Digestion/Stomach Highly Affected by Shallow Breath

[Guest guest]

I've found that in our culture people people tend to hold their stomachs in when

they breath. It seems most of their breath is done high up in their chest and

taken in smaller amounts than if they focused on using their diaphragm to

breathe with. Because of a culture that promotes skinny through the media,

models-magazine, tv, movies and being brought up with role models like Barbie &

Ken. We've adapted our physical body's to suck it up, tighten it up and pull it

back - along with our emotions as to how this might make us feel.

Chronic stress, fatigue and disease is rampant and we wonder why? It seems we've

adapted a shallow breath to avoid pushing open our bellies. Breathing shallow

breaths disables the full use of our diaphragm that in a normal breath massages

and relaxes everything below the lungs. With shallow breathing, our breath is

done in small amounts high up in our chest with our bellies pulled back on the

inhales (also promoting the unhealthy reciprocal or backward breath).

If you just close your eyes for a moment and let your breath sink down to the

base of your lungs pushing and opening everything below it (which is the

diaphragm muscle)you'll see that a normal breath opens the belly (if you watch

small babies or animals, they do it). When you sink your breath in this manner,

the inhales are longer and slower and as well as the exhales. You then have a

chance to relax your shoulders, neck and face as the breath exits. Thus

digestion is helped and all the other body systems benefit as well. I think

breathing normally helps the intuition to kick in better because when we are

more relaxed spirit flows through us better and we become more neutral in our

eating choices rather than sporadic. Any opinions?