A few years ago I was determined to practice, and it was hard, and then it became easy, auto-relaxing, like a cheat.
I lost that practice and now it's hard again.
I think GP is right to question technique vs. attention - I think we don't know much about the answer.
But a point I recall in Nestors book is that there isn't really a lot of scientific study on breath - there is much more study on specific diseases, and e.g. teeth have a full profession of study and development that the everyday act of breathing doesn't have (even though these might be highly related!).
<Opinionated> Some of the best references about breath today are not scientific, but written in the oldest books that survived in different cultures - and anyways, how much does the specific mechanism matter?
Watch this space though - science is catching up! </>
A few years ago I was determined to practice, and it was hard, and then it became easy, auto-relaxing, like a cheat.
I lost that practice and now it's hard again.
I think GP is right to question technique vs. attention - I think we don't know much about the answer.
But a point I recall in Nestors book is that there isn't really a lot of scientific study on breath - there is much more study on specific diseases, and e.g. teeth have a full profession of study and development that the everyday act of breathing doesn't have (even though these might be highly related!).
<Opinionated> Some of the best references about breath today are not scientific, but written in the oldest books that survived in different cultures - and anyways, how much does the specific mechanism matter?
Watch this space though - science is catching up! </>