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i've been trying to film videos of the sound of my nose breathing and how long i hold in my breathes for a few months now, and i never can get into a good flow. i've gotten a lot of confidence with tai chi getting into hip hop dancing and rap again through out the past couple weeks.. some how i was able to film the audio and a bit of visuals of me breathing in a healthy pattern today. i really feel inclined to post this video to the internet because a lot of people like wim hof breathing and i think my style is more helpful and it might be backed up by science. wim hof is a lot of exhaling through the mouth and that's not really appropriate for being in a relaxed state. you want to breath out the nose. i test out a lot of people doing guided meditation in ASMR through you tube. listening to these people talk can be relaxing, but i don't really think most of these people know what they are doing with their guidance, it's just random talking.

i got a book the science of breath with swami rama many years back and have been practicing yoga with it's breathing recommendations for about 20 years. they recommend working up to holding in your breathes for 5 seconds. i think that's far too long ime. there might be ways to meditate and do this, but it really doesn't help me, and with my breathing i do get into psychedelic states that are like salvia or bizarre intense dreams and they can feel really euphoric more so than any drugs.. in this video, i am making noise with where i believe my nose meets the back of my throat. i first started making this noise while nodding on opiates as a teen. i decided to try this in my sober life and while stoned through out the years. it took me some time to get better at it. when i was being drugged in the hospital with heavy doses of risperdal i was left nodding out for a few days, and i'd find myself struggling and getting relief making this noise with my nose. i also get louder breathing like this when withdrawing from drugs... being injured and having malfunctions with the muscles in my back that are influenced by breathing has gotten me even better at doing this breathing and letting it relax me. i believe getting adrenaline from wim hof breathing can bring some people to a psychedelic state, but i think with practice testing this breathing method could help some people.

i'm hoping others can benefit from the time i had to spend being injured learning to breath like this.

here is my video. 6 minutes into the video is where i take the longest amount of seconds holding in my breaths. you can pick up on when i'm breathing in and out and also when i hold breaths. it's kind of hard to tell, but if you really care to pay attention, this is real shit. this whole video is just me breathing. at the start of the video there is info to when i am in different poses, not that it really matters to some one that isn't a trained professional. maybe it could help someone learn in the unconscious though. i'm going to shoot some stuff like this again better. i'm hoping to make some friends to film me when i'm in a good flow state:



here is the info in the video description on you tube:

"#tiachi #yoga #breathing in the book "the science of breath" they recommend holding breaths for 5 seconds. that never worked for me. listen in this video as it is mostly in and out breathing through the nose, while holding some breathes for 1-2 seconds. in the section where i'm standing starting at about 6 minutes, i'm holding the breathes a bit longer. notice that this is standing position and not the reclined position doing the trunk stretching. the sections are labeled if you choose to watch the whole video... notice as none of these breathes are consistent paced. i just breath as i feel the muscles in the back and according to whether or not i'm getting mild light head sensations. the goal would be to alter breathing to not become light headed. holding breathes like the book "the science of breathes" recommended will cause me to become light headed. the goal is to hold breathes with out becoming lightheaded. i find that the average breath should be about a second and a half held and even sometimes you don't even need to hold in a breath at all. you can see in the standing section of the video where i hold the breathes a bit longer though. that felt pretty appropriate. this is probably the most intense and loud breathing i do. it still relaxes the muscles. because of my injury fasciculation occurs in my back. it really relieves a lot of tension. google says that it is better to exhale through the nose than mouth when choosing to be at rest. i believe this breathing method would be more helpful to more people than wim hof. like wim hof always does, i feel that doing this breathing method can increase adrenaline when i am sober, but under the influence of weed, i find there is no adrenaline involved and it really relieves a lot of my tension.. i believe this breathing could help other people."

anyways, enough about breathing, here's some info on my stretching. try out what i think are probably good universally helpful stretches and how i compare them and you might get a bit more interested in believing there is something to my style of slightly noisy nose breathing:


i've tried a lot of yoga poses... if i were shown many poses first, i would be completely turned off by yoga or stretching. i've only picked a few poses that i chose to do, and after getting hit by a car, my options are even more limited. in this thread i will tell what benefits me as a person that was diagnosed with mild scoliosis in high school and has been injured getting hit by a car to make things even worse.

my first recommendations for stretching is the hurdler ham string stretch. i learned this from karate. i wouldn't even do this as hard as the average karate practitioner. i don't do this stretch anymore after hurting my back. pulling on your foot a bit feels great. i may've done this too hard in drug withdrawl before and enjoyed it, but i never really had a problem. a light hurdler hamstring stretch is great. google says it's perfectly okay to pull on your foot a bit in the hurdler hamstring stretch.

the cat cow stretch to bridge is something that i do even after getting hit by a car. really helps. sometimes i do this and then end up kneeling for a bit. this can be real enjoyable. be careful not to do this till your feet fall asleep. a lot of people pray that way in different cultures, so if your knees are okay, you may be able to spend a lot of time in this pose if you can figure out how to breath.

half lord of the fish pose was my favorite for a while before getting hit by a car. i can't turn that part of my back anymore with out getting headaches. maybe seek a trained instructor when learning this one cause it can be tricky to learn. if you have clunky shoes on, i think that it's not good to do this.. would definitely recommend learning this. a lot of yoga poses are not helpful to me.. i believe a lot of people have tension and the desire to turn their back. i really believe this universally is a healthy position. i'm unsure about a lot of yoga. but hey, maybe some people can't get into this one cause they aren't even inclined enough to do yoga, or on the opposite end of that a person could like more intense yoga. i feel like a lot of people could benifit from doing this though.

i'm not sure there is really a whole lot of reason to do that pretzel leg yoga pose... it's simple one. i never really felt too good about that one. i was really recommending the half lord of the fish pose. i think maybe if the average person tries these positions, they will find relief from a session of half lord of the fish pose and the hurdler ham string stretch. i really get a kick out the cat cow stretch to bridge pose, but i don't think as many people are gonna get that quit as much. it's a bit odd. i think my breathing recommendation might come off as a bit odd, but maybe if someone out their wants to experiment with what i have to say about stretching poses, maybe they will get me and want to try to get into the nose noise breathing that i'm trying to patent. hell, maybe i'm wrong and this shit is just gonna bother people if they try. i doubt any one is really even gonna get into this. i'm mostly just writing because i'm hoping the CIA knows the secrets of the universe and they are stalking me and gonna document that i'm smart and know what i'm talking about and that i'm the type of person that would try to bring this to the people... i'd also love to help people too. since i found out that the ozone layer was healing in 2016 and that cow farts aren't really going to ruin the planet and there is a chance to go on with population in great numbers, i've been feeling a lot of love. i'd totally be stoked if anyone tried this out, and benefited from it. i'm gonna post this to reddit when i clean up my you tube sometime. i'd really like to help people. i know a lot of people like wim hof. i know i'm relaxing muscles better than that would. meditation is supposed to be in a relaxed state imo. you even need to be relaxed to have best results doing intense things like hardcore metal music. google says that in a resting state it's more appropriate to exhale through the nose. wim hof is a lot of intense mouth breathing. i don't buy it. if you want to raise addrenaline, by all means do wim hof. hell, maybe it works for some people. i think the general goal of meditation is to relax though and that would be a normal thing to say.


the final stretches i'm gonna be recommending is the reclining trunk torso stretch. i like to do my laundry and leave a pile of clothes on the floor in my room. as i do the laundry i go through different days of how far i recline. on the days where there is a large stack of laundry, i like to lay back sitting mostly upright on the laundry and do the trunk torso stretch... as i use more laundry, i begin to recline more... some days i'm completely reclined and even lie on the floor. the trunk torso stretch feels great. i never really benefited from this stretch when i'd try to do it before getting hit by a car, but after getting hit by a car, this is the only relief i can get turning my back, so i get into really good breathing patterns doing it. watch in the video for how i slightly turn my head to the side with the breathing. you may feel the need to move doing this stretch if you get some good breathing. it' a relaxing need to move. just slightly turn your head to the side.... ...... . .. . . . . . . . . . . . .... also with the pile of laundry, i like to lie flat on the pile of laundry... i was recommended in physical therapy to lie flat on my stomach and try to raise my chin up as high as possible stretching my back. they made me do this in high school. i was never any good at it. i could do it for a couple seconds, and not as far as the physical therapists thought i could've.. what i like to do is lie flat on the pile of laundry, so my spine curves and stretches. don't set your laundry pile too high. in PT, they recommend to only hold the stretch for like 30 seconds. i lie flat on the pile of laundry stretching my back for like ten minutes at a time. i feel great afterward.
 
forgot to mention talking about "half lord of the fishes" pose that this version the only one i was comfortable doing

https://share.google/mTZBE0wLBtngc6oGB

this version really bothered me



anyways, like i said, i feel like most people's backs crave to be turned sometimes, and if you don't, you may benefit from it if your body will accept it.
 
Not watching the vid, its disturbing the autonomic system as much as internal Cortisol or Epinephrine. Like walking when being watched "Walk normal , ... "
forgot to mention talking about "half lord of the fishes" pose that this version the only one i was comfortable doing


this version really bothered me
Bothersome why ? doesnt look frightening doing that nightly while sleeping. Lower does have something on me Scoliosis but when still able to do shit, anything besides falling but requiring physical i am 50 + still going
anyways, like i said, i feel like most people's backs crave to be turned sometimes, and if you don't, you may benefit from it if your body will accept it.
Definitely onto something. Are you a highly flexible or not person question. Both need training appropriate
 
Not watching the vid, its disturbing the autonomic system as much as internal Cortisol or Epinephrine. Like walking when being watched "Walk normal , ... "

Bothersome why ? doesnt look frightening doing that nightly while sleeping. Lower does have something on me Scoliosis but when still able to do shit, anything besides falling but requiring physical i am 50 + still going

Definitely onto something. Are you a highly flexible or not person question. Both need training appropriate
i'm not naturally flexible at all. i was forced to do martial arts through out my childhood all the time and i was one of the least limber students by far.

i think my body had some problems growing as a child. for whatever reason, i conspire because my mother was small and i was crushed in the womb or my mother smoked cigs during that time, but i had to wear corrective shoes cause my feet were turned inward as a child preventing me from walking properly. i think having to correct that may've played some in my having a tense back. not sure if that could be a real thing.
 
wasn't sure when posting this if making nose where the nose meets the back of the throat is a real healthy technique.

i googled when i woke up today :
"Yes, making a subtle sound at the back of the throat (where the nose meets the throat) can be a very healthy and beneficial breathing technique. [1]
This practice is widely known as Ujjayi Pranayama (or "Ocean Breath") in yoga and meditation"

makes me feel great. i knew i was relaxing my back. i wasn't sure if what i was saying was an accepted thing by science. i feel great it is.







when going to sleep last night i realized that it's probably not helpful to try to make this nose breathing directly before bed IF YOU ARE REALLY READY TO SLEEP. i do get into breathing patterns with my nose when relaxed enough to sleep, but i'm not really rumbling. it's a quiet more relaxed feel.

like i said, i feel like this practice may release some adrenaline. probably a lot less than wim hof.. i mentioned that it is very helpful stoned for me... if i were to try to go bed and do this breathing technique when i'm very relaxed and ready for bed, it would probably wake me up... but if i were to GET STONED WHICH WOULD NORMALLY WAKE ME UP FOR A BIT AND PREVENT ME FROM SLEEP, if i were to do that and get into this breathing pattern for like 5 or 10 minutes, i would be able to fall asleep a lot quicker with the pot, and it would be a pretty enjoyable experience for me. often this helps me ease into sleep quicker. if i'm not ready for bed and bored and want the day to end, i will smoke a bowl, get into some heavy breathing, and within about ten minutes if i'm having luck i'll be able to sleep quicker than if i didn't smoke and breath this way. if i were to smoke and just moniter my breathing, there is a good chance i'll be up tense and not enjoying myself very much for a couple hours.

i'm only doing these breathing techniques for 5-10 minutes. i know some monks get into heavy meditations for long periods. i'm not sure if they make this noise breathing. the louder breathing usually stops after about ten minutes though. sometimes less... usually after a session breathing this way, i'm ready to snap back into reality refreshed and ready to go on with my day. sometimes i will just kind of fall asleep or go into a meditative dream if i'm tired. i'm really not sure what happens when i'm meditating. it might be a meditative state or i might just be falling asleep. it's often cool visions... if i need a break in the day though and don't want to nap, often times smoking a bowl, and just doing a bit of stretching with this breathing will refresh me greatly in like 5-15 minutes.

probably a lot of people are gonna breathe too intensely trying this, but wim hof is so intense, i don't think it's gonna be a problem if people try this. i think with body scans and continuing meditative breathing, most people are gonna get more out of it as time goes on. i mean, some monks train for life and never become enlightened, but just breathing will change the brain chemistry. not everyone needs to be the most high. maybe this will help someone get some subtle relaxation or learn a quick energy boost.
 
i go with my muse when breathing. sometimes i will do silent breathes in and out through the nose, and sometimes i will do the noisy throat breathing involving my nose. always breathing with my nose though, never my mouth, not even to exhale... after years of breathing, i know which style will help me during different situations and when i'm feeling different with my brain. young and even some old people people don't realize, sometimes you need to work through life to feel good.
 
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