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UmaaTantra.com > Yoga and Tantra Articles > The Simple Breathing Technique that will Re-Sensualize Your Whole Body |
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| The Simple Breathing Technique that will Re-Sensualize and Relax Your Whole Body... | ||
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This article is not intended for persons under the age of 18. When we become mentally and emotionally stressed, the sensory neurons in our muscles, genitals, skin, and sense organs literally shut down. Their signal strength is reduced, sometimes by 80% or more. Why? Because all signal is going to the internal organs, especially the heart, kidneys and adrenals, to pump blood, adrenaline, and cortisol into the big muscle groups so you can "fight" or "flee" (the "fight or flight" response) in response to danger. This response worked for our hunter-gatherer ancestors facing a hungry tiger or angry water buffalo, and remains helpful in times of physical danger. But since most of your stress today probably comes from work deadlines or family friction, your body's radical change to its "Stress" physiology doesn't help much. In fact, when stress hormones remain too long in the body, you also get coronary disease, cancer, and more... Not to mention that stress is hell on your sex life.... If your kidneys are stressed and your sense neurons are shut down, you have limited sexual energy, you don't feel as much pleasure, you're tense, and you have less blood flow in the pelvic region... which is bad for men (poor erections) and bad for women (poor blood engorgement and lubrication). So how do you burn up that stress hormone, relax your body, and enjoy life and sex again? Two ways... the first is to go along with your body's urge for fight or flight (ie physical exercise), so that your body releases endorphins that suppress the further release of stress hormones. This also can release testosterone, which increases sexual arousal in both sexes. The second way, which allows both men and women to *enjoy* sex more, and have better orgasms, is by re-awakening the sensory nerves in the skin and muscles through special breathing, sensory awareness, and relaxation. Together, these three tell the body, "the danger is over, go back to your normal state." The fastest way to hit this natural "reset button" is by changing your breathing. Any deep diaphragmic breathing will begin to relax you. Stressed breathing is rapid chest breathing. Slow down the breath and breath with your belly and lower back like a baby, and your half way there. Breathing pattern 1: Normal "Healthy" Breathing - the baseline. Sit or stand erect, but relaxed, and start with normal deep yogic breathing: in and out through the nose, tongue gently touching the front of the roof of the mouth. Your abdomen should expand like a water balloon when you turn on the faucet (inhale) and empty like a open water balloon when you exhale. Try to inhale for at least 6 seconds, pause, and exhale for the same or longer... Notice the skin of your arms, legs, torso, and face to get a awareness of the amount of sensation right now in those nerves. But if you want to sensualize the body, there's a faster way to do it: Breathing pattern 2: Stay (or get) Sensual Under Stress: Here's the trick... begin dropping your tongue on the exhale, and exhaling through the mouth and nose simultaneously. Again raise the tongue to the upper palate and inhale through the nose, then drop the tongue and slightly open the mouth and jaw, and exhale simultaneously through nose and mouth. Close your eyes and feel the breath on your lips and nose, and feel the nerves in your arms and hands activate as you relax and exhale.... Then on the next exhalation, feel your feet and calves, and so forth... This pattern works great when you've still got work and thinking to do... Breathing Pattern 3: Turn off the mental chatter and completely sensualize your body. Anytime you can take a break from over-thinking, or before you're about to sleep, bathe, or make love, simultaneously use the mouth and nose to both inhale, and exhale! Your tongue is still gently up on the inhale, and down on the exhale. Notice how your body awareness increases - you feel more physical and less mental. The primitive (base or reptilian) brain and spinal cord are activated, and the cognitive centers get to take a much needed break. Your physical neuro-receptors and pleasure centers start to open back up, and your ready to enjoy living in your body again - relaxing, making love, playing sport, etc... That's enough for now... practice relaxing and sensualizing daily! You can do this simple breathing anywhere and nobody has to know. So how does all of this work, you ask? How can you learn all of your body's secret "programs" for health, fitness, relaxation, pleasure, and more? Find out in Santiago Dobles's Secrets the Gurus will Never Show You In the next Tantra Tip: The three secrets to success in tantra (part one)... For every student, there is a teacher. Keep in touch! Smile, breathe right, and keep your tongue up (when it's appropriate)! Your Friend, Tao Semko of www.UmaaTantra.com P.S. You can learn more about practical tantra, yoga, and qi gong each month by DVD and audio CD in Umaa Tantra's Tantric Inner Circle. You can read more about the Tantric Inner Circle here: http://www.UmaaTantra.com/tantric_inner_circle.html |
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