I am a scientifically driven individual and do not believe in new age crap. However, I was visiting my mother who believes in new age phenomena and wanted me to try a new form of meditation. I was being open minded at the time and agreed to participate. I was purposely breathing rapidly and after about twenty minutes of the activity, my body felt strange and my face felt like it was pulsating.
I am typically against this new age crap, but I am baffled as to why I felt the way I did after.
You hyperventilated, it is a well-known phenomenon. You literally got high on a lack of oxygen.
While almost all new age stuff is bull, meditation is one of the few things that is scientifically proven to have physical benefits.
David Cooper
>Meditation >New Fucking retard
WOW! Hyperventilating makes you feel funny! :O
Colton Peterson
>scientifically proven to have physical benefits.
assuming you dont continue deprive your brain of oxygen and cause anymore brain damage.
Adam Turner
Most meditation doesn't involve hyperventilation, dumbass.
William Hernandez
My shoulders were actually extremely stiff and I was breathing with my diaphragm, not my ribcage.
Jeremiah Diaz
lmfao i was saying that meditation will have benefits for OP if OP does it without hyperventilating in the future. i was commenting to OP as an addition and tagged my own post, i guess i can see how that was confusing
Jason Bennett
OHHHHH that changes everything senpai!
James Reyes
>My shoulders were actually extremely stiff and I was breathing with my diaphragm, not my ribcage.
You hyperventilated. Where you breath from has nothing to do with hyperventilation. Regardless of the mechanism ventilating carbon dioxide faster than your body can produce carbon dioxide will have those effects you spoke of.
Why are you having a hard time accepting this?
Zachary Cruz
Because its completely different, idiot.
Juan Murphy
Okay so you're trolling?
I really dont get what you're on about otherwise. Regardless if you breath from your diaphragm or chest air is going into your lungs and back out again. Regardless how you move air in and out, it that rate is too high you will hyperventilate.
>Because its completely different, idiot. in terms of hyperventilation they arent. it is straightforward physiology. if you refuse to accept basic physiology then so be it..
Yes you are supposed to breath from your diaphragm when you meditate,(hell you should always do it), but the breaths should also be slower and deeper than you would take from the chest.
Logan Garcia
No, my chest and diaphragm are different. THAT's basic physiology. If you breathe with different organs, then you breathe differently. What's so hard to understand here? I wasn't just hyperventilating. I pulled something in my leg before and it felt better after I meditated. Would hyperventilation do that?
Jordan Perez
>ki is new age crap
There was this old chinese lady who worked with accupunture who was aquaintace of my mother when I was a kid. Every time someone said it wasn't real and it was just a superstition, she touch the person and give them a shock. I'm not saying it wasn't a cheap trick nor anything, it's just that I don't know about any physics course that teachs how to shock people on demand.
Austin Gonzalez
I don't know of any acupuncture course that does either
Jayden Price
Just because your too dumb too understand it; doesn't mean it's magic.
Ian Sanchez
>beeing this retarded I hope you don't believe that user, I really do.
Brody Scott
> Would hyperventilation do that? Possibly. Like how if you break your leg, and then break your neck, your leg doesn't hurt anymore.
Also you breath with your lungs. its one organ.
Wyatt Lee
Yeah but the meditation didn't HURT me, duh. It's totally different.
Oh okay, pedantic dick.
Hunter Brown
> then you breathe differently.
Already talked about this that how you breath in terms of method has absolutely no impact on whether or not you hyperventilate, but rather how quickly you do so with any method.
If you're truly struggling with this concept or refuse to research itself then you might as well believe in everything new age has to offer since you're already so apt at ignoring science.
How do you know it didn't hurt you? Having too much or not enough of something some molecule/air) can change how your nerves fire, maybe you just couldn't feel it anymore. Or maybe since you did it for 20 minutes it healed simply because 20 minutes had passed.
John Gomez
>Yeah but the meditation didn't HURT me, duh. It's totally different.
You're right, the oxygen deprivation from your shallow quick breathing did, which is not a required and actually discouraged when you meditate.
James Carter
>You literally got high on a lack of oxygen. That is not how hyperventilation works, please kys.
Chase Brown
>oxygen deprivation Refer to
Logan Phillips
Lets have a lesson:
Hyperventilation >This causes the concentration of carbon dioxide in the blood stream to fall and produces a state known as hypocapnia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperventilation
> Hypocapnia causes cerebral vasoconstriction, leading to cerebral hypoxia and this can cause transient dizziness, visual disturbances, and anxiety. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypocapnia
While technically the tingling comes from CO2 reduction, there still are harmful and euphoric effects caused by hypoxia. Why is this so hard to grasp? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respiratory_alkalosis
Hudson Murphy
You win this round, user. :^(
Henry Morgan
I'm dunno guys, I'm pretty sure she did it barehanded. Even if it was a pen it would de a darn good trick for nobody to notice.
Chase Turner
I genuinely dont think she went to these lengths, but hilarious that this exists nonetheless..
she probably wears slippers and walks on a rug, and it was static electricity build up
Sebastian Cruz
Ww-wow wh what what a bu b-bad thread.
Elijah Cox
I asked Jesus to come into my life in a moment when I was believing and the next day a god man took me in his home gave me drink food mandrakes and a holy Bible and I just saw a god proof thread thats only disputable by arguing the axiom that we exist. Am I le Reddit or what? Also how do I exit the highway to hell Lord Jesus please answer me and help me do it.i will obey you.
Landon Howard
Recognizing your sin is a good first step, but doesn't change anything, you'll still be barreling down the "highway to hell" lol.
Humbled Repentance is what you want - as clique as that may sound to you. Pridefulness vs Humbled. It is one of the first principles of the gospels [mathew, mark, luke, john] and is essential to our earthly and eternal happiness.
It is much more than just acknowledging wrongdoings. It is a change of mind and heart that gives us a fresh view about God, about ourselves, and about the world. You would ponder this while in prayer - which you'll have to figure out for yourself by first actually trying it.
You'll still be a "sinner", but humbled repentance helps you to turn away from sin and turn to God for forgiveness. It is motivated by love rather than motivated by your own prideful nature which leads to sin and the really shitty feeling you may know well.
Liam Johnson
Chi/ki is a very useful visualization trick. It's not "real" except in the sense that it's helpful to imagine that you're sending "energy" to different parts of your body to do stuff like lifting or yoga or martial arts.
