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20 Apr 2026

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Rhythmic Breathing – The Right Way to Breathe all the Time
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Rhythmic Breathing – The Right Way to Breathe all the Time 

by Venkatesh R. Betigeri

Have you seen a new born human baby breathe? Have you also seen a little human child breathe?

If yes to these two questions, did you ever notice the difference in both these breaths?

Every new born human baby breathes only with its stomach for nine months, as the lungs were unused inside the amniotic fluid in the womb. Once the baby comes into this world, the new born baby breathes for nine months with the stomach only. Also, the baby breathes at 36 breaths per minute, which is pretty fast breathing speed for humans. One can conclude that this is Nature’s First Gift to every human being.

Now it is time to understand how every little human child breathes. Every healthy little child does pure, complete and full rhythmic breathing (without any training). This is breathing without attaching emotions. What does this mean? This means that every healthy little child gently expands both chest and stomach together equal amount for breathing in. For breathing out, little child gently contracts both chest and stomach together equal amount. However, we all may breathe in and breathe out equal amount of a breath. But the little child breathes in and breathes out every breath in ratio of 3:2. In other words, out of 5 units of time for a breath, breathing inward in the pattern explained above is 3 units while breathing out in the pattern explained above is 2 units. What is to be noted here is that this breathing in and breathing out pattern for every breath, happens when the little child has not yet understood about emotions. I claim that this is the actual way humans are designed to breathe from the stage of a little child till we surrender to the Lord.

Have you seen a new born human baby cry? Have you also seen grown-up human child cry?

If yes to these two questions, did you ever notice the difference in both these cries?

No one realises this difference, but understanding that

(a) there is a difference between the two situations and
(b) knowing the difference between them is crucial to realizing why everyone (except GOD) BREATHE THE WRONG WAY.

A new born human baby cries because of physical discomfort while a grown-up human child cries because of emotional discomfort often caused by physical discomfort (for example – not getting a chocolate or getting less chocolates).

I claim that after a new born human baby stops crying when physical discomfort is removed, the breathing pattern reverts 100% back to the normal pattern.

I claim that this is not so in the case of a grown-up human child when the child stops crying after emotional discomfort is removed. This is because when a grown-up child cries due to emotional discomfort, the body records the distress in the various cells of the body and stores it for life. Human cells therefore become a sponge for emotional discomfort. This is due to the emotional connection between emotions emanating from the brain and the physical body.

What are the implications for the human body being the sponge for emotions? Every episode of emotional discomfort (in the process of growing up from innocent little child) throughout life, just heaps more emotional debris over that collected earlier.

The following are noted to be the sponges of the human body.

Chest – for anger of various intensities.
Stomach – for fear of various intensities.
Bones and Joints – for complaints of various intensities
Brain cells – for various impurities
Blood cells – for various viruses and microorganisms
Hormone glands – for malfunctions

No amount of Sports Activity or Yoga or anything else will remove this emotional debris throughout life. This goes on till the body can no longer work the way it should. When the body can no longer work the way it should it is time to visit the good doctor.

This is what has been happening in the world for generations. We all ended up dead before our due date before the advent of modern medicine. With developments in the field of medicine, we all still end up dead before due date, now under the knife of the good doctor on his operating table.

It is truly depressing to read about deaths due to various diseases per year and still more shocking about the number of affected people.

Is there no solution? THERE IS.

Firstly, breathing exercises exist to clean all these six (06) sponges or sinks present in the body. Amazingly, three of these breathing exercises are based on Nature’s First Gift to every human being, the new born baby’s breathing pattern of 36 breaths per minute. The remaining three of these exercises are anchored by the little child’s pure breathing pattern, which is another Gift of Nature to every human being. With these abundant blessings from Mother Nature, these de-clogging breathing exercises translate into six (06) short and simple but loaded with Nature’s omnipresent power (one minute for each of these 6 breathing exercises).

It appears that ancient wise people knew the bhaag-daud of modern person, the heavy stresses acting on the modern person as well as not having sufficient time to take care of health. These exercises are Well Designed to fit the modern man’s needs.

Secondly, we also have to go back to our natural design of breathing.

Every little child should be taught to breathe the way s/he is designed to breathe throughout life, before the child forgets this breathe. This training should be regular and sustained till the child continues to breathe in this manner naturally as the little child grows up. With proper training in this, Majority of the students will continue to use this throughout the tsunamis that come their way and only then will everyone enjoy full life until due date.

This is the real EDUCATION CHALLENGE. Because Society is very much behind.

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