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Close your right nostril with your thumb and breathe in through the left. Swap fingers at the top, breathe out through the right, in through the right, then out through the left. That is one round.
The fiddliness is not a flaw in the design. Keeping track of which nostril and which stage takes up just enough of your mind that there is little…
These practices are not only pleasant. They change things you could measure, which is worth knowing on the days when pleasant is not reason enough to bother.
Yoga and breath work tend to get filed under relaxation, and that undersells them. There are claims made about them shifting the chemistry involved…
Go slowly enough to learn something about yourself, rather than only a technique. What is worth keeping is knowing which breath does what in your body.
One round is rarely enough to tell. Try a breath for a minute or two, stop, and check what shifted: the chest, the shoulders, how loud your thoughts…
There are two skills here rather than one: letting your body move and settle in its own way, and being able to steer yourself deliberately towards rest or alertness. It is worth having both.
Most people are strong in one and shy of the other. If you always take charge, your body never gets to finish anything on its own. If you only ever…
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