--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > As I have pointed out many times, there ARE TM studies on this phenomenon. It > isn't a > long in and out breath thing though, it is a sustained out-breath where the > diaphram > apparently relaxes to its normal position. Respiration continues, however, > apparently due > to air circulating because the heart is compressing/decompressing the sides > of the lungs. > > http://www.psychosomaticmedicine.org/cgi/reprint/46/3/267.pdf > http://www.psychosomaticmedicine.org/cgi/reprint/44/2/133 >
Actually a sustained "in breath" aka "apneusis," though in subjects with no known physiological abnormalities. Eyeballing the charts at MUM, you can see that there is a long "in breath" with tiny fluctuations about 1 cycle per second, which probably corresdpons to the heart beating against the lungs, thereby causing minute respiration on top of the long inhalation due to the diaphram relaxing.
