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brother neil
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 Posted - Mar 03 2008 : 12:51:16 PM
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| do we want our bodies to fully expand with the breath? what I mean, is when we are breathing we can expand the chest minamally, kind of medium, or a lot. during the spinal breathing technique do we want to be conscious of how much we expand each part of our bodies when the breath is moving? |
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scottfitzgerald
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Posted - Mar 03 2008 : 1:11:31 PM
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For me, I emphasized the filling of each tube, so to speak, in the beginning. The abdomen, the chest and then the collar bones. Full yogic breaths helped me "feel" the spinal nerve. I imagined the nerve as each portion of my lungs filled, and since they fill in a vertical fashion, going up, it helped reinforce that. The need to emphasize that went away as the spinal nerve "found me." As I have found in many of the practices, sometimes bearing down in the beginning helps us release the need to do that in the future, so all we need is the intention of that movement, and we can feel it.
If it's hard work, maybe you are trying too hard, however in the beginning there was certainly plenty of effort necessary for me to settle in. You asked "do we want to be conscious of how much we expand..." not if it gets in the way of the easy feeling of travelling up and down the spine. If you feel it coming up through the center of your being instead of the spine that is fine too.
Believe me, it is quite worth it, and will literally open up whole new worlds for you...new worlds that are actually quite familiar in a comforting kind of way.
Hope that helped
Welcome welcome
Scott
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brother neil
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Posted - Mar 03 2008 : 3:59:31 PM
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thank you for your response and the kind welcome sir scott> I kind of figured It would not be best to force over inhalation and exahlation during this practice but just figured I would ask
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