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If breathing development is so important to my health, why hasn't my doctor recommended it?

I have been doing yoga/yogic breathing/chi kung or other breathing exercises for years. Why should I consider your methods any better?

I was breathing very well until a short while after I had an accident that put me in the hospital. What happened?

If breathing development is so important to my health, why hasn't my doctor recommended it?

While medical schools include information about how the respiratory system works, few offer any information regarding the fact that breathing capacity can be expanded. This is partly due to lack of awareness. Only in the last 40 years has there been any attention paid to the idea at all. Further, medical schools are largely funded (and influenced) by pharmaceutical companies, who invest large sums of money on research into unique creations (ie., drugs), which can be patented. They also invest a great deal of money advertising in med school textbooks. Breathing cannot be patented, nor is it highly profitable, financially, to teach effective breathing skills.

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I have been doing yoga/yogic breathing/chi kung or other breathing exercises for years. Why should I consider your methods any better?

You shouldn't. Unless you want to expand your breathing capacity and/or release unwanted thought/behavior patterns from your life. There are many valuable uses for breathing exercises. If your life is as vibrant as you want it to be, just keep doing whatever you are doing. If you feel there is room for expansion into greater health and vitality, there is. Whatever breathing practice you are engaged in, breathing development and/or breathwork can assist you in achieving faster, more fulfilling results. In addition, it is important to be aware that some breathing exercises can feel good while actually reducing breathing capacity.

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I was breathing very well until a short while after I had an accident that put me in the hospital. What happened?

It is not uncommon for a severe physical trauma to result in noticeably restricted breathing patterns immediately after or shortly thereafter. If the lungs or other aspects of the respiratory system have been damaged, this is obvious. However, restrictions can occur even when the respiratory system is not directly involved. Here's why: When we experience pain, we often hold our breath - this is how we learned to withhold the expression of feelings. Breath holding or restriction prevents the flow of energy through our body and the residue of pain gets stuck - stored in the body and felt as tension or chronic pain. As we feel this chronic pain, we again restrict our breathing, keeping the pain in place. Transformational Breathwork uses a powerful breathing rhythm that releases the stuck energy in a safe and nurturing environment for the expression (pushing out) of old pain.

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