Why do you yawn?
A yawn is the body’s way to get more oxygen/energy/spirit.

A yawn is the lungs way to get satisfactorily stretched and exercised.

A yawn is also your Breathing Control System kicking in, to use up any increased energy you have, to keep you in Status Quo and avoid more energy, happiness, passion, creative, and success, because supposedly it is safer to remain with a mis-labeled relaxed, calm, peaceful, and numbed out life, promoted by the parasympathetic importance.

When you yawn, you open up your chest and lungs and fill your body with more air, while also tightening your jaw, numbing your experience.

Yawning is not sleep inducing, as is commonly believed. The increased oxygen inhaled is actually waking you up, so yawning can be helpful.

When does yawning happen?
Yawning happens when you let down your guard against feeling more. Instead of the usual subventilating and stifling your air inflow, you open up to the unknown.

Yawning is a sign that you have halted your usual resistance to letting in more energy into your life. Thus, naturally, your breathing quality is increased, as evidenced by an increased air exchange, but if you don’t know the mechanics transformation requires, you get stuck with deflating the increased energy again, through continuous yawning.

Why do you yawn in a breathing session?
The good news is that a yawn opens up your Natural Breathing and energizes and wakes you up to experience and feel more.

The not so good news is that a yawn includes tightening of your jaw muscles and thus use up and consume the increased energy that you just amplified.

A yawn also slows down your breathing tempo, leaving you with less air exchange.

The benefit of yawning in a Natural Breathing session is that it flexes and unhooks a blocked chest and wakes you up to feel more.

How to work with yawning?
If you are not breathing much, starting with yawning increases your air-volume. One yawn is good, because it makes you to realize how deep your inhale ideally should be.

But once your breathing is open, which happens with one or a few yawns, continuing yawning, leaves you using up more energy than you take in.

Be aware to avoid tightening your jaw muscles and the usual pause after a yawn. Pick up Conscious Connected Breathing right after the end of the exhale, without any pause, and you will stop continuous yawning.

Be aware, at the first inkling, when your jaw muscles start to tighten.  This is where the Breathing Control System kicks in. Resisting this tightening, by focusing on not slowing down your breathing, but continuing your breathing tempo, at the very beginning of the yawn, can get you beyond the urge to yawn and raise your Life-force level.

Excerpt from Natural Breathing OWNER’s MANUAL

Why do you yawn?

A yawn is the body’s way to get more oxygen/energy/spirit.

A yawn is the lungs way to get satisfactorily stretched and exercised.

A yawn is also your Breathing Control System kicking in, to use up any increased energy you have, to keep you in Status Quo and avoid more energy, happiness, passion, creative, and success, because supposedly it is safer to remain with a mis-labeled relaxed, calm, peaceful, and numbed out life, promoted by the parasympathetic importance.

When you yawn, you open up your chest and lungs and fill your body with more air, while also tightening your jaw, numbing your experience.

Yawning is not sleep inducing, as is commonly believed. The increased oxygen inhaled is actually waking you up, so yawning can be helpful.

When does yawning happen?
Yawning happens when you let down your guard against feeling more. Instead of the usual subventilating and stifling your air inflow, you open up to the unknown.

Yawning is a sign that you have halted your usual resistance to letting in more energy into your life. Thus, naturally, your breathing quality is increased, as evidenced by an increased air exchange, but if you don’t know the mechanics transformation requires, you get stuck with deflating the increased energy again, through continuous yawning.

Why do you yawn in a breathing session?
The good news is that a yawn opens up your Natural Breathing and energizes and wakes you up to experience and feel more.

The not so good news is that a yawn includes tightening of your jaw muscles and thus use up and consume the increased energy that you just amplified.

A yawn also slows down your breathing tempo, leaving you with less air exchange.

The benefit of yawning in a Natural Breathing session is that it flexes and unhooks a blocked chest and wakes you up to feel more.

How to work with yawning?
If you are not breathing much, starting with yawning increases your air-volume. One yawn is good, because it makes you to realize how deep your inhale ideally should be.

But once your breathing is open, which happens with one or a few yawns, continuing yawning, leaves you using up more energy than you take in.

Be aware to avoid tightening your jaw muscles and the usual pause after a yawn. Pick up Conscious Connected Breathing right after the end of the exhale, without any pause, and you will stop continuous yawning.

Be aware, at the first inkling, when your jaw muscles start to tighten.  This is where the Breathing Control System kicks in. Resisting this tightening, by focusing on not slowing down your breathing, but continuing your breathing tempo, at the very beginning of the yawn, can get you beyond the urge to yawn and raise your Life-force level.

Excerpt from Natural Breathing OWNER’s MANUAL

If you want to use breathing as your “waking up to success” process, then, first you need to build your energy/prana to such a high level that you are retaining more energy than you use up.

If you do that, first your basic energy demands are met, and then, your surplus energy will have to find new places to go to, which are the areas of yourself, that you have previously shut down, because of traumas and mis-learnings. When your excess energy reaches your restricted areas, it will unlock them and expand you beyond your normal restrictions.

During your expansion process you may have a knee-jerk reaction to resist your new experience. Such a resistance shows up as a holding back – a tightening of your muscles – called “Tetany”. Eventually, you’ll surrender to and enjoy this heightened experience, and thus you let go of Tetany.

You should celebrate when you get Tetany, because then you know you are breathing beyond your Breathing Threshold and therefore a true transformation is taking place.

Tetany is a temporary tightening of some of your muscles.

Tetany is always safe
Tetany is a temporary reaction, that will pass within minutes. You will always leave a Natural Breathing session with your body functioning perfectly.

The first time you have Tetany, it can be startling, if you don’t know what Tetany is and how it works, because the first experience of Tetany is that you feel you lose control of your hands, arms, mouth and face. Your muscles get stiff and you can’t move.

Actually, you can move. You can take total control of your body, if you get distracted out of your resistance. Like, if the fire-alarm goes off, you will instantly act normally and get out.

After you have had the experience of Tetany you know it is safe.

When you feel safe with Tetany, you’ll find it, not only interesting, but valuable to your success.

Most people get Tetany at some time during their sessions.
Tetany is considered an important learning experience of letting go of control.

If you never have Tetany, you are not building a surplus of energy, through breathing and you don’t get-out-of-the-way enough, to arise above your Breathing Threshold, but stay within your no-real-change safe zone.

Should you avoid Tetany?
Some people say you should avoid Tetany. They believe that Tetany is making you too vulnerable and should be avoided and thus they have come up with ways to avoid it, like short 15-minute sessions, breathing through the nose, some inhales and then hold your breath, shallow breathing, moving, dancing, focus outwards on intent, sound etc. These are ways to use up excess energy and miss the magic of a surplus energy, and thus inhibit real transformation.

With the support of an experienced Breath Coach, you can learn to remain above your Breathing Threshold, where Tetany becomes your ally and guide you to let go and live in the now.  

Tetany is a “wake-up” call
To let go of something, you first must become aware of what it is that you are letting go of. Tetany is such a strong wake-up call, you can’t ignore it. Tetany is your ally, making sure you don’t harbor mis-taken judgments.

Paying attention to when Tetany shows up, you have a reminder, that you are resisting something. 

Honestly investigating your mind, you’ll find “a NO” to something – anything. When you recognize your “no”, Tetany goes away.

Tetany shows up when you build energy, and uncover any buried resistance, and you resist letting it go. By investigating what mind-block you have, and surrendering to it, Tetany goes away, instantly.

Suggestions of how to release Tetany caused by resistance
Tetany is a tensing of muscles and thus pull you below your Breathing Threshold.

Be clear on that it is not the Natural Breathing that is causing Tetany, but part of your journey to releasing resistance to accepting your present life.

Accepting all your experiences leaves you relaxed and free.

Tetany can be caused by a lack of CO2 carbon-dioxide
Sometimes, if you struggle and resist a lot, you’ll start to push your exhale out so much that you get a lack of carbon-dioxide. Your body reacts by tightening up, to stop your excessive exhaling, until your breathing is balanced again.

This kind of Tetany does not come from inhaling too much oxygen, even though some call this hyperventilation, but is the correction to exhaling too much carbon-dioxide.

Nature takes care of the CO2 levels. If you get too low CO2, Your Life-force makes you unconscious – which stops you from forcing your exhale, which in tuen brings you back to normal. I have never seen it go that far, except in ICU, when people have Asthma attacks. Not in a breathwork session.

Suggestions of how to release Tetany caused by a lack of carbon-dioxide: “Stop pushing the exhale out”. “Slow down your exhale”. “Relax your exhale”. “Focus on your inhale.”

The ideal way to use Tetany
I call the ideal Natural Breathing session “Walking the Edge of Tetany”. If you don’t ever experience Tetany, you don’t have the right combination of adding energy and using up energy, leaving you without actually retaining more energy than you use up.

The most effective way to do a Natural Breathing session is to breathe so much that you start to notice a little Tetany. Once you notice Tetany, you inquire what it is you are saying “no” to. Once you recognize what you are saying “no” to, that unconscious resistance is gone.

In one session you can go through many breath releases, if you breathe up a storm, notice your resistance, and what you are resisting, and then let it go. Every such incident accomplishes your next level of love, peace and success.

Excerpt from Natural Breathing OWNER’s MANUAL

If you want to use breathing as your “waking up to success” process, then, first you need to build your energy/prana to such a high level that you are retaining more energy than you use up.

If you do that, first your basic energy demands are met, and then, your surplus energy will have to find new places to go to, which are the areas of yourself, that you have previously shut down, because of traumas and mis-learnings. When your excess energy reaches your restricted areas, it will unlock them and expand you beyond your normal restrictions.

During your expansion process you may have a knee-jerk reaction to resist your new experience. Such a resistance shows up as a holding back – a tightening of your muscles – called “Tetany”. Eventually, you’ll surrender to and enjoy this heightened experience, and thus you let go of Tetany.

You should celebrate when you get Tetany, because then you know you are breathing beyond your Breathing Threshold and therefore a true transformation is taking place.

Tetany is a temporary tightening of some of your muscles.

Tetany is always safe
Tetany is a temporary reaction, that will pass within minutes. You will always leave a Natural Breathing session with your body functioning perfectly.

The first time you have Tetany, it can be startling, if you don’t know what Tetany is and how it works, because the first experience of Tetany is that you feel you lose control of your hands, arms, mouth and face. Your muscles get stiff and you can’t move.

Actually, you can move. You can take total control of your body, if you get distracted out of your resistance. Like, if the fire-alarm goes off, you will instantly act normally and get out.

After you have had the experience of Tetany you know it is safe.

When you feel safe with Tetany, you’ll find it, not only interesting, but valuable to your success.

Most people get Tetany at some time during their sessions.
Tetany is considered an important learning experience of letting go of control.

If you never have Tetany, you are not building a surplus of energy, through breathing and you don’t get-out-of-the-way enough, to arise above your Breathing Threshold, but stay within your no-real-change safe zone.

Should you avoid Tetany?
Some people say you should avoid Tetany. They believe that Tetany is making you too vulnerable and should be avoided and thus they have come up with ways to avoid it, like short 15-minute sessions, breathing through the nose, some inhales and then hold your breath, shallow breathing, moving, dancing, focus outwards on intent, sound etc. These are ways to use up excess energy and miss the magic of a surplus energy, and thus inhibit real transformation.

With the support of an experienced Breath Coach, you can learn to remain above your Breathing Threshold, where Tetany becomes your ally and guide you to let go and live in the now.  

Tetany is a “wake-up” call
To let go of something, you first must become aware of what it is that you are letting go of. Tetany is such a strong wake-up call, you can’t ignore it. Tetany is your ally, making sure you don’t harbor mis-taken judgments.

Paying attention to when Tetany shows up, you have a reminder, that you are resisting something. 

Honestly investigating your mind, you’ll find “a NO” to something – anything. When you recognize your “no”, Tetany goes away.

Tetany shows up when you build energy, and uncover any buried resistance, and you resist letting it go. By investigating what mind-block you have, and surrendering to it, Tetany goes away, instantly.

Suggestions of how to release Tetany caused by resistance
Tetany is a tensing of muscles and thus pull you below your Breathing Threshold.

Be clear on that it is not the Natural Breathing that is causing Tetany, but part of your journey to releasing resistance to accepting your present life.

Accepting all your experiences leaves you relaxed and free.

Tetany can be caused by a lack of CO2 carbon-dioxide
Sometimes, if you struggle and resist a lot, you’ll start to push your exhale out so much that you get a lack of carbon-dioxide. Your body reacts by tightening up, to stop your excessive exhaling, until your breathing is balanced again.

This kind of Tetany does not come from inhaling too much oxygen, even though some call this hyperventilation, but is the correction to exhaling too much carbon-dioxide.

Nature takes care of the CO2 levels. If you get too low CO2, Your Life-force makes you unconscious – which stops you from forcing your exhale, which in tuen brings you back to normal. I have never seen it go that far, except in ICU, when people have Asthma attacks. Not in a breathwork session.

Suggestions of how to release Tetany caused by a lack of carbon-dioxide: “Stop pushing the exhale out”. “Slow down your exhale”. “Relax your exhale”. “Focus on your inhale.”

The ideal way to use Tetany
I call the ideal Natural Breathing session “Walking the Edge of Tetany”. If you don’t ever experience Tetany, you don’t have the right combination of adding energy and using up energy, leaving you without actually retaining more energy than you use up.

The most effective way to do a Natural Breathing session is to breathe so much that you start to notice a little Tetany. Once you notice Tetany, you inquire what it is you are saying “no” to. Once you recognize what you are saying “no” to, that unconscious resistance is gone.

In one session you can go through many breath releases, if you breathe up a storm, notice your resistance, and what you are resisting, and then let it go. Every such incident accomplishes your next level of love, peace and success.

Excerpt from Natural Breathing OWNER’s MANUAL

If you want to use breathing as your “waking up to success” process, then, first you need to build your energy/prana to such a high level that you are retaining more energy than you use up.

If you do that, first your basic energy demands are met, and then, your surplus energy will have to find new places to go to, which are the areas of yourself, that you have previously shut down, because of traumas and mis-learnings. When your excess energy reaches your restricted areas, it will unlock them and expand you beyond your normal restrictions.

During your expansion process you may have a knee-jerk reaction to resist your new experience. Such a resistance shows up as a holding back – a tightening of your muscles – called “Tetany”. Eventually, you’ll surrender to and enjoy this heightened experience, and thus you let go of Tetany.

You should celebrate when you get Tetany, because then you know you are breathing beyond your Breathing Threshold and therefore a true transformation is taking place.

Tetany is a temporary tightening of some of your muscles.

Tetany is always safe
Tetany is a temporary reaction, that will pass within minutes. You will always leave a Natural Breathing session with your body functioning perfectly.

The first time you have Tetany, it can be startling, if you don’t know what Tetany is and how it works, because the first experience of Tetany is that you feel you lose control of your hands, arms, mouth and face. Your muscles get stiff and you can’t move.

Actually, you can move. You can take total control of your body, if you get distracted out of your resistance. Like, if the fire-alarm goes off, you will instantly act normally and get out.

After you have had the experience of Tetany you know it is safe.

When you feel safe with Tetany, you’ll find it, not only interesting, but valuable to your success.

Most people get Tetany at some time during their sessions.
Tetany is considered an important learning experience of letting go of control.

If you never have Tetany, you are not building a surplus of energy, through breathing and you don’t get-out-of-the-way enough, to arise above your Breathing Threshold, but stay within your no-real-change safe zone.

Should you avoid Tetany?
Some people say you should avoid Tetany. They believe that Tetany is making you too vulnerable and should be avoided and thus they have come up with ways to avoid it, like short 15-minute sessions, breathing through the nose, some inhales and then hold your breath, shallow breathing, moving, dancing, focus outwards on intent, sound etc. These are ways to use up excess energy and miss the magic of a surplus energy, and thus inhibit real transformation.

With the support of an experienced Breath Coach, you can learn to remain above your Breathing Threshold, where Tetany becomes your ally and guide you to let go and live in the now. 

Tetany is a “wake-up” call
To let go of something, you first must become aware of what it is that you are letting go of. Tetany is such a strong wake-up call, you can’t ignore it. Tetany is your ally, making sure you don’t harbor mis-taken judgments.

Paying attention to when Tetany shows up, you have a reminder, that you are resisting something. 

Honestly investigating your mind, you’ll find “a NO” to something – anything. When you recognize your “no”, Tetany goes away.

Tetany shows up when you build energy, and uncover any buried resistance, and you resist letting it go. By investigating what mind-block you have, and surrendering to it, Tetany goes away, instantly.

Suggestions of how to release Tetany caused by resistance
Tetany is a tensing of muscles and thus pull you below your Breathing Threshold.

Be clear on that it is not the Natural Breathing that is causing Tetany, but part of your journey to releasing resistance to accepting your present life.

Accepting all your experiences leaves you relaxed and free.

Tetany can be caused by a lack of carbon-dioxide
Sometimes, if you struggle and resist a lot, you’ll start to push your exhale out so much that you get a lack of carbon-dioxide. Your body reacts by tightening up, to stop your excessive exhaling, until your breathing is balanced again.

This kind of Tetany does not come from inhaling too much oxygen, even though some call this hyperventilation, but is the correction to exhaling too much carbon-dioxide.

Nature takes care of the CO2 levels. If you get too low CO2, Your Life-force makes you unconscious – which stops you from forcing your exhale, which in tuen brings you back to normal. I have never seen it go that far, except in ICU, when people have Asthma attacks. Not in a breathwork session.

Suggestions of how to release Tetany caused by a lack of carbon-dioxide: “Stop pushing the exhale out”. “Slow down your exhale”. “Relax your exhale”. “Focus on your inhale.”

The ideal way to use Tetany
I call the ideal Natural Breathing session “Walking the Edge of Tetany”. If you don’t ever experience Tetany, you don’t have the right combination of adding energy and using up energy, leaving you without actually retaining more energy than you use up.

The most effective way to do a Natural Breathing session is to breathe so much that you start to notice a little Tetany. Once you notice Tetany, you inquire what it is you are saying “no” to. Once you recognize what you are saying “no” to, that unconscious resistance is gone.

In one session you can go through many breath releases, if you breathe up a storm, notice your resistance, and what you are resisting, and then let it go. Every such incident accomplishes your next level of love, peace and success.

Excerpt from Natural Breathing OWNER’s MANUAL

Breathing can be done through your mouth or your nose
Mouth vs. nose breathing shows you whether you tend to engage and relate more with your external world or your internal world.

Mouth breathing
Breathing through your mouth shows that you are physically and emotionally engaged with your life.

Mouth breathing connects you with your physical and emotional experiences.

Whenever you laugh or cry or run or exercise or sigh or yawn, you breathe through your mouth, so Natural Breathing is naturally through the mouth.

Mouth breathing is preferred in Natural Breathing, because it is easier and gives you faster access to a full breath and more air than through the nose. Most effective energy/spirit builder.

Nose breathing
Breathing through your nose connects you with your internal world.

Nose breathing pacifies you. This may be good to do if you want to meditate or calm down.

Nose Breathing is not Natural Breathing, because it doesn’t happen naturally when you let go of sub-ventilating.

Sometimes nose breathing can take place at the end of a session, but is not ideal, since it dis-engages physical and emotional awareness.

Alternating Mouth and Nose breathing
Breathing in through the nose and exhaling through the mouth or any combination thereof uses mental and muscle activity. It takes effort and a certain level of control to constantly change the flow of the air, and thus uses up Life-force, keeping you below the Breathing Threshold.

Unobstructed Natural Breathing is always done through the mouth. 

Excerpt from the Natural Breathing OWNER’S MANUAL.

Breathing can be done through your mouth or your nose
Mouth vs. nose breathing shows you whether you tend to engage and relate more with your external world or your internal world.

Mouth breathing
Breathing through your mouth shows that you are physically and emotionally engaged with your life.

Mouth breathing connects you with your physical and emotional experiences.

Whenever you laugh or cry or run or exercise or sigh or yawn, you breathe through your mouth, so Natural Breathing is naturally through the mouth.

Mouth breathing is preferred in Natural Breathing, because it is easier and gives you faster access to a full breath and more air than through the nose. Most effective energy/spirit builder.

Nose breathing
Breathing through your nose connects you with your internal world.

Nose breathing pacifies you. This may be good to do if you want to meditate or calm down.

Nose Breathing is not Natural Breathing, because it doesn’t happen naturally when you let go of sub-ventilating.

Sometimes nose breathing can take place at the end of a session, but is not ideal, since it dis-engages physical and emotional awareness.

Alternating Mouth and Nose breathing
Breathing in through the nose and exhaling through the mouth or any combination thereof uses mental and muscle activity. It takes effort and a certain level of control to constantly change the flow of the air, and thus uses up Life-force, keeping you below the Breathing Threshold.

Unobstructed Natural Breathing is always done through the mouth. 

Excerpt from the Natural Breathing OWNER’S MANUAL.

Chest vs. Belly breathing shows you whether you tend to engage personally or not.

Chest breathing shows that you are interested in your life, engage in it, take charge and take your life personally.

Belly breathing shows that you stuff your feelings, is a spectator and don’t face your circumstances. You engage mentally and physically, but no awareness of your actual personal Life-Journey.

Your lungs are located in your chest and must be inflated to add air to your body.

You have intracostal muscles between and behind your ribs. They lift up your rib-cage and fill your lungs. Every time you exert yourself, laugh, yawn, sigh, have emotions and are passionate you breathe into your chest.

A chest that is flexible, expanding on the inhale and collapsing on the exhale, activates your feeling, leaving you with a full and alive breathing.

Your heart-chakra is stimulated when your chest moves, demonstrated by chest breathers being more loving and belly breathers being more emotionally absent.

Natural Breathing starts in your chest
Your inhale should be filled up from the top of your chest and then expand, down through your solar plexus, into your abdomen, and then to the rest of your body. If your breath jumps over and avoids your solar plexus area you are missing your personal power to create the life that you want.

If a person intends to do Natural Breathing, but is educated in diaphragmatic breathing, which has a different purpose than Natural Breathing, the person needs to be re-educated on how to breathe into their chest.

Excerpt from the Natural Breathing OWNER’S MANUAL.

Chest vs. Belly breathing shows you whether you tend to engage personally or not.

Chest breathing shows that you are interested in your life, engage in it, take charge and take your life personally.

Belly breathing shows that you stuff your feelings, is a spectator and don’t face your circumstances. You engage mentally and physically, but no awareness of your actual personal Life-Journey.

Your lungs are located in your chest and must be inflated to add air to your body.

You have intracostal muscles between and behind your ribs. They lift up your rib-cage and fill your lungs. Every time you exert yourself, laugh, yawn, sigh, have emotions and are passionate you breathe into your chest.

A chest that is flexible, expanding on the inhale and collapsing on the exhale, activates your feeling, leaving you with a full and alive breathing.

Your heart-chakra is stimulated when your chest moves, demonstrated by chest breathers being more loving and belly breathers being more emotionally absent.

Natural Breathing starts in your chest
Your inhale should be filled up from the top of your chest and then expand, down through your solar plexus, into your abdomen, and then to the rest of your body. If your breath jumps over and avoids your solar plexus area you are missing your personal power to create the life that you want.

If a person intends to do Natural Breathing, but is educated in diaphragmatic breathing, which has a different purpose than Natural Breathing, the person needs to be re-educated on how to breathe into their chest.

Excerpt from the Natural Breathing OWNER’S MANUAL.

Chest vs. Belly breathing shows you whether you tend to engage personally or not.

Chest breathing shows that you are interested in your life, engage in it, take charge and take your life personally.

Belly breathing shows that you stuff your feelings, is a spectator and don’t face your circumstances. You engage mentally and physically, but no awareness of your actual personal Life-Journey.

Your lungs are located in your chest and must be inflated to add air to your body.

You have intracostal muscles between and behind your ribs. They lift up your rib-cage and fill your lungs. Every time you exert yourself, laugh, yawn, sigh, have emotions and are passionate you breathe into your chest.

A chest that is flexible, expanding on the inhale and collapsing on the exhale, activates your feeling, leaving you with a full and alive breathing.

Your heart-chakra is stimulated when your chest moves, demonstrated by chest breathers being more loving and belly breathers being more emotionally absent.

Natural Breathing starts in your chest
Your inhale should be filled up from the top of your chest and then expand, down through your solar plexus, into your abdomen, and then to the rest of your body. If your breath jumps over and avoids your solar plexus area you are missing your personal power to create the life that you want.

If a person intends to do Natural Breathing, but is educated in diaphragmatic breathing, which has a different purpose than Natural Breathing, the person needs to be re-educated on how to breathe into their chest.

Excerpt from the Natural Breathing OWNER’S MANUAL.