Home_Page

Breathing Exercises

Breathing Exercises (General)

Dennis Lewis, the author of Free your Breath, Free Your Life,” “The Tao of Natural Breathing” and “Breathe Into Being: Awakening to Who you Really Are,” once wrote that, breathing re-education work and the exercises related to it can be divided in a number of categories. These exercises are extremely helpful in overcoming various kinds of breathing problems. They also promote diaphragmatic breathing, belly breathing, back breathing, etc. These different breathing techniques open our body’s breathing spaces. Some exercise can also work on our spirituality and inner peace to help us rejuvenate and live a fulfilling life. Read More

Anxiety breathing

Anxiety, stress and constant tension can lead to distress physically as well as mentally. Here it is important to gain knowledge in self management when it comes to emotions. It needs expertise to develop the skill over a period of time. Shallow restricted breathing is accompanied with anxiety. Deep and normal breathing becomes next to impossible. During this the following changes occur in the body.

It takes time to breathe back normally.

The respiratory system comprising of the diaphragm, lungs, rib cage, wind pipe and neck may not function and synchronize together and fail to permit normal steady breathing.

The entire nervous system and emotional state can get mildly to severly unbalanced.

Pain can be caused or worsened in any organ or body part. Read More

Yoga breathing

Breathing is integral part of life. It may appear simple but it is one of the essential body functions as is not always intuitive. Yoga breathing is based on the simple principles of pranayama. Pranayama in the in the USA is largely about altered states of consciousness. The main aim of this kind of yoga breathing is to attain varous states of spiritual experiences. This hopefully goes along with the Asanas or esoteric postures that envelop the body, mind and soul. Often it is contrary to healthy breathing.

So what exactly is Yoga breathing? Read More

Deep breathing

From the perspective of health and spirituality deep breathing is of major significance. When balanced, this kind of breathing boosts life and vigor and relaxes the taut nerves. Most of us fail to do it in proper way and practice shallow breathing in everyday life. It is important to be acquainted how breathing works in our body and its effects, before putting deep breathing exercises into practice. Read More

Deeper breathing

With stress the bodily reaction takes place and all the negative chemical reactions occur inside the body. It is true stress is a facet of life and one cannot altogether avoid it. But one can neutralize its effect by strengthening our ability to not overract as well as to become adebt at inducing deepest relaxation and recovery responses: conditions which reside mostly in the breathing body and are innately contrary to stress.

The ultimate solutions to stress are the body’s response to natural relaxation as well as conditoniing that makes the organism strong enough to eudure increased levels of stress. One of the most common practices for relaxation is practicing proper deep breathing such as in various styles of meditationi, yoga, tai chi, qigong and tightening-loosening muscle relaxation technique, any of which can result in a deeper relaxation response. But none are guaranteed and some are quite harmful when done improperly or too often or for not long enough. When any of these are put to proper practice, they help in stress reduction and bring in peace and joy. They help one to bring control over one's mind at time of anxiety. This is often referred to as autoregulation. Read More

Meditation

Co-meditation is also popularly known as cross breathing. The simple principle on which it is based is that, with the kind of respiration the mental state gets stimulated in that particular way. Co-meditation is believed to alleviate stress and suffering. Since time immemorial breathing and body has been identify together and collectively is their impact on lives. Co-meditation is capable of affecting the hypothalamus gland which is responsible for controlling the nervous system. Apart from this it helps normalize the heart rate, blood pressure, stress responses and more. Read More

High Blood Pressure

We are all well acquainted with the fact that stress and other mental conditions can lead to high blood pressure. In fact high or low blood pressure has become a part and parcel of our everyday life as most of us suffer from either of these two conditions. There are several ways by which one can bring the blood pressure to normal. The most common way is by stress relievers. Statistics and studies reveal that they are capable in reducing blood pressure as they reduce negativity both physically and mentally and also boost other health benefits. Here are some ways by which high blood pressure can be treated. Read More

Oxygen Therapy

Home model oxygen bars using oxygen concentrators are equipment meant for providing extra oxygen both for oxygen enhanced exercise and oxygen therapy. The concentrators or generators are provided to people to provide significantly more concentration of oxygen level than is available in the air. They are safe to use and are relatively inexpensive as compared to oxygen bottle usage and commercial oxygen bars. Read More

Asthma and breathing

Breathing is one of the primal characteristics of any life. Breathing is vital for speech, singing, crying, laughing etc. A little imbalance in breathing can affect all these processes. It should be noted that apart form alternative medicines that treat breathing, certain practices like yoga, tai chi, qi gong and optimal breathing are of importance as they also lay emphasis on breathing and various breathing exercises. Read More

Singing and speaking

It is true that breathing is the simplest automatic biological activity for all the beings. Breathing is also coordinated and orchestrated by other elements. At the conscious level it allows one to sing, speak, shout, whistle groan or even purr. The to all these activities is breathing. Read More

Main Navigation