#177 Rapid Breathing Development

Alternative holistic programs including breathing development, breathing exercises, optional diet, ergonomics, and environmental factors needed for optimal breathing. From a small interest, need or goal to a large interest, need or goal. From beginner to advanced holistic comprehensive mastery. Choose the highest level if you have the most curiosity and commitment. Choose the lowest level for entry-level understanding. The more items you checked on the breathing test, the higher the level appropriate. Good for:

• Breathing Development Goals from question #1-11 in Breathing Tests
• Diaphragm Development
• Emotional Balance
• Energy
• Healthy Breathing
• Oxygen Benefits
• Preventive Medicine
• Stress Management
• Wellness

For health challenges from question #28 in Breathing Tests, see #177 Rapid Breathing Development, Shortness of Breath.

It was nice receiving your encouraging mail. Yes, after working with the #176 Rapidly Improving Your Breathing Video video I am already experiencing breathing getting stronger, bigger, easier, fuller, smoother and better co-ordinated. I do feel stronger and more clear headed, relaxed and energetic. I had a house full when my children from the US and Australia visited me for two weeks. All I did was carryout my breathing exercises in between my chores and still after they have left. And Gosh how energized I am feeling and happy too.

Love,
-- Cynthia

Mike: I just wanted to express my appreciation for your web-site and, what I suspect is your passion. My experience with pranayama and other eastern breath practices for going on 25 years has been, shall we say, a "learning" experience. The path I took would have been better served having had someone like yourself around to correct the unintended mistakes (learning from experience is not always the best way). My current understanding certainly supports and agrees with your well-written perceptions. Thank you.

-- Gary A, NC

I highly recommend the work of Michael Grant White. It has touched my life on a very profound level. Excellent breathing is absolutely essential to everything in our lives. It provides energy, assists digestion, improves brain efficiency and assists in providing optimal body functioning. Breathing for me though is much more. Breathing correctly has allowed me to tap into the magical side of life... the spirit within! Through learning how to breathe in the whole body we can go beyond the mind and our animalistic thinking. Most of us breathe in the chest area stimulating the sympathetic (Flight or Fight) nervous system. This incorrect breathing began at birth with our conditioning, civilized life's non stop emotional upheaval, polluted cites and increased stress without the release.

By learning how to breathe we can bring our breath down and learn to stay in the parasympathetic (slowing down, restorative) nervous system for most of the time. In times of crisis we can use optimal breathing development and exercises to bring it back there.

The practice of Mike's exercises allows the natural reflexive breathing to be rehabilitated.

Basically we are retraining our body to breathe naturally, so these are not just short term exercises, they are designed to recondition and reorganize the way we breathe.

One of the my favorite exercises was not a specific breath exercise, but a Qi Gong exercise. This simple exercise, taught in his #191 Secrets of Optimal Natural Breathing manual, of standing still in relaxed posture has revolutionized my own posture and thus increased my breathing capacity. The #130 Better Breathing Exercise #2 (aka Tibetan Caffeine), singing exercises, the shhh breath have also opened up my breath and lungs like never before. Two years later I still practice the techniques and exercises because I get results from them. While working with Mike in 2000 I was introduced to a strapping exercise which really allows an opening and expanding of lung capacity, Mike has a video that you can use at home for this.

The changes for me were very subtle, yet like any true natural health practice, accumulative over time. And I have not even practiced them daily!!

So don't despair if you don't get immediate results thought many do, just persevere and gradually your breathing will open on a whole new level.

Excellent breathing in conjunction with living foods, yoga and meditation, provides you with the tools that may enable you to find your peace... whatever life throws at you.

-- Phillip Madeley
www.freshupnorth.com

Hi. My name is Brian. I just received your #191 Secrets of Optimal Natural Breathing manual and all the other 10 tapes. This is great! I read most of the Secrets of Optimal Natural Breathing already. I did both sides of the Tibetan Caffeine tape all at once. I could not believe the response i got from my body! I'm a practitioner of Chinese Martial arts (Shaolin - internal and external) and this is the same kind of response i got from doing Qi Gong breathing and meditation practices. But the Tibetan Caffeine response was MUCH more intense. As with Qi Gong, i felt the buzzing and heat, like energy flowing inside me. Also i missed a few Bowls because of uncontrollable, loud, spontaneous laughter. I couldn't hold back at all. More importantly to me, i feel completely relaxed and at peace.

Whenever i did Qi Gong breathing, i got extremely hot, fidgety, and tense. With the Tibetan caffeine i felt the warm buzzing without the tenseness and being fidgety. I can't wait to listen to all your other tapes.

For the past 4 years or so I've suffered from some form of chronic abnormality. I don't know if it's an illness or not. I really don't care. The symptoms are weakness, no stamina, insomnia, inability to get a deep breath in, sometimes feeling suffocated. Mostly I've tried to live with it and endure. I'm not into whining or complaining attitude. The thing is, i went to a few doctors complaining about this, and they couldn't help me at all. They said i was fine, and implied that this was in my head. One went even so far as to suggest anti-depressants, but I'm not a unhappy person and rarely get depressed. I came to the conclusion that Western doctors can't help me. I tried the very strict Candida diet at the suggestion of a friend who owns a herbal supplement store but this didn't help at all. All along I thought that when my fatigue was cured, my breathing would return to normal. I never thought that my incorrect breathing could be the cause of this until i read you web site. It literally never crossed my mind. Hopefully, i can correct my breathing with your manual and tapes. Thanks a lot!

-- Brian s

Greetings from London, England.

I thought some positive feedback might be of help.

I have been practicing TM since October of last year. I have also been practicing your #120 Better Breathing Exercise #1 for the past few weeks since ordering the tape.

I enjoy TM but find its effects variable and occasionally quite negative (although this was pointed out as being natural by the excellent tutor). Your tape on the other hand has been a total revelation from the word go. I have been an asthmatic for 38 years, and in just a few weeks of assiduously practicing this one exercise, I have received more benefit than in twenty years of practicing all manner of other breathing techniques.

Now here's the really good bit. I decided I would try using the "Waking Breath" -- #120 Better Breathing Exercise #1 whilst doing my TM even though in basic TM practice there is no conscious breath control. (The mantra itself is supposed to encourage shallow, almost imperceptible breathing.)

The result is a totally positive quality of experience both in the meditation session and afterwards. I can't speak for other TM practitioners, but the moral seems to be that whatever practice you are engaged in, get your breathing right first, and it will help and support everything else. It really is the place to start.

I can't thank you enough. (And yes, I am now going through the #191 Secrets of Optimal Natural Breathing!)