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Different traditions recommend different breathing techniques, but the most common teaching (that I've come across) is to not make any conscious effort to modif
by dood 13y ago
Different traditions recommend different breathing techniques, but the most common teaching (that I've come across) is to not make any conscious effort to modify your breathing, instead concentrating on simply observing the breath as it is.
- a8da6b0c91d 13y agoDeliberately lowering the breathing rate is extremely powerful. Who cares what some alleged "tradition" says. More powerful is vagus nerve stimulation coupled with reduced breathing. Hold your breath for a minute at a time with your face in cold water.
- shock 13y agoI care. Vipassana meditation is about observing reality as it is and accepting it. Trying to control the breathing would defeat the purpose. Other forms of meditation are based on controlling the breathing and in those cases the purpose and outcome would probably be different but not trying to control the breathing has definitely its uses.