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The King of All Breaths

Altering Hemispheric Dominance in the Moment

a process from the vast array of modalities used by Resonance Repatterning.

The Balancing Breath

The Balancing Breath is also known as "The King of All Breaths."  This is because it balances the two hemispheres of the brain, synchronizing alpha brain waves in both hemispheres.  Breathing through one nostril activates the opposite brain hemisphere and can bring about temporary shifts in brain hemisphere usage.  Alternately breathing through both nostrils alternately activates both hemispheres. As it sends the chi life force through the left and right nostrils, it alternately stimulates the feminine, yin, relaxed, creative, inward-moving qualities of the left nostril/right brain and the masculine, yang, active, logical outward moving qualities of the right nostril/left brain. 

 You Try it

  • Inhale through your left nostril only by holding shut your right nostril with your right thumb. (on the outside of the nose!)
  • Breath out through the right nostril by holding shut your left nostril with your right index finger.
  • Inhale through your right nostril only by holding shut your left nostril with your right index finger.
  • Breath out through the left nostril by holding shut your right nostril with your right thumb.

 You Try it #2

  • If you're wanting to activate the left side of your brain, breath through your right nostril for a little bit.
  • If you're wanting to activate the right side of your brain, breath through your left nostril for a little bit.

 

Excerpt from p 54:

Breathing Right (and Left)


Ancient yogic techniques for changing mental or physiological states prescribed alternating one's breathing between the two nostrils. Research at the Davis Center for Behavioral Neurobiology, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, indicates that the nose is more than a mere olfactory device; it is an instrument for altering brain activity. EEG tests show a consistent relationship between nasal airflow and cerebral dominance.
The researcher, David Shannahoff-Khalsa, feels that his work demonstrates "the individual's ability to noninvasively, selectively, and predictably alter cerebral activity and associated physiological processes" and also implies that humans need not be helpless victims of a given emotional state. "If you want to alter an unwanted state," he said, "just breathe through the more congested nostril."12
Dr. I. N. Riga, an ear, nose and throat specialist from Bucharest, Romania, discovered that surgically correcting nasal deformities had the simultaneous benefit of curing physical and emotional ills. Of four hundred patients with nasal obstructions due to deviated septums, those who had breathed through the left nostril suffered from stress-related diseases (89 percent left-nostril breathers versus 29 percent of right-nostril breathers). Once their right-nasal passages were open, these former left-nostril breathers were relieved of their stress illnesses. This concurs with other research that indicates that the right brain usually is the source of negative stress. (See Chapter 14, Stress.)13

Let's Stay in Touch

It's always exciting to hear about positive changes!  Let me know what you've discovered using this modality?

 

 

Lynn

 

Reiki Master since 1997
 Certified Resonance Repatterning Practitioner since 1997

 

01/26/14

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Links

 

note: most links I find are about alternate nostril breathing which is similar to this without the increase & then decrease in speed.  if you find a link on the Steam-Engine Breath specifically, let me know!

Books & Links

These sites have some interesting things. 

Here's some of my favorites!

 

Books

I love books! These top three books help explain some about Resonance Repatterning® and PSYCH-KTM.  I have reviews of and comments about more books with links into Amazon in my original 'Bookstore' as well as a bigger but less verbose Amazon eStore.  Whenever I do online group Resonance Repatterning® series, I include books I've referenced in the resources sections for that series.  

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