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Taoist Breathing
Why Learn Breathing?
Western and Eastern medical practitioners consider good breathing habits to be essential components of health.
Unfortunately, the most people have poor breathing habits. They take shallow breaths, only use a portion of their lungs,
even when they believe they are taking deep breaths, and hold their breath--especially when they become nervous or
tense.

Breathing well is vitally important to your health. No other health practice is capable of producing such dramatic and life-
changing results, for the amount of effort put in, as the conscious practice of learning to breathe with your entire body in a
relaxed, circular manner, without holding your breath. Breathing with the whole body has been used for millennia to
enhance the ability to dissolve and release energy blockages in the mind/body, enhancing well-being and spiritual
awareness.
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Breathing Techniques: Taoist vs. Pranayama Systems
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Eastern medical systems have brought two major breathing systems to the West: one is pranayama or yogic breathing and
the other is Taoist breathing. These systems have many similarities, including:

Breathing techniques to make conscious contact with your chi or prana

The aim of lengthening inhales/exhales
Proper body alignments while breathing
Breathing for longevity and to counter aging
Breathing to create physical, energteic, emotional, mental and psychic power.

However, they also have fundamental differences. Unlike pranayama, Taoist breathing emphasizes kidney breathing and
lower/upper back breathing. The breath is alway done with both nostrils and there is no breathing into the front of the
chest.

The major difference is that many core pranayama breathing techniques involve holding the breath. In Taoist breathing,
you never hold or restrict the breath since it can create tension and thereby negatively pattern the nervous system--the
exact opposite of Taoist breathing goals.

Taoist Longevity Breathing Program

Energy Arts teaches a Taoist breathing system based on ancient, time-tested techniques used for centuries to improve
the quality of your breath, help you feel more alive and build your chi.

When I returned from my studies in China, India and Japan, I sat down and distilled all that I had learned about Taoist
breathing into a program that makes these practices accessible to Westerners. These methods may be quite different from
those that other teachers use to teach Taoist breathing.

I call my program Longevity Breathing™ because it's a step-by-step method for helping you learn Taoist breathing. Taoist
Longevity Breathing can be practiced alone, although it's especially useful for practitioners of martial arts, tai chi, yoga or
meditation. The purpose of Taoist Longevity Breathing is to create relaxed, circular, whole-body breathing. This means
Taoist Longevity Breathing can be done 24 hours a day, throughout the day, recharging your system and helping you feel
more alive in every moment.
--Bruce Frantzis

Benefits of Taoist Breathing

The basic techniques of Taoist Longevity Breathing get everything inside your body moving and in synch with the rhythm
of your breathing. It wakes up the inside of your body and makes it incredibly healthy. The methodology cultivates your
ability to relax at any time and concentrate for long periods.

Taoist Longevity Breathing:

Facilatates oxygen intake and the balances the oxygen-carbon dioxide exhange in the body
Fully expells carbon dioxide
Retrains your nervous system to relax
Improves the functioning of your internal organs
Increases chi reserves in the body.

Taoist Longevity Breathing Increases Oxygen Levels

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Taoist Longevity Breathing does the same. When qigong is practiced along with
Taoist Longevity Breathing, the flow of oxygen will become smooth and balanced
throughout your body.

Taoist Longevity Breathing Gets Rid of Carbon Dioxide

Taoist Longevity Breathing gets rid of carbon dioxide and increases the usable
oxygen that you inhale. Even if you can inhale sufficiently to pull in enough oxygen
to your system, you might not exhale deeply or long enough to get rid of all the
carbon dioxide in your body. For most people, a quarter or so reserve at the bottom
of the lungs is always filled with carbon dioxide.

This leaves only three quarters of the lungs free for oxygen intake on the next
inhale. This causes the exhale to become even weaker, diminishing the body's
ability to procure oxygen from the air. Exhaling insufficiently:

Diminishes oxygen intake

Causes toxic waste products build up in the blood, which often results in
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Taoist Longevity Breathing Helps You Relax

Taoist Longevity Breathing helps you create and stabilize a strong, steady breathing pattern that will mitigate excessive
emotional swings. It retrains your nervous system to relax and make your thoughts smoother and more comfortable.
Studying your breathing patterns can make you aware of the ways your moods and emotions change.

For example, fear tends to produce erratic, strained or weak breathing patterns. Holding the breath is often a preceded by
violent, angry explosions. Likewise, holding the breath without realizing it is part of a reaction to stress and tends to
increase its severity. Shallow breathing makes people prone to lung weaknesses in the face of environmental problems,
such as polluted air, and can also lead to depression.

Taoist Longevity Breathing Improves the Functioning of Internal Organs

According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, the ability of your breathing to improve the functioning of your internal organs--
liver, kidneys, heart, spleen and lungs--is as valuable as increasing oxygen intake. Taoist Longevity Breathing methods
transfer the pressure from air coming into the lungs to the internal organs, especially the heart. This provides a gentle yet
firm massage for the organs while increasing blood and chi flow that helps to optimize their natural range of movement.

When the range of motion of your internal organs diminish, blood flow to your internal organs also diminishes, blocking the
smooth flow of energy. Other effects include the gradual shortening of your ligaments and restricted movement of your
organs. Bodily functions will gradually weaken and disease will eventually strike

Breathing well throughout your day is the best prevention!

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