origami_itto wrote:I wouldn't advise matching your breath to the movements. It's better to just ignore the breath and let it do what it needs to do. Focusing on the breath is for other work.
johnwang wrote:origami_itto wrote:I wouldn't advise matching your breath to the movements. It's better to just ignore the breath and let it do what it needs to do. Focusing on the breath is for other work.
What kind of "other work" are you talking about? If you don't coordinate breathing with your movement during solo form training, when do you train that?
It was May 1, just days after being diagnosed with a grade 1 right abductor strain, and Joc Pederson kicked off his flip flops by the Giants dugout steps.
Barefoot, the outfielder walked from the left field foul pole to the right field pole and back. Once he completed that task, he sat in the outfield grass with his heels clicking in a butterfly stretch pose.
The team had listed Pederson as day-to-day. He’d receive treatment and see how his groin reacted to working out. But this Oracle Park morning appeared more stroll than exercise.
But this activity is a practice called “grounding.” Just like training any muscle in the weight room, Pederson was training his mind. The concept of the meditation technique, essentially, is to feel connected to the earth below you. Shoes are a barrier to that. Removing them allows a positive and negative ion equilibrium, Martin said. It allows energy to flow.
johnwang wrote:origami_itto wrote:I wouldn't advise matching your breath to the movements. It's better to just ignore the breath and let it do what it needs to do. Focusing on the breath is for other work.
What kind of "other work" are you talking about? If you don't coordinate breathing with your movement during solo form training, when do you train that?
johnwang wrote:origami_itto wrote:I wouldn't advise matching your breath to the movements. It's better to just ignore the breath and let it do what it needs to do. Focusing on the breath is for other work.
What kind of "other work" are you talking about? If you don't coordinate breathing with your movement during solo form training, when do you train that?
origami_itto wrote:johnwang wrote:origami_itto wrote:I wouldn't advise matching your breath to the movements. It's better to just ignore the breath and let it do what it needs to do. Focusing on the breath is for other work.
What kind of "other work" are you talking about? If you don't coordinate breathing with your movement during solo form training, when do you train that?
In qigong/neigong exercises.
During the form my breathing is passive, the motion of my body moves my breath for me. In striking, I could throw one, two, three... ten punches on a single inhale and exhale. It's a circulation.
Giles wrote:In my opinion, doing one's standard basic form with a specific breathing pattern linked to the moves, or at least practicing this way most of the time, is a recipe for rigidity and inflexibility in both mind and body.
The attention of your Whole being should be on the spirit and not on the chi. If it is on the chi, there will be blocks. Those whose attention is on the chi have no power; those whose attention is not on the chi achieve essential hardness.
Trip wrote:
In the beginning,
Matching or coordinating your breathing to your external movements is prerequisite for awhile at first,
It helps with rhythm & in the development of open & close, Store & Release.
It can sorta act like finger pointing to that subtler movement of the body breath.
Where the movement is breathing: Opening & Closing
So, it'd be okay as long as you remember focusing on the breath is just the finger
pointing the way to subtler, harder to discern mind body breath
that includes the breathing, but is not led by the breathing.
That type of breathing feels almost same but not
They're braided so they can be hard to differentiate from one another
And, then once your mind and body breathes you take your focus off the finger.
Trip wrote:Matching or coordinating your breathing to your external movements ...
Trip wrote:Giles wrote:In my opinion, doing one's standard basic form with a specific breathing pattern linked to the moves, or at least practicing this way most of the time, is a recipe for rigidity and inflexibility in both mind and body.
In the beginning,
Matching or coordinating your breathing to your external movements is prerequisite for awhile at first,
It helps with rhythm & in the development of open & close, Store & Release.
It can sorta act like finger pointing to that subtler movement of the body breath.
Where the movement is breathing: Opening & Closing
So, it'd be okay as long as you remember focusing on the breath is just the finger
pointing the way to subtler, harder to discern mind body breath
that includes the breathing, but is not led by the breathing.
That type of breathing feels almost same but not
They're braided so they can be hard to differentiate from one another
And, then once your mind and body breathes you take your focus off the finger.
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