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From a book I read years ago: "a 1987 survey of cardiac arrests at the Menninger Clinic (quoted with great regularity in Rodale Press's various publications) r
by nprateem 8y ago
From a book I read years ago:
"a 1987 survey of cardiac arrests at the Menninger Clinic (quoted with great regularity in Rodale Press's various publications) reported that all heart attack victims represented in that survey sample were high chest breathers"
As opposed to belly/abodminal breathers. I can't find the actual survey though.
- Luc 8y agoBut why not mention the book's title. Oh look it's 'Path Notes of an American Ninja Master' - https://books.google.be/books?id=sTTzcNwWqPUC&lpg=PA62&ots=ISv6rlas6N&dq=a%201987%20survey%20of%20cardiac%20arrests%20at%20the%20Menninger%20Clinic%20(quoted%20with%20great%20regularity%20in%20Rodale%20Press's%20various%20publications)%20reported%20that%20all%20heart%20attack%20victims%20represented%20in%20that%20survey%20sample%20were%20high%20chest%20breathers%22&pg=PA62#v=onepage&q=a%201987%20survey%20of%20cardiac%20arrests%20at%20the%20Menninger%20Clinic%20(quoted%20with%20great%20regularity%20in%20Rodale%20Press's%20various%20publications)%20reported%20that%20all%20heart%20attack%20victims%20represented%20in%20that%20survey%20sample%20were%20high%20chest%20breathers%22&f=false https://books.google.be/books?id=sTTzcNwWqPUC&lpg=PA62&ots=I... Plenty more great quotes to be had in that book, for sure...
- nprateem 8y agoLike the part where he recounts his Kundalini awakening experience? Yeah, that blew me away. Even more when I realised it was real... Oh, and look, he triggered it - like many yogis - with breathing techniques...
- Luc 8y agoIt IS amazing what one can do to one's brain just by breathing! The laws of physics remain unchallenged by this, however.
- rishav_sharan 8y agoConsidering that number of "abdominal breathers" is miniscule compared to chest breathers, I assume that the latter will have higher number in almost any statistics.
- nprateem 8y agoCare to share the figures and your sources?
- SketchySeaBeast 8y agoI feel like there would be a lot of confounding factors here, I'd like to see the survey. People who are belly breathers are going to be people who are either avid practitioners of relaxation techniques (known to decrease incidents of heart attacks), people who are health aware enough to make it a priority, people who are physically fit enough to have found the technique naturally, or people who are engaged heavily in yoga (which will overlap with the relaxation techniques and fitness), and thus be in better shape than the average population.