Breathing doesn't feel natural anymore

Hello,

I think some anapanasati is good for you. Search mindfulness of breath. It's purely secular despite it being a Buddhist teaching.

Look up body scan meditation.
The idea is to scan parts of the body that feels tense and just watching it and releasing it (purely.mental).

If you're in my area I would love to meditate with you and watch our breaths together.

>>18585142
Your over thinking breathing. Stop doing it and you'll be fine.

This guy posts this every day, and then leaves. I'd suspect some sort of bizarre nu-troll, but the longer it goes on, the more I suspect it may be some actually mentally disturbed person.

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>>18585242
This is my first time on this board in over a year
Are you serious

>>18585285
I'm not him but I never heard of anxiety and bad effects from noticing breathing...

You breath with your stomach mainly, not your chest. Maybe chest breathing stresses you out.


Also unrelated: try finding your sense of "I Am" or "existence"/presence (usually felt around the heart), feel it (like an emotion) and be it. Source: Ramana Maharshi, Edward Muzika*, Nisargadatta Maharaj... Lesser mentions: Jurgen Ziewe, Brent D'silva, Ken Wilburr.

>>18585285
There is someone who posts "breathing wrong, what do" threads here literally every day.

To your credit, he never actually responds, so I believe you.

The normal rare for an adult human is 12-20 breaths a minute. You can't really check it yourself, but unless you're in extreme distress, if you're conscious it's on track. You can use both your diaphragm and your chest to breathe, but I suggest the chest.

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>>18585142
You are now manually breathing.