Showing posts with label slow breathing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label slow breathing. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
Slow Breathing Is the Fastest Way To Calm Your Brain and Body by Debbie Hampton
With your massive amount of stress and
anxiety because your doctor knows nothing and has nothing to get you
100% recovered, s/he should as least give you these breathing tips. And if they are any good at all they would have you doing this by nostril breathing as documented in 'Breath' by James Nestor.
Saturday, September 4, 2021
Slow Breathing Is the Fastest Way To Calm Your Brain and Body for anxiety by Debbie Hampton
But fast breathing creates nitric oxide, the Kundalini Breath of Fire from 5 years ago which produces nitric oxide thus dilating your blood vessels?
Which is more important? Your doctor should know the answer.
Slow Breathing Is the Fastest Way To Calm Your Brain and Body for anxiety by Debbie Hampton
Friday, May 22, 2020
A 5-Minute Breathing Meditation To Cultivate Mindfulness
Did your doctor incompetently not bother telling you about this mindfulness therapy?
Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) improves long-term mental fatigue after stroke or traumatic brain injury Published online: 13 Jul 2012
Or did your doctor suggest using the fast breathing technique to create nitric oxide and relax your arteries? 3 breaths per second.
GuruPrem teaching BREATH OF FIRE correctly
One or the other, OR NEITHER WHICH MEANS YOUR DOCTOR AND STROKE HOSPITAL ARE COMPLETELY FUCKING INCOMPETENT.
Does your doctor do ONE DAMN THING for your stroke rehab?
A 5-Minute Breathing Meditation To Cultivate Mindfulness
How do you cultivate mindfulness? One way is to meditate. A basic method is to focus your attention on your own breathing—a practice simply called “mindful breathing.” After setting aside time to practice mindful breathing, you’ll find it easier to focus attention on your breath in your daily life—an important skill to help you deal with stress, anxiety, and negative emotions, cool yourself down when your temper flares, and sharpen your ability to concentrate.Time required:
15 minutes daily for at least a week (though evidence suggests that mindfulness increases the more you practice it).How to do it
The most basic way to do mindful breathing is simply to focus your attention on your breath, the inhale and exhale. You can do this while standing, but ideally you’ll be sitting or even lying in a comfortable position. Your eyes may be open or closed, but you may find it easier to maintain your focus if you close your eyes. It can help to set aside a designated time for this exercise, but it can also help to practice it when you’re feeling particularly stressed or anxious. Experts believe a regular practice of mindful breathing can make it easier to do it in difficult situations.Sometimes, especially when trying to calm yourself in a stressful moment, it might help to start by taking an exaggerated breath: a deep inhale through your nostrils (3 seconds), hold your breath (2 seconds), and a long exhale through your mouth (4 seconds). Otherwise, simply observe each breath without trying to adjust it; it may help to focus on the rise and fall of your chest or the sensation through your nostrils. As you do so, you may find that your mind wanders, distracted by thoughts or bodily sensations. That’s okay. Just notice that this is happening and gently bring your attention back to your breath.
- Find a relaxed, comfortable position. You could be seated on a chair or on the floor on a cushion. Keep your back upright, but not too tight. Hands resting wherever they’re comfortable. Tongue on the roof of your mouth or wherever it’s comfortable.
- Notice and relax your body. Try to notice the shape of your body, its weight. Let yourself relax and become curious about your body seated here—the sensations it experiences, the touch, the connection with the floor or the chair. Relax any areas of tightness or tension. Just breathe.
- Tune into your breath. Feel the natural flow of breath—in, out. You don’t need to do anything to your breath. Not long, not short, just natural. Notice where you feel your breath in your body. It might be in your abdomen. It may be in your chest or throat or in your nostrils. See if you can feel the sensations of breath, one breath at a time. When one breath ends, the next breath begins.
- Be kind to your wandering mind. Now as you do this, you might notice that your mind may start to wander. You may start thinking about other things. If this happens, it is not a problem. It’s very natural. Just notice that your mind has wandered. You can say “thinking” or “wandering” in your head softly. And then gently redirect your attention right back to the breathing.
- Stay here for five to seven minutes. Notice your breath, in silence. From time to time, you’ll get lost in thought, then return to your breath.
- Check in before you check out. After a few minutes, once again notice your body, your whole body, seated here. Let yourself relax even more deeply and then offer yourself some appreciation for doing this practice today.
You may find that your mind wanders, distracted by thoughts or bodily sensations. That’s okay. Just notice that this is happening and gently bring your attention back to your breath.
Try This Simple Mindful Breath Practice
Breathe along with this GIF to calm a stressed out mind. Focus on the sensation of your breath in and out.
This article was adapted from Greater Good In Action, a site launched by UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, in collaboration with HopeLab.
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Science Explains Why Deep Breathing Calms You Down
But would fast breathing be better because it creates nitric oxide, dilating your arteries? Ask your doctor for definitive reasoning.
Nitric oxide which relaxes narrowed blood vessels, increasing oxygen and blood flow.
Science Explains Why Deep Breathing Calms You Down
We take it for granted that breathing
and feelings go hand in hand: Deep breaths make us calm, and short,
shallow ones signal a sense of panic. This undeniable link is what’s
responsible for the success of almost every wellness intervention out
there — from yoga to meditation to laughter and running — but why
it’s such a powerful connection was never clear until now. By probing
the neurological breathing center, scientists discovered the part of the
brain that controls the intensity of breathing in the first place.
On Thursday, a team of scientists report that they’ve pinpointed a tiny ball of neurons in the brain’s “breathing center” that reaches out to the area that deals with general alertness, attention, and stress. The paper’s lead author, Kevin Yackle, Ph.D., a physiologist at University of California-San Francisco, tells Inverse
that this was an unexpected discovery, despite the obvious link between
breathing and yoga, meditation, and other wellness practices.
“It’s
known that breathing is connected with all these things, but how —
whether it was direct or indirect — wasn’t known,” he said in a phone
call from Austria, where he was presenting his work at a neuroscience
conference. “And so, this was surprising to us — to be able to find that
there’s a specific neuron in the breathing center that’s doing this.”
Yackle
was well aware of the brain’s breathing center — a knot of neurons
known as the pre-Bötzinger complex (PBC) buried deep in the brainstem —
but, even though that region had been discovered to be responsible for
triggering breathing in 1991, nobody was sure how it controlled
breathing’s rhythms. “The question that motivated all of this
work was, can we identify the key cell types and molecules that generate
breathing rhythm?” Yackle explains. By analyzing the genes expressed by
the different types of neurons within the breathing center, he and his
team pinpointed a tiny subgroup whose axons reached out to the “locus
coeruleus” — the brain’s headquarters for general anxiety.
The
idea, Yackle explains, is that these neurons form a bridge between the
brain’s breathing center and stress center, and they’re ultimately the
reason why our body’s breathing hacks — deep breaths for calmness, and
short breaths for arousal — actually work.
“We
think that, if you were hyperventilating, these neurons would be more
active, and then they would activate this other brain center more, which
would then cause more arousal. And then the opposite, if you had slow
breathing, you have less activation in the center, which would lead to
more calmness,” he says.
An
unexpected quirk of the subset of neurons, however, reveals just how
complex and sophisticated breathing really is, as National Institute of
Neurological Disorders and Stroke neuroscientist Jeffrey Smith, Ph.D.,
who wrote a perspective to accompany Yackle’s work in Science, pointed out to Inverse.
“The interesting thing is that the PBC is the inspiratory rhythm
generator, but these neurons that project to the locus coeruleus don’t
appear to be an essential part of the rhythm generation itself,” he
says. In other words, the only function of these neurons seems to be to
reach out and touch the brain’s stress center.
Yackle’s
team saw this when they eliminated those cells from the mouse brain
using genetic engineering: The resulting mice kept on breathing, but
their breathing was oddly, unnaturally calm. Putting that part
of the breathing center on mute, it seems, in turn, prevents the brain’s
stress center from getting activated — hence, slow-breathing zen mice.
To both Smith and Yackle, this is an indication that breathing is so
much more than just breathing; it looks like the brain, over
evolutionary time, developed specialized neurons for the sole purpose of
integrating breathing with higher-level functions, like experiencing
stress and emotions, or talking and singing.
“Think
about how breathing ultimately gets integrated with other behaviors,”
Smith says. “This happens automatically — laughing, crying, this all
involves control of breathing. And then, cognitively, singing, and what
we’re doing right now — we’re controlling breathing and interfacing it
with cognition to produce sounds, speech, and communication.”
Yackle
believes his team’s findings can, in addition to underscoring the link
between breathing and emotion, help shed light on how to treat issues
related to irregular breathing, like panic attacks. “People will begin
to hyperventilate and then they’ll go into a panic attack, and so we
think that if you could perhaps silence these cells, pharmacologically,
we could perhaps prevent the stress or anxiety or arousal that’s caused
by breathing,” he muses, referring back to his genetically modified,
calmly breathing mice.
“We didn’t do a very
detailed analysis of how they were after a year, but they certainly
continued to live and seemed okay,” he laughs.
Thursday, April 27, 2017
Breathing your way to preventing high blood pressure
But to do this now there are these two competing ways to lower blood pressure, rather than telling you that you should have started controlling this blood pressure problem in your teens. Or is it better to get nitric oxide via beets? What does your doctor think?
Is it better to slow breath for blood pressure or fast breathing to get nitric oxide in your bloodstream? Nitric oxide which relaxes narrowed blood vessels, increasing oxygen and blood flow.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-04-high-blood-pressure.html
Essential hypertension, which is high blood pressure with no known cause, affects 30% of the global population and is a major contributor to cardiovascular disease.
Lead researcher Professor Andrew Allen says the research parallels what sportspeople and eastern philosophies have long understood about the link between breathing and heart rate.
"Biathletes have to regulate their breathing to slow down their heart rate before rifle shooting, and eastern meditative practices such as yoga and pranayama have always emphasised the interaction between the two," Professor Andrew Allen says.
These neurons represent a potential target for therapies to prevent hypertension from manifesting in middle age. However Prof Allen and co-author Clement Menuet say that any intervention should be done early while the nervous system is still plastic.
In adulthood, the interaction between theses neural circuits becomes fixed and any reductions in blood pressure from breathing adjustments appear to be temporary.
The research, published in the journal Cell Metabolism uncovered altered activity between circuits of neurons that regulate breathing rates and the blood pressure in an animal model.
"By interrupting the activity between these two groups of neurons during adolescence, we were able to dramatically reduce development of high blood pressure in adulthood," says Prof Allen.
Breathing and blood pressure are functionally linked through the sympathetic nervous system, which sends nerve signals to the heart and blood vessels. The altered neural activity leads to increased fluctuations in blood pressure with every breath and are seen in both the animal model and young, healthy adults at risk of developing high blood pressure in middle age.
This emphasises the need to identify people at risk of developing high blood pressure early.
Many people with essential hypertension are otherwise healthy, active adults who eat a balanced diet and show no symptoms.
"By understanding what predictors of hypertension are easy to assess, we might be better placed to offer early treatment to pre-hypertensive patients," Prof Allen says.
Explore further:
Why do we develop high blood pressure?
Read more at: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-04-high-blood-pressure.html#jCp
Essential hypertension, which is high blood pressure with no known cause, affects 30% of the global population and is a major contributor to cardiovascular disease.
Lead researcher Professor Andrew Allen says the research parallels what sportspeople and eastern philosophies have long understood about the link between breathing and heart rate.
"Biathletes have to regulate their breathing to slow down their heart rate before rifle shooting, and eastern meditative practices such as yoga and pranayama have always emphasised the interaction between the two," Professor Andrew Allen says.
These neurons represent a potential target for therapies to prevent hypertension from manifesting in middle age. However Prof Allen and co-author Clement Menuet say that any intervention should be done early while the nervous system is still plastic.
In adulthood, the interaction between theses neural circuits becomes fixed and any reductions in blood pressure from breathing adjustments appear to be temporary.
The research, published in the journal Cell Metabolism uncovered altered activity between circuits of neurons that regulate breathing rates and the blood pressure in an animal model.
"By interrupting the activity between these two groups of neurons during adolescence, we were able to dramatically reduce development of high blood pressure in adulthood," says Prof Allen.
Breathing and blood pressure are functionally linked through the sympathetic nervous system, which sends nerve signals to the heart and blood vessels. The altered neural activity leads to increased fluctuations in blood pressure with every breath and are seen in both the animal model and young, healthy adults at risk of developing high blood pressure in middle age.
This emphasises the need to identify people at risk of developing high blood pressure early.
Many people with essential hypertension are otherwise healthy, active adults who eat a balanced diet and show no symptoms.
"By understanding what predictors of hypertension are easy to assess, we might be better placed to offer early treatment to pre-hypertensive patients," Prof Allen says.
Explore further: Why do we develop high blood pressure?
Journal reference: Cell Metabolism search and more info website
Provided by: University of Melbourne search and more info website
Essential hypertension, which is high blood pressure with no known cause, affects 30% of the global population and is a major contributor to cardiovascular disease.
Lead researcher Professor Andrew Allen says the research parallels what sportspeople and eastern philosophies have long understood about the link between breathing and heart rate.
"Biathletes have to regulate their breathing to slow down their heart rate before rifle shooting, and eastern meditative practices such as yoga and pranayama have always emphasised the interaction between the two," Professor Andrew Allen says.
These neurons represent a potential target for therapies to prevent hypertension from manifesting in middle age. However Prof Allen and co-author Clement Menuet say that any intervention should be done early while the nervous system is still plastic.
In adulthood, the interaction between theses neural circuits becomes fixed and any reductions in blood pressure from breathing adjustments appear to be temporary.
The research, published in the journal Cell Metabolism uncovered altered activity between circuits of neurons that regulate breathing rates and the blood pressure in an animal model.
"By interrupting the activity between these two groups of neurons during adolescence, we were able to dramatically reduce development of high blood pressure in adulthood," says Prof Allen.
Breathing and blood pressure are functionally linked through the sympathetic nervous system, which sends nerve signals to the heart and blood vessels. The altered neural activity leads to increased fluctuations in blood pressure with every breath and are seen in both the animal model and young, healthy adults at risk of developing high blood pressure in middle age.
This emphasises the need to identify people at risk of developing high blood pressure early.
Many people with essential hypertension are otherwise healthy, active adults who eat a balanced diet and show no symptoms.
"By understanding what predictors of hypertension are easy to assess, we might be better placed to offer early treatment to pre-hypertensive patients," Prof Allen says.
Explore further:
Why do we develop high blood pressure?
Read more at: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-04-high-blood-pressure.html#jCp
Is it better to slow breath for blood pressure or fast breathing to get nitric oxide in your bloodstream? Nitric oxide which relaxes narrowed blood vessels, increasing oxygen and blood flow.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-04-high-blood-pressure.html
The
most common type of hypertension, which accounts for 95 per cent of
people with high blood pressure, might one day be prevented with
breathing exercises if caught early enough.
Researchers at
the University of Melbourne and Macquarie University have uncovered
unusual activity between neurons controlling breathing and blood pressure during the development of essential hypertension.Essential hypertension, which is high blood pressure with no known cause, affects 30% of the global population and is a major contributor to cardiovascular disease.
Lead researcher Professor Andrew Allen says the research parallels what sportspeople and eastern philosophies have long understood about the link between breathing and heart rate.
"Biathletes have to regulate their breathing to slow down their heart rate before rifle shooting, and eastern meditative practices such as yoga and pranayama have always emphasised the interaction between the two," Professor Andrew Allen says.
These neurons represent a potential target for therapies to prevent hypertension from manifesting in middle age. However Prof Allen and co-author Clement Menuet say that any intervention should be done early while the nervous system is still plastic.
In adulthood, the interaction between theses neural circuits becomes fixed and any reductions in blood pressure from breathing adjustments appear to be temporary.
The research, published in the journal Cell Metabolism uncovered altered activity between circuits of neurons that regulate breathing rates and the blood pressure in an animal model.
"By interrupting the activity between these two groups of neurons during adolescence, we were able to dramatically reduce development of high blood pressure in adulthood," says Prof Allen.
Breathing and blood pressure are functionally linked through the sympathetic nervous system, which sends nerve signals to the heart and blood vessels. The altered neural activity leads to increased fluctuations in blood pressure with every breath and are seen in both the animal model and young, healthy adults at risk of developing high blood pressure in middle age.
This emphasises the need to identify people at risk of developing high blood pressure early.
Many people with essential hypertension are otherwise healthy, active adults who eat a balanced diet and show no symptoms.
"By understanding what predictors of hypertension are easy to assess, we might be better placed to offer early treatment to pre-hypertensive patients," Prof Allen says.
Explore further:
Why do we develop high blood pressure?
Read more at: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-04-high-blood-pressure.html#jCp
Lead researcher Professor Andrew Allen says the research parallels what sportspeople and eastern philosophies have long understood about the link between breathing and heart rate.
"Biathletes have to regulate their breathing to slow down their heart rate before rifle shooting, and eastern meditative practices such as yoga and pranayama have always emphasised the interaction between the two," Professor Andrew Allen says.
These neurons represent a potential target for therapies to prevent hypertension from manifesting in middle age. However Prof Allen and co-author Clement Menuet say that any intervention should be done early while the nervous system is still plastic.
In adulthood, the interaction between theses neural circuits becomes fixed and any reductions in blood pressure from breathing adjustments appear to be temporary.
The research, published in the journal Cell Metabolism uncovered altered activity between circuits of neurons that regulate breathing rates and the blood pressure in an animal model.
"By interrupting the activity between these two groups of neurons during adolescence, we were able to dramatically reduce development of high blood pressure in adulthood," says Prof Allen.
Breathing and blood pressure are functionally linked through the sympathetic nervous system, which sends nerve signals to the heart and blood vessels. The altered neural activity leads to increased fluctuations in blood pressure with every breath and are seen in both the animal model and young, healthy adults at risk of developing high blood pressure in middle age.
This emphasises the need to identify people at risk of developing high blood pressure early.
Many people with essential hypertension are otherwise healthy, active adults who eat a balanced diet and show no symptoms.
"By understanding what predictors of hypertension are easy to assess, we might be better placed to offer early treatment to pre-hypertensive patients," Prof Allen says.
Explore further: Why do we develop high blood pressure?
Journal reference: Cell Metabolism search and more info website
Provided by: University of Melbourne search and more info website
The
most common type of hypertension, which accounts for 95 per cent of
people with high blood pressure, might one day be prevented with
breathing exercises if caught early enough.
Researchers at
the University of Melbourne and Macquarie University have uncovered
unusual activity between neurons controlling breathing and blood pressure during the development of essential hypertension.Essential hypertension, which is high blood pressure with no known cause, affects 30% of the global population and is a major contributor to cardiovascular disease.
Lead researcher Professor Andrew Allen says the research parallels what sportspeople and eastern philosophies have long understood about the link between breathing and heart rate.
"Biathletes have to regulate their breathing to slow down their heart rate before rifle shooting, and eastern meditative practices such as yoga and pranayama have always emphasised the interaction between the two," Professor Andrew Allen says.
These neurons represent a potential target for therapies to prevent hypertension from manifesting in middle age. However Prof Allen and co-author Clement Menuet say that any intervention should be done early while the nervous system is still plastic.
In adulthood, the interaction between theses neural circuits becomes fixed and any reductions in blood pressure from breathing adjustments appear to be temporary.
The research, published in the journal Cell Metabolism uncovered altered activity between circuits of neurons that regulate breathing rates and the blood pressure in an animal model.
"By interrupting the activity between these two groups of neurons during adolescence, we were able to dramatically reduce development of high blood pressure in adulthood," says Prof Allen.
Breathing and blood pressure are functionally linked through the sympathetic nervous system, which sends nerve signals to the heart and blood vessels. The altered neural activity leads to increased fluctuations in blood pressure with every breath and are seen in both the animal model and young, healthy adults at risk of developing high blood pressure in middle age.
This emphasises the need to identify people at risk of developing high blood pressure early.
Many people with essential hypertension are otherwise healthy, active adults who eat a balanced diet and show no symptoms.
"By understanding what predictors of hypertension are easy to assess, we might be better placed to offer early treatment to pre-hypertensive patients," Prof Allen says.
Explore further:
Why do we develop high blood pressure?
Read more at: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-04-high-blood-pressure.html#jCp
Friday, April 14, 2017
Meta-analysis of effects of voluntary slow breathing exercises for control of heart rate and blood pressure in patients with cardiovascular diseases
Is it better to slow breath for blood pressure or fast breathing to get
nitric oxide in your bloodstream? Nitric oxide which relaxes narrowed blood vessels, increasing oxygen and blood flow.
I bet nitric oxide applied immediately after your stroke would help your recovery, but you will need to tell your doctor that.
Does your doctor even understand the question?
I bet nitric oxide applied immediately after your stroke would help your recovery, but you will need to tell your doctor that.
Does your doctor even understand the question?
Creation of nitric oxide via Breath of Fire
Meta-analysis of effects of voluntary slow breathing exercises for control of heart rate and blood pressure in patients with cardiovascular diseases
The American Journal of Cardiology
Zou Y, et al. – This study
was designed to elucidate the efficacy of voluntary slow breathing
exercises (VSBE) in attenuating resting heart rate (HR) and blood
pressure (BP) in patients with cardiovascular diseases. Researchers
obtained evidence from RCTs demonstrating a marked reduction in resting
HR, systolic blood pressure (SBP), and diastolic blood pressure (DBP)
in patients who practiced short–term VSBE.
Methods
- Researchers searched Embase (1974 to April 2016), PubMed (1966 to April 2016), the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (Issue 4, April 2016) and PEDro (www.pedro.org.au) (1999 to April 2016).
- The primary outcome was the mean change in resting HR.
- Secondary outcomes included changes in systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) as well as compliance with the breathing training.
Results
- This analysis included a total of 6 studies consisting of 269 subjects.
- Researchers observed that practice of the breathing exercises resulted in statistically significant HR reduction [mean difference: -1.72 beats/min, 95% confidence interval (CI): -2.70 to -0.75].
- Findings demonstrated reductions in SBP (mean difference: -6.36 mmHg, 95% CI: -10.32 to -2.39) and DBP (mean difference: -5.63 mmHg, 95% CI: -7.40 to -3.86) compared to the controls.
- Trial durations ranged from 2 weeks to 6 months.
Monday, April 3, 2017
Science Illuminates Why Slow Breathing Calms The Mind
Is it better to slow breath for meditation or fast breathing to get nitric oxide in your bloodstream? Does your doctor even understand the question?
Science Illuminates Why Slow Breathing Calms The Mind
Creation of nitric oxide via Breath of Fire
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