{"id":5182,"date":"2019-08-08T22:42:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T16:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/?p=5182"},"modified":"2019-08-08T22:50:45","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T17:05:45","slug":"breathe-from-your-stomach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/2019\/08\/08\/breathe-from-your-stomach\/","title":{"rendered":"Breathe from your stomach"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Kin Leonn &#8211; There were days<\/h1>\n<p><iframe width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MygYThBtai0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>How often do you think about your <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-EFLRDNAx-Y\">breaths<\/a><\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>How often do you <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-EFLRDNAx-Y\">breathe<\/a><\/strong> from your stomach and not the chest?<\/p>\n<p>How often do you\u00a0even\u00a0care that you are actually ali<strong>v<\/strong>e?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You. Us, an average human at rest takes about <strong>14 to 20\u00a0breathes per minute<\/strong>, processing up\u00a0<strong><em>7-8 liters<\/em> <em>of air in that period<\/em><\/strong>, making roughly about <strong><em>21600-26000 breathes<\/em><\/strong> in an entire day, which totals up to <strong><em>11000-14000 liters of air per day<\/em><\/strong>. That&#8217;s a whole lot of air in and out our system. Amazing machine of us, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>But again, how often do you at least take a minute or two and mindfully, blissfully, lovingly, intently \u00a0&#8212; breathe?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Fucked? Hustling? Absentminded? Anxious? Passively scrolling through your phones? Lost in a thought spiral? Or absolutely deluded by your busy-ness mantra?<\/p>\n<p>Well, if so, allow me to remind you that &#8212; now my friend, the number of breathes you take has declined to almost half, i.e., from\u00a0<strong><em>14 to 20<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0breathes per minute to <em>4 to 6 breaths<\/em>\u00a0and that too barely filling your thirsty lungs let alone the stomach.<\/p>\n<p>You are basically, subtly, slowly, suffocating, contracting, straining and punishing your own <strong>body!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am aware, I get it. I can totally, totally understand that we all have reasons to forget that we even breathe &#8230;. &#8230;. \u00a0but, what we also have to realize and digest and vomit and eat the fact that a mindless breathing comes at an unfair expensive price!<\/p>\n<p>A lost sense of control.<\/p>\n<p>A lost sense of senses.<\/p>\n<p>A lost sense of the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A total lost.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Breathe from your stomach.<\/p>\n<p>My friend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Pondering&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"quote mediumText \" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div class=\"quoteDetails \">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-align: center;\"><br \/>\n<strong>i<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Make a place to sit down.<br \/>\nSit down. Be quiet.<br \/>\nYou must depend upon<br \/>\naffection, reading, knowledge,<br \/>\nskill\u2014more of each<br \/>\nthan you have\u2014inspiration<br \/>\nwork, growing older, patience,<br \/>\nfor patience joins time<br \/>\nto eternity\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>ii<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Breathe with unconditional breath<\/strong><br \/>\nthe unconditioned air.<br \/>\nShun electric wire.<br \/>\nCommunicate slowly. Live<br \/>\na three-dimensional life;<br \/>\nstay away from screens.<br \/>\nStay away from anything<br \/>\nthat obscures the place it is in.<br \/>\nThere are no unsacred places;<br \/>\nthere are only sacred places<br \/>\nand desecrated places.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>iii<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Accept what comes from silence.<br \/>\nMake the best you can of it.<br \/>\nOf the little words that come<br \/>\nout of the silence, like prayers<br \/>\nprayed back to the one who prays,<br \/>\nmake a poem that does not disturb<br \/>\nthe silence from which it came.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u2015 <span class=\"authorOrTitle\">Wendell Berry, <\/span><span id=\"quote_book_link_146152\"><a class=\"authorOrTitle\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/work\/quotes\/141045\">Given<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span> Kin Leonn &#8211; There were days How often do you think about your breaths? How often do you breathe from your stomach and not the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/2019\/08\/08\/breathe-from-your-stomach\/\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Breathe from your stomach<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5182"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5182"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5192,"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5182\/revisions\/5192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}