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About Deep Breathing
Deep breathing helps to facilitate relaxation and calm intense emotional states. Shallow breathing leads to increased anxiety and stress, whereas deep breathing slows you down and provides more oxygen to your body.
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- Inhale slowly until your belly is filled to capacity.
- A pause should occur at the end of inhalation (count till 4 to start with and then icrease to 6, 10, 15 or more if you can). This, too, should not be forced at first, though deliberate experiments with extending this pause play an important part in successful practice.
- Exhale smoothly and completely.
- Another pause, short or long, should occur at the end of exhalation.
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Healing Starts with Breathing
Start while lying on your back. Place one hand on your chest and one hand on your belly (between navel and ribs).
Focus on allowing the belly to rise easily when inhaling and fall when exhaling.
HOLD THE CHEST STILL with your hand on your chest.
The objective is to breathe all the time with the belly and not the chest.
If the belly won't move and the chest continues to move, put a weight on the belly between the navel and ribs (where their hand was). A heavy book will do, but a sandbag that weighs 3 - 5 pounds is best.
Focus on "allowing" the weight to rise on inhale and sink on exhale.
Doing It The Right Way
Begin by breathing normally, but paying attention to each breath. After several breaths, begin to breathe more deeply – longer inhalations and longer exhalations. With deep breathing, you breathe from your gut.
Place your hands for several breaths on your chest, then your ribs, and finally your belly, to feel the breath moving through you.
Breathe deeply and slowly, focusing all of your attention on each breath.
Don’t rush it or breathe quickly.
As you exhale naturally, allow any tension to leave you with the breath. Imagine the tension draining from your body and mind as you exhale. Notice the feeling of calm and relaxation that comes with exhalation. |
Application Suggestions
• Health maintenance: 6 to 10 repetitions
2 to 3 sessions per day.
• Health enhancement: 6 to 10 repetitions
4 to 6 sessions per day.
• Disease intervention: Start slowly and build up to 15 to 20 repetitions
10 to 15 sessions per day.
• Getting started: 2 to 3 repetitions, once or twice per day.
Remember to keep it easy and fun.
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Oxygen and health
During the process of respiration, waste products are exposed to the action of the oxygen of the air and are burned up, thereby producing our bodies energy. Our internal energy is continually being generated through the chemical action of carbon and oxygen. Oxygen is used in many processes that break down excess or toxic materials in the body.
Oxygen is a powerful detoxifier, and when its quantity is deficient, toxins begin to devastate body functions and deplete the body of life-giving energy. Without oxygen, there can be no nourishment. Without nourishment, no heat and no energy can be created, and the body cannot purify itself.
Oxygen acts as a guardian and protector against unfriendly bacteria and disease organisms. One of oxygen's major functions is disintegration. Rubble, garbage, toxins, refuse, debris, and anything useless are destroyed by oxygen and carried out of the system. Because the disease causing bacteria and viruses are overwhelmingly anaerobic (anaerobic means cannot exist in oxygen), it is simple definitive scientific fact that the bacteria and viruses causing most diseases cannot exist when surrounded with active forms of oxygen, even if they are inside the human body.
Points to remember
1. Oxygen plays the dual role of maintaining a pure environment essential to our well-being.
2. Oxygen provides the energy to our cells that is vital for proper metabolism.
3. Deep breathing is an essential daily exercise to balance the pH and send oxygen to the extremities of the body
One can easily see how oxygen is the key "ingredient" to improved health. Hence the importance of deep breathing exercises made on a daily basis, accompanied by a balanced diet, sufficient rest and emotional balance.
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