Snuffle-snuffle type of breathing method

This pattern of exercise is very difficult to perform precisely. Therefore, only those who have mastered the four above described patterns of exercise are qualified to attempt this pattern.

The first step is to assume an upright posture and to perform three repetitions of the exercise described in Type 1. Next, purse your lips and expel all of the air from your lungs through your mouth in an attempt to empty your lungs com-pletely. Then, try to raise your diaphragm as high as possible. After exhaling completely, hold your breath. Then, keeping your posture natural, count "one, two, three." Inhale through the nose, filling the lungs to their full capacity. (No particular instructions are given.) After inhaling fully, hold your breath and count,

"one, two." Then exhale, through the nose, continuously in a series of short puffing actions, "snuffle, snuffle, snuffle." When no more air can be expelled through the nose, purse your lips and expel all remaining air through the mouth so that the lungs are completely empty.

Remember that your posture must remain upright at all times. Do not twist your body or you should experience a choking sensation. After expelling all air

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Nine Basic Methods for Breathing Exercise/87 from the lungs, hold your breath and count, "one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten." After counting up to ten, inhale slowly through the nose. Be careful, however, not to draw mucus or saliva into the trachea. If you are confused or flustered, you may be seized by a fit of coughing. Therefore, inhale as slowly and as quiety as possible. Inhale to full capacity. Then, hold your breath and count, "one, two." Then, expel air from the lungs, gradually, in a series of short puffiing actions, "snuffle, snuffle, snuffle." When no more air can be expelled from the lungs by puffing through the nose, purse your lips and expel all remaining air through the mouth, "foon." Then, hold your breath and count up to fifteen, "one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen." After counting, inhale through the nose. Having inhaled to the full capacity of the lungs, hold your breath and count, "one, two." Puff the air out through the nose, "snuffle, snuffle, snuffle." After puffing as much air as possible out through the nose, purse your lips and expel all remaining air through the mouth, "foon." Hei, hold your breath and count up to twenty, "one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty." Having counted up to twenty, inhale through the nose slowly. After having inhaled to the full capacity of the lungs, hold your breath and count, "one, two." Then, expel air through the nose in a series of short puffing actions, "snuffle, snuffle, snuffle." After puffing as much air as possible out through the nose, purse your lips and expel all remaining air through the mouth, "foon." Hold your breath and count up to twenty-five, "one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five." After counting, inhale through the nose slowly. Having inhaled to the full capacity of the lungs, hold your breath and count, "one, two." Then, expel air through the nose in puffing actions, "snuffle, snuffle, snuffle." After exhaling all air from the nose, then, purse your lips and expel the air from the mouth this time, "foon." Then, hold your breath and count up to thirty, "one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty." After counting, inhale through the nose. After having counted up to a high of thirty during the phase when you are holding your breath, perform the exercise in reverse, decreasing the count from thirty to twenty-five to twenty to fifteen and, finally, to ten.

It should take some three minutes and thirty seconds to perform a full repetition of this exercise pattern. This is a very difficult exercise, and those performing it sometimes experience a choking sensation. Therefore, do not force yourself to perform this practice. Once you become accustomed to it, however, you will feel refreshed and will enjoy a renewed vitality each time that you perform the exercise.

While exhaling air through the nose in a series of puffs, you must contract your abdominal region gradually. And when expelling air through the mouth, try to contract your abdomen further. To stop breathing, constrict the throat.

If you relax your abdomen while holding your breath, you will experience a sensation of the throat being drawn down into the lungs. In order to avoid such a distressing sensation, you must carefully relax your body. When drawing air into the lungs through the nose, do not inhale quickly, even if you feel as though you are choking. It is important to inhale quietly and calmly as if you were tasting the air.

Manual for this breathing exercise: You must concentrate your attention on holding your breath after expiration. Fix your eyes on a point on the floor, and do not think about anything. If you have some physical defect in your body, then concentrate your attention on that. You must imagine that while you are holding your breath, the physical deficiency is being removed by some powerful sucking force.

Inhale naturally, without paying any particular attention to doing so, but do draw the air into the lungs in separate motions, repeatedly, in order to regulate your respiration. Do not forget that the inspiration has to be done in one deep draught.

The average respiratory cycle of this exercise is between 1.5 and 3 times per minute, and ventilatory volume is around 3 to 5 liters per minute, As for abdom-inal pressure in this pattern of breathing exercise, it is regarded as being rather strong compared with abdominal pressures in the remainder of the nine basic breathing exercises. But the total pressure imposed on the abdominal region during this fifth exercise pattern is near zero, because negative pressure is imposed on the region while holding the breath, and this negative pressure offsets the positive pressure imposed on the abdominal parts while exhaling and inhaling actions are performed.

References: The heart rate observed in subjects who have finished this pattern

Heart rate Appearance rate of alpha wave Occipital

Nine Basic Methods for Breathing Exercise/89 of breathing exercise is slight higher than that registered by the same subjects while performing the exercise.

The alpha wave rate, recorded by electroencephalogram, showed an increase of 6.43 percent in the parietal region and 18.78 percent in the occipital region when compared with those rates recorded during the exercise.

Among the nine basic breathing practice patterns, this Type 5 pattern ranks eighth in terms of change in the alpha wave rate in the parietal region and second in terms of change in the occipital region. However, the margin of fluctuation between the alpha waves rates observed during the exercise and those observed after is greater than the margin observed in any of the other nine basic exercises.

Things to be remembered: Do not force yourself to perform this exercise, but try to perform at least one repetition of this pattern per day. It is desirable to temper the frequency of the exercise to the physical conditions of the exerciser. Do not perform this Type 5 exercise in conjunction with the Type 4 exercise. Rest quietly for about ten minutes after this exercise and also refrain from smoking for about fifteen minutes.