THE WHISTLE || This Sleek Plastic Object To Help You Breathe Better Could Be Your Anti-Stress Remedy
Siffling, whistling, breathing ...
Breathing not only has the power to regulate our emotions and help us deal with stress, it directly affects our health. The air we inhale is a subtle mixture of oxygen (about 20%), nitrogen (79%), water vapour, carbon dioxide and various chemicals.
This oxygen nourishes the red blood cells, which in turn distribute it to our organs and tissues. The better we breathe, therefore, the better we nourish our body through regulation of the cardiovascular system, lowering of blood pressure, strengthening of immune defences, and rebalancing of blood acidity.
Breathing well is therefore the easiest and most natural way to manage our emotions and quickly soothe the body and mind.
The Whistle / Le Sifflu by smarin.
In September 2003, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a major center for American scientific research, the greatest specialists in brain sciences and Buddhist bodies, chaired by the Dalai Lama, delivered the results of studies carried out over several years. Their conclusions: Deep breathing, that is, the action of calming the body and mind by regulating its respiratory rate, acts on the brain as an anti-stress remedy; MRI images show that the emotional brains of people who "breathe" are unresponsive to aggressive outside stimuli and that their heart activity remains stable.
Le sifflu (the whistle), designed by smarin studio and referred to as the ‘pipe of inner peace’, is a stainless steel object to allow people to practise a daily five minutes exercise of breathing out, extending their blow and developing their muscles. It was scientifically proven that the exercise of breathing out allows working your mouth, abdomen and diaphragm muscles.
Small stick almost jewels anti-cigarette, it is a question here of INHALING through the nose and EXHALING through the nose. No toxic fumes or vapours, the sifflu helps us to deconstruct our bad mechanical habits and naturally initiates us to well breathing.
Mechanical and Therapeutic
Smarin studio’s research is part of the quest of care and health, and their objects aim to improve the development of somatic consciousness, the ability to feel and make sense of what is happening in one's organism. Smarin often works to reassess mechanical automatisms that are possibly toxic to the body.
As smarin’s research progresses through “mechanic & therapeutic" objects, the group shares a lot with doctors, specialists and professors of the Faculty of Medicine of Nice, and in particular of the Observatory of Non-Conventional Medicine (OMNC).
The whistle method
The inspiration
Inspire slowly by the nose.
Open the rib cage, to fill it with a maximum amount of air, by keeping the shoulders low.
Take your time
Hold breath calmly.
Take the time of a break.
The expiration
Expire by the mouth, with your stomach.
Lengthen the breath at the most.
The Objectives
Lengthen more and more the breath
Become aware of your diaphragm
Use your internal muscles at the same time
Adopt a correct posture, direct profit for the back
Release all the tensions
re-oxygenate your muscles
re-synchronize your organs...
The whistle is now present at the Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP), which meets once per year to acquire new works and art objects to enrich the state collection.
Photos courtesy of smarin
