Breath infusion rate/ Absorption
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 5 years before May 27, 2018
MiBeloved 5 years ago
Email Remark / Questions:
When I do my light/soft rapid breathing which emphases the exhales, almost every time I find my self to be able to hold my breath for a fair long enough time, maybe even sometimes up to 2 minutes without feeling any strain to breath again.
With forceful Kapalbhati or Bhastrika this never happens.
This should mean that the lungs have actually taken the air in the system and starts distributing it here and there.
But there is also another explanation that when enough Carbon Dioxide have been extracted from the system by rapid breathing and while holding the breath is that you will feel like you don't need any air because the Carbon Dioxide isn't there to give you a sign of when to start breathing again, so that could mean that one holds his breath for long without having any air in the system and might lose conscious due to not starting to breath again?
How should one know the differences between the two?
MiBeloved's Response:
I can explain how the system which I use work. To actually comment about what you are doing, I would have to observe you doing this and then I could make an opinion. If you could send a video of some of your practice, then I might be able to comment on it.
In the system which I use, regardless of the rapid breathing method or even a slow delayed method, the idea is to ingest as much fresh air as possible. After a certain time of breathing, the student will get a signal that the lungs are not taking in any more air. Then the student stops the breath session.
He observes what happens to the air which was taken into the lungs, how it is distributed and where it is distributed to. As soon as the air is distributed, then the student begins a session of breaths again, either in the same posture or in a different posture.
And this keeps happening until the student is satisfied that the subtle body can take in no more fresh energy because it is saturated with that energy to the maximum capacity.
The holding of the breath after a session when one stops breathing, has a purpose in our system to check on the distribution of the energy which was infused and which was packed up in the system and was not distributed because too much of it was coming into the system, and the system just could not distribute so much fresh air at one time.
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I used the analogy of a warehouse before, where I stated it is like when you have a warehouse and someone brings a trunk load of items and dumps them at the door.
Because of the quantity of the items, the men who are packers will take some time to get those items cleared from the doorway. They not only have to remove those items from the blocked doorway but they must also pack away the items in the right places, on the right shelves, in the right packing rooms.
So when one does the infusion and then there is a large deposit of fresh air compressed into the lungs or just beyond the lung, then that energy is distributed when one stops breathing and so the yogi observes this distribution process. Those who are a little advanced do two things, they observe and they also direct where the infused energy goes by applying locks and willpower directions.
