Want to Learn a Breathing Exercise? How About 3?

Okay, now let's get straight to the business. When talking about breathing correctly and effectively, this is what you must hold in your mind. The key to correct breathing is to use your abdomen rather than your chest.

First Breathing Exercise
Pick a comfortable spot to lie on. Lie on your back and put a book on your stomach. Now, relax and inhale deeply into your abdomen so that the book rises. When you exhale, the book should fall. Do this exercise when you wake up in the morning or before you go to sleep. Do it a few times only, slowly. Do not overdo it - take it easy, go slow. The aim is to make such breathing get into your everyday breathing naturally. Remember, breathing is not something you force - it is something done unconsciously.

Second Breathing Exercise
If you prefer to sit, try this one. Place your right hand on your abdomen and the other hand on your chest. Breathe deeply so that your right hand (that is on the abdomen) will rise and fall while your stomach should stay relatively still. Breathe like this for 2 minutes. As you breathe in, count to 4, hold for 2, and release your breath in 4 counts.

Third Breathing Exercise
Okay, this is the last exercise for you and is called alternate nose breathing. Yes, I know, it sounds weird.

Although it may sounds fancy, the aim of this exercise is very basic - to relieve stress. I give you an overview of the technique so that you can form a clearer picture of what it's all about. What you will do in this exercise is basically to breathe in one nostril and out the other. Then breathe in the second nostril and out the first.

This is how you should do it. Breathe in the left nostril to the count of 6, while using your finger to hold the right nostril closed. Hold your breath for 3 counts. Release the right nostril and while your left nostril is closed, breathe out in the count of 6.
Breathe back in the right nostril for 6 count. Hold for 3 counts. Release the left and breathe out to the count of 6 while the right nostril is closed. Repeat this a couple of times.

Our Final Word
Some breathing exercise wants you to hold your breath longer than what we told you. If you think holding your breath longer makes you feel better, then do it. The most important thing we want you to get out of this page is to make you re-learn to breathe using your abdomen rather than your chest.

Try to perform these exercises throughout the day. A good time is when you have just wake up or before you go to sleep. If you are doing it correctly, and if it becomes your habit, you should feel calmer and find yourself more relaxed.

There are a few course available in the internet on deep breathing, and we recommend that you look for more information about it. If you like to continue learning at Oohoi, you may want to see my page on scientific studies on Deep Breathing and how it affect our health

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