Updated: April 1, 2024
Good Breathe Technique for Deep Breathing Exercises
Do you know WHY it is important to breathe deeply as often as possible?
Follow to the end to find out why.
This WHY is VERY, VERY IMPORTANT for you as a person, for your body, your mind and your soul.
YOU DO NOT BELIEVE ME? Keep reading until the end!
Breathing difficulties can seriously handicap our ability to function and enjoy life.
Air is our most vital source of energy and vitality.
When we suffer from asthma, bronchitis, allergies, frequent colds or simply insufficient oxygen intake,
we are prone to a lack of energy, vitality and or mental clarity.
Every cell within our body depends on an abundant supply of oxygen for proper metabolism and vitality.
Some Causes of Breathing Problems
1. Hereditary weakness may make our lungs or other organs of respiratory apparatus weak points in our system.
Thus when tired, overworked, anxious or stressed, these parts of the body will start to malfunction.
This does not mean, however, that we must suffer.
It is in our hands to live in a certain way so as nurture and protect our bodies and minds.
Among such weaknesses we should include the inability of the immune system to effectively protect the body from microbes and viruses.
In some cases the immune system may work overtime trying to protect the body from imagined dangers.
Allergies and asthma are often the result of such over-reactions from the immune system.
2. Environmental factors may also aggravate the condition.
Cold and humid weather tend to accentuate breathing problems.
Pollen and other particles in the air may cause allergic reactions.
Occupational conditions such as working in a dusty area or in a smoke filled room may also aggravate the problem.
Pollution irritates our nasal passage and lungs.
Smoking cigarettes obviously damages our lungs, cutting off our supply of oxygen.
3. An overproduction of mucus clogs up the breathing passages, obstructing breathing.
Foods, which tend to cause excess mucus, are all dairy products, white flour, white rice and sweets.
4. A lack of sufficient liquid intake causes the mucus to thicken and cling to the lungs and other breathing passages.
This creates a favorable environment for microbes to reproduce.
5. Blockages in the spinal vertebrae or tension in the muscles of the upper back
may also obstruct the flow of nerve impulses and bioenergy to the lungs.
This may inhibit the proper functioning of the lungs.
6. Emotional blockages are directly connected with our breathing.
People, who experience anxiety, depression, fear, nervous tension or a poor self-image,
tend to subconsciously hold their breath.
Thus their breathing is tense, shallow, and sometimes spasmodic.
Long-term emotional blockages may also affect the adrenal glands and
thus hormonal disorders may also play their part in the problem.
Negative emotions also depress or disturb the functioning of the immune system.
7. A lack of proper education in breathing is another reason why
people suffer from breathing problems.
It is entirely possible for us to learn to use our lungs more effectively
for greater energy, vitality, peace and clarity of mind.
This should be learned from an experienced breath coach.
Some Solutions
1. For Environmental and Habitual Factors
a. Surround yourself with large green leafed plants, which produce oxygen and absorb pollution.
b. Get out of the city frequently. Go the sea or mountains and breathe fresh clean air.
c. Use regular deep breathing to clean out and rejuvenate your lungs.
d. Deep breathing while walking can clean out a considerable amount of pollution from the lungs.
e. If you smoke, then, love yourself, and stop.
2. Dietary Guidelines
a. Avoid all diary products, white sugar, sweets, white flour and white rice.
When the problem has subsided, then we can start taking small quantities of
dairy products while watching the body’s reaction.
b. Eat plenty of fruits and vegetables.
c. Drink plenty, 6 or 8 cups per day, of warm liquid daily. This may be water,
herb teas, or water with lemon. Do not drink refrigerated or iced drinks.
d. When one has a cold, an onion and garlic soup spiced with pepper,
cinnamon ginger and cloves, opens up the nasal passages and
allows the congestion to flow out.
e. In some cases the use of natural vitamin C tablets can be helpful.
3. Facing emotional factors is essential for healing the cause of the breathing problems.
There are various ways in which we can find relief from these emotional factors
and then eventually analyze them and transcend them.
a Self-analysis or objective-self observation can free us
from various emotional attachments and fears.
b Positive thinking, affirmations, and positive thought projection
can neutralize negative emotions and tendencies.
c Various Body-centered catharsis techniques in addition to reprogramming techniques
such as EMDR, TFT and EFT can free us from emotional based psychosomatic symptoms.
4. Exercises and Techniques
A. With the help of various exercises and techniques we seek to:
1. Remove the blockages and tensions from the upper back and chest area.
2. Develop greater freedom and control over the muscles of breathing.
3. Bring blood and healing energies to the chest area.
4. Open up the nasal passages if they are blocked.
5. Stimulate the harmonious functioning of the adrenal glands and immune system.
B. Techniques will need the guidance of an experienced coach are:
1. To start with we can simply practice deep breathing exercises.
These exercises will give us relief from tension and may even bring
the cause for our emotional tension to the surface so that we may see it
more clearly and objectively.
2. Exercises for the upper back and chest can also
bring considerable relief from emotional tensions.
3. Deep relaxation techniques are also very effective for relaxing
the whole system so that the muscles of breathing may function more freely.
4. In guided deep relaxation sessions the source of the emotional blockages can be researched through regression.
Breathing, The Way Back to Balance
If you do not like what is happening in your life, change your mind.
This brief quotation from the Dalai Lama reminds me that
my experience of life changes as I do. As I change, I change the way
I influence, and am influenced by, my surroundings.
How are you inventing your life today?
How does the way you think affect your actions?
And how might you become more aware of the process?
A centering breath is a place to start.
When you are stressed, in conflict, or otherwise
under pressure, do you hold your breath?
Most people do.
When you stop the natural flow of air, you become tense and unbalanced,
physically and emotionally. Your body, mind and spirit are disconnected.
One of the easiest ways to regain your balance is to start breathing again.
Open your throat, relax your body and allow inspiration to take place.
Inspiration, a great word, is it? Your breath is your life energy
that connects to inner wisdom, resources and strength.
A good way to practice centering is to notice how often you hold your breath.
The awareness will trigger you to start breathing again.
The more you notice, the less you will hold your breath,
and the more relaxed and centered you’ll be.
Try it. And let me know what happens!
One first method,
Breathing and Relaxing
You do not need to fall into the stress mode of life.
You can use breath to relax, rather than stress, your mind and body.
Yoga helps you to relearn that natural state that your body and mind want to be in,
relaxation.
Deep breathing is both calming and energizing.
The energy you feel from a few minutes of careful breathe
is not nervous or hyper, but that calm, steady energy we all need.
Slow, steady, and quiet breathing gives a message to your nervous system,
Be calm.
Whole books have been written on yoga breathing. Here is one 5-minute Breath Break.
(Read through the instructions several times before you try the practice.)
1. Sit with your spine as straight as possible.
Use a chair if necessary but do not slump into it.
Feet flat on the floor with knees directly over the center of your feet.
Use a book or cushion under your feet if they do not rest comfortably on the floor.
Hands are on the tops of your legs.
2. Close your eyes gently and let them rest behind closed lids.
3. Think about your ribs, at the front, back, and at the sides of your body.
Your lungs are behind those ribs.
4. Feel your lungs filling up, your ribs expanding out and up.
Feel your lungs emptying, your ribs coming back down and in.
Do not push the breath.
5. The first few times you do this, do it for 2 to 3 minutes,
then do it for up to 5 to 10 minutes.
At first, set aside a time at least once a day to do this.
When you learn how good it makes you feel,
you will want to do it at other times as well.
Just as one stressful situation goes into your next challenge,
relaxing for a few minutes every day gradually carries over
into the rest of your daily life and activities.
One another method,
Deep Breathing
Most people take short, shallow breaths into their chest.
It can make you feel anxious and zap your energy.
With this technique, you’ll learn how to take bigger breaths,
all the way into your belly.
Get comfortable. You can lie on your back in bed or on the floor
with a pillow under your head and knees. Or you can sit in a chair
with your shoulders, head, and neck supported against the back of the chair.
Breathe in through your nose. Let your belly fill with air.
Breathe out through your nose.
Place one hand on your belly. Place the other hand on your chest.
As you breathe in, feel your belly rise.
As you breathe out, feel your belly lower.
The hand on your belly should move more than the one that is on your chest.
Take three more full, deep breaths.
Breathe fully into your belly as it rises and falls with your breath.
One third method,
Breath Focus
While you do deep breathing, use a picture in your mind and a word or phrase to help you feel more relaxed.
Close your eyes if they are open.
Take a few big, deep breaths.
Breathe in. As you do that, imagine that the air is filled with a sense of peace and calm.
Try to feel it throughout your body.
Breathe out. While you are doing it, imagine that the
air leaves with your stress and tension.
Now use a word or phrase with your breath.
As you breathe in, say in your mind, I breathe in peace and calm.
As you breathe out, say in your mind, I breathe out stress and tension.
Continue for 10 to 20 minutes.
Do you know WHY it is important to breathe deeply as often as possible?
Because the deep inspiration will dilate as many alveolar spaces as possible,
allowing a much larger amount of oxygen to enter the general circulation.
Deep inspiration must be followed by a deep exhalation.
Thus, we will improve our health, we will prolong our life and we will increase our quality of life.
The benefits will be shared by body, mind and soul!
Do you believe me now?
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