What is Deep Breathing?
Is the practice of breathing into the abdomen, instead of just into the chest.
It is a component of yoga and meditation practices - the pranayama. There are different techniques.
Benefits of Daily Deep Breathing
- Relieves stress
- Relaxes body and mind
- Promotes good posture
- Improves mood
- Strengthens the lungs
- Reduces blood pressure
- Improves respiratory system
- Oxygenates body, blood and organs
- Helps to remove toxins through the breath
How to Deep Breath
- Sit or lie down, in a silent or maybe with some relaxing music.
- Inhale deeply and slowly, through the nose, filling the lower abdomen with air and then fill the chest. Place you hand on the abdomen to feel the breathing. Should take at least 5 seconds.
- Hold. Count to three.
- Exhale deeply and slowly, through the nose, emptying the abdomen while counting to five.
- Repeat 10 times, or more if possible.
- While inhaling, visualize new powerful energy coming inside the body and at the exhaling, how negative energy and toxins leave the body.
Deep Breath Variation - Alternate nostril Breathing
Is a breathing exercise that involves alternating the nose nostril you breathe in, while blocking, with one finger, the opposite nose hole (nostril) and exhaling from the opposite.
It includes many of the deep breathing but also restores balance in the left and right hemispheres of the brain, and clears the energetic channels
It includes many of the deep breathing but also restores balance in the left and right hemispheres of the brain, and clears the energetic channels
How to Alternate Nostril Breathing
- Sit comfortably, in silence or maybe with some white sound
- Close the right nostril with the right thumb and inhale slowly through the left nostril
- Close the left nostril with the right ring finger.
- Release the thumb from the right nostril and slowly exhale from the right.
- Alternate for 10 times or more if possible.
