Tips for Controlling Asthma

People with an unbalanced breathwave are often oxygen- and life-force starved; they are often nervous or anxiety-prone and suffer from unnecessary worries; they have low energy, experience depression, confusion, chronic tension, powerlessness and physical ills.

Asthma has the following major components.

• Air quality
• Allergies from ingested food
• Breathing Volume, Balance and Internal Coordination (BVIC) (Poisoning and excessive toxins are separate and what I refer to as poisoning, and may or may not cause shortness of breath associated with asthma.)

Bad air is bad air but does not by itself cause asthma. Put 100 people in a room with bad air, and only a few will get "asthma." Have 100 people eat food they are allergic to, and only a few will have "asthma" symptoms. Find 100 people breathing good air with BVIC, and many more will have asthma. Gather 100 with poor BVIC, poor air and poor diet, and you would have most of the group wheezing gasping or "asthmatic."

Poor BVIC begets excessive adrenaline and histamine production. Excess histamine begets hyper constriction of the upper lungs and airways.

Asthma is essentially not really a disease. It is largely just poor breathing training.

See the lungs below and notice how they are mostly in the sides and back and not very much on the front.

For breathing that is quieting, calming, centering and energizing all at once.

Supported by a small round pillow as above or a NADA Chair from Relax the Back Stores Nationwide, Sit out near the edge of a fairly hard surfaced chair, stool or arm of a couch with feet flat on the floor, or stand. Both of these positions need an erect but not stiff posture. Be "tallest" with your chin slightly above the horizon. If you stand, bend your knees slightly so as to unlock them.

Let your tongue lightly touch the roof or your mouth and your jaw relax. Relax your belly. Let it hang down. Let go of any fear of having a "pot belly" or not having "washboard abs."

Place your thumbs over your kidneys (below your back ribs and above your pelvis). Wrap your fingers around your sides, towards your belly button.

Squeeze gently as you nose breathe long slow deep breaths into your squeezed fingers forcing them apart with your in-breath in your belly back and sides against their will. simultaneously take 4 deep in and out breaths while trying to match the breathing cycle of the animated logo for a timing reference.

1. How did that feel? Relaxing. Energizing? Good? If it did, then do it five more times in a row.

Dizziness, spaceyness or otherwise confusion means you should stop and continue your day or stop and recommence in a minute or two after the energy has subsided or integrated within you.

2. A little anxiety (or a lot)? If you felt anxious it was probably too fast for you, or you did not squeeze in the right place or strongly enough and then breathe into the squeezed thumb and fingers to separate them against their will.

Try it again. This time following this breathing pattern.

Place your thumbs over your kidneys (below your back ribs and above your pelvis). Wrap your fingers around your sides, towards your belly button.

Squeeze gently as you nose breathe long slow deep breaths into your squeezed fingers forcing them apart with your in-breath in your belly back and sides against their will. Simultaneously take 4 deep in and out breaths while trying to match the breathing cycle of the animated logo for a timing reference.

All the while, just observe what is happening in your mind, your feelings, your emotions and your body sensations. Look at your thoughts, feelings, emotions and body sensations that are passing by as you would observe clouds in the sky. Just observe what is happening. Meanwhile you are breathing deeply and slowly.

Feel better? Calmer? Energized? Calm and energized at the same time?

In any event, try the next one remembering to coordinate it with the squeezing. Squeeze gently and breathe in through the nose, long slow deep breaths, breathing into your squeezed fingers and thumbs, widening them with your breath slightly against their will. If it feels good, then do it 5 times more.

If that is not the right feel of timing, then go on to the next one.

Place your thumbs over your kidneys (below your back ribs and above your pelvis). Wrap your fingers around your sides, towards your belly button.

Squeeze gently as you nose breathe long slow deep breaths into your squeezed fingers forcing them apart with your in-breath in your belly back and sides against their will. Simultaneously take 4 deep in and out breaths while trying to match the breathing cycle of the animated logo for a timing reference.

Now, just observe what is happening in your mind, your feelings, your emotions and your body sensations. Look at your thoughts, feelings, emotions and body sensations that are passing by as you would observe clouds in the sky. Just observe what is happening. Meanwhile you are breathing deeply and slowly.

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