Do we have any study on is breath pattern between aphantasia and non aphantasia person?

1 min readBybuchibabu bojja
Hi fellow fighters, First tell me about my self, My name is Buchibabu. Last year i found my self having aphantasia. I always struggled to get events/ images in my mind and found i have aphantasia. From last more than year, i am practicing mediation where i have to focus just on breath. Many fellow meditators focus on breath easily. but i am unable to find just simple inhale and exhale and my breath pattern also shaky and i just observe inhale, not exhale. I just want to know from fellow community members. How is your breath pattern. Are you able to observe your inhale and exhale? To get this, close your eyes for few mins and just observe your inhale and exhale. Please let me know you answers. we can ask medical community to look in this.
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Maryse Lemayrecently
Hi Buchibabu, last year, before learning I had aphantasia, I discovered I had, since childhood, apical breathing pattern, the inception of my breathing movement was the apex of my lung. No apparent dysfunction, but I had chronic back pain, discomfort while laying on a hard surface, chronic stress, incapacity to inhale for more than 4 seconds. It is very efficient time wise but requires a lot of energy at each breath to pull the entire thorax up without using the diaphragm. After few days of intense trial and error, I have corrected the dysfunction by activating my autonomous natural breathing pattern. For me, it was simply forgetting my body all together and focus only on pull of the air from my nostril, focus all my attention on the air flowing through. I learned that you should control only the impulsion of the movement and let your body do the rest. I would suggest trying to pull the air from all the possible place (nose, mouth, throat, vocal cords, belly, thorax). Feel the difference in the movement and sensation. The one the seems the best for me is the vocal cords. As for following your breathing while meditating, I struggle for that too when I need to count the second, I prefer meditating without focusing on my breath, I focus on the sensation in my body and while having an internal discussion, maybe like me you will discover that your body is talking to you all the time, we simply have forgotten to listen.
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tobba anderssonrecently
I am totally aphantast on vision, audio and tactile. But have no problem with counting or observing in and out when I meditate. I practice zen for a year or so, sitting zazen with eyes open. And before that I meditated with closed eyes, same there... no problem with the breath. I also wonder what non aphants see when they meditate?
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Eddy Franksonrecently
I think it’s easier for us aphants to meditate because we see no visuals to distract us. But I do notice that sleeping partners always take 2 breaths to my 1, which may have nothing to do with aphantasia — ?
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