If we go to the doctor to get better, eat well and exercise, we don’t always work on our breathing. Breathing is automatic, no? Even though our body breathes for us, the quality of the breath is important. When you feel tired, try this quick and easy breathing exercise to make your mind and body feel better!
The many types of breath
Not all breaths are the same. Have you ever noticed that when we are agitated we feel the throat closed and the breaths become faster? Our breathing goes hand in hand with our emotions. Therefore, when we are more stressed, the breath will not be deep. In fact, we can breathe in three ways. Throat breathing is the most labored one. As can be deduced from the name, those who breathe from the throat do not let the air go down to the bottom. Chest breath is an intermediate breath.
When we breathe in this way, the chest expands but we don’t fully enlarge the lungs. The healthiest breathing is the belly one. This involves our entire abdomen. In this way the lungs expand properly and oxygenate themselves by expelling carbon dioxide. We should always breathe like this, but it’s not always easy. So here is a quick exercise to recharge and oxygenate our body.
Try this quick and easy breathing exercise to make your mind and body feel better
Nadi Shodana, or alternating nostril breathing, is a practice yoga. It is in fact included among the breathing techniques. This practice in fact involves breathing alternately from the two nostrils. Thus both hemispheres of our brain will be well oxygenated. But not only. Stopping to do this exercise will allow us to take a moment of calm. Breathing will easily become belly and we will have a boost of energy throughout the body. Alternating nostril breathing is very easy to do.
First you have to sit comfortably. Then you have to bring your right hand to your face. With the thumb you have to plug the right nostril and with the little finger and ring finger the left. Middle and index finger may rest on the third eye or remain bent.
The first step of breathing is the inhalation. You have to release the right nostril and inhale for a few seconds. After having recapted the nostril, they wait a second and then remove the fingers from the left nostril. The exhalation is then made from the left nostril. Then the cycle begins again starting from the left nostril. The same nostril, therefore, first exhales and then inhales. Breathing should be repeated for about two or three minutes.
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