How Much Should I Fill the Lungs? - Resonant Breathing

Summary

August 20, 2021, 19 min

How much to fill and empty the lungs in resonant breathing: comfort rules, shoulders stay down, and a contracting stomach is fine as the breath progresses toward the Tranquil Breath. Meditation is then reduced to two essentials — an easy, comfortable parasympathetic state and right-brain expansion through Hakalau — plus a reminder not to take life too seriously.

In this video

Teaches

HRV ResonanceParasympathetic nervous systemExpansion

Discusses

Sympathetic nervous systemDorsal Vagal ComplexStruggle in meditationDiaphragmatic breathingSitting Very Still (SVS)Tranquil BreathHakalauLeft and right brainDream nature of lifeVentral Vagal Complex

Mentions

Meditation postureFour Proofs of MeditationSamadhiRoll-Up of ConsciousnessOM Japa in the ChakrasFreeze ResponseThree EssentialsSpiritual eyeTemporal lobe

Key moments

00:00How much to fill and empty the lungs in resonant breathing 01:01The overriding rule: everything easy and comfortable 02:21Don't raise the shoulders on the inbreath 03:27Breathing in meditation is a progression 05:06How far to breathe out: the stomach may contract 06:17Limbs, head and chest stay still; the gut can move 07:21Find a comfortable rate under seven breaths per minute 08:42Watch a sleeper to see the tranquil breath disappear 09:45The two things meditation needs: parasympathetic and expansion 10:38Hakalau: look at one dot and open the peripheral vision 11:25Expanding in meditation, with or without the spiritual light 12:34Is it easy, comfortable and fun?12:59Ashram story: belly laughing at Dumb and Dumber 14:30It's all hallucination through the temporal lobe 15:43Joy in the ventral vagal and the Cheshire Cat grin 16:42It's okay to be sympathetic now and then 17:13The essential ingredients are already inside you