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Awesome video. Kind of related to this, I have been trying meditating on the breath recently. I think part of the cause of my dp could perhaps be the distrust of my bodies own internal mechanisms. The brain can't possibly include all of our experience at once because everything cannot be contained in conscious awareness. So we make a best guess as the guy said. So during my weed panic attack my brains best guess was "this is bad. I'm breathing too fast. I don't trust my body". So from that I desperately tried to control my breathing, hold my breath, slow it down and go against my bodies natural internal mechanism. This is no doubt in my case related to trauma and was a coping mechanism. So my technique is to watch the breath in the nose and do my best not to move or control the breath.. extremely difficult to not control it as the sensation to breath is strong. But more and more I am breathing naturally. And maybe hyperventilation is involved with my dp
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Fascinating to really begin to connect the dots!
Your reply made me think immediately of this other ted talk that I've watched very recently.
Your reply made me think immediately of this other ted talk that I've watched very recently.
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Great video. He makes a lot of sense. I did give it a go and got a bit lightheaded. But the point he made about feeling the inhale on the side of the ribs made me breath a bit deeper. I will give this a go for a few mins a day and see how it goes. For now I am mainly meditating on the breath but not controlling it. And reminding myself that the slower I breath the more relaxed it makes me. I keep wanting to force the inhale and control my breathing and start breathing again when my body naturally stops.. so I focus on the breath in the nose and just let go of that control. It's only been a few days. Guna give it 4 weeks, half an hour a day. The weird thing with this meditation is that half an hour flies by. It feels like 10 minutes. Every other meditation has felt long amd drawn out. Not sure if that means anything yet but will keep people updated if anything improves. Have any Ted talks on not controlling the breath? Lol
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I am familiar with basic "pranayama"
Which loosely translates as "the science of breath"
First thing you'll likely hear with breathing meditation is to focus on the belly rising & falling with inhalation & exhalation.
That's where the diaphragm muscle is located, which is the breathing muscle.
One should ideally not breath with their chest or nose, but with the belly.
Which loosely translates as "the science of breath"
First thing you'll likely hear with breathing meditation is to focus on the belly rising & falling with inhalation & exhalation.
That's where the diaphragm muscle is located, which is the breathing muscle.
One should ideally not breath with their chest or nose, but with the belly.
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Yeh I'm familiar with pranayama to an extent. Some say belly others say nose. I'm focused on the nose but my focus is the breath. So I'm also aware of the belly and chest, shoulders rising etc.. some people have different 'anchors' to focus on for meditation. I tried the belly before.. for now I will see how it goes with the nose. But after a couple of minutes I'm aware of the breath as a whole and try to take it as perfect. By that I mean not changing it or slowing it or initiating the breath. It's really hard but getting easier. I think I need to find that trust in my breath again, perhaps it was lost in that panic attack.. who knows
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I need to trust my breath as well. Often times at night I'll find that I haven't been breathing, or if I was it was verrrry shallow.
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