RE: My Actifit Report Card: March 6 2019
Well, Ross Edgley credited his ability to pull a 1.4 ton car 26 miles, run a month of marathons barefoot, climb the height of Mt Everest on a rope in 19 hours, and swim the around all of England and Scotland to the Wim Hof method. He says it really promotes recovery in the body and without being able to recover so fully and adapt so well, he wouldn’t have been able to accomplish those feats. So, essentially, I’m interested in trying to aid my body’s healing and recovery from doing daily exercise through this morning breathing routine. Really, I’m just dabbling at the moment.
What surprised me, though, was how hard it is to take thirty deep breaths in a row. After 15 it really starts to feel like work. Today I tried doing quicker, shallower breaths, which seems to be how Wim does it. For the first four days I really took deep breaths and exhaled completely. That was a lot of work. I expected to go into hyperventilation mode today, but I think my allergies kept me from breathing hard enough to get there;-) The joys of spring.
I absolutely believe that this will heal your body. Just look at how oxygen heal (to a certain degree) a person who has trouble breathing. It gives your body strength, more clearheaded.
It is work. I have done this and I told you that the first few times, I hyperventilated, but, you learn. It is like climbing a mountain and trying to deep breathe.
Oh, allergies will affect it no doubt. Good luck. It was an amazing workout for my body, just the breathing alone.
I wish you luck, my friend! It will be interesting to see as you continue.
Thanks. I’m keeping at it. Changing locations and postures to see what works. I’m still having some allergy interference, but I’m enjoying doing the breathing first thing in the morning. I guess I would say that for effects, I’m feeling a calm of sorts within my body, almost under the skin that I’ve never really felt before. When I do the release and just wait for the urge to breathe, I experience quiet and calm, a feeling of floating through space, and this feeling seems to stick with me on some level throughout the day. It’s hard to describe.
I do know what you mean!! A calm, almost euphoric feeling. I always felt like it was almost like an out of body experience. One that I still find it hard to explain.
And honestly, it only had to do with the breathing.
So, I am excited for you and wish you luck in continuing. Slow and easy is what I recommend, letting your body work up to it. Sounds like you really have got it under control!
It does have an out of body experience to it, you’re right. Do you still do the breathing, or is it something you dabbled with and moved on from?
I did it for quite a while, more as an extension to meditating. It certainly pushed the experience for me. But, I haven't done it in a while. It does take extra time and energy and right at the moment, I have so little time.
But, just hearing you speak of your experience, it makes me want to push a little and try it again. It truly is an amazing feeling experience once you manage to control it in a proper manner.
It does take time. I’m wondering how long I can sustain it for. But since I don’t meditate, I’m thinking of it as a two for one deal in a sense, both of which are things that I ought to do.
When you say control it. Are you referring to the breathing (feelings of hyperventilating), or the feelings and sensations you have while not breathing?
Sorry for such a late reply!
When I say control it, I am talking about controlling the sensation I have while not breathing... which of course comes after I learn how NOT to hyperventilate.
How is it going for you?
And Happy St. Patrick's Day! 🍀
Actually, I got a cold, which I thought wasn’t supposed to happen while doing this;-) So that lead to a couple days off, but I’m doing it about five days a week. My hay fever is still making it difficult to breath well, and sometimes I sneeze when I’m holding my breath, so it’s not going all that smoothly. That said, my body seems to have settled into the pattern of it. Now, the extreme silence and out of body type sensation isn’t quite as profound feeling as it first was, and I’ve been feeling more tired throughout the day, which makes me wonder if this doesn’t quite agree with me. Then again, maybe the tiredness is more connected to my hay fever and not breathing well at night while sleeping.