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>From an early age, you were likely taught to breathe with your upper chest. Wait, what? People are taught how to breathe? Is this really a thing?
by stevage 7y ago
>From an early age, you were likely taught to breathe with your upper chest.
Wait, what? People are taught how to breathe? Is this really a thing?
- dragonsh 7y agoNo it isn’t true most kids in India are taught to breathe through stomach not chest. Watch any lessons in pranayama you will know it’s part of daily routine taught to many Indians and now most yoga practitioners learn it.
- elliotec 7y agoDefinitely new to me.
- rmdashrfstar 7y agoGym class as a kid? Sports teams during high school (Running, Wrestling, Soccer, Football, Baseball, Lacrosse, etc)? Meditation practice?
- TheAdamAndChe 7y agoCartoons always show chest breathing.
- ksaj 7y agoI was taught that we learned bad breathing technique through learning how to speak. I don't really know how accurate that is, but non-speaking babies do proper breathing, and speaking age children no longer do for the most part, so there is correlation at the very least. It's anecdotal at best, but I didn't see anyone mentioning the speech aspect.
- bonoboTP 7y agoHaven't heard about it. I breathe with the "proper method" instinctively and never knew this was even a thing. Perhaps it's something specific to American culture.
- nradov 7y agoThere's really nothing in American culture about breathing one way or another.
- mr_overalls 7y agoI've heard this in a variety of meditation & martial arts communities. I think it's is more of a straw man that various groups use to build up the importance of their own methods.