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 Re: air support revisited
Author: EEBaum 
Date:   2007-09-19 05:28

I don't have the answers... I've gotten by very well thinking of it metaphorically. Even when someone says "breathe from here" etc., I think it's fairly common that people do something else that has the same effect.

From how your question was phrased, it almost looked like an invitation for people to offer competing metaphors, each claiming to be what's really happening.

The metaphors I cling to, the ones that work best for me, are ones that don't even focus on any particular breathing mechanic.

Thing is, we don't have direct control of lots of bodily processes. We don't consciously make our hearts beat or our foods digest. And we don't control the minutiae of breathing. So, while there's surely a "what's actually happening" answer, I'd wager that most people approach breathing from a more metaphorical, meta-level. Sometimes the most useful answers aren't entirely technically accurate, but it's the useful ones that persist, and that our teachers pass on to us.

-Alex
www.mostlydifferent.com
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