What’s a 20:80 rule in this context?
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Melkath@kbin.social 10 months ago
You let your passive breathing be passive breathing and you actively breathe when you need to actively breathe.
I've found my breathing in general has improved since I started trying to institute a 20:80 rule.
orbital@infosec.pub 10 months ago
Melkath@kbin.social 10 months ago
20% of my day, intentionally breathe strongly and manually. 80% of the day, try not to breathe manually.
merc@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
A… wut?
Why are you even thinking about your breathing at all? Your body will handle it, that’s why you don’t die when you go to sleep.
Melkath@kbin.social 10 months ago
You are now manual breathing.
You're welcome.
Some of us have a little voice that never stops saying that and you need to work on that.
merc@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Um… nope.
Melkath@kbin.social 10 months ago
Okay Mr cool guy.
Congrats on never losing the game.
It's an honor to have met a Chosen.
(Smosh reference... in case you don't get it.)
OrderedChaos@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Some folk like my spouse would randomly take a huge gasping breath. She was, and is, always forgetting to breathe. Since she has started learning to belly breathe and it is starting to become more autonomic her gasps have reduced. That being said she still forgets to breathe.
merc@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
That seems like a trait that doesn’t tend to pair well with survival.
OrderedChaos@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I think it has a lot to do with her ADHD. Either way she is still alive.
TheActualDevil@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s actually pretty normal and you probably do it without realizing it. Occasionally the lungs just need to absorb a little extra oxygen to catch up. You ever watch a dog sleep and every now and then they just take a big inhale? Same thing.
Found this neat source:
“A sigh is a long, deep breath that is often viewed as an expression of stress, sadness, exhaustion or relief. However, the most frequent sighs are unnoticed and occur spontaneously every several minutes, about a dozen times per hour.”
. . .
“The lung is composed of hundreds of millions of alveoli, the gas exchange units at terminal ends of the respiratory tract, each of which is about 200 micrometers in diameter. During normal breathing, alveoli spontaneously collapse, a pathological condition known as atelectasis. A sigh is hypothesized to reverse any alveolar collapse, because it is a large breath that re-expands all alveoli, filling them all with air.”