Qualitative Whole Body Breathing

The Inner Architecture: Unlocking True Structural Change Through the Qualitative Experience of Whole Body Breathing

The Whole Body Integrated Health (WBIHI) system approaches healing not just through physical intervention, but fundamentally through developing a precise, internal awareness of the body’s current state. This deep dive into sensation, often referred to as the qualitative experience, is the critical first step toward lasting structural and psychosomatic correction.

I. The Philosophical Foundation: From Qualia to Truth

To understand our internal experience, we begin with the concept of Qualia. Derived from the Latin qualis ("of what sort" or "of what kind"), Qualia describes subjective, conscious experiences. This framework, informed by sense-data theory (articulated by philosophers like Bertrand Russell), posits that everything a person experiences is Qualia—a private, directly observed sensation. This includes physical feelings like pain and tension, emotional states, and even seemingly objective sense observations such as sight and sound. Even our thoughts are ultimately recognized as Qualia.

In this context, we must acknowledge that we do not experience external reality directly; rather, we experience our unique perception of it. However, not all perception is useful or accurate for the purposes of structural correction, and crucial information may not yet be conscious.

II. Discerning the Mind’s Fluctuations: The Yogic Theory of Vrittis

To navigate and refine these conscious experiences, WBB utilizes the yogic concept of Vrittis, or mental fluctuations, originating from Patanjali's Yoga Sutras. Patanjali identified five primary types (Panja Vrittis), which serve as crucial reference points during a WBB session, guiding the practitioner and client toward authentic sensation.

The fundamental goal of WBB is to achieve Pramana Vritti—valid or correct knowledge gained through direct perception. To achieve this clarity, certain mental fluctuations must be consciously minimized or avoided:

Vikalpa (Imagination or Fantasy): Sensations that are not directly present. These must be avoided as they interfere with detecting non-imagined Vrittis clearly.

Viparyaya (Wrong knowledge or Misconception): Misinterpreted information, such as confusing mental tightness for physical pain (or vice versa), or experiencing referred pain. This type of sensation obscures the true source of contraction.

Nidra (Deep Sleep): The absence of consciousness of activity. People starting this work often fall asleep, leading to dream states or lack of awareness, which halts the process of observation and correction.

In contrast, two Vrittis are acknowledged as potentially helpful:

Smriti (Memory): The recall of past experiences or emotions. These memories are often stored in the body's tissues alongside physical holding patterns.

Pramana (Valid Perception): The ultimate aim of WBB, representing accurate, direct perception of the body's state.

III. The Deep Patterns: Samskaras and the Cycle of Constriction

Vrittis are viewed as the conscious manifestations of deeper, latent impressions known as Samskaras. These Samskaras represent all subconscious patterns in the body-mind, and their continuous interaction with Vrittis forms the cycle of Samsara, or the world of sensation.

The purpose of WBB is not to eliminate all Samskaras, but specifically to identify and clear the unhealthy ones. These unhealthy patterns include physical injuries, mental trauma, and the chronic subconscious holding of tissues—an egoic contraction known as Samkoca—which manifest as contractions and compensations.

Conversely, healthy Samskaras (like evolutionary memory evident in human embryology) manifest as the proper tension patterns that are ubiquitous to all humans. These proper patterns are the key to the WBB quantitative model.

IV. The Whole Body Breathing Method: Silence and Discernment

A WBB session is designed to perform two simultaneous actions: making the internal "room" more silent, and enhancing sensory clarity.

1. Silencing the Mind (Lowering the Volume)

We lessen mental noise by shifting awareness to concrete physical sensations, especially those evoked by the natural pulse of breathing. This focus prevents the mind from wandering into distracting thoughts or external concerns, bringing consciousness into the body-mind system. The meditative flow transitions from Dharana (concentration on the object/sensation) to Dhyana (a continuous flow of consciousness on that sensation).

2. Enhancing Discernment (Interoception and Proprioception)

Healing requires progressing from a gross, general feeling to a highly refined clarity of sensation. For many people, areas like the hips or the entire skull are felt and act as single, rigid blocks. We know anatomically this is incorrect, as these areas are composed of multiple, articulating bones.

WBB systematically refines interoception (awareness of internal states like pain or emotion) and proprioception (awareness of body position and movement). By increasing this clarity, the client becomes a "highly educated" participant in their own treatment, essentially turning their internal attention into an MRI machine operating on the natural pulse of breathing. Once the client can distinctly feel separate bones and minute movements, the body spontaneously begins to move and behave as if those bones are truly separate, initiating correction.

V. The Quantitative Model: A Universal Blueprint

When the unique, improper tension patterns—the "everything else"—are successfully cleared, what remains are the correct, healthy tensions ubiquitous across all human bodies. These tensions are objectively visible in biological structure as areas of dense fascia, representing the most efficient pathways for flexible force transfer, breathing, and movement.

This forms the foundation of the WBB Quantitative Model:

7 Diaphragms: Including the feet/hands, pelvic floor, main respiratory diaphragm, shoulder girdle, jaw, main head, and scalp.

2 Primary Fascial Lines: The Soft Inner fascia line (anteriorly) and the Hard Outer fascia line (posteriorly), which connect all the diaphragms.

This structure constitutes the body's tensegrity system, which unfolds and opens the entire body on every inhale. Improper tension feels painful and restricts this unfolding, often correlating with specific psychosomatic issues (e.g., in systems like the Chakras or Traditional Chinese Medicine). By keeping the 7 Diaphragms and 2 Lines constantly in awareness, the practitioner can guide the session to build proper tension and facilitate the release of compensatory constrictions, moving the client toward an "unfolded body-mind structure".

The goal is to observe two things: the sensations a person is feeling, and the sensations they are not feeling. By focusing on where sensation is dormant, the practitioner uses the connecting lines and diaphragms to guide awareness, thereby unlocking psychosomatic access and physical correction. Whole Body Breathing is proposed as the most rapid and comprehensive way to develop this essential sensory clarity in both the practitioner and the client.