Triangular Breathing Technique - To gain more oxygen in your blood

As a patient of ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy (including all other patients who have the heart disease, even stroke), I experience so many time of breathing problems, such as asphyxia, irregular lung stroke or vibrating breath due to lung edema.  The result of this typical breathing condition is the lack of absorbed oxygen in our blood stream, which will cause a chain reaction in our metabolism.  The brain will have oxygen short, along with the symptoms of sudden tiredness, drowsiness, and more likely lost of consciousness at the end.

All of those complementary damages happens because our bodies are not ready for automatic breath reflex adjustment when we get this kind of heart disease. Then, suddenly i remember that when i was in college, i had tried to learn two simple breathing techniques to stimulated what i used to call as "chi" energy.  It was a catholic martial art, developed by the congregation of catholic community in Java Island - Indonesia.  Honestly, I only attended to learn the whole program of "Tunggal Hati Seminary" for view years and never elaborate deeper about its historical or its next development.  For female the other group called "Tunggal Hati Maria" cover all the same lessons and objectives.  

The martial art is not the one I want to elaborate, but only of the breathing techniques. And not both breathing technique, only the first one.

The basic principal

1. To gain more oxygen in your blood stream.
2. To slowly adapt your breath reflex into longer and slower inhale and exhale.
3. To fix your consciousness, self control, and calmness, when sudden irregular lung stroke happens. 

I'm sorry if my description in English is not good to understand, but I know for sure, that I have suffered the symptoms I write above from time to time.  Try not to spoil yourself with pure oxygen mask from time to time, unless it is very urgent. Trust me it will weak your respiratory muscle, reflex, and also your fighting spirit.

Triangular Breathing Technique 

• Target: every age, gender, and every heart condition that is still eligible to practice.
• Requirement: only use your nose and not with your mouth. Always do it with POSITIVE thinking.  Don't do the practice if your mind and heart are full of NEGATIVITY and ANGER.
• Place and Timing: in open air will be the place, and do this practice AFTER the Sun fully rise or fully set. Experiencing he transition from dark-to-light or light-to-dark, will disturb your focus and serenity.  But if you do it in a close room, just keep the lights on or off.

        How to do it:

1. It is kind of combination of meditation and physical exercise.  No need to have a perfect lotus position or whatever it is, but please have a sit with your backbone straight up and never bent (it's not easy) 
2. Prepare your POSITIVE mind with your eyes closed. Think about happy and good things, healing, your love one, your wife, kids, your happy childhood, happy moments, God's love, or whatever it is, and let yourself smile. 1 - 2 minutes is enough. Remember to keep your backbone straight up every 20 seconds. It helps your blood  circulation.
3. Now you are ready.  Take your first deep breath very slowly and as deep as you can, meanwhile think any grateful thoughts and peacefulness, and exhale slowly. Just do this once or twice.
4. Core activity: start with slow inhale for 3 seconds, stop and hold in your chest (not in your stomach) for another 3 seconds, and then exhale for the next 3 seconds. Try to do it in 10 - 30 minutes, 3 times a day, and being constant for at least a week. No rush but consistent.  You can add up the interval into 4 to 5 seconds, after that, or as long as it doesn't burden you.  
5. Closing: inhale as deep as you can, and exhale very slowly until your chest feels empty.  Imagine that all of the pure oxygen in the air inside your chest is absorbed completely by your lung. And be grateful. 
6. Remember: never do this respiration exercise with empty mind or NEGATIVE thoughts.  Consistency is number 1 and no time target to be achieved.
7. If you feel very relax and fall asleep right after finishing this exercise, just let it be. It means that your blood circulation becomes more organized.

 

Benefits of Deep Breathing

1. Instantly relax the whole body.
2. When you are relax, your blood pressure usually goes to normal range.
3. Slowing down your heart beat, meaning your heart is taking a break for less effort blood pumping. 
4. Increasing the vital capacity of the lung for more efficient oxygen absorption.
5. Strengthen the lung muscle for obvious.
6. Reducing stress, depression, anger, and excessive appetite.   

I have told you it is simple and easy.  But need a lot of commitment and consistency.  Happy trying mate.

You can have any position but keep your backbone straight up