Nsima Inyang

That's why the stomach comes out when you exhale.

It goes back in but you'll also notice if I were trying to keep this really tight and breathe I'm gonna breathe

I'm gonna breathe up here.

My shoulders will rise.

My chest is gonna rise.

These auxiliary breathing muscles start working for me to breathe.

So it's not that you can't breathe that way, but when we think of the nervous system, we have our parasympathetic nervous system, which is rest and digest, keeps us calm.

We have our sympathetic nervous system.

It's when, oh, something shocked me.

I need to be ready.

What tends to happen when that happens is,

shallow breaths, because you need to be ready for what happens.

But the problem now is that a majority of people, especially those that are focused on like working on their bodies and looking good and the competitors that always do the waist stuff, majority of these people are now breathing here when they breathe.

even at rest they're they're having these shallow breaths right their diaphragm isn't moving because they want to keep their stomach they want to keep their six-pack they want to keep their stomach right right and this causes the tissues around here don't get a lot of movement so now you're holding excessive tension in your abdomen and excessive tension in your back and also follows along other tissues because now you're more tense your breaths your heart rate is going to be a little bit higher than it should be because now you're taking these shallow breaths up here and you're

When you see people start to panic, this is how they start to breathe.

But you're doing that to a low level all the time, chronically, even when you're asleep.

So just bringing a level of awareness to learning how to breathe diaphragmatically is gonna make a big difference for you.

Hickson Gracie has videos about this on YouTube.

And I'm gonna get to something about Hickson, because I love how he approaches the breath when it comes to movement.

But putting your hand on your lower chest, right?