What do
we actually know about breathing?
We know that all of the ancient healing practices, including those from China, India,
Egypt and Japan all involve breathing.
We know that sometimes taking up an activity like swimming can change asthma status. As
can changing your diet, changing your job or where you live or even just your mattress.
Your asthma can get better or worse following a seemingly unrelated change.
We know that there are thousands of stories of people who go on strange diets, or just
meditate all day and have been relieved of usually fatal illnesses. You will know people
who have had large variations in symptom level without really changing anything obvious.
Asthma can seem to come and go. Another term is to "Grow out of asthma." Or in
fact to "Grow into asthma." Developing asthma for the first time at a late age
is becoming more and more common.
We know that "modern" medical science is certain that how you breathe is vital
to health. All major hospitals and physiotherapists teach some kind of breathing which is
supposed to help a little. But what thought or research has actually been done on
breathing levels? Has anyone actually measured the breathing of people with various
conditions - then compared them with very healthy people?
We know that when people are really ill or dying, their breathing is very clearly
different from when they were healthy. If you have seen someone on their death bed, you
may have noticed that their breathing gets deeper and deeper as they get closer to death.
You may also have noticed that the unconscious breathing of people who are in excellent
shape when they are at rest is so slight of depth that they appear to be completely
still.
This is the clue that started a young Russian Doctor on a path which has been at odds with
conventional practice since the 1940's. This clue led the young Doctor KP Buteyko to
develop a model which is easily able to give the cause of several diseases of the 20th
Century, including asthma.
It is very simple, and can be easily shown to be effective in practice. A simple
breath-holding test gives a different result when taken by an asthmatic. The worse the
condition, the lower the score. The less affected by asthma, the higher the score. After a
little practice with other breathing exercises, your asthma decreases as your score
increases.
Take the simple test called a "Measurement (or Control) Pause" now.
The Control Pause - is a Simple Breath Test
1. Sit comfortably in an upright chair, relax and breathe out.
2. Breathe in normally and out again, holding after the out breath.
3. Count the seconds using a stopwatch until you feel the first urge
to breathe in again.
4. Breathe in through your nose without gulping for air.
5. The number of seconds you counted is your control pause.
The ideal control pause is 60 seconds. A control pause of 40 to 60 seconds denotes good
health. If you have a control pause of 30 seconds, you breathe twice the recommended
amount of air. A control pause of 15 seconds indicates that you breathe three to four
times the volume of air that is recommended. Most people with chronic health problems have
a control pause of less than 30 seconds.
You cannot be healthy of you breathe two, three, four or six times above the
recommended norm. It is very clear - health problems should be considered inevitable.
Buteyko is a clear and simple model of how changing your
breathing can change your health.
It explains clearly and simply the direct link between your breathing and symptoms like
asthma and migraine and hay fever.
It shows you the most effective way to change your breathing for better health.
And very importantly, it has been proven to work by tens of thousands of people, plus the
Clinical Trial which left absolutely no doubt.
You know that breathing is a vital part of your health. Buteyko shows why and how people
like you have used it for greater vitality and better health.
Research Findings, Clinical Trial - http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/xmas98/bowler/bowler.html
** Some text taken with permission from insteponline
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