? Thank you for your time and expertise.
Dear Chris: Breath holding is not a good idea. One can increase chest size but it must be done with care not to create a large stiff "barrel shaped high-chest lest the lungs be restricted in their contraction, the diaphragm in its excursion (rise) and the heart and organs not massaged enough by the reduced rise and fall of the maximal excursion of the diaphragm. The chest must be certain shape that we teach in our primary self help program and school. More like a pear hanging downward with variations. The self help program will greatly add to chest size without breath holding. Recommended Program
Bronchitis Can Deteriorate to Pulmonary Fibrosis
Question: My Mom has been treated by an HMO for 5 years for "bronchitis" After finally doing some simple tests, she has now been diagnosed with "pulmonary fibrosis" and given 40 MG Prednisone tablets and put on oxygen!
The prednisone was awful on her and an apparent allergic reaction to the dye for a test almost killed her.
In 1948, Mom was 17 and diagnosed with pneumonias. (I was born in 1951)and her father had arranged for her funeral and had even ordered the flowers! Some angel back then recognized the virus as being something she contracted from one of her friends who had been in the service in the Philippines. They sent to the Philippines for a vaccine which, seemingly miraculously, saved her life at the last moment. (Most pleasantly for me and my siblings!)
Now she is off the prednisome and we need another angel!
Do you know what this vitus and/or vaccine could be? Some say the microchrondia would still be there. (I'm a layman, obviously!) is that possible? What treatments would you recommend? Would Microhydrin and MMX help her breathe? What about systemic enzyme therapy? Bromelain?
I'm going to use information from your site to try to help. (Please help us any way you can! (Feel free to edit this letter for your site if needed)
Thank you! Charles & Mary H
From Mike:
It is interesting to see the progression from bronchitis to fibrosis. This is logical. Had the medical people used natural means initially she may well not have gotten worse and recovered. I suspect that in this example PF is an extreme of bronchitis. So my question is then can pulmonary fibrosis be reversed to bronchitis that we already know can then often be eliminated, without drugs.
You seem to be looking for a magic bullet (an alternative expression for some ONE thing that will make THE difference). I would address the problem on every level possible; holistically. Including coming to Charlotte. http://www.breathing.com/no-more-bronchitis.htm. Good luck. She is lucky to have such caring children.
Tremors and Breathing
From Mike:
I worked on a woman today that had tremors much the same as I evidenced
Katherine Hepburn doing during talk show interviews.
This woman's breathing was horribly uncoordinated. She met me with defeated posture and downward gaze. She had very little sense of what it should feel like and how it should function. 30 minutes later she left me feeling "very good". Color came back into her face. She seemed to shake a little less.
There are very specific, safe and painless techniques even a relative or close friend can be trained to do for a loved one. Recommended Program
One more question I didn't think to ask as am so used to living
with it.
One of my lungs doesn't seem to "work right". I think there are
distortions to that side, to the muscles and the bones, possibly
from the birth process but at least from infancy. That side
can't expand as much, and I get 'asthma' on only that side.
I've never gotten any doctor or chiropractor to figure it out,
or actually even acknowledge it.
Any thoughts?
From Mike:
Asthma has a lot to do with physical breathing restrictions as well as
autonomic nervous system energetic imbalance.
The diaphragm shrinks irregularly up and down like a one half football
(curved portion upward) turning from a half of a plum to a wrinkled prune
with shrink lines up and down from top to bottom like a pin striped suit. As
it shrinks it is reduced in height, irregularly like from a football's oval
to the skyline of several hills. The more it shrinks the more it puts stress
on the entire nervous system.
I suspect that the shrink pattern has something to do with trauma to the
excessively shrunken area. When the body gets traumatized it gets stiff. For
example, being tackled with a helmet in the kidney area in football or
falling out of a crib or down stairs creates stiffness in the muscles and
connective tissues surrounding the immediate area of impact as well as
perhaps hundreds of other muscles and tendons. Optimal breathing
coordination is hindered. And if the stiffness is not softened by proper
exercise or bodywork or whatever, then the body, in that area, will become
more dense and less supple and tend to not expand or contract as well as it
could. Children can even grow up with that bias and the traumatized area and
imbalance gets larger and more significant as they grow older and larger.
This throws the entire breathing balance into a more or less erratic
function and if the imbalance is chest dominant then asthma, which is
primarily a high chest breathing dominant malady, may appear.
See if the below page gives you more insight on this.
http://www.breathing.com/articles/diaphragm-development.htm
I cover it more clearly in a new
video-manual combo.
If you have the manual you will understand it even more.
Another option for you is to have a phone consultation with me.
Breaths Per Minute - Why is 10 Good? It isn't.
Mike:
Question
regarding the http://www.breathing.com/tests.htm
T.S.
From Mike:
These "normal" people worry me.
Our tests statistics show a
strong correlation with lowered reported illness and slower breath rate. Essentially the
traditional medical field focuses on illness. The complementary/alternative
holistic field
on health.
Cross
sectional studies include undiagnosed sick people. Sick from the standpoint
of the "norm" being much too far from real healthy or
"normal". For
example, the class average including 5 morons in a group of 5 geniuses is bound to lower the
learning expectation.
Including those
with non optimal health in a given group to establish clinical norms will
lower the expectation of acceptable health quality and allow for increased
undetected poor health to worsen because no one sees the need to take
action. Too-wide parameters
instead of narrower ones in a blood test is another example.
btw, there is
ample evidence that athletics is good to a point but harmful after that.
Where is that point? The
wider the so called norms are the sooner the athlete develops signs of
trouble that are overlooked by contemporary assessments.
Lots of sports/exercise induced asthma and heart attacks these days.
If the parameters were tighter they would be dissuaded or better
counseled against the activity that is worsening or causing the problem.
I view
a 20 breath rate meaning that the person’s
nervous system is constantly stressed and will need constant medical attention of
some sort. Like running a car engine at 5,000 RPM while at a stop
sign or in the garage.
We shoot for 5 breaths per minute. Recommended program. mike
Religions and Breathing
Mike:
Why is it more spiritual leaders don't emphasize the breath? I can't even visualize going on without this work. I realize the Tao &
QiGong ad yoga people talk about it but many western people who turn to teaching just ignore it. I can only surmise that it's just not in their experience and therefore not important. It's almost as if they see the
stressed out radical ups & downs as somehow valuable to the seeker as a 'lesson' of some sort or as a way of encouraging one to abandon the ego because of the painfulness of it all. I find this a potentially dangerous approach and now that I'm working on my breathing I will never take that road again.
From Mike: Many religions have breathing in the form of chanting, chorals, singing, toning, as an integral part of their activities. Some do not. I suspect that less emphasis is on the breathing and more on the thinking because the thinking supports the way of being and doing that support the specific religion; Paradigm, dogmas etc. I have not experienced any successful religions that do not have some sort of extra-breathing included. I find breathing for a purpose more often in the "spiritual" world but as you say, not nearly enough. Bottom line is that if we just learn to breathe better we can bypass spiritual concepts we are not in agreement with and get much of the same benefits.
Can
I learn to breathe optimally on the net?
Learn on line? Not hardly. Perhaps to get interested enough to
take proper action. Too many factors to address properly. Timing,
repetition, inner sensing, visualizing etc. Like chocolate, breathing must
experienced to know and understand it.
Most any way one changes their breathing
that feels better or relaxes will be beneficial, for a while.
But only for a while. I am always concerned that if people tried one or two
things and got, none, mediocre or even sometimes beneficial results
they would think that the breath is not all that important.
Sleeping, breathing, food, exercise, attitude, ergonomics are ALL equally
important. Don't shirk on ANY of them.
That is why I do not allow people to dabble with what I deem as quick-fix
stuff on the net. My approach is a systems approach. Holistic and
systematic.
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mike
From Phillip;
In vipassna you just watch the breath and bodily
sensation without trying to alter or judge
looking at all with non attachment.
It is hard to really compare to your work.. although maybe to say that
"when one is really able to watch the breath,
one notices that the breath self
regulates... when we let go into just what is, without attachment and
surrender to that... then the truth is able to move through us
without
inhibition, whether that means better breathing, better digestion to
ultimately deep peace with all of life, we can see the beauty in
everything."
Going to order new Better Breathing Exercise #2 from the website .. I gave mine away.
I have missed practicing and feel drawn to practice again.
Phil M.
From Mike:
Very nicely put. Sounds friendly and familiar.
Lately I've been using a combination of computer and digitally based
breathing training devices as carbon dioxide and oxygen
measuring tools that also function in a biofeedback way. I have seen
that many do not breathe right even when they appear to the visual look, sound
and feel, to do so.
I had long ago learned that many people can not just watch the breath
independently of influencing it. There are distorted "physical", "mentally driven" and or "biochemically altered", breathing patterns
that have been almost "set in cement" that alter the "natural eb and
flow of optimal natural breathing" in all phases of mechanical
breathing, gas exchange, and intercellular chemistry.
Some of this breathing pattern disorder relates directly to carbon
dioxide and uptake/distribution of adequate oxygen. It also influences
intake of cosmic and chi forces and emotional experience(s). This UDB
or Unbalanced Deep Breathing breathing must be addressed to
ensure the balance, ease and flow of ALL other mental and biochemical
activities. Back to the autonomic nervous system again.
I have created several training methods that use these insights to help
train the person into a more optimal breathing pattern. This is making a
HUGE difference in the way they see, feel and react to their world.
Problems with anger, fatigue, seizures, palpitations, somatics, mental
clarity and focus and a host of others are reduced or eliminated. Very
quickly, by comparison, to anything I have ever experienced, including
Vipassna.
So I strongly suspect this new use of technology will be an aid to those having any difficulty with vipassna.
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