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The Science of the 7 cycle Breathing system
CYCLE OF SEVEN Maverick Wis«ard
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This may appear as just another system on breathing, but in fact it’s much more than that! It is about the awareness of breathing, something we do continually! We take between 18000 and up to at least 36000 breaths a day, yet we are so unaware of this until a problem comes up. In a general sense, we for the most part, have little common knowledge or any idea that it can be used as a tool, a tool to improve our lives; proper breathing will give us a form of clarity.

The earliest form of study on breath and breathing comes from the Pranayama, which is a study in the vital force, which is at the core of all life, without this form of energy, breathe, life could not exist. The Yoga Sutras written by Patanjali, a sixth-century Indian, states that when we are restless, upset, or befuddled more energy exists outside the body than within, leading to physical and mental illness, although it was largely a study of retention of the breath, it was in fact an attempt to understand the nature of breath. If there is only one thing that the past teachers would have agreed on, it’s the fact that breathing controls the machine we call the body. What they also felt was that the very act of breathing was connected with the very soul of man.

The act of breathing is something that does indeed cross the lines of human understanding, because it does so much without us knowing it, it affects both sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems, in other words it can calm us down or hype us up! It is both a function of the subconscious mind and a part of the conscious mind, it can be controlled! Breathing is both involuntary and voluntary, inhalation brings in oxygen, and exhalation removes impurities from the body, just by the act of awareness allows you to direct how it works, and how you breathe is up to you.

The benefits range from clearing and calming the mind, helping in focused attention and concentration, proper breathing can refresh and renew the body, and improves metabolic function and these are only a few of the benefits. Breath is the gas to the engine of the body to reach a full completeness of balance.

This is a part of the human landscape that needs to be addressed for us to have the understanding in order to reach beyond where we are, to where we could be. It really does not take an open mind but a mind that is informed of how breathing really does affect our everyday lives.