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If anyone else was confused (I was and had to google), the practice of alternate nostril breathing entails physically obstructing alternating nostrils with a fi
by cwkoss 6y ago
If anyone else was confused (I was and had to google), the practice of alternate nostril breathing entails physically obstructing alternating nostrils with a finger as you take breaths.
- deeblering4 6y agoAt first, but once you reach nostril nirvana you unlock the ability to breathe with your third nostril
- yladiz 6y agoCan I consider my mouth my third nostril and reach nostril nirvana already?
- rajangdavis 6y agoYou were always there :)
- krtkush 6y agoOnly waiting to realize.
- dmitriid 6y agoThere's a joke in Russian quite popular among small kids: "The hedgehog learned to breathe through his butthole. One day he sat down to rest and suffocated". (Hedgehog is the hero if many slightly absurdist jokes).
- Yenrabbit 6y agoHedgehogs can't (to my knowledge), but turtles can! A fact that seeks any opportunity to be shared. (Example source: https://www.livescience.com/61018-turtles-breathe-through-butt.html https://www.livescience.com/61018-turtles-breathe-through-bu...)
- qwerty456127 6y agoLet me actually encourage you try this. Imagine you have a third nostril placed between the 2 real (forming a line or a triangle - whatever you like better), visualize and "sensualize" (do your best imagining it in details and feeling it) breathing through 3 nostrils. As a result this may trigger a nasal congestion relief. Try this the next time you catch a cold.
- voidhorse 6y agoThere’s an advanced variant in which you don’t use the fingers and attempt to manipulate the breath using the lungs only—its called anulom vilom
- IanSanders 6y agoThat can't be right, nostrils "merge" at the back of our throat?
- isoprophlex 6y agoNot going to lie: "Naturally we breath out of one nostril at a time" had me looking very confused! I even tried contorting my face to get one of my nostrils to close, haha
- kseistrup 6y agoIf you pay attention, one of the nostrils are likely to be more active (as measured in air flow) at a given time and the active nostril will switch side from time to time, perhaps something like every couple of hours.