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Old 06-01-2005, 05:44 PM   #7
Pauliina Lievonen
 
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Re: Breathing out

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Stefan Stenudd wrote:
There's a bundle of very good advice above, so I just want to mention a simple breathing technique for people out of breath:

Focus on breathing out, don't worry about breathing in.

Usually when people speed up their brathing, because of a sense of lack of air, they don't empty their lungs with each exhalation, but just make short breaths at the "top" of their lungs. When you feel a loss for air, you tend to refrain from breathing out properly. The result is that you just don't get enough fresh air in.

If you focus on breathing out, pushing the air out of the lungs, you body will itself take care of the breathing in, and you will get a lot of fresh air this way.
This is a particularly good technique to use when you are tense or nervous, for example in a grading or a demonstration.
Hear, hear! I quoted the whole post because you should read it again.

Personally I always start breathing excercises with an outbreath, for example.

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