I can't stand it when these meditation people tell us to breathe in through the nose

[Mister Obvious]

Why does it matter if it's in through the nose and out through the mouth or vice versa or both nose and both mouth or not??

What if I'm intuitively guided to breathe in through my mouth, and doing so would be part of following my highest joy??

[Mister Obvious]

Wouldn't the best bet just be to do a few rounds of both??

Why do they always start off with breathing in through the nose though??

I always start off breathing through the mouth, THEN through the nose.

[Mister Obvious]

I honestly feel like it doesn't fucking matter.

[Mister Obvious]

If I'm breathing on purpose and I have a big mouth hole to breathe through as opposed to two little nose holes...

Isn't it only natural to choose the biggest hole??

[Mister Obvious]

Interesting...

[zenba]

i'm not sure how feasible it is these days, but that was previously a thing. the need for food hasn't always been a need. the need for respiration hasn't always been a need. this is all an illusion, it is all energy. beings like us used to be able to 'breathe' in pure pranic energy, it had nothing to do with oxygen or carbon dioxide. didn't need glucose or proteins or aminos. your soular energy is what sustained the form completely, you were essentially breathing your soul into this construct. over time, we've lost coherence with those energies as we fall into the physical whirled, and thus depend on physical things.

i used to sun gaze. many of those times that i did that, it was more satisfying than a meal. even remembering it brings satisfaction and sustenance. the conditions of the sun and our atmosphere are different from those days, so i don't think i can recommend it anymore, but there were times when people could sustain themselves off of this practice and related meditations.

[Mister Obvious]

Sun gazing was to be done when the sun was diffuse on the horizon...

A lot has changed in very little time though...

It’s very potent now, too severe to look at or be directly in for too long.

The only question is whether it’s the sun that has changed, or the atmosphere and therefore the lens we see the sun through. I think it’s a bit of both, affected by the same larger forces causing all the other shifts currently.

[Mister Obvious]

5:00 good points he makes here, I like this guy's easy approach.

[Dark Dick]

"Breath in through your nose... and out through your ass."

[Mister Obvious]

[Guest]

There are some meditation and other "magical" techniques that require you to breathe through only one nostril or the other. That's one reason for the emphasis on nose breathing.


I never figured you for a mouth-breather, MO. My illusions have been shattered.