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It is a full-bodied and continuous breathing with no pauses between inhales and exhales. All of the breathing mechanism is engaged: the abdomen, solar plexus, and chest. The main focus is on the inhale. The complete exhale is a natural relaxation, not a prolonged or controlled process.

Full-Wave Breathing asks you to consciously direct the breathing activity of your body just as you might decide that you need a walk to clear your head. From time to time throughout your day, make a conscious choice to breathe five Full-Wave Breaths for energy, exercise, joy and optimism.

This probably sounds elementary to you, explaining that you are the director of your breathing exercises. I have taught tens of thousands of people over the years, and found that breathing deeper and more effectively is new to most people. When some people re-trained their breath and got a little dizzy in the first session or two, they quit because they got scared and believed that something was wrong. This fear reaction has nothing to do with the breathing. Rather these people were experiencing a new feeling, an aliveness and energetic movement revitalizing the body.

There is virtually no downside to Full-Wave Breathing. It feels good for most people, but don't overdo it. Use your common sense and maintain a beginner's perspective for the first thirty days of your training program. Do not strain.

When you do yogic stretches or build your muscles through resistance exercises, the muscles ache in the beginning until you stretch them out again. Nothing is wrong; the aching is part of the process and goes away after a time. Just as in any exercise program, stick to your breathing schedule, build the strength and tone of the abdominal muscles and diaphragm, and don't buy into yours fears because breathing is new to you.

Full-Wave Breathing is to complementary medicine today what massage therapy was to chiropractic care fifteen years ago. In five to ten years, breathing applications will be used as part of many health maintenance programs. Yet it wasn't that long ago that the late Carl Stough kept bumping into the establishment's misconceptions about breathing.

Carl Stough, a music director and vocalist, was asked to help the chronic emphysema patients in a New York hospital, and he had outstanding success. When he explained to others that movement of the diaphragm was important in breathing, speaking and singing, he noted that some medical doctors believed the diaphragm was still immovable. This was a brief 45 years ago. You can see that breath facilitators and researchers are pioneers and proponents of your taking responsibility for your health through education, exercise, and practice.

There is a general agreement among those who facilitate breathwork that how clients breathe reflects their level of participation and joy in life. In this day and age, it is still considered phenomenal that we can choose our attitudes, our feelings and our pathway to good health. In the later chapters, you will see that each moment we take a breath we make a new choice to respond, feel good and live! Now, today, start a new phase of your life-breathing for health, joy and aliveness-for the richness in life.

He lives most life whoever breathes most air. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning レイキのある豊かな人生