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The real nature of reverse breathing depends on the level and intention of the practicioner.
Though as a general caracteristic, i would say reverse breathing is more external than the normal one.So it corresponds more to magic than meditation. Normal breathing is more meditative, more relaxed.
The thing is, one should be able to do both with both kinds. But yeah, there is a difference.
Think about in terms of association with a physical performance. When you lift a heavy weight like in weightlifting, you breathe out. In body building too, but it is done in contraction. So when lifting, at exhale, the muscle contracts(it corresponds to meditation).
Though in weightlifting, where you want not to grow muscle, but to explode very fast once(wich corresponds to magic), you reverse the breathing, and use elastic force just like in taichi chuan.Now of course, weightlifting also involves a lot of muscle contraction, but it is the internal, reversed force that gives that extra power, and that eplains that a light weightlifter may be just as strong as a heavy bodybuilder.
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