goobygirl wrote on Aug 10th, 2010 at 9:30pm:RE suction cup in diaphragm, sounds like this would be a great beer holder, lol.
I don't know if I can do that or not, should I try? How and why?
Hi Gooby girl: Try to get a copy of Alvin Schwartz'
An Unlikely Prophet. Everything he and Everett Nelson experiences in that book is based on breath control... the breath is the river of life if you can control and flow with it it can give you experiences you never dreamed of... isolating and controling the diaphram disconnects you from all your body parts when you can control it... as you try other parts of the body attempt to work in sympathy... something like a muscle builder trick which they can move only the pectoral muscles... it takes a lot of discipline and body awareness but it is worth it... the diaphram is the connected to the solar plexus chakra... and that is probably part of the reason it works the way it does.
First see if you can move only your thumbs outward when you place them in your sides just above the sacral bones and under the rib cage. Practice that until only your thumbs move... then become conscious of the diaphram at its center and using only those muscles attempt to breath...
On the gateway discs monroe attempts to use a simple breathing technique I guess hoping some will stumble into the etheric function of the breath... he never seemed to need to develope it further than that as the Tibetans did.
S.