Why You Have to Breathe with Your Left Diaphragm (and why sensory confusion prevents it).
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- Опубліковано 31 сер 2020
- In Postural Restoration, the left diaphragm is everything.
Everything we try to do- stabilize the pelvis, expand the rib cage, recruit your left hamstring, left adductor, right glute, swing your arms, and everything else -is to allow your left diaphragm to pump as a primary breathing muscle.
When you lose your left diaphragm as a primary respiratory muscle, you lose normal respiratory mechanics.
In that case you'll begin to recruit accessory breathing muscles like your scalenes and sternocleidomastoid to help out.
When that occurs, you'll overuse your hip flexors, lower back muscles, and anterior neck muscles to provide both compensatory breathing and movement.
The Left AIC, right BC, right TMCC patterns will run your body.
You ability to walk, run, jump and kick without compensation will decrease. As your compensations and breathing become more and more intertwined, your muscles and joints will probably start to hurt.
Your brain will have to devote more and more resources to figuring out how to move without getting hurt.
Not a good situation to live in. That was my life for 40 years.
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The Chinese have known about this for thousands of years. The basic problem is being "head-centric" - your sense of being/presence is in your head - you are not really sensing your body and your environment in a visceral way. You need to move your sense of being to your "lower dandien". All of the various tightness and holding and these sorts of things just fall away naturally after doing this for a while (different for different people). This, traditionally, was the very first step of tai chi practice - not so anymore in the West as tai chi has become bastardised. Anyway, you want to fix this, along with myriad other issues, just get into your lower dandien.
Damn bro. We’re not worthy 🙌
Can you point me to a book or DVD that has REAL Traditional tai chi? Thank you Daniel
Ymaa publishing
Dantian, nor Dandien
Do your friends call you Dan? Good comment.
I pieced all this together on my own over a grueling 9 year period and I stumble across you when I’m right at the finish line. I found a neuromuscular dentist 4 years ago, and then a couple years ago neuro optometrist or whatever who gave me prism glasses. Spent years doin everything in my power and then some with rigorous corrective exercises and it was essentially like trying to bend a spoon with my mind
Likewise its taken me 5 dedicated slow years; no longer feeeel like "hypocondirac". As of recent struggling with protocols with doctors xray's mri etc...this gave me alot of hope he is very insightful! His abiltiy to summarize my years of on going research is simply amazing.
I'm so glad I found you.
Me 2 is it different now changed?
DITTO!!!
Physios look at me like I am mad when I mention your work and me trying to follow your advice. Australia is backwards and upside down. Medically 😢 noy funny if real help is needed but i usually laugh. Truly we have no paddle on this boat. Thanks for your videos
I love, love, LOVE how you show how everything is SO interconnected! I'm am now rethinking sitting cross-legged and leaning on the arm of a chair.
I’m learning to feel my heart space to release the tightness in that left upper diaphragm/ chest area. Have heard it described as the mantle of grief: sternum to chin tightness.. so constricted in throat talking feels like a chore instead of a joy. Have felt progress through my whole body as I continue my own somatic practice of feeling into the discomfort and allowing conscious relaxation in those pained areas. Obviously can feel a bit uncomfortable and slow to release stuff that’s been stuck for a lifetime. Totally numb to my sacral area, scar tissue spread from misaligned tailbone in youth perhaps. Getting my left hip cracked open (sorry, I like that word) and released is something that excited me endlessly, how it will feel. I do see the spine as the central line from which any compromised bit stems. Slowly bringing equilibrium into these areas and feeling these changes in my breathing, my confidence, my mental space and absolutely comfort level in being alive. When you start to realize these issues it’s hard to imagine how you had gotten by and ignored it for so long because it truly- I know for me- has impacted life quality. The future is brighter
Do yiu know how can we breathe into left diagraphm?
Its such an exciting journey. I am experiencing the same things. Keep shining!
Somebody should sign this guy a really "BIG CHECK", he is very detailed and covers an extremely broad range of underlying issued symptoms that no one has even come close to what he is even pointing out!
People don't get paid to change the world for the better you should know this 😂
You're story is deep bro. I can tell you car more about fixing people than gaining clients(even though I'm sure you want more paying clients). There's at least one person looking to go from somet
Typo. ... There's at least one viewer looking to go from nothing to something watching you every time you post.
This idea just gave me a new release!!! Thank you for your channel!
I hope you are doing better Neal. I can only imagine. Keep us updated.
The stories give life to the principles. The connection between the teeth and eyes was simply amazing. Thank you.
LOVE your work, Neal... really need to get your knowledge more mainstream. I hope that you are able to connect with many others to do this someday... I've been an LMT in NYS for about 10yrs now, but growing up, i've had many of these breathing/sight issues, further down the line, lateral pelvic tilt, tinnitis, reversing cervical curve, teeth issues, one eye higher than the other, severe pain in my right foot when walking, horrific vertigo... i've been looking for info like this almost my entire life... i wish it was way more widely available for ppl... without being able to truly help people fix these types of issues, as an LMT, i ALWAYS had my client focusing on breathing. if i didnt see their chest expand, we adjusted them and i taught them how to breathe into their diaphragm at least... this is all such amazing and profound info... ty so much for sharing all of this. Sending 💖
Thank you for sharing your understanding and breadth of experience! Life changing stuff.
Thanks Q Sage.
Bro this is next level stuff!
I have mild pectus / sunken chest and it's a bit worse on the left side... This explains so much
Doing the breathing exercise right now while sitting in the CAR, parked up killing time until my son finishes. Window down resting left arm on the frame. Yes yes! It’s working! Thank you!!!
Neal, so much gratitude for all that you share in these videos 🙏 all of my experiences have led me to finally find what I feel is the missing link, that totally makes sense now that I have watched your videos. As a perfect example, I switched from skiing to snowboarding a few years ago and then last year I reached a point where I even said the words, I’m not safe to turn left. So I switched back to skiing and the day after I first found you I landed a jump and my weak unstable left side couldn’t hold me through the landing and I ended upside down and twisting my right knee. Now I have time to watch all your videos and begin retraining and rehabbing my body and consciousness with PRI. Thank you again for your efforts to put this content out into the world. This makes so much felt sense for how I have experienced the world and how to literally shift my perspective! Much gratitude 💖
I'm very happy to hear about your shift in perspective! Thanks for the comment, Jessica. Good luck with your training!
My good man you deserve the biggest medal available, and a smack for taking so long to come into my life 😆
Hi, I'm greatly enjoying your content. Would love to hear a deep explanation covering the left diaphragm's ability to push air up into the right chest wall and vice versa. I've done a little reading on the subject, but couldn't find a breakdown on the mechanics behind this.
Ty for all of this incredible information!
As usual very informative.. still learning how to pull the pelvis back actively to achieve left zoa...
I have chronic right neck tightness, causing migraines, and everything you are saying is mind blowing. No doctor has been able to help me. I've paid for every treatment out there and nothing worked.
HOLY SHIT!! Everything you just described I can verify with my own body! I went from skeptical to mind blown when you mention the teeth and eyes thing. I'm right eye dominant but my left teeth are like shot.
So good! Thank you for your sharing your knowledge.
thank youuu for the knowledge..I realize I dont breathing right and frozen, tight shoulders when I do my morning walks. I also dont do pronation. This is a good way to feel grounded and building the sense of safety. Its because of the unability to feel safe that drive me to this circumstances. Thank god I found the answer from your channel. My walk and jog feels awkward when I observe it. It does not feel at ease all. Looking at all good joggers their body movement look at ease and great. and today I can do it as well! thank you so much!
you make so much sense it is fantastic
Great video! Glad you’re back 😏
I think you are brilliant!
Just brilliant! Thank you for sharing your perspective.
Bro you just healed all of my problems
Mic drop, sick info 🤯💙
I had no idea, thank thank you
Absolutely right!
Thank you, finally some insight into why I’ve had tinnitus since I was 13 or 14 also. Was beginning to feel it was a neck thing but takes it even further. I have neck issues, rib flare and pelvis issues and a high arch on right foot. I waddle when walk 🦆
Thanks Doc, God Bless you
Wow this js amazing information!! Thank you so much
thank you. this is so interesting and totally new information for me.
How do I get a hold of you for an appointment? This channel has been a godsend.
this is gold, thanks! Along with Zhealth, and your life experiences cases this is wow. Thanks
Thank you, Sara.
Thank you, Neal.
Hi Neal,
Thank you so much for these incredibly illuminating videos. PRI has brought me from crippling pain to being able to work a full day (though most days I still spend my after-work hours on my back).
I have a question: I am getting my vision corrected, but what can be done for the dental stuff? I got braces as an adolescent and I also have had cavities filled...I've had neck malalignment issues since highschool and through my 20s, so I'm guessing that's what could have started it. I'm in my early 30s now. What do you do to address the "teeth issues" as you refer to them?
Thanks so much for helping the world.
brad
Great video. If my right scalenes are extended and SCM is tight right side with left side neck shortened. Is that right or left diaphragm issue ? Glad you are feeling better! Chiro is working nerves along spine (not subluxations or cracking) and tapped L4 and pelvis rotated back left . This is years in happening. But still can’t run because neck / scalenes lock up immediately due to instability in thoracic and ribs. Focusing on back breathing but feels like a knot that won’t let go. Feel stuck because I can feel the part of ribs not moving but can’t figure out what has to let go. Trauma and injuries in these areas that are still protecting something. Also Investigating feet and eyes.
OMG everything makes so much sense now I have the same thing with my left eye being a lot better and my whole left side is tighter jaw shoulder hips the whole deal it's unbelievable
When you demonstrate with the pelvis or ribs could you hold them so they are oriented to my body instead of yours. I understand the concepts you are explaining but I can’t apply them to my body as you explain because I can’t do the mental gymnastics of reversing what I am seeing to what I should be feeling. It is so frustrating. I do understand that it could be very frustrating to do the mental gymnastics of reversing the skeleton while you are talking so fast.
This is true. I’m 23 and I already know about all this. It’s so god damn annoying I’m wearing my second set of braces goin through bs
Awesome
Really interesting. My own story is weird. I studied classical voice for years. In my 20's I found a great teacher and every lesson I seemed to be making progress to the extent that after a few years I was singing tenor opera arias relatively easily. The problem was that between lessons (trying to do what I was being taught) was a car crash. My breathing never felt the same as in the lessons, and I'd sing for 5 minutes and get a sore throat. Roll on 10 years (and by this time I'm in a different career where I actually earn money) and I start getting headaches. A few years later I start experiencing pelvic pain. I struggle on for years, but during the pandemic, the pelvic pain suddenly gets much worse and I end up in hospital begging for pain killers so that I can sleep. At this point I started having intensive physio and then physio with a pelvic pain specialist. Nothing is working. If anything, the pain is getting gradually worse. Intuitively, I know it's all connected to my breathing. There must be something in my breathing that is dysfunctional and is causing all of these symptoms, and it's likely the same thing that ended my singing career before it really began. A few weeks back I was having physio on my back and my physio says, 'keep breathing...no...really, why aren't you breathing?'. She notices that nothing happens in my back when I breathe. This is something of a revelation and I immediately feel a little better, or at least more relaxed. Over the next few days I realise that it wasn't just my back ribs that were doing nothing when I was breathing, it was my whole ribcage (sides and front as well). None of the many physios, masseurs, chiropractors or osteopaths I've had over the years had ever said anything about this, although most had made comments about my diaphragm and how tight it was. When I finally get the front open, I feel something untwist or unblock in my left chest (under my pec). It didn't hurt, it just felt like something was being gently inflated. Now, I think I'm starting to feel some of my symptoms ease. And the oddest thing is that when I listen to a great opera singer I can feel the sides of my throat (and the internal muscles) open and close - it's like there is the sensation of an open tube; almost like I felt when I used to have lessons all those years ago. Neal, if you have any observations or insights, I'd love to hear them.
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OMG…… you are explaining how my body has been misaligned for 50+ years!!!!, 3 bunioneictomies, orthotics, , 3 failed dental implants (left molar), right hip pain and tear, deviated septum repair 2x, huge difference in glasses prescription between right and left. Right sided tongue tie……
How long do we hold the left side balance for? I’ve never heard of this before but I do have MTD and am very curious!
Is there a way to know that the left diaphram works propably? A test or a sensation maybe?
Becoming aware of unconscious patterns then with your visual aids (lol) so amusing I can relate & change
Thanks for your videos. Can you talk about how to use PRI concepts for children who toe walk?
This is all so very interesting. I can see myself in almost everything you describe, except my body usually leans on the left leg. Also i have pain surrounding my diaphragm most nights. What could be going on there?
What impact does a hiatal hernia have on this situation
Could issues with the diaphragm cause you to feel the nerve in my arms when you yawn,burp, or cough?
Is the purpose of the exercises to help us understand positions with a zoa so we know how to hold our body correctly in day to day life by finding that zoa? I feel like I have to hold my left ribs down all the time (and it feels much better) but wasn’t sure if the exercises help to keep them there or just teach me how I should feel?
The exercises are meant to "re-program" your ability to walk and breathe without compensation, so you don't have to pay conscious attention to it. It's restoring the position that was once normal.
Hey neal, thanks for the great content. Quick question. It feels like my left diaphragm does all the work and its the right thats inhibited. I feel my left expand more in the front and back. Does this happen in some individuals?
My guess is that you are probably feeling your left ribcage expanding, rather than the diaphragm. The left ribcage is already expanded too much. We need the right side to expand.
@@NealHallinan Thanks for the reply! It has always felt lower though in my stomach more so, but now that you say that it makes sense and my left ribcage has always been slightly flared. Appreciate it!!
@@NealHallinan how to do that? My left side shoulder and (neck is higher) and I think the right is compressed? My right eye is more bad then the left
is it normal that my left leg is larger and thicker than my right leg because of the diaphragm activation?
or is this leg thickness discrepancy due to lifestyle factors?
Curious if you've heard of Dr Saro's TMS and if so whether you think pain could be causing breath holds and that pain being caused by your mind and that mind decision being caused by the subconscious? I've been trying trying understand all over tension and pain for some time now and have been looking at Dr Sarno and Peter Levine's work for possible reasons and solutions behind it. Your video is adding another puzzle piece for me.
Also, can the right diaphragm be the problem instead?
Hello! I made a video about Sarno's book. It's an older video. Both PRI and Sarno are identifying the autonomic nervous system as the underlying issue. I used to think they were completely different, but in reality they are just two ways of influencing the autonomic nervous system. I'm still very interested in Sarno's ideas.
Yep, teeth and eyes are connected even if your dentist or eye doctor goes, nah.... there have been some fascinating studies done on things like underbite, overbite and crossbite and correlating common eyesight conditions.
I understand the importance of activating the left diaphragm. I tore my ACL 5 months ago did regular PT got worse and worse. Found a PRI specialist and we just do PRI. I am worried that PRI alone cannot prepare me for running. If I begin doing ACL rehab alongside PRI is that not safe until I am at a certain level of PRI?
I'm really not familiar with typical ACL rehab, but PRI re-establishes neuro-muscular control of pelvis and femur with proper position of both structures, something typical rehab won't consider because they aren't recognizing the left AIC pattern.
@@NealHallinan You are a legend for replying! Thank you!
@@collegesoccerguy how you doing now bud?
Where are you??? Do you treat people? This is the answer to my 20 year misery! Finally I think I may have some hope😍how can I reach you?
Can someone give me a set of exercises for breathing into my left diaphragm?
this is true medicine, not that prescribed pills you get at the doctor.
Hi Neal ,
Is hanging(dead hang) on a bar good.
If your pelvis is posteriorly rotated, yes.
Hi, would something like the lateral tilt and ribs coming up cause me to be more prone to a hiatal hernia? I feel like it would be I’m not a doctor or nurse?
Neal what would happen if I just eyepatch my right eye and force my body to use my left eye and notice the peripheral vision, would that help
Well, you could try that, but in general you just have to stand in "left stance" (more weight on your left leg than right leg, left knee slightly bent) look 30 degrees to the left, and just "notice" something out of your peripheral vision.
Tinnitus, post nasal drip, and eye floaters are things i remember experiencing ever since i can remember. I have dealt with all of these my entire life. Is that unusual?
Hey Neal. Great content. Is it okay to use Invisalign or clear retainers to align a small teeth misalignment? Or can they cause more harm then good ? Cranial pain or not letting the CNS relax due to tightness of the retainers?
That's exactly the issue I may have run into myself. I think it depends on how sensitive someone's nervous system is to the trays. I don't think my brain liked it very much.
Are you still going forward with the Invisalign treatment or have you stopped since the brain hasn’t responded well to it?
@@saadimadina1337 I'm undecided at this point.
I have diaphragm pain what do I do I’m very scared and I’m only 20 years old and
"Teeth and eyes are intimately connected" good title for another video
What if your left handed & left footed, would this still apply?
I got my orthotics and im feeling some relief! Still trying to figure out how to maintain left AF IR though, this is so hard but im determined to keep doing the exercises and work on my left ZOA and breath the right way...ugh i cant wait till im finally back to normal
How you doing now?
@@ashleytaylor994 feeling better, still not 100% but much better compared to a year ago
So what if I have the opposite, everything that is happening, happens on the left - my ear, my neck, knee and leg, its almost always left...
I filmed myself while doing the All four right arm reach exercise and noticed that my shoulder was protracting but my lats didn't move from their place. They were not ready to "let go" i guess. Thats why after doing the exercise i felt neck tension. I'm 17 years old. No vision issues, no dental issues, i dont understand the reason I'm unable to round my back. Please reply please I want to get rid of this pain.
I'm sorry but there is no way for me to know.
Neal...Eyes get smaller as you age- is there anything we can do to our teeth (or anything else) that would male the eyes NOT get sunken and so TINY as we age--- Please--- No one else notices or sees that as a problem- I DO- I already HAVE small eyes to begin with...now it seems they're disappearing! Thanks Neal :)
My left side feels like a rock... When I breathe I feel my right side expanding but not that much my left side. What should I do? Also my left SCM is tighter than my right one.
Do you think pri could help with long covid? I have severe neuro issues, tinnitus, eye issues, dysautonomia, dysfunctional breathing, insomnia, tremors and more since March 2020
I'm sorry to hear that. I really don't know if it would help or not.
As they both address the autonomic nervous system there's probably some benefit. I've had chronic fatigue for years and it's ANS based. Check videos about that, like the ANS Rewire channel etc. ❤️
@@vintage_violet thank you! I've been doing the Gupta program which is similar. I've seen some minor improvements ❤️
What if you are more unstable on right side
Ok... now I'm convinced my phone us listening to me cuz I've literally been telling my wife I don't breathe out of my left lung and I told myself as a kid I was saving it for later.... I think I learned how to do it by continuously sucking air into my stomach to burp. I got good at it and sucked air really deep and one day something in my abdomen extended down and it felt cool, if not surprising. I don't know if this was left lung use but it felt like a story to share 😂
What do you think about crossing your eyes as a way to merge hemispheres,if that's how I would even ask my question?😂 I've been crossing my eyes and after awhile I feel more vital in my weaker side. 🤷♂️
😂 I pull so hard to the right when I drive. The voice in my head tells me it's never going to work but I have an overpowering animal instinct to pull that way and tighten my jaw and neck/shoulder. It's like a dog pulling a bone.
I also hold my breathe now and it's so hard to locate my glutes now over my hip flexors on one side. I cannot turn left (I can at times now). I call it "zoolanders disease " 😂
Thanks so much. Kinda spooky but exactly what I've been looking to hear subject matter on. 😮🎉
DUDE YOU"RE FUCKIN AWESOME
Can you please recommend the exercise to open the right side of rib cage?
Watch his video titled " What is the left zoa in postural restoration".
@@ZeeshanAhmed-ju4tj my right side is fairly open now
Can u do a video to demonstrate pain relieving technique for right rib cage? I have constant pain in my rib cage. Even when i sleep. Also need to say that they harvested my left hamstring for a left ACL repair so I am constantly in pain in my right upper quadrant of my abdomen and all kinds of pain throughout my body. Any ideas??
These are some examples of techniques
pritrainer.com/pri-left-aic-right-bc-beginner-example-program/
I understand stretching your neck or chest muscles won’t fix your diaphragm issue, but wouldn’t stretching and doing myofascia release on those muscles help open them up temporarily, so then you can do those exercises that help getting you on your left side???
Big Bones you could, sure. In my experience the only place I’ve had to ever really use any manual work is on the right upper chest/ribcage, to help people get air into their right side.
I had neck pain for three years. Two of those years I focused on the neck itself. I did daily stretches and massages on neck muscles. I wasted valuable time doing that because everything you do is a relief. Come to think of it, the issue was a tilted and rigid rib cage and unilateral erector spinea imbalance( tight right).
@@amhedshaavi8626 what did you do for the erratum spine? Left side bends?
@@amhedshaavi8626 did you fix it?
so everyone is stuck naturally with a dysfunctional left diaphragm or is It just one possible pattern?
When I learned how to do diaphragmic breathing (I was taught to mimic a dog's beathing pattern for a few breaths so I could feel my diaphragm moving inside me), I was surprised to find there is almost no movement of my diaphragm on the right side. Is that weird?
I understand the mechanics you have explained, but after watching for 18 + minutes I don’t know how to get my body into the correct position for the best, most efficient breathing. Did you make a 'how to' video?
My entire channel is a "how to". Proper breathing can only occur when a body is stable. That's what this channel is about. Postural stabilization and thus diaphragmatic breathing. Just trying to breathe with the left diaphragm won't work.
I'm confused because in previous videos you talk about how we need to get air into the right diaphragm when in the pattern. You've said that it is the reason why the neck is tight. But in this video you say that it is our left diaphragm that we need to get air into and how that is the reason why our neck tightens up. I don't get it.
Once you get proper left diaphragm position then hold the position and get air into the right side chest wall to open up the right side. Left zoa is most important thing to achieve.
You are correct, Biyas.
why is it such a long process? how long have you been doing the PRI therapy?
It's about changing breathing habit which will take time
fwwt teeth and eyes are for sure connected. "there are a lot of feet in your mouth" :))
Why doesn’t this all reset if we are off our feet for over a year? If our brain is so worried about our walking pattern, why is this still an issue for some people that barely walk?!
Because they still have to breathe, and they will undoubtedly use their lower back and neck to do it. Breathing and movement are intimately linked through our chains of muscles.
My right neck pain is destroying me
Lol I’m stuck on leg side
I don't live in America...Can you treat someone online?
No one is as intrinsically self involved as an American. It baffles me.
A lot of deseases come from bad brathing patterns
Hi Neal! I've emailed you, I would love to work with you!
Why can I stand on my left leg but not on right?
It's compensatory. I made a video about it a couple months ago.
It would make more sense if I was able to stand on right leg bc my pelvis is oriented to the right and if I’m stuck in right stance. But I am unable to stand on right leg. Does this seem odd to you or normal? What is the video called that discuses this?
jaw to the right neck to the left... neck has to be to the right .. end of story :D
notice all the ugly commercials and the abusive images they show constantly along with loud banging or shrieking sounds
This guy is not a healer. Listening to him makes me tense lol.
you need to get your tongue tie cut mate and its a full life from there