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Buteyko breathing video Part 1 is an interview with Doctor KP Buteyko in 1988
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Buteyko breathing video Part 2 is an interview with Doctor KP Buteyko in 1988
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Buteyko Lectures 4th 1998 January Dr KP Buteyko – Interview, a gathering of friend’s and colleagues discussing the Buteyko Breathing Method on YouTube.
Sergey Altukhov is introducing Professor KP Buteyko and Ludmila Sokolskaya in 1998, this video is a segment of a series of videos talking about his Buteyko breathing method, The film is taken on the 4th January 1998 at the Professor’s home in Novosibirsk. The producer of this film is Sergey Altukhov Altukhov Buteyko Biographer.
Dr KP Buteyko – Interview Video Transcript 1998 Part 1 by Sergey Altukhov
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Lyubov Georgievna Karetnikova To start with, deliveries using ʻthe Methodʼ are completely painless. But this is not where I would like to start. I would like to start by saying that children born using the method are completely different from children born without it. And basically — oh Sergey, switch off the camera. I canʼt do it. Itʼs not coming out right today. Sergey Altukhovʼs voice: Say it, go on… Lyubov Georgievna Karetnikova: I came to “The Method” when I had completely lost hope of getting well, when I had given up hope on life. I was basically on the verge of self-destruction. And when I first came to Konstantin Pavlovich and he told me: “You will live. You are going to be well” — I simply didnʼt believe him. It was unreal for me. As you know, our government made us all hostages to atomic testing, and so from the year I was born to the age of 33, I lived under continual atomic tests, so to say. Almost all my relatives had died of serious illnesses. Most of them had cancers of different parts of the body, but the outcome was one and the same. I had managed to avoid it so far. I come from Semipalatinsk, the atomic testing ground in Kazakhstan and, of course, when I came here to Russia, I began getting killing head aches. I went to various doctors, in Moscow and Leningrad, and went round various clinics and institutes. The doctors just threw up their hands and didnʼt know what to do with me. There was no way they could help. My doctor used to say to me: ” The only way I can help is by putting you top of the list for a head transplant, when they come in.” To which I my answer was always: ” Right, then weʼll just have to wait”. I had an operation. I had difficulty walking and couldnʼt even cross the road. I was in a very bad state. And it was like that that I went to Konstantin Pavlovich. That was 15 years ago already. Now of course it is even hard to believe I was like that. So, thanks to the Method, in the very early days I began to notice that the grass is green. That there are leaves on the trees, and that it is possible to live, to travel, and to walk and not simply exist, in a wretched state. And all this was thanks to Konstantin Pavlovich alone. And when I came to feel this, I realised, and Iʼve thought it for many years – there are no weapons in this world stronger than this Method, nor can there be. Because the Method eliminates all and every pain. It can free from you any condition, from any mood. The Method achieves miracles. To say that I immediately got well would be wrong. It was a long and difficult road. But for that reason, the results I achieved were all the more valuable and probably important for the discovery, for the Method. For one thing, I gave birth to my child using the Method. He is fit and well thank God. A strong son, and would that they were all like that! I still give consultations. I try to help as best I can, and much has been done by patients who also achieved good results. Now the ones who are healthy are also bringing up children.
The video is a segment from the Original Buteyko Lectures 1998
Dr KP Buteyko – Interview Video Transcript 1998 Part 1 by Sergey Altukhov
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I am Elena Ivanovna Volodina. I got to know Konstantin Pavlovich in about 1981. At that time I was rather ill. I had very high blood pressure, and was troubled with heart pains. After one of my periodic bouts of pneumonia, I started getting asthma attacks. For about six months I fell apart in quite a major way. Then fate brought me into contact with Konstantin Pavlovich. And miracles started to happen. One by one, each of my symptoms started to disappear. The pains in my heart went. I stopped gasping for breath. I started feeling better, and I acquired new energy and the desire to get something done, to achieve something. I even decided to have more children; two of them. The most amazing thing was that my pregnancies were completely different. I mean I had no “bed rest” and there were no complications. I lived a fairly active style of life. And the deliveries were completely unlike my previous ones. It was simply astonishing. And I was able to reduce the pain with the help of the method. Everything happened fairly quickly. And the children were all tip-top too, letʼs say. Then I started working in a health centre that used the Buteyko breathing method and there, all the miracles I had experienced, were available ʻon streamʼ, you might say. Before my eyes, people began leaving their disabilities behind: they got rid of their inhalers and cut their dosages of medicine. The things I saw defied my imagination and defy it to this day. Of course, over the years there were many situations in which the Method proved to be, letʼs say, a “life belt in lifeʼs turbulent sea”. Times of stress, illness, and problems, were all easier to overcome and extricate oneself from with its help. I am very grateful to fate, and to Konstantin Pavlovich, grateful that I came into contact with this miracle, mastered it, got a taste for life, health and vitality, set my life in order and could help other people. I mean, thank you.
Video Transcript… from a segment of the Buteyko DVD Original Buteyko Lectures 1998 Doctor Konstantin Pavlovich Buteyko, Sergey Altukhov & guests.
Dr KP Buteyko – Interview Video Transcript 1998 Part 1 by Sergey Altukhov
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Doctor Buteyko’s Discovery: The Destruction of the Laboratory. Audible Audiobook – Unabridged, Vol 1. on YouTube.
Chapter 3 A call from Buteyko’s wife. Protection against the lunatic asylum. Suspicions
“Do you know what is the result of a single deep breath?” Buteyko motioned for the Party Secretary to sit down again. “It disables you for a minimum of five or six minutes, for the time it takes for your body to recover the carbon dioxide it has lost. Just one breath. And how many of them are you taking during your exercises?” “Does deep breathing really have such serious consequences?” The perplexed Petrov was plainly disbelieving. “Let’s not waste time.” As always, Buteyko became animated when talking about his discoveries. “We’ll just do a small experiment.” He retrieved a stopwatch from his pocket. “Would you breathe as deeply as possible, please.” The Party Secretary shook his head and it was plain that he took the whole business as a joke. He opened his mouth and took several deep breaths. “Keep going! Deeper, deeper.” The Doctor did not let him stop. After two minutes, Petrov couldn’t stand any more. “I can’t go on!” he gasped. “I have an awful headache and there’s a kind of ringing. And my heart hurts.” The vein on his neck was throbbing more intensely. “Good.” The Doctor relented, attentively observing his patient. “And now, do the opposite, try to breathe more shallowly. Reduce your breathing.” Buteyko saw that as Petrov limited his breathing, the livid patches disappeared from his face. “Well, how do you feel?” he asked. “You know, better, much better!” The Party Secretary raised his eyes to Buteyko’s in surprise. They were clear, as if a film had been removed from them. “Do I need to demonstrate the ‘benefit’ of deep breathing to you again?” enquired the Doctor, suppressing a smile. “No,” said Petrov slowly. “Your arguments are clear. But how did you manage…?” “That’s another question,” interrupted the elated Buteyko. “You need to understand the theory…” He explained the basics to Petrov and told him how to train at home. Two weeks later, he saw the Party Secretary again. “Thank you, Doctor Buteyko, from the bottom of my heart! Those awful attacks stopped as soon as I started breathing as you told me. They’ve completely disappeared. And that doctor with the PhD… I sent him packing. He won’t trouble me again.” As he warmly grasped the Doctor’s hand in farewell, Petrov said, “If ever you need my help… don’t hesitate. I’ll always support you!”
Chapter 16 A lesson in how to overcome an asthma attack. A celebrated school teacher. When they had seated the old lady in the tiny consulting room, Buteyko asked her sternly, “Now, what must we do to get rid of an attack?” Mrs Grekhova was gulping for air through her mouth. She raised helpless rheumy eyes at him then was convulsed by coughing. “Ms Voronova, assist the patient please,” Buteyko suggested. Natalya started firmly straightening up the hunched patient. “Close your mouth! Shoulders back. Further,” she ordered. “Try to relax your stomach and to bring your breathing down. Breathe just a little. Don’t suck in air like a pump, just breathe a tiny bit.” Natalya walked round the back of the old lady as she followed her instructions. With one deft movement of both hands, Natalya grasped the old lady’s shaking abdomen with her strong, trained fingers and gripped the bottom of her heaving ribcage between thumb and index finger. “Reduce the depth of your breathing. Make each breath more shallow than the last. Breathe only through your nose. Relax. Relax your abdomen.” Natalya sensed that the patient was beginning to follow her advice. Her abdomen loosened and her diaphragm quivered perceptibly less. Shortly afterwards Mrs Grekhova had greatly improved and Dr Buteyko led her through to the special couch. “You’ve already learned pretty well how to get rid of attacks,” he praised Natalya, who was perspiring from the effort. She carefully tucked a lock of hair under her starched hat. “Only,” he paused, “don’t get carried away holding on to the abdomen and ribcage. You can, of course, help the patient at some points, but they must do the work for themselves.” Buteyko rose slightly from his chair. “We overcome an asthmatic attack and all the symptoms of asthma not by holding our breath but by reducing the depth of it through relaxing the diaphragm!” “Well, that’s what I told her,” Natalya Voronova responded, slightly put out. Her wide eyes expressed keen interest as they fixed the Doctor steadily with feminine ambiguity. “But who is that woman? Why did the boys mention her today?” “Mrs Grekhova?” Buteyko again rolled back his left sleeve. “She’s a special case. I’ll tell you all about her.” He briefly excused himself, went to the combine- complexator, checked on the patient, gave the necessary instructions and came back to his consulting room.
The Breathing Man 