Breathing, Inhaling and Exhaling Therapy:

Breath the act or power of breathing. Breathe two take in and expel air. Breathing: blow or exhale. Breathing transports oxygen into the body and carbon dioxide out of the body. Aerobic organisms require oxygen to create energy via respiration, in the form of energy-rich molecules such as glucose. The medical term for normal relaxed breathing is eupnoea.

* Breath: The act or power of breathing. Breathe two take in and expel air.

* Breathing: Blow or exhale. Breathing transports oxygen into the body and carbon dioxide out of the body. Aerobic organisms require oxygen to create energy via respiration, in the form of energy-rich molecules such as glucose. The medical term for normal relaxed breathing is eupnoea.

* At rest: breathing out, or exhaling, is a combination of passive and active processes powered by the elastic recoil of the lungs, similar to a deflating balloon, and the contraction of the muscular body wall. The following organs are used in respiration: the mouth; the nose and nostrils; the pharynx; the larynx; the trachea; the bronchi and bronchioles; the lungs; the diaphragm; and the terminal branches of the respiratory tree, such as the alveoli.

* Gas exchange beathing: Is only part of the processes of delivering oxygen to where it is needed in the body and removing carbon dioxide waste. The process of gas exchange occurs in the alveoli by passive diffusion of gases between the alveolar gas and the blood passing by in the lung capillaries. Once in the blood the heart powers the flow of dissolved gases around the body in the circulation. As well as carbon dioxide, breathing also results in loss of water from the body. Exhaled air has a relative humidity of 100% because of water diffusing across the moist surface of breathing passages and alveoli.

* Control of Breathing: Breathing is one of the few bodily functions which, within limits, can be controlled both consciously and unconsciously.

* Conscious Control: Conscious attention to breathing is common in many forms of meditation, specifically anapana and other forms of yoga. In swimming, cardio fitness, speech or vocal training, one learns to discipline one's breathing, initially consciously but later sub-consciously, for purposes other than life support.

* Unconscious Control: Unconsciously, breathing is controlled by specialized centers in the brainstem, which automatically regulate the rate and depth of breathing depending on the body’s needs at any time. When carbon dioxide levels increase in the blood, it reacts with the water in blood, producing carbonic acid. Lactic acid produced by anaerobic exercise also lowers pH. The drop in the blood's pH stimulates chemoreceptors in the carotid and aortic bodies in the blood system to send nerve impulses to the respiration centre in the medulla oblongata and pons in the brain. These, in turn send nerve impulses through the phrenic and thoracic nerves to the diaphragm and the intercostal muscles, increasing the rate of breathing. This automatic control of respiration can be impaired in premature babies, or by drugs or disease.

* Therapeutic: Having to do with curing illness or preserving health.

* Therapeutics: A branch of medicine dealing with the treatment of disease.

* Therapy: Treatment of disease.

* In mammals, breathing in, or inhaling: is usually an active movement, with the contraction of the diaphragm muscles needed. This is known as negative pressure breathing. The diaphragm's normal relaxed position is that of a recoiled one (decreasing the thoracic volume) whereas in the contracted position it is pulled downwards (increasing the thoracic volume). Relaxation of the diaphragm compresses the lungs, effectively decreasing their volume while increasing the pressure inside them. With a pathway to the mouth or nose clear, this increased pressure forces air out of the lungs by diffusion. Conversely, contraction of the diagraphm increases the volume of the (partially empty) lungs, decreasing the pressure inside, which creates a partial vacuum. Environmental air then follows its concentration gradient down to fill the lungs.

* In amphibians, the process used is positive pressure breathing:. Muscles lower the floor of the oral cavity, enlarging it and drawing in air through the nostrils (which uses the same mechanics - pressure, volume, and diffusion - as a mammalian lung). With the nostrils and mouth closed, the floor of the oral cavity is forced up, which forces air down the trachea into the lungs.

* Aerobic: Is an adjective that means "requiring air", where "air" usually means oxygen. Aerobic may also refer to: * Aerobic respiration, the aerobic process of cellular respiration. * Aerobic organism, a living thing with an oxygen-based metabolism # eupnea: normal relaxed breathing # In the human respiratory system, eupnea is normal, unlaboured ventilation, sometimes known as quiet breathing. In eupnea, expiration is an entirely passive process, employing the elastic recoil of the lungs. It should not be confused with apnea.

* The Thoracic Cavity (or chest cavity): Is the chamber of the human body (and other animal bodies) that is protected by the thoracic wall (thoracic cage and associated skin, muscle, and fascia).

* The Chinese character for qi: Is usually translated into English as "vital energy" or "life force," although its literal meaning is "breath." No modern Western idea corresponds exactly to the range of meanings of qi. It is the central explanatory concept in the Huangdi Neijing (The Yellow Emperor's Inner Book), the most comprehensive early medical document in China (c 50 B.C.). In an analysis of qi within the Chen tradition, nineteenth-generation Inheritor Chen Zhenglei suggests that: It does not refer to the oxygen breathed into the chest and the different kinds of strength (Li) in the human body, but refers to - from Traditional Chinese Medicine - Correct Qi (Zhen Qi), Original Qi (Yuan Qi), Meridian Qi (Jingluo Zi Qi), Refined Qi (Zhen Qi), and from the study of martial arts and qigong, Internal Jing ((Neijing) and Internal Work (Neigong).

* Qi (spelled in Mandarin Pinyin romanization), pronounced IPA: also ch'i (in Wade-Giles romanization) or ki (in Japanese romanization), Ki: (Japanese) Breath; spirit; spiritual strength. is a fundamental concept of traditional Chinese culture. Qi is believed to be part of every living thing that exists, as a kind of "life force" or "spiritual energy". It is frequently translated as "energy flow", or literally as "air", "breath", or "gas". (For example, "tianqì", literally "sky breath", is the ordinary Chinese word for "weather"). In Mandarin Chinese it is pronounced something like "chee" in English, but the tongue position is different.

* Qigong or chi kung is an aspect of traditional Chinese medicine: Some forms of which involve the coordination of different breathing patterns with various physical postures and motions of the body. Qigong is mostly taught for health maintenance purposes, but there are also some who teach it as a therapeutic intervention or practice it as a medical profession. Various forms of traditional qigong are also widely taught in conjunction with Chinese martial arts, and are especially prevalent in the advanced training of what are known as the Neijia, or internal martial arts where the object is the full mobilization and proper coordination and direction of the energies of the body as they are applied to facilitate all physical actions.

* A very forceful breathing technique is the Kihap, a loud cry. It is important that the Kihap is from the stomach not your vocal chord. Often you could find students (even high graduated) who use their vocal chord too much for Kihap. This is not very good for your vocal chord and even not very effectful. A correctly done Kihap could have the following effects: * Fighting your own fear. * Get more power into your technique. * Maybe frighten an opponent. * Makes you less injurable,

 

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