Following breathing techniques are for cleansing and stimulating our lungs, body and mind. They only take a few minutes of your daily time.
Breather better = getting healthier.
We explain to you the following techniques:
1) standard abdominal breathing (explained in ‘breathing
mechanism’)
2) holding your breath
For this exercise you are seated. Start breathing regularly in and out. After you exhaled profoundly you take a very deep breath. You hold this breath without using any force at all and you bend your head slightly downward. After a few seconds you raise the head into its normal position and gently exhale again. Breathe regularly again and repeat the exercise.
>> This exercise provides oxygen to the body tissue extensively. Effects are noticed mentally as well as physically on the level of energy as well as a feeling of satisfaction or welfare.
3) Intermediate breathing (the breath of the conqueror)
You get yourself into a lying position and you relax. First breathe at your own tempo. Afterward you intervene with controlled duration of inhaling and exhaling. Start with inhaling for 5 seconds through the nose, relax, and exhale again through the mouth over the same amount of time. Repeat this 10 times. Make sure that the amount of air that is being sucked in is in volume the same during the entire inhalation, as well as when you exhale. Follow your normal rhythm of breathing.
It should be controlled in such a way that after each exhalation you feel calm and are not in immediate need to inhale again. This we call the natural pause. You only start breathing in again after you feel the need within to inhale again.
The main idea is to repeat this and try to build up the breathing duration in time. Work up to breathing sessions where you breathe for 10 seconds; then 15, 20, 25 and finally 30seconds. This might take a few months of your time but you will notice a huge difference in awareness. Once you start breathing in and out for consecutively 25 seconds or more you make sure not to breathe with an open mouth. The current of air flow needs to be very little and consistent so it is much better to press both lips together and breathe through a tiny little hole in the centre.
>> This exercise creates a lot of inner peace and increases your lung
capacity. It boosts up your awareness. You get very centered and focused and your level of energy will rise.
4) Humming breathing (the breath of the humming bee)
You get seated (ground or chair). Try to inhale through the nose and keep your lips sealed. After a comfortable deep inhalation you put both your hands closed toward the chest and start making a humming sound (the m-sound). Start tapping the breast gently with your hands consecutively. Tapping the breast interrupts the continuous m-sound. When you feel you are out of breath you breathe in and out again once without the tapping. The next time you inhale the exercise starts all over again.
>> This exercise stimulates lung function and prolongs breathing. It cleanses the windpipe, eases the body, improves your sound of speech and brightens the mind.
All these breathing exercises are purifying our lungs, body and mind. We apply for caution when you are suffering from migraine or epilepsy, or when you are recovering from an operation. For these situations we advice you to perform the exercises with regular capacity breathing instead of breathing deeply.