Breath smarter like a Martial Artist, the natural way

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(urbansamurai) Why do human beings find it so hard to behave naturally? You look at any other living thing you care to name, be it a plant, an animal, even a rock can be more natural than your average human being. Somewhere along the line we have allowed ourselves to forget what it means to do things naturally. The consciousness we have evolved over time, the ability to think, although a great gift is also in some ways a curse, even a hindrance in some cases. Breathing, for example. We have forgotten how to breathe, as unbelievable as that may sound. Or rather, we have forgotten how to breathe correctly.

Breathe Smarter
The proper, smarter way to breathe correctly (and I say this at the risk of incurring the contempt of Chris at Martial Development who wrote his own article on the subject) is naturally.
Just to explain. Breathing naturally means breathing through the nose and out through the mouth, whenever possible. It is not always possible to keep breathing through your nose, sometimes you have to take air in through the mouth first, and sometimes you have to gasp for it like a fish out of water.
Martial artists especially would know this. At least you should know it. A lot has been said and written on the subject of breathing over the years, some of it quite illuminating and instructive, some of it intellectualised twaddle. There exists so many different takes on how to breath correctly, especially in the martial arts, that it all overshadows the truth of the matter, which is that breathing correctly means breathing naturally. (more…)