Li Chi Hsiang Tai Chi Chuan

The importance of proper breathing

Correct breathing is essential to good health. The Tai Chi Classics tell us that the breath should be slow and even and the breath should sink to the Tan Tien (lower belly). Do not protrude your chest, but allow the tummy area to work like a bellows, drawing the breath in slowly through the nose – not rushed or forced. When the tummy is full, allow the breath to flow out through the nose again slowly and evenly.

Cancer is an anerobic growth. Healthy cells in your body are aerobic, meaning that they need oxygen. Cancer hates well-oxygenated tissues of the body. Lung tissue, which is well oxygenated, develops cancer as the result of smoking carcinogens and excessive “rusting” of tissue in the absence of antioxidants to protect the lung tissue.

I have found lung cancer in non-smokers to be quite beatable if the person is willing to follow the guidelines in this book.Of all nutrients required by the human body, oxygen is the most essential. We can go weeks and even months without food, days without water, but only a few minutes without oxygen. We are aerobic creatures by design. Cancer is the opposite.

Unfortunately, many Americans breathe shallowly, thinking that sucking in our stomach is more important than diaphragm breathing to fully oxygenate our tissues.Get some exercise. Do some yoga. Start breathing properly all the time. Lay on the floor with a book on your stomach.

Begin breathing by pushing the book up and sucking in air to the bottom of your lungs. Continue breathing by filling the lungs fully and expanding your chest. Reverse the process on exhaling. This “belly breathing” will fully oxygenate your body to help make it less friendly to cancer cells, like shining sunlight on a vampire.