Re: Proper Breathing and Weil

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Barrett Dorko writes:-

I'm every bit as big a fan of Weil's as you are , if you know

what I mean, and I saw him demonstrate " deep breathing " on PBS fund

raiser a couple of years ago. He took an upper respiratory breath,

shoulders and chest lifting and heaving. Makes you wonder.

***This sort of action is common for those taking a 'deep breath'. It

is often accompanied by a sniffing sound as air is sucked in.

Firstly, does not lifting the shoulders and chest decrease the

ribcage's ability to expand? And secondly, by sniffing/sucking in air

the nasal passages are decreased in size increasing the speed and

thus temperature of the incoming air. (This also overrides a first

line of defence of the immune system because microbes that would have

been trapped by nasal hair are sucked straight through to the back of

the throat!)

Using a spirometric test (I think that is its name?) I tried a 'deep

breath' and compared it to a 'normal breath' - Guess which one

allowed more air into the lungs? When I left my nostrils alone and

did nothing to try and expand my chest the 'normal breath' scored

much higher!

Roy Palmer

Bedford

UK