In my practice I begin the process by helping my patients to first notice and then describe the feelings in their bodies-not emotions such as anger or anxiety or fear but the physical sensations beneath the emotions: pressure, heat, muscular tension, tingling, caving in, feeling hollow, and so on. Physical self-awareness is the first step in releasing the tyranny of the past. ![]() ![]() In order to change, people need to become aware of their sensations and the way that their bodies interact with the world around them. The bodies of child-abuse victims are tense and defensive until they find a way to relax and feel safe. Being frightened means that you live in a body that is always on guard. Bridget Bentz, Molly Seavy-Nesper and Deborah Franklin adapted it for the Web.Trauma victims cannot recover until they become familiar with and befriend the sensations in their bodies. Sam Briger and Joel Wolfram produced and edited this interview for broadcast. They trained themselves to breathe in ways to profoundly affect their physical bodies. So some of these divers have a lung capacity of 14 liters, which is about double the size for a adult male. But we can absolutely affect our lung capacity. We've been told that whatever we have, whatever we're born with, is what we're going to have for the rest of our lives, especially as far as the organs are concerned. You watch this person at the surface take a single breath there and completely disappear into the ocean, come back five or six minutes later. When I first saw this, this was several years ago, I was sent out on a reporting assignment to write about a free-diving competition. Most divers will hold their breath for eight minutes, seven minutes, which is still incredible to me. On how free divers expand their lung capacity to hold their breath for several minutes So, by just extending those inhales and exhales, by moving that diaphragm up and down a little more, you can have a profound effect on your blood pressure, on your mental state. You want to make it very easy for your body to get air, especially if this is an act that we're doing 25,000 times a day. Or you can take a few very fluid and long strokes and get there so much more efficiently. It's going to take a while, but you'll get there. You can think about breathing as being in a boat, right? So you can take a bunch of very short, stilted strokes and you're going to get to where you want to go. On the problem with taking shallow breaths ![]() As we exhale, that blood shoots back out through the body. The diaphragm lowers when we take a breath in, and that sucks a bunch of blood - a huge profusion of blood - into the thoracic cavity. And something else happens when we take a very deep breath like this. As you exhale, you should be feeling your heart slow down. If you take a very slow inhale in, you're going to feel your heart speed up. Right now, you can put your hand over your heart. So the diaphragm lowers, you're allowing more air into your lungs and your body immediately switches to a relaxed state.īecause the exhale is a parasympathetic response. But by breathing slowly, that is associated with a relaxation response. Because if you think about it, if you're stressed out a tiger is going to come get you, you're going to get hit by a car, breathe, breathe, breathe as much as you can. And the way to change that is to breathe deeply. ![]() So you're stimulating that sympathetic side of the nervous system. So what happens when you breathe that much is you're constantly putting yourself into a state of stress. and he explained to me that people with anxieties or other fear-based conditions typically will breathe way too much.
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