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How do you breathe?

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2014-08-29 13:20

This is hopefully more of a survey type question because after a brief survey of my own the answers seem to vary quite a bit.

Here is what prompted this question. One particular student was gulping in air and getting less and less out of each successive intake. It was all too obvious that what was occurring was that more and more "used air" (carbon dioxide) was being left in the lungs with each successive desperate attempt for more oxygen.

It took this near suffocation event to make me recall my own desperate attempts to make breathing work. What I finally arrived at for myself is what I am to believe is the technique used by oboe players (since they must push air as much as we do BUT so little actually moves out that tiny aperture). I take in a full tank of air, and when I get to a breathing point (wherever that is) I release the remainder of what is in my lungs and take in a fresh full tank all in one go. This way there is no guess work or calculation as to how much air I will need; I am always ready for the next breath. Also, the times where I am consciously barely making it to the next breath are very few and far between (perhaps only 2% of situations).

So, do you take in a full breath (and release) all the time, or do you kinda take what you think you need at any given moment?

............Paul Aviles

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