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Or: watch your breath. This could go in meditation but is also like a question / healthy thing maybe.
Whenever I see (or hear) instructions like “breathe in for 4 counts, hold it for 4 counts, breathe out 2 counts, a duke and 3 earls” etc I always just skip that. I know that my breathing has always been slow but the other day when I saw a meditation tutorial I took a stopwatch and timed 6 normal breaths: 1 minute 19 seconds.
According to the internet that's three times slower than the average adult.
Reading a bit more, clicking along, I came on the Wikipedia of
There are apparantly 3 or 4 books written about it, but (as far as I understand it from the Wikipage) the core idea is that (in that philosophy) there are 4 types of breathing:
In + out through the nose: Stability
In through nose and out through mouth: Fluidity
In through mouth and out through nose: Power
In + out through mouth: Clarity
These 4 obviously are Earth, Water, Fire, Air.
Seems like something that could be a nice (gimmick or) addition to the type of ritual you are doing, or the different parts of a ritual.
But:
How many breaths do you take per minute? And do you consider yourself to be generally calm or agitated, anxious or unbothered, limp or fit?
Whenever I see (or hear) instructions like “breathe in for 4 counts, hold it for 4 counts, breathe out 2 counts, a duke and 3 earls” etc I always just skip that. I know that my breathing has always been slow but the other day when I saw a meditation tutorial I took a stopwatch and timed 6 normal breaths: 1 minute 19 seconds.
According to the internet that's three times slower than the average adult.
Reading a bit more, clicking along, I came on the Wikipedia of
There are apparantly 3 or 4 books written about it, but (as far as I understand it from the Wikipage) the core idea is that (in that philosophy) there are 4 types of breathing:
In + out through the nose: Stability
In through nose and out through mouth: Fluidity
In through mouth and out through nose: Power
In + out through mouth: Clarity
These 4 obviously are Earth, Water, Fire, Air.
Seems like something that could be a nice (gimmick or) addition to the type of ritual you are doing, or the different parts of a ritual.
But:
How many breaths do you take per minute? And do you consider yourself to be generally calm or agitated, anxious or unbothered, limp or fit?
