Breathing Techniques

Breathing Techniques

How many days can a person survive without food? How long can you survive without breathing? Perhaps a few minutes. Without the ability to breathe, we would cease to exist! This is the significance of Breath to our Life.

How many days can a person survive without food? Yet, you ponder about food so frequently!

Breath is life!

The first act of existence is taking a breath!

The final act of existence is exhalation!

Everything else falls somewhere in the middle - it's essential, but not the most important thing, because our respiration is our most intimate companion. A companion who is always aware of the emotion we are experiencing at any given time.

Think about it –

Isn't your breathing extremely rapid and agitated when you're angry, and slow and tranquil when you're serene?

By focusing on your breath and practicing pranayamas (breathing techniques), you can easily transform a disagreeable mental state into a pleasurable one by enhancing and regulating the system's life force (prana).

Breathing Techniques

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Abdominal Breathing

Here are defining for the breathing techniques

Abdominal breathing can be practiced lying down on your back, sitting down or while standing, though in this case,

·         Let’s lie down. Separate your legs slightly and let the feet fall to the sides.

·         Interlock the fingers and place the hands on your abdomen, palms facing downwards.

·         Make a conscious effort to inhale deeply, so that your abdomen starts to expand your fingers separate.

·         Allow your abdomen to expand as much as possible.

·         As you begin to exhale, apply gentle pressure on your abdomen with your hands, pushing it downwards.

·         Exhale fully.

The key to effective respiration is appropriate exhalation. With improved exhalation, inhalation will also improve.

Repeat this procedure a number of times. Take thorough abdominal breaths without using your hands when you feel at ease. Additionally, make your inhalation and exhalation extended and fluid.

 Also read: What is pranayama and its types & techniques

Full Yogic Breath

This type of breathing makes full use of lung capacity.

• Position yourself on your back.

Take two to three abdominal breaths.

• On your next inhalation, first expand your abdomen by using half of your breath; this will fill your lower lobes of the lungs.

• Inhale deeply to expand the thorax and fill the middle lobes.

• At the end of your inhalation, fill your lungs to capacity. You will experience an expansion in your upper thorax and a subtle elevation of your collarbones.

• On exhalation, the upper and middle lobes of the lungs should be deflated first, allowing the collarbones and sternum to decompress.

• The abdomen will then decompress as the lower lobes deflate.

• Long, smooth, and rhythmic breathing, like the rise and lowering of a wave.

Repeat this 10-15 times.