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Old 10-22-2005, 05:44 AM   #18
Mark Jakabcsin
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Re: Ki Breathing

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Miha Sinkovec wrote:
If I may share this with you all...

What I mean to say is that breathing has a much profounder effect than just relaxing your body and oxygenating your blood. That's just where it starts and if you allow it, the process continues to "open you up", make you softer and stronger at the same time.
Yes. Breathing is one of the few physical activities that can be accomplished by either the conscious or the sub-conscious. Breathing can be affected by one's physical state (when tired we breath fast and heavy), mental state (we can mentally control our breath rate) or emotional state (fear often makes us stop breathing). These are just one example for each state, there are many, the point is breathing IS a link between all three states of our being. Hence a change in breathing affects all three states. The power of breathing ultimately lies in understanding this relationship and how to use it to one's advantage and improvement. Enjoy.

Mark J.
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