No one can live for more than a few minutes without breathing, yet how many of us are aware of the importance of proper breathing ?
We need to breathe slowly and deeply. Then the each and every body cells work in union and bring back harmony and health to the system. Here are three breathing techniques to the system. One should practice all of them everyday as many times as one can. But, minimum one should do 20 times each of these techniques to be able to feel the benefits.
Don't do it after a meal after meal. There should be a gap of two hours .so better perform this techniques before your meal. one can finish the technique and after ten minutes you can take your food.
Yogic Breathing (the complete breath)
This breathing exercise uses the lower, middle and upper part of the respiratory muscles. Start with abdominal breathing, followed by thoracic breathing and finally clavicle breathing. Reverse the order when you exhale.
Benefits : Increases lungs capacity, slow down respiration rate, calms the mind and can synchronizes both the hemispheres of the brain.
Nadi Shodhana (alternate nostril breathing)
This is a simple form of alternate nostril breathing.
‘Nadi’ means channel and refers to the energy pathways through which the prana flows. Shodhana means cleansing. ‘Nadi shodhana' means purification of nadis or channels.
Inhale through the left nostril, exhale through the right, inhale through the right and exhale through the left. This is one cycle/ one round of breathing.
Benefits : Strengthens the nervous system, helps conditions such as anxeity, depression, hypertension, and hypotension.
Bhramari (The humming bee)
‘Bhramari means bee’. The exhalation should be similar to a bee.
Place the thumb on your ears, shut your eyes and inhale, then exhale making the sound of the humming bee.
Benefits : Nourishes and calms the brain cells, smoothes the nervous, helps in treating insomnia.
Yogic Breathing (the complete breath)
This breathing exercise uses the lower, middle and upper part of the respiratory muscles. Start with abdominal breathing, followed by thoracic breathing and finally clavicle breathing. Reverse the order when you exhale.
Benefits : Increases lungs capacity, slow down respiration rate, calms the mind and can synchronizes both the hemispheres of the brain.
Nadi Shodhana (alternate nostril breathing)
This is a simple form of alternate nostril breathing.
‘Nadi’ means channel and refers to the energy pathways through which the prana flows. Shodhana means cleansing. ‘Nadi shodhana' means purification of nadis or channels.
Inhale through the left nostril, exhale through the right, inhale through the right and exhale through the left. This is one cycle/ one round of breathing.
Benefits : Strengthens the nervous system, helps conditions such as anxeity, depression, hypertension, and hypotension.
Bhramari (The humming bee)
‘Bhramari means bee’. The exhalation should be similar to a bee.
Place the thumb on your ears, shut your eyes and inhale, then exhale making the sound of the humming bee.
Benefits : Nourishes and calms the brain cells, smoothes the nervous, helps in treating insomnia.
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