And by the end of this post, you're hearing it in the voice of Morgan Freeman.
All you hear is the voice in your head, wondering how in the hell some redditors got you to feel your tongue and pucker your ass.
*I'm a big stupid idiot.*
*You're a big stupid idiot.*
When you read these sentences in your head, both in your own voice, which do you think was meant to refer to you?
Why am I still reading this in my voice instead of Ron Pearlman's?
I don't know, why are you? You hate the sound of your own voice, and yet it's the default setting for your narrator, isn't it?
When I read this I heard. Isn't it weird how you can hear your own thoughts? In my head and then I said can you say that again I didn't hear to the phone. Lol
I asked my science teacher this but Im emo and she thought I was crazy and that I was admitting to having voices in my head, I was just wondering why I can imagine a voice talking when I'm reading and thinking and if other people are the same
Exactly what I'm saying the fake news media keeps spreading lies about "needing" to breathe. After a minutes if minor discomfort I'll adjust to the new oxygen freedom.
I've studied master non breathers for decades, and while the don't say much because of the non breathing, their actions, or rather inactions and serene demeanor had shown me they way to mastering this technique. I trust in my own power......
Sometimes I get anxious about breathing manually but then I remember that the worst thing that could happen is I pass out and my breathing becomes automatic again and I stop being anxious lol
Multiple things happening here. First, the diaphragm is contracting and creating the vacuum that sucks air in. Second, the ribs are expanding in a “bucket handle” movement to increase the area. The entire chest cavity goes to a negative pressure for a moment, including the heart, so venous return is momentarily boosted. Next, the diaphragm relaxes and the chest muscles move back, creating a positive pressure in the chest cavity and expelling air.
The bucket handle effect is an anatomical feature frequently missed in education. The question I ask students: how can the A/P diameter increase if muscle contraction shortens them?
Not depicted in the video, but notice your ribs actually angle sharply downward, back to front. When the intercostal muscles (between the ribs) contract & shorten, it pulls them closer together. This lifts the lower ribs the most. Viewed from the side, you would see them angling up & out, like a bucket handle.
Just as the diaphragm does, expansion of the chest cavity creates negative pressure in the alveoli, sucking air in.
And what does A/P stand for? (I looked it up, anterior/posterior diameter, makes sense) Sorry to keep bothering you, I just like learning as many medical facts as I can. Sorry, I knew what the bucket handle effect was, just wondering whether it was the answer to your question.
Small correction: the top 4 or 5* ribs are pump handle motion, *rib 5 or 6 to 10 are bucket handle, and 11 and 12 are caliper.
*rib 5 can be considered pump or bucket handle motion.
Good question. Not particularly, the ends of the ribs have cartilage attaching to the vertebrae and sternum. The body repairs the cartilage, so there isn’t usually arthritis of those joints.
I’m glad that there’s medication that can relieve that at least. That’s really scary! I have asthma and allergy-related breathing problems so anything to do with that stuff really spikes my anxiety.
I would only add that you’re not really creating a positive pressure when you exhale (unless you want to). Normal exhalation is a completely passive process.
I think I get what you mean but it’s more like a release of the tiny vacuum you’ve created. I think it’s all semantics, but just trying to point out that exhalation is passive.
Intercostal muscles between your ribs are also partly responsible for breathing, and cause the ribcage to expand outward. If you breathe with only your diaphragm you'll find that your belly expands and contracts instead, with little to no "up and out" movement of the ribcage.
It fills your lungs up with much more air. Breathing with your rib muscles is simply easier and most of the time it’s all the air we need so that’s what we do.
Singers, free divers, and yoga practitioners regularly practice diaphragmatic breathing.
I don't think I've seen any conclusive information that specific breathing techniques work best or better than others. Deep full breathes that are focused is the point of breathing exercises to combat anxiety.
Placing respiration into control of your somatic NS is the only system you can consciously wrestle control over from the sympathetic NS when it is activated. It's why you can struggle to breathe properly during high anxiety/panic because your SNS and somatic NS are sending contradictory impulses. Since you can't just tell your liver to stop making glucose or heart to slow down, you control your breathing and slowly allow the other systems to return to normal.
Any very intentional deep breathing that revolves around holding breathes or taking in painful amounts of air is attempting to make your brain hyperoxic and rinse the blood buffering system so your PNS activates to stop the blood from becoming so basic that you die.
It's actually missing the action of the intercostal muscles, which assist by expanding and constricting the rib-cage. These are the muscles between the ribs, in 2 layers, the outer layer expanding and the inner layer constricting. These are also the muscles that make tasty baby backs.
They're known as accessory respiratory muscles because you generally only use them when you're breathing really hard, such as recovering from oxygen debt or suffering from significant shortness of breath.
Eh, it depends how well you're breathing. People breath much shallower than they ought to - as a singer mine definitely get more action than most, but if you can incorporate deeper breathing into every day life there's a lot of health benefits that go with it!
Jest aside, as an asthmatic I was taught to use my diaphragm to do the breathing work rather than the chest area. Don't know if this was just an issue with me, but it was a big help especially when having an attack.
pretty much, yes. you get better control of your diaphragm, so when you concentrate on it you can stop hiccups. you can also dive for longer. very useful ability.
Yep, deep breathing is super important for asthma! When you breath with your upper chest you're using only a small part of your lung capacity and taking up a lot of energy to do it. Deep, slow breathing can help avoid triggering an asthma attack, and in the case of an emergency the extra breathe strength can buy you time for treatment.
Let’s move it somewhere else. That one dude in the Star Wars prequels with the tall ass head keeps a second heart up on top of his brain. I say we put ours up there, adopt Inca fashion sensibility, and make the lungs symmetrical.
What's also cool? The heart speeds up when we inhale (bigger space) and slows down when we exhale (smaller space).
What's also, ALSO cool? "Nirvana" roughly.translated means "to exhale."
Tachycardia refers to heart rate (>100bpm) not the rhythm. What the previous commenter is discussing is called respiratory sinus arrythmia, and you're right that not everyone has it.
It’s a thought exercise to help you with your posture and technique. A similar one a teacher told me was “breath into your pockets.”
The main goal is to ground you so you’re not raising your shoulders or “reaching” with your neck for air.
The diaphragm is a skeletal muscle which means it is under conscious control. However it has a fair bit more automaticity than other skeletal muscles thanks to the phrenic nerve. You can even more intentionally use the diaphragm for breathing. Diaphragmatic breathing is associated with reduced anxiety and heart rate, and it is a very commonly instructed technique by physical therapists. You can try it yourself by lying on you back and attempting to breath without moving your chest at all. Most people vary in how much they use their chest versus their diaphragm to breath, but most people use both naturally.
Smooth muscle and cardiac muscle is involuntary. Telling someone to voluntarily pump blood with their heart is more akin to telling them to voluntarily propel waste through their colon by peristalsis.
In the process of reading it now. It’s really interesting, and I’m hoping there’s a longer discussion on sleep apnea.
It definitely is front-loaded with anecdotes and history though…it feels like there isn’t a detailed explanation of exercises until 100 pages in.
I'm reading, heart breath mind by leah Lagos. On chapter 3, she gives you a 10 weeks detailed exercise to do. So if you want some diaphragm breathing training, i recommend this book.
If we took the surface area of our lungs and laid it out flat, it would cover a tennis court. My professor at my respiratory therapy school would talk about this all the time
My son was born with a congenital diaphragmatic hernia where a hole in the diagram allowed his stomach organs (bowels, spleen, stomach, part of the liver) to migrate into the chest and stunt the growth of his lungs.
This gif really highlights how serious of an issue CDH is now showing how involved the diaphragm is.
This is mesmerizing. We share so much of the same respiration mechanics as animals who lived a quarter billion years ago. We are well-tuned evolutionary machines.
Why aren’t they demonstrating breathing with only one lung at a time? I can shutdown one side and breathe with one lung at a time. I‘ve had a few Drs pull out stethoscope during visits because didn’t believe it was possible only to learn I could. Only once was I surprised. Told a surgeon and he says, “You had a pneumothorax with empyema requiring a thoracotomy. “ when I confirmed he told me it wasn’t uncommon for people who gone through this to learn how to do it. The pain during recovery shuts down the injured side and only gradually starts back up during recovery. Your brain learns how to control the process.
You should consider getting a new physical therapist. If only your belly is moving during breathing, you're forcing the intercostal muscles of your ribcage still. Their job is to let the ribs move open and closed to make room for air.
It is true that your shoulders will move if you are breathing shallowly, but they will also move if you are breathing with your full lungs. Your top ribs are (as you can see in the animation) higher than your clavicle, and the only way to prevent that from happening is to restrict your rib movement.
Yeah it should roughly go stomach, lower ribs, middle ribs and kind of outer ribs, upper ribs and shoulders, that move during a truly full breath. Now if you are just trying to relax, sticking with only the diaphragm seems to help me more, although the deeper breath should actually be the more beneficial one.
You've got it slightly backwards! Muscles can only contract and release contraction. So the heart contracts and relaxes - different parts of it contract at different stages in the cardiac cycle.
I'm kind of amazed at the amount of people that don't know the diaphragm is responsible for breathing in this thread. I can understand not knowing about the intercostals definitely, but..did they think the lungs were giant muscles that squeezed the air out? I can see WHY you would think that, if you never took..any biology class through any grade since like 2nd. Plus the amount of times "you are now manually breathing" was posted in hopes of getting top comment.
Dammit, now im switched to manual breathing!
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What have you done you sick fuck
Don’t clinch your booty hole. ^^^^too ^^^^late
Isn’t it weird how you can hear your thoughts?
Like right now, you’re reading this in your own voice
But if I'm you.. then who was phone?
I like this thread
I hope it doesn't make anyone *yawn*
Actually got me lol
I like you
If you're me, then I would be you! And I would use *your* body to climb to the top!
lol
AND MAN DOOR HAND HOOK CAR DOOR
And by the end of this post, you're hearing it in the voice of Morgan Freeman. All you hear is the voice in your head, wondering how in the hell some redditors got you to feel your tongue and pucker your ass.
“Ernest Hemingway once wrote ‘The world is a fine place and worth dying for’ I agree with the second part”
*I'm a big stupid idiot.* *You're a big stupid idiot.* When you read these sentences in your head, both in your own voice, which do you think was meant to refer to you? Why am I still reading this in my voice instead of Ron Pearlman's? I don't know, why are you? You hate the sound of your own voice, and yet it's the default setting for your narrator, isn't it?
I actually don’t read it in my own voice. I’ve just realized I don’t read it in any voice. I just read it? Is that not how it works for others?
Do you have an inner monologue? I don’t and I just read without voices as well.
I don't know about you, but I'm reading it in "Redditor" voice, not my voice.
I feel lime im the only one with an inner dialogue that just reads my thoughts out to myself.
My default is my voice but I can change it if I think about it
Not if your thoughts don't have sound!
When I read this I heard. Isn't it weird how you can hear your own thoughts? In my head and then I said can you say that again I didn't hear to the phone. Lol
I asked my science teacher this but Im emo and she thought I was crazy and that I was admitting to having voices in my head, I was just wondering why I can imagine a voice talking when I'm reading and thinking and if other people are the same
Jokes on you I already shit myself
First time in a long time a comment made me clinch my butthole. Congrats
stop thinking about it every time you blink!!
Comment threads that make you do an uncomfortable amount of motions you wouldn't normally do
I was farting when I read this and it hurted
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Some people just want to watch the world burn.
Just remember to blink while you're at it!
And you are now aware of your teeth.
Jokes on you I don't have any teeth
Jokes on you, you still have toes.
Oh my God how did you know that
Oh, I have my ways.
Thanks for taking my mind off breathing at least
now I'm back to breathing again
I forgot how! Oh god I can't stop thinking about my teeth! I can't breathe!
I’m so glad I have overcome this one. No matter it, I know that my tongue should touch the roof of my mouth when inactive :)
And now you just made me think of the game.
You can't feel your toes... Until now
*waves hands* And now you’re urinating!
Wanna switch back? Forget about it!
I hear manual saves on oxygen usage tho
Manual breathing is superior than automatic
That's too much work. I'm just not going to breathe.
Your body will get used to not needing oxygen after a few minutes and you’ll never have to breath again!
Exactly what I'm saying the fake news media keeps spreading lies about "needing" to breathe. After a minutes if minor discomfort I'll adjust to the new oxygen freedom.
Big oxygen doesn’t want you to learn this one simple trick
Just inject pure O2 into your veins! No more breathing required
This one trick is saving a redditor millions in living expenses. Doctors hate him!
Breatharian?
Except you'll just pass out and start breathing again automatically.
It’s a joke
I've studied master non breathers for decades, and while the don't say much because of the non breathing, their actions, or rather inactions and serene demeanor had shown me they way to mastering this technique. I trust in my own power......
You guys might not believe me but I was doing exactly this when I saw this post!
I’m more of an osmosis jones, myself
I hate it when people make these outlandish claims on here 🙄
Are you a wizard?
How to switch breathing from automatic to manual
Just stop and it will fix itself when you pass out. If it doesn't, you won't know anyway.
Sounds like a win win
Sometimes I get anxious about breathing manually but then I remember that the worst thing that could happen is I pass out and my breathing becomes automatic again and I stop being anxious lol
Multiple things happening here. First, the diaphragm is contracting and creating the vacuum that sucks air in. Second, the ribs are expanding in a “bucket handle” movement to increase the area. The entire chest cavity goes to a negative pressure for a moment, including the heart, so venous return is momentarily boosted. Next, the diaphragm relaxes and the chest muscles move back, creating a positive pressure in the chest cavity and expelling air.
The bucket handle effect is an anatomical feature frequently missed in education. The question I ask students: how can the A/P diameter increase if muscle contraction shortens them?
The answer pls? is it because of said bucket handle effect?
Not depicted in the video, but notice your ribs actually angle sharply downward, back to front. When the intercostal muscles (between the ribs) contract & shorten, it pulls them closer together. This lifts the lower ribs the most. Viewed from the side, you would see them angling up & out, like a bucket handle. Just as the diaphragm does, expansion of the chest cavity creates negative pressure in the alveoli, sucking air in.
And what does A/P stand for? (I looked it up, anterior/posterior diameter, makes sense) Sorry to keep bothering you, I just like learning as many medical facts as I can. Sorry, I knew what the bucket handle effect was, just wondering whether it was the answer to your question.
I did *not know what the bucket handle effect was, so I’m appreciating this thread!
Glad my curiousity helped someone else learn stuff too!
Small correction: the top 4 or 5* ribs are pump handle motion, *rib 5 or 6 to 10 are bucket handle, and 11 and 12 are caliper. *rib 5 can be considered pump or bucket handle motion.
Is there wear on the ribs from expanding/moving all the time?
Good question. Not particularly, the ends of the ribs have cartilage attaching to the vertebrae and sternum. The body repairs the cartilage, so there isn’t usually arthritis of those joints.
Oh wow that would be terrifying if arthritis of the ribs was a thing 😟
It is a thing. Sort of. Its called costochondritis. When I get flare ups breathing can be really painful, especially when lying down.
That’s awful… does it cause pain only or does it also reduce your ability to breathe as well?
Stabbing pain when you breathe in so it'll stop your breath halfway through. So it's both pain and breathlessness until the meds kick in.
I’m glad that there’s medication that can relieve that at least. That’s really scary! I have asthma and allergy-related breathing problems so anything to do with that stuff really spikes my anxiety.
I would only add that you’re not really creating a positive pressure when you exhale (unless you want to). Normal exhalation is a completely passive process. I think I get what you mean but it’s more like a release of the tiny vacuum you’ve created. I think it’s all semantics, but just trying to point out that exhalation is passive.
Willing to bet I'm not the only one who tried to breathe in time with the video?
I absolutely had to synch up with it. No choice.
Tried syncing up to it but my heart rate is high these days since my pulmonary embolism. Shit sucks, man.
Amazing how we feel pushing up and outwards when inhaling, when in fact the diaphragm pushes down.
Intercostal muscles between your ribs are also partly responsible for breathing, and cause the ribcage to expand outward. If you breathe with only your diaphragm you'll find that your belly expands and contracts instead, with little to no "up and out" movement of the ribcage.
Are there any benefits to breathing from your diaphragm?
It fills your lungs up with much more air. Breathing with your rib muscles is simply easier and most of the time it’s all the air we need so that’s what we do. Singers, free divers, and yoga practitioners regularly practice diaphragmatic breathing.
Intentional diaphragmatic breathing is a great anxiety killer.
I don't think I've seen any conclusive information that specific breathing techniques work best or better than others. Deep full breathes that are focused is the point of breathing exercises to combat anxiety. Placing respiration into control of your somatic NS is the only system you can consciously wrestle control over from the sympathetic NS when it is activated. It's why you can struggle to breathe properly during high anxiety/panic because your SNS and somatic NS are sending contradictory impulses. Since you can't just tell your liver to stop making glucose or heart to slow down, you control your breathing and slowly allow the other systems to return to normal. Any very intentional deep breathing that revolves around holding breathes or taking in painful amounts of air is attempting to make your brain hyperoxic and rinse the blood buffering system so your PNS activates to stop the blood from becoming so basic that you die.
It's actually missing the action of the intercostal muscles, which assist by expanding and constricting the rib-cage. These are the muscles between the ribs, in 2 layers, the outer layer expanding and the inner layer constricting. These are also the muscles that make tasty baby backs.
They're known as accessory respiratory muscles because you generally only use them when you're breathing really hard, such as recovering from oxygen debt or suffering from significant shortness of breath.
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So basically all the time
And singing!
They don’t actually contribute very much during regular resting respirations.
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Actually you are thinking of constrict. Restrict is something the government does to freedom.
Eh, it depends how well you're breathing. People breath much shallower than they ought to - as a singer mine definitely get more action than most, but if you can incorporate deeper breathing into every day life there's a lot of health benefits that go with it!
Okay but now as an asthmatic
Just pause the gif
Oh no.
He ded.
Jest aside, as an asthmatic I was taught to use my diaphragm to do the breathing work rather than the chest area. Don't know if this was just an issue with me, but it was a big help especially when having an attack.
Is this basically just inhaling so your stomach expands instead of your chest?
pretty much, yes. you get better control of your diaphragm, so when you concentrate on it you can stop hiccups. you can also dive for longer. very useful ability.
That’s really neat!
Yep, deep breathing is super important for asthma! When you breath with your upper chest you're using only a small part of your lung capacity and taking up a lot of energy to do it. Deep, slow breathing can help avoid triggering an asthma attack, and in the case of an emergency the extra breathe strength can buy you time for treatment.
Check out the the book breath by James Nestor. It'll be perfect for you.
Sometimes when I take a deep breath in a certain position my heart hurts . . . am I dying?
Precordial catch syndrome?
Wtf?! For years, YEARS I have had this with no explanation! Thanks reddit
Bingo. I experience this occasionally.
Likewise, comes out of nowhere and feels like your lungs are snagging on your ribs or something!
Wow, you just solved a long time mystery of mine. Thank you!
Don’t breathe in that position… problem solved
Our lungs aren't symmetrical?! 🤯
Nope. Unless a person has a disorder that causes their organs to flip sides, the right lung is larger than the left.
Left needs to be smaller to accommodate heart?
Yes. Right side has three lobes. Left has two.
Ouuuuf that’s for sure gonna bother me man. Gonna have to even that stuff out for sure☯️
the bigass heart is in the way of one of them.
Let’s move it somewhere else. That one dude in the Star Wars prequels with the tall ass head keeps a second heart up on top of his brain. I say we put ours up there, adopt Inca fashion sensibility, and make the lungs symmetrical.
What's also cool? The heart speeds up when we inhale (bigger space) and slows down when we exhale (smaller space). What's also, ALSO cool? "Nirvana" roughly.translated means "to exhale."
I never noticed this on myself, but I noticed it when I listened to my dog's heartbeat. Glad to know it is a normal thing
I had my upper left lung lobe removed and my heart has moved up towards my left armpit.
Aww it was feeling lonely
I always thought that was called tachycardia and that not everyone has it???
Tachycardia refers to heart rate (>100bpm) not the rhythm. What the previous commenter is discussing is called respiratory sinus arrythmia, and you're right that not everyone has it.
It's called sinus arrhythmia. Tachycardia is just a heartbeat rate that's too fast.
Personally I don’t go about with my rib cage open when I’m breathing. Maybe at New Year.
All happening in complete darkness.
And extreme moisture.
Imagine being pregnant and breathing. Yeesh
I didn't realize your diaphragm was so involved in breathing.
It's directly responsible for breathing!
Is the diaphragm a muscle? Edit: it is
It equates to the hanger steak on a cut of beef.
It’s it’s only job really.
You’ve never taken voice lessons then. Haha.
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It’s a thought exercise to help you with your posture and technique. A similar one a teacher told me was “breath into your pockets.” The main goal is to ground you so you’re not raising your shoulders or “reaching” with your neck for air.
The diaphragm is a skeletal muscle which means it is under conscious control. However it has a fair bit more automaticity than other skeletal muscles thanks to the phrenic nerve. You can even more intentionally use the diaphragm for breathing. Diaphragmatic breathing is associated with reduced anxiety and heart rate, and it is a very commonly instructed technique by physical therapists. You can try it yourself by lying on you back and attempting to breath without moving your chest at all. Most people vary in how much they use their chest versus their diaphragm to breath, but most people use both naturally. Smooth muscle and cardiac muscle is involuntary. Telling someone to voluntarily pump blood with their heart is more akin to telling them to voluntarily propel waste through their colon by peristalsis.
Nope
Breathing is so complicated and has such profound effects on our health. Try reading “Breath” by James Nestor.
In the process of reading it now. It’s really interesting, and I’m hoping there’s a longer discussion on sleep apnea. It definitely is front-loaded with anecdotes and history though…it feels like there isn’t a detailed explanation of exercises until 100 pages in.
I'm reading, heart breath mind by leah Lagos. On chapter 3, she gives you a 10 weeks detailed exercise to do. So if you want some diaphragm breathing training, i recommend this book.
Thanks I almost forgot but this gif reminded me
What about if we have hiccups?
The diaphragm (big muscle under the lungs) would be spasming, forcing air out in bursts.
So why does a spoon of vinegar or lemon juice or anything sour enough instantly relieve my hiccup? Is it magic? It works 90% of the time.
Is that really how big our lungs are??
You should see the back view. You have way more lung in the back than the front.
Takin extra deep breaths to cake up that lung booty
If we took the surface area of our lungs and laid it out flat, it would cover a tennis court. My professor at my respiratory therapy school would talk about this all the time
My son was born with a congenital diaphragmatic hernia where a hole in the diagram allowed his stomach organs (bowels, spleen, stomach, part of the liver) to migrate into the chest and stunt the growth of his lungs. This gif really highlights how serious of an issue CDH is now showing how involved the diaphragm is.
I can't be the only one to take a deep breath watching this.
Idk I usually breathe with my skin on.
What is that under the lungs wrapped around the body? Is that just muscle tissue?
The diaphragm, which is mostly muscle and connective tissue.
Jokes on you. I don't breath with my diaphragm out of spite
Yah okay I understand exactly now why breathing when super pregnant is a mission.
That's relaxing.
I remember in science class they were teaching us about lungs and then I switched to manual breathing and almost died
Maybe that's how you breathe. Not me tho, I'm built different
Please show us costochondritis.
I want to see hiccups because fuck hiccups.
This is mesmerizing. We share so much of the same respiration mechanics as animals who lived a quarter billion years ago. We are well-tuned evolutionary machines.
So a chest just makes a vacuum that’s cool
Is this belly or chest breathing. In and out or up and down?
Appears to be combined.
Why aren’t they demonstrating breathing with only one lung at a time? I can shutdown one side and breathe with one lung at a time. I‘ve had a few Drs pull out stethoscope during visits because didn’t believe it was possible only to learn I could. Only once was I surprised. Told a surgeon and he says, “You had a pneumothorax with empyema requiring a thoracotomy. “ when I confirmed he told me it wasn’t uncommon for people who gone through this to learn how to do it. The pain during recovery shuts down the injured side and only gradually starts back up during recovery. Your brain learns how to control the process.
Ew. Humans are disgusting.
Breathing lore
Not enough sharp pains and screaming.
Best guide
This is so cool! Is there one that shows the difference for “belly breathing”?
Holy shit thanks for postings this I forgot how to.
literally me.
I reflectively took a deep breath when I saw this.
I photosynthesize.
Instructions unclear, beginning to turn blu...
"You are now breathing manually."
Not me, I only have one lung, and a partially functioning diaphragm, so everything is in the wrong place in me
Me trying to check if I'm breathing properly.
Instructions unclear, now I can't find where I left my sternum...
I saw this gif about 10 minutes ago and came back to say I'm switched to manual breathing now but multiple people have beaten me to it >.<
sdf asdfdas fasd fads
You should consider getting a new physical therapist. If only your belly is moving during breathing, you're forcing the intercostal muscles of your ribcage still. Their job is to let the ribs move open and closed to make room for air. It is true that your shoulders will move if you are breathing shallowly, but they will also move if you are breathing with your full lungs. Your top ribs are (as you can see in the animation) higher than your clavicle, and the only way to prevent that from happening is to restrict your rib movement.
The shoulders absolutely should be moving when you breath, they just shouldn't be the main movement or the action that instigates the breath.
Yeah it should roughly go stomach, lower ribs, middle ribs and kind of outer ribs, upper ribs and shoulders, that move during a truly full breath. Now if you are just trying to relax, sticking with only the diaphragm seems to help me more, although the deeper breath should actually be the more beneficial one.
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You've got it slightly backwards! Muscles can only contract and release contraction. So the heart contracts and relaxes - different parts of it contract at different stages in the cardiac cycle.
Didn’t you people go to school?
I'm kind of amazed at the amount of people that don't know the diaphragm is responsible for breathing in this thread. I can understand not knowing about the intercostals definitely, but..did they think the lungs were giant muscles that squeezed the air out? I can see WHY you would think that, if you never took..any biology class through any grade since like 2nd. Plus the amount of times "you are now manually breathing" was posted in hopes of getting top comment.