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Diaphragm Containment Leak
Lie supine with the right palm on the lower abdomen and the left palm on the sternum.
Full Lesson Notes
Complete Practice
Lie supine with the right palm on the lower abdomen and the left palm on the sternum. Begin a slow, voluntary belly oscillation under the right hand. The left hand is the seismograph: it should record nothing if the wave is contained. Slowly increase the abdominal oscillation amplitude and find the threshold at which the sternum begins to register a sympathetic ripple — the point at which the system stops behaving as a contained crack and begins to leak harmonic tremor upward through the diaphragm and ribs. The leak point is information about today's diaphragmatic stiffness. Challenge: The leak point may simply be the amplitude at which the practitioner involuntarily co-contracts the chest — confounded with intent.
