breathng through congestion

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Found a really effective treatment for congestion- which turned out to

have wonderfully suprising secondary effects.

 

1.) Prep/mental conditioning: waterboarding

I started out real congested in the facial and nasal sinuses. I went

into the bathroom to begin, and took a wet hot rag and placed it over

the top of the nose hanging down ala waterboarding. Now I told myself

that no matter what I could not breathe through my mouth and promptly

sealed my jaw, clenching teeth whatever I had to do; but refusing to

breathe through the mouth. One may ONLY breathe through the nose for the

next two hours.

I tell you that in the beginning- the first twenty minutes- were really

hard to do. You cant breathe, you get frantic, you feel as if you are

suffocating. But do not allow yourself to breathe a single breath

through your mouth. I had to pretend that I had been bound and duct tape

placed around my mouth. When the initial frantic feeling begins_ " I am

suffocating! " I got adamant and figured that even If I passed out I

would open my mouth anyway and breath...so you cant really die. It just

feels like it for a while.

The frantic feeling just motivates you to find a way to breath through

the nose, since it is the only option.

 

2.) Breathing as deeply as physically possible

What one winds up quickly drawing as big a breath as possible out of

necessity: you are suffocating, and each breath becomes the last breath

of life potentially. Deep desperate loud sounding breaths come. Then one

tries to get as much air as possible on each breath- to survive.

After a few minutes of this or so taking a breath becomes the only

thought in the mind: breathe- exhale- next breath quickly.

After a few more minutes a rythm begins to emerge: deep expansive

breaths through the nasal cavites which begin to open up to accomodate

survival necesity.

After a few more minutes the lungs are expanding to accomodate the deep

breathes.

After a while I am able to get full lungs worth of air through only the

nose.

Then I closed the nasal passages with my finger (closing off the air)

one at a time, and breathed ONLY through one nostril for a while, then

alternated.

After a while I can breathe well through the nose.

Continuing to breath only through the nose go to a chair.

 

3.) Full body healing

Sit in a chair, legs apart, feet on floor, hands at side, back as

straight as can get etc, BREATHE deep and full and do not stop.

One gets the idea he might hyperventilate. Keep doing it anyway. If you

pass out youll fall to the floor and breath anyway. Just do it. Dont

allow the mouth to open to cough or anyting else. Only breathe through

the nose. Remember the mouth is taped close and you cannot breath in

through it, no matter what.

Now the breaths get even deeper and the lungs expand on each seep breath.

Get really tough and force the lungs and nose to fill completely with

each forced breath. Keep the deep and rythmic incssant deep breaths going.

One begins to focus only on the breaths. They are all that is. Harder!

After a while the is a rush of envigorating energy that lasts til the

next day. One has filled the starved sick body with oxegen. Almost like

a hyperbaric treatment.

More amazing, the congestion leaves and the sinuses remain full open.

 

The method is simple: just dont allow your mouth to open, even to breath.

Then force things a bit, as if you were trying to stay alive- thats

essentially what you are doing.

Then just obsess/focus on that single aspect of staying alive: breathe.

The meditative aspect is cool. I was sitting and breathing for two hours

and lost complete track of the time.

I recommend it. Beats the hell out of those head messing decongestants.

And damn I feel good today! Like a B12 shot.