Taylor Lindsay Winter
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I found something that doesn't make sense. In the "Less" chapter he talks about breathing not just slower but lesser amounts of air. But in the Exhale chapter he says lung capacity is super key to health and "shallow breathing will limit the range of our diaphragms and lunch capacity and can lead to the [bad] posture common in those with [illnesses]" (pg 64). How do I breath less / not-deep, but not shallow?
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Jery Jack
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Dylan Tweney
I have the same question! Nestor really doesn't address that apparent contradiction in his book.
Bon Tom
By breathing deep, at 5.5 inhalations, and 5.5 exhalations a minute or even less, you actually breathe less. But you breathe more efficient because you utilize the inhaled oxygen better thanks to maintaining needed concentrations of CO2.
Bella Stone
Hi Taylor, Breathing slower (and limiting air) during certain breathing exercises helps rebalance the levels of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the respiratory system of the brain (the chemareceptors) which is very beneficial when we are training ourselves to have healthier breathing habits and shallow breathing refers to when we are naturally breathing too fast and too shallow (which means we dont have enough time to absorb oxygen nor can we expel carbon dioxide properly which is not ideal)
Seth
This book is full of conflicting evidence and examples. "Truth" in this case is left as an exercise for the reader.
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