The Shadow of Constriction operates at all levels of society. In the individual, constriction occurs first and foremost in your breathing. It creates tightness around the chest and compresses tension into the abdomen. Most of us enter constriction training at a very young age. We learn it through the breathing patterns of our parents, even while we are still in the womb. It is even there at the point of conception, passed subtly from the sperm to the egg as a code containing the genetic blueprints of the constriction felt by your ancestors as they struggled from their births to their deaths.