呼吸法

なぜ呼吸法を学ぶ？

西洋の医師も東洋の医師も適切な呼吸法は健康の本質的な構成要素であると言います。残念なことに殆どの人達の呼吸法は不十分です。呼吸が浅く、息を深く吸って、止めて、しっかり行ったと思っていても、特に緊張したり緊迫したりする時には、肺はほんの一部しか使われません。

上手く呼吸することは健康にとって極めて重要です。同じ量の努力で息を止めずにリラックスし循環させながら全身で呼吸することを学ぶ意識的な方法としては、これほど劇的で生命に効果を成せるものは他にありません。全身呼吸法は、心身に停滞したエネルギーを解消・開放する能力を向上し、快適と精神の自覚を向上させるために何千年もの間行われています。

Breathing Techniques: Taoist vs. Pranayama Systems

Eastern medical systems have brought two major breathing systems to the West: one is pranayama or yogic breathing and the other is Taoist breathing. These systems have many similarities, including:

• Breathing techniques to make conscious contact with your chi (qi) or prana.
• The aim of lengthening inhales/exhales.
• Proper body alignments while breathing.
• Breathing for longevity and to counter aging.
• Breathing to create physical, energteic, emotional, mental and psychic power.

However, they also have fundamental differences. Unlike pranayama, Taoist breathing emphasizes kidney breathing and lower/upper back breathing. The breath is alway done with both nostrils and there is no breathing into the front of the chest.

The major difference is that many core pranayama breathing techniques involve holding the breath. In Taoist breathing, you never hold or restrict the breath since it can create tension and thereby negatively pattern the nervous system--the exact opposite of Taoist breathing goals.

Taoist Longevity Breathing Program

Energy Arts teaches a Taoist breathing system based on ancient, time-tested techniques used for centuries to improve the quality of your breath, help you feel more alive and build your chi.

Benefits of Taoist Breathing

The basic techniques of Taoist Longevity Breathing get everything inside your body moving and in synch with the rhythm of your breathing. It wakes up the inside of your body and makes it incredibly healthy. The methodology cultivates your ability to relax at any time and concentrate for long periods.

Taoist Longevity Breathing:

• Facilatates oxygen intake and the balances the oxygen-carbon dioxide exhange in the body
• Fully expells carbon dioxide
• Retrains your nervous system to relax
• Improves the functioning of your internal organs
• Increases chi reserves in the body.  

Taoist Longevity Breathing Increases Oxygen Levels

The oxygen in your blood powers your metabolism, circulation and your ability to heal. Decreasing levels of oxygen make you prone to illness, morbid emotions and weak physical and mental performance. Most Western doctors recommend aerobic exercise as the best way to increase the volume of oxygen in your body.

Taoist Longevity Breathing does the same. When qigong is practiced along with Taoist Longevity Breathing, the flow of oxygen will become smooth and balanced throughout your body.

Taoist Longevity Breathing Gets Rid of Carbon Dioxide

Taoist Longevity Breathing gets rid of carbon dioxide and increases the usable oxygen that you inhale. Even if you can inhale sufficiently to pull in enough oxygen to your system, you might not exhale deeply or long enough to get rid of all the carbon dioxide in your body. For most people, a quarter or so reserve at the bottom of the lungs is always filled with carbon dioxide.

This leaves only three quarters of the lungs free for oxygen intake on the next inhale. This causes the exhale to become even weaker, diminishing the body's ability to procure oxygen from the air. Exhaling insufficiently:

• Diminishes oxygen intake
• Causes toxic waste products build up in the blood, which often results in yawning
• Reduces mental capacities and clarity  and increases stress in the body
• Increases accumulated carbon dioxide.

Taoist Longevity Breathing Helps You Relax

Taoist Longevity Breathing helps you create and stabilize a strong, steady breathing pattern that will mitigate excessive emotional swings. It retrains your nervous system to relax and make your thoughts smoother and more comfortable. Studying your breathing patterns can make you aware of the ways your moods and emotions change.

For example, fear tends to produce erratic, strained or weak breathing patterns. Holding the breath is often a preceded by violent, angry explosions. Likewise, holding the breath without realizing it is part of a reaction to stress and tends to increase its severity. Shallow breathing makes people prone to lung weaknesses in the face of environmental problems, such as polluted air, and can also lead to depression.

Taoist Longevity Breathing Improves the Functioning of Internal Organs

According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, the ability of your breathing to improve the functioning of your internal organs--liver, kidneys, heart, spleen and lungs--is as valuable as increasing oxygen intake. Taoist Longevity Breathing methods transfer the pressure from air coming into the lungs to the internal organs, especially the heart. This provides a gentle yet firm massage for the organs while increasing blood and chi flow that helps to optimize their natural range of movement.

When the range of motion of your internal organs diminish, blood flow to your internal organs also diminishes, blocking the smooth flow of energy. Other effects include the gradual shortening of your ligaments and restricted movement of your organs. Bodily functions will gradually weaken and disease will eventually strike

Breathing well throughout your day is the best prevention!

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