Reset Your Breathing & Reduce Stress (Alexander Technique)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ม.ค. 2022
- Well, it's all in the title really 🙂 A quick exercise/procedure to free up your breathing and lower your stress response.
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havent' been able to breath fully for 2-3 years. thank you.
So pleased to hear you've benefited 🙏
i keep trying even other methods it seems to happen, NEVER give up!
Very helpful - helps with my knee athritis.
great video. thank you, it's just what i needed
Thank you, appreciate the feedback 🙏 😊
Thanking you so much, that has helped!
That's great to hear 🙂, thank you for the feedback 🙏
That was really helpful! Thank You!
Thank you 🙏
It makes me anxious to watch this video cuz it took so long to get to the point
Super content andrian. Keeo itup
Thank you, really appreciate that 🙏 😊
This is fabulous. Thank you for this. I’d love to know more about ‘the whispered R’.
Thanks Anne, really appreciate the feedback 🙏
You can find a full description of the Whispered Ah here:
www.alexander-technique.london/articles/defining-the-alexander-technique/the-whispered-ah/
very cool! i have had air hunger/restricted breathing since childhood and doing this exercise a couple times i could feel my rib cage loosen up quite a bit. i'll keep practicing and learning more about the alexander technique, thank you for sharing!
Great to hear how you've benefited, thanks for sharing.
how did it go, after a year, did you get rid of the problem?
Hi Adriene,
i sent this video, stressed from sleeping all day, and not being able to sleep at night.
i dont know what happen with her sleep, but, she said,
That diaphragmatic breathing is good for the spine that he spoke about.
comes together nicely with square breathing which ive been at for a while now
Thank you, this has really helped me a lot, and is really well explained. I had been experiencing the need to periodically take deep breaths after recovering from Covid recently but was unable to satisfy the need, and felt stressed as a result. After doing the technique I felt an instant improvement and after 24 hrs it has pretty much gone away. Will continue with the exercises and investigate more videos. Thank you so much 🙏
Thank you Lesley, really pleased to hear you benefited from this 🙏
@Leslie Hamilton I have the same issue post Covid! I’ve had severe breathlessness for 2 months and then it turned into a need to take a deep breath every 2-3 minutes… how are you now? Did you have long Covid?
@@vanjacalantropo good now thanks, just had fatigue post Covid but recovered now thankfully, hope you are too
@@vanjacalantropohi. I’ve had this for nearly 18 months now. What did you guys do to get better?
@@Joseph-ju6ov I’ve tried various breathing exercises but I still have it.
I am from Brazil. I am here, cause I did not find anything about this in my language. I Hope I'll get better! Thanks
Olà, hope it helps 🙂
@@AdrianFarrell thank you!
Thank you!! How is this different from Buteyko method? Is holding your breath upon you exhale the only difference?
Hi Lola,
Sorry to hear about your Long Covid, I really worry how much it's being swept under the carpet, and sufferers not being offered enough support.
Tbh, I know absolutely nothing about the Buteyko method, although I have heard of it.
You don't absolutely have to hold the out breath, it's only so you can become aware of the tension it takes to hold the breath out so you can get a good sense of releasing that tension to allow air to be drawn back in without any intentional effort. You can release the breath as soon you have a good sense that you've reached the furthest point of the out breath.
Another alternative is to hold it out indefinitely until you instinctively feel its enough. What will happen is the blood oxygen levels will get lower so that when you release the held out breath the breathing mechanisms will instinctively make the following in breath deeper. This will generate more movement in the rib cage helping to free it up.
I hope you get some benefits from trying this out, do let me know.
@@AdrianFarrell thank you very much!!
@@vanjacalantropohow have you been getting on?
I'm stuck on manual breathing & I cant stop thinking aboutmy breathing. . How do I back to automatic breathing?😫
What do you do in your sleep? Not being facetious, but encouraging a sense of confidence that you will be breathed. Do the breathing exercise first for a few minutes, then spend a few minutes observing that you are being moved through breathing. Whenever you feel like you have to manually join in, either resist the temptation the best you can, or only join in by manually breathing out, never in (for this exercise).
It can be helpful to understand that even at the end of a full intentional out breath, there's still over 50% of your lung capacity holding air.
Just a quick question? Is it like normal breathe in, breathe out exercise where you just blow out naturally, pause for a sec and then inhale and then repeat. Please advice? I have been facing this for a really long time
Hi, sorry for the slow reply, I missed your comment for some reason.
It's slightly different in that you only intentionally blow out at the natural end of the out breath, extending it a bit further. The rest of the breathing cycle is done for you without actively being involved, just as when you're not thinking about your breathing, or asleep.
i have a question do you breath in to your belly low or do you breath high in the ribcage. When i breath in to my belly and then out i get the urge to take a breath
Hi, sorry for the slow reply. The point of the exercise is that you don't actively breathe in at all, you just let the in breath do it's own thing just as it would when you're asleep. You only actively do the long out breath in the exercise. The purpose is to down regulate your nervous system & release the diaphragm (which long out breaths do), and generally give your breathing habits a reboot.
Wondering if the undetermined amount of time effect was like swimming the length of or across the pool underwater and big breath in on resurfacing.
I shall give my intercostals a check in 😀 on dry land first.
Thank you from my psns 😀
Have you dealt with people who have chronic hair hunger. I've had this since I was about 16 years old and it's progressively done worse. It's led me to develop an anxiety disorder where if I feel like I can't catch my breath I have panic attacks I would say this air hunger situation has definitely lowered my quality of life I've been looking for solutions so long and willing to give coaching a try. I've seen doctors therapists everyone says I'm fine but yet I get the spouts of not being able to breathe please let me know
Hi, I haven't personally worked with anyone with acute air hunger (I know colleagues who have), only a few people with milder behaviour, but my advice would be the same. Use this breathing exercise whilst lying in semi-supine /Constructive Rest for 15-20 minutes a day, and once you've got your nervous system nice and quiet, get up slowly and see if you can carry that quality of quietness with you into activity. Every time you feel anxiety starting to build, stop, take a long out breath and reset yourself. To add more detail, you need to be aware of some of the physical manifestations of anxiety that you also need to learn to inhibit. Classical Alexander Technique that any teacher can show you.
If you can't find a teacher near you consider looking into online lessons (which I also provide)
www.alexander-technique.london/2015/05/04/alexander-technique-exercise-semi-supine/
My god I have this exact same thing. Sibce I had covid in jan 2022. Completely ruined my life, how have you been getting better?
@@Joseph-ju6ov sometimes the viral infection from covid can damage the vagus nerve which leads to breathing problems
Can this technique be done while walking outside?
Yes, although probably best when not in a hurry 🙂
i was listening to Doron, talking about see saw breathing. (non- breathing) , maybe hewas with Feldenkreis , tha that's why i never saw that on your breathing page.
Hi Cindy, I'm not familiar with Doron or Saw breathing, but conceptually I like non-breathing, as in, you will be breathed. It would make a good video actually. My video is more about helping to release the interference that gets in the way of non-breathing, but it would of course be useful to recognise what those interferences might look like, and what breathing actually is, which is actually movement of your torso, and has nothing to do with your nose and mouth.
@@AdrianFarrell i would like to see that, i know i have seen that from several AT teachers, "see saw", the "whispered ah"
tonight for some reason i am all stuffed up, my sinus, i vagly remember Pete Egoscue had a sitting body movement to help sinuses?
Do you have something that you would do ?
ive had air hunger for 2 years. its so bad that i stopped talking all together because i can barely say 3 words before i either slurr my words or i have to inhale hard.....
how long does it take to reverse this with active practice?
Hi, I've had a related question that I haven't had the time to reply properly to yet, so I think I'll reply fully by answering these questions in another video, a part 2 to this one. I'll hopefully record it next week once my kids are back to school.
@@AdrianFarrell ok i subbed and belled so im expecting that video!:-) have a great day.
@PFSNorge thank you 🙏 It's officially on my to do list for next week.
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I am not clearly understanding hw u done exercise
The simple version is, actively breath out as far as your can, then relax and allow yourself to be breathed in without getting actively involved.