A Suggested Technique for Coupling Breathing Awareness with Imagery and Word-Thought Production

Abstract

Breathing awareness involves a number of separate brain regions. It is hypothesized that the mental exercise of producing an image with each breath can involve the brain more fully with producing images than would the production of an equivalent number of images which arent coupled to ones breaths. It is similarly hypothesized that the mental exercise of producing a word or group of words with each breath, with the goal of creating a purposeful narrative, can involve the brain more fully with word-thought production than would the production of an equivalent number of words intended to create a purposeful narrative which arent coupled to ones breaths.