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Longevity Breathing Navigation

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Fundamental Basics 

Abdominal Breathing *

Side Breathing *

Lower Back & Kidneys Breathing *

Lungs, Upper & Whole Back Breathing *

Finishing Summary & Final Audio *

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ABDOMINAL

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OVERVIEW

Movement of the Diaphragm

  • The diaphragm is one of the most important parts of your breathing.

  • It borders the bottom of your chest, where the start of your lower ribs are.

  • It's downward action causes the lungs to fill with air (when you breath in, the diaphragm lowers towards your abdomen)

  • It's upward action pushes air out of the lungs (when you breath in, the diaphragm lifts up towards your lungs).

  • If the diaphragm does not move, breathing is always compromised.

  • From your diaphragm, you have a number of anatomical connections that go all the way up to your head and all the way down to your pelvis.

  • When you optimally have a larger movement in your diaphragm, these connections move more.

  • When you only have a minimal amount of movement in your diaphragm, these connections move less and the natural way in which your body maintains an internal elasticity is diminished.

  • So the more your diaphragm moves, the more mobility your internal organs have, which is a good thing.

  • The less you move your diaphragm, the less benefit for your internal organs.

  • Getting your diaphragm to move in a very strong way, is very important because it institutes a rhythm, between your diaphragm and your internal organs that can go on 24 hours a day.

  • This ensures that this rhythm continues, even while you are asleep.

  • Once you get the movement of your diaphragm, to completely co-ordinate with the moving of the internal organs inside your abdomen, it will create a wave-like action, a sense of fluid movement, that will move through your internal organs.

  • This causes a pressure that will go directly to your heart and massage it.

Mechanical Effect on Lungs

  • Your lungs are a bag and there are three possibilities of movement.

    • The back stays still and the front moves.

    • The front stays still and the back moves (i.e. lungs expands backwards). This causes pressure coming onto the heart from the back and down from the top.

    • From the center, the back and front move together. This moving together defuses the pressure from the lungs hitting the heart. Think of it as going around the heart, rather than into the heart.

  • The best pressure for the heart, which also massages it, comes from the diaphragm. Ideally you want to use your diaphragm in a very strong fashion so that it creates this wave-like action with the fluids in your abdomen, which rises up and causes pressure onto your heart and thereby massages it.

AUDIO EXERCISE

After reading through the above overview, try the audio exercise below...

Breath AbdominalNatalie
00:00 / 15:55

Diaphragm

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Fingers & Palms

Covering diaphragm & abdomen

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