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Hum. You cannot hum without a long out breath, so the technique makes you do it right whether you are concentrating or not.
Most breathing instructions leave you judging whether your exhale was really slow enough, which is a poor thing to be assessing while you are…
While you hum, put your attention on the tickle in your nose and lips. There is not much room left for the argument once you are following that.
Two things happen in the same breath. The exhale stretches out, which settles the body, and the buzzing gives your attention somewhere plain to sit,…
You may hear that humming floods you with nitric oxide and drops your blood pressure. Humming does raise nitric oxide in the nose. The rest of that sentence is a leap.
It is worth being careful with this, because a practice sold on a dramatic mechanism gets dropped when the mechanism turns out to be shaky. Hum…
Say out breath, not breath. Told to take a signal breath, most people pull air in hard, which stirs them up rather than settling them.
This is a small wording change that decides whether the technique works. Whether you are teaching someone else or reminding yourself, put the phase…
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In a hostile exchange, try a slow hmm instead of a reply. It sounds like someone thinking, and it puts a long out breath in the way of whatever you were about to say.
The sound we make when we are unsure is already in everyone's repertoire, and it reads as puzzlement rather than as a threat, so the other person has…