Hello,
My name is Clyde and thanks for stopping by here on my page on Insect Timer.
I just wanted to have a.
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Very short chat about breathwork and breathing.
Some of the misconceptions that I had about breathwork when I first started to kind of dip into the practice.
And.
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Hopefully that kind of resonates with some people.
I'd actually come from doing yoga for quite a long time before I started to look into breathwork.
Back then I hadn't realised that yoga and pranayama and everything were all connected.
For me at the start,
Yoga was very much just a physical practice.
And it took some time before I realised that it was much more than that.
Before I started to dig into Pranayama,
I went for the avenue of breathwork.
I was really into the kind of more intense.
Strong breathing practices,
You know,
The ones with the really big inhales,
Exhales,
Holding the breath at the bottom,
Holding the breath at the top for longer periods of time.
All these sensations going on.
And I was quite hooked on it I suppose at the start and I think I My understanding was that that's what breathwork was.
Everything was this really strong,
Intense breathing practices,
And if you weren't doing it that way.
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You weren't doing it right or you weren't doing anything at all really.
And After some time,
Like most people,
I started to dig a little bit deeper and find out more about the practice and the roots of where many of these things come from.
Started to diversify my practice a little bit.
And lean more heavily into the how would I say it,
The more kind of subtle breathing techniques,
The ones that on the surface don't really look like.
Much is happening.
It doesn't really look like you're doing an awful lot.
But what I found was quite the opposite,
These more.
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Um.
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Not sure what the word is I'm searching for but these less dramatic techniques I guess we could say were actually having quite profound or invoking quite profound changes for me.
And I think that many people.
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Maybe see this breathwork because we see it online and feel like it's this kind of intense breathing,
I might be slightly put off of that because there can be obviously a strong emotional release and everything that can come with that.
And not that there's anything wrong with that when it's done in the right environment,
There's absolutely a place for it.
But I think it's important that people know that that's just not the whole picture and there is another side to it that's a little bit more,
You know,
Kind of contained a little bit more mellow.
And equally you can get really massive benefits.
From doing the more kind of.
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Trying to think of what the word is.
I guess I'm just,
This is not exactly the word I'm searching for,
But the less intense appearing breathwork techniques can have profound changes.
So yeah,
I wouldn't discount it if you feel like it's something you want to dip into,
But the only way you can do it is by doing these really strong Intense breathing techniques,
That's actually not the case.
If you take some time to dig around,
There are lots of people that are offering something a little bit different from that.
So,
Yeah,
I hope that helps.
