Our bodies are starved of oxygen thus accumulating carbon dioxide and a toxic build up occurs, we are not taken sufficient oxygen ant not eliminating enough carbon dioxide, lungs lose their working capability thus losing its vitality causing a further reduction in its functioning it’s all due to shallow breathing we need to breathe deep and long. We need to breathe slowly and deeply, quick shallow breathing results in oxygen starvation leading to premature ageing poor immune system and a myriad of other factors. Oxygen is essential for healthy cells providing strong immune system against diseases.
Basic methods:
1. Start by learning correct breathing techniques for optimal results.
2. Put on loose comfortable cloths and lie on any flat surface and deep breathe.
3. Placing both your hands on the lower edges of ribs almost touching them.
4. Relax your body by different relaxation technique.
5. Feel the diaphragm pulling up and down and feel your stomach moving up and down, the ribs collapsing down in and out with the movement of the stomach.
6. Repeating 3 to 4 times this sequence and relaxing in between.
7. Women try to breathe from the upper lobes of their bodies by raising and lowering the shoulders but the shoulders must remain stationary during breathing resulting in inadequate supply of oxygen resulting in stress.
8. While breathing if someone feels giddy, heady or faints must stop and relax this happens due to brain receiving unusually high amount of oxygen, just fades away if we relax for some time.
Different methods and varied breathing in different postures:
1. Breathing while sitting keeping the spine straight and shoulders straight and stiff and hands placing on the lap fill your lungs with oxygen right down to the bottom lobe; feel your rib cage moving up and down.
2. Breath while walking – Walking at a steady pace swinging your hands loosely breathe in and out and holding the breath in between for some time and then exhale. Repeat 5-6 times in each walk.
3. The healing breath – In eastern medicine breathing is taken in healing form even, the LIFE FORCE as in China and Japan called ‘CHI’ or the ‘PRANA’ in Indian yogic form of breathing, making oxygen flow in to the lungs first visualizing it flowing from the first in to the solar plexus and then to the healing area. While oxygen is exhaled out the disease is visualized as been flown out of the body.
4. The reenergizing breath – These are to perform the breathing function first by releasing function on the body and mind and then recharging them again with oxygen. This is especially structured to boost the vitality but should be practiced sparingly. Even you can yawn during this it’s the homeostatic mechanism of your body of oxygen and carbon dioxide balance. If you fell light handed or tingling in your arms just relax and breathe easy.
5. Tension relaxer breathing – This could be practiced anywhere, anytime to keep you high and prevent from stress breathing in and out relaxing all your muscles, then tensioning all the muscles be on your tip toe repeat this alternatively fix the eye on something to maintain your balance report for 5-6 times slowly breath in and out and see the difference.
6.Alternte nostril breathing – This is recommend for calming the spirit and the mind, the sun and the moon stands here for symbols of POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE RESPCTVLY, THIS TECHNIQUE shows the positive energy inhale from sun and exhaling symbolizes the drain of negative energy from the system sitting in an upright position inhale and exhale alternatively holding each nostril with your fingers and then holding it from some time in the ratio of 1:1:1 n then increasing the duration by ratio form of inhaling holding n exhaling alternatively in a given period of time. This takes ample time to excel and PRANAYAMA IS A tradition way of breathing in and out in breathing exercise of yoga.
7. The distressing breath – When we stress out we feel our jaws and teeth clenched out we hold ourselves on our chest and diaphragm and when we breath deep in we feel more relaxed and think more clearly while breathing feel your torso move like bellows imaging tension expelling, inhale slowly filing your abdomen, ribs and chest then blow out steadily sitting cross legged on a chair chill parallel to the floor the precise position for this particular exercise. Maintaining these different forms could revitalize you and feel the inner strength in you.