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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	I'm typing this as I think tj333 so incongruence will abound. There is knowledge and there is understanding, the two do not always go together. We can study a subject, gain knowledge but have little or no understanding of it. We can understand something yet have little grasp of the fundamental forces involved. I understand what it is to feel love. Yet I do not know from whence it comes or why. I know in my mind I am conscious, yet I do not understand it or what constitutes mind. Theories in physics reside conceptually in the mind. Our dream state resides in that same mind, and in that "baseless fabric" that [i] [b] no thing[/b] [/i] we chart the course of our lives. I believe that in our rush, our obsession for empirical "truth" we as a race have lost a great deal of our primaeval intuition, our connection with nature. I will even go so far as to say that if we do not restore that connection if we do not maintain, we will be lost. What would you say if I said that I sincerely believe that most of the civilised world does not know how to breathe properly? That most fundamental aspect of living has been forgotten. Perhaps this is just as bad in the undeveloped world too I'm not sure about that. Examine your breathing, do you breathe through your nose or your mouth. Do you breath from your solar plexus or more from your chest and upper body? Has Tao flipped again :) Generally, one should breathe in slowly through the nose, first filling the lower part of your lungs. Place your hand just below your sternum, as you breathe in, that should be the first part of your lungs that fill with air. Then, still breathing in slowly, you begin to fill the mid then the upper section of your lungs so that as you reach full capacity, and only then, your shoulders may rise. Hold that for a moment then slowly exhale by compressing your solar plexus pushing out the air from the bottom of your lungs, then the mid, then the upper sections. This should be practised until it becomes second nature. Don't over do it and hyperventilate, slowly slowly the lesson's learned true. I realise this may sound a bit over the top but it is extremely important to understand, it is the breath of life. Those studying martial arts will know the importance of correct breathing. Indeed a strike to the solar plexus can be fatal. Why do I mention all this breathing malarkey? Well my intention is to illustrate how we as individuals and as a race can "forget" something as fundamental as breathing correctly, then we are just as likely to forget our place in nature. Then we may be more open to the suggestion that we have also lost some other fundamental aspects of our lives too. We need to tune in to nature. I'd better go now before I meander myself off a cliff. [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/5635] [img]http://www.digitao.co.uk/sigs/taoboogie.gif[/img] [/url] [i]Those who look for monsters should look to it that they do not become monsters. For when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.[/i] Loading...
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