Deeper breath might look like two or three things on the outside. But in reality, it's one thing on the inside. It should feel like one thing. The diaphragm drops down span the lower torso joining air into the lungs, and the lungs reach a certain point where the ribs have to expand before the lungs can get larger. This requires proper strength, relaxation of key muscles and their sequencing, balancing expansion and contraction. Here's our good posture figure.
We call him Clint. Shawn also is a skeleton with rib numbers. We are showing you a good resting breathing pattern. This one is eight seconds Complete Breath or eight SP cb. While many people breathe only four to six seconds per Complete Breath or less. According to our research, most should be working toward a resting breathing rate of about eight to 16 seconds per Complete Breath.
Traditional Chinese Medicine shows that 12 seconds per Complete Breath or slower can enhance alpha brainwave strength, which of course, enhances one's creative state will start you off at eight SP CB and later on in this video set, train you towards a slower pace. As you watch this, try to breathe along with it. You will notice that the belly expands first at the beginning of the inhalation and stays expanded throughout even after the in breath moves up into the expansion of the ribs and chest. Notice also the movement of the diaphragm Which is illustrated here as a red line. It is lowest and flat when the lungs are full and rises up into a dome shape, pushing up into the lungs to facilitate an exhalation or squeezing the sponge. Notice also how the ribs rise on the in breath and fall on the out breath.
Notice there is no shoulder shrugging at the top of the inhale. Notice that the exhale is a bit faster, and then it trails off into a pause phase. If your pause is not as long as the one shown, just relax and rest in the empty state until you get the green light to start your next inhale. It also illustrates what we were showing you with the pair plus the cone equals the wave. Notice how way more than half of the inhale is focused in the lower belly. The lower sides and lower back.
The lungs need to fill approximately halfway through the downward movement of the diaphragm, before the ribs need to expand for the chest portion of a deep breath. Everyone seconds per Complete Breath, or SPC vi are different in number and timing mixtures such as inhales slightly slower or faster than the exhales. As PCB will often produce a calming effect, but if you are used to less or more seconds per complete breaths, you may feel a twinge of discomfort and may need to breathe faster or slower, depending on your stage of conditioning. This is a very good pattern to be able to observe how the belly and chest expand in a wave like movement from the belly. To the chest, all as one thing, not a series of events. The aim will be getting your breathing slower.
Resting pauses longer and eventually over time to get your resting sitting inhale and exhale times close to the same as each other. laying on your back tends to lengthen the exhale. So we have included a sound guide in some of the OBP exercises.