Дыхание: Новые факты об утраченном искусстве

Vy uzhe ne smozhete dyshatʹ tak, kak prezhde! Nevazhno, chto vy edite i zanimaetesʹ li sportom. Vashe teloslozhenie i urovenʹ intellekta ne imei͡ut nikakogo znachenii͡a, esli vy ne umeete pravilʹno dyshatʹ. Dli͡a zdorovʹi͡a i samochuvstvii͡a net nichego vazhnee dykhanii͡a. Kazalosʹ by, prostoĭ prot͡sess: vdokh-vydokh, i tak 25 tysi͡ach raz v denʹ. No chelovek kak biologicheskiĭ vid utratil sposobnostʹ pravilʹno dyshatʹ, i ėto imeet dli͡a nas pagubnye posledstvii͡a. Zhurnalist Dzheĭms Nestor puteshestvuet po miru s t͡selʹi͡u vyi͡asnitʹ, chto zhe poshlo ne tak i kak ėto mozhno ispravitʹ. On ishchet otvety ne v pulʹmonologicheskikh laboratorii͡akh, a na pylʹnykh raskopkakh drevnikh zakhoroneniĭ, v sekretnykh sovetskikh NII, v khorovykh kruzhkakh Nʹi͡u-Dzhersi i na zapolnennykh smogom ulit͡sakh San-Paulu. Nestor vstrechaetsi͡a s li͡udʹmi, vladei͡ushchimi taĭnymi znanii͡ami, v osnove kotorykh lezhat drevnie praktiki dykhanii͡a vrode pranai͡amy, sudarshan krii i tummo, i vmeste s nimi podvergaet nauchnoĭ proverke ustoi͡avshiesi͡a predstavlenii͡a o dykhanii. Sovremennye issledovanii͡a pokazyvai͡ut, chto dazhe nebolʹshie izmenenii͡a, kotorye my vnosim v prot͡sess vdokha ili vydokha, mogut rezko povysitʹ sportivnye rezulʹtaty, omoloditʹ vnutrennie organy, izbavitʹ ot khrapa, astmy, autoimmunnykh zabolevaniĭ i dazhe vypri͡amitʹ povrezhdennyĭ skoliozom pozvonochnik. Obrashchenie k drevnim medit͡sinskim tekstam, naschityvai͡ushchim tysi͡achi let, i k noveĭshim issledovanii͡am v oblasti pulʹmonologii, psikhologii, biokhimii i chelovecheskoĭ fiziologii perevorachivaet nashi privychnye predstavlenii͡a o dykhanii kak bazovoĭ biologicheskoĭ funkt͡sii.

You won't be able to breathe the way you used to! It doesn't matter what you eat or whether you exercise. Your physique and level of intelligence do not matter if you do not know how to breathe properly. There is nothing more important for health and well-being than breathing. It would seem a simple process: inhale-exhale, and so 25 thousand times a day. But man as a biological species has lost the ability to breathe properly, and this has detrimental consequences for us. Journalist James Nestor travels the world to find out what went wrong and how it can be fixed. He is looking for answers not in pulmonological laboratories, but in dusty excavations of ancient graves, in secret Soviet research institutes, in choral circles in New Jersey and on the smog-filled streets of Sao Paulo. Nestor meets with people who possess secret knowledge, which is based on ancient breathing practices like pranayama, sudarshan kriya and tummo, and together with them subjects the established ideas about breathing to scientific verification. Modern research shows that even small changes that we make in the process of inhalation or exhalation can dramatically increase athletic performance, rejuvenate internal organs, get rid of snoring, asthma, autoimmune diseases and even straighten the spine damaged by scoliosis. Turning to ancient medical texts dating back thousands of years, and to the latest research in the field of pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry and human physiology reverses our usual ideas about breathing as a basic biological function.