Tag: Breathing

Yoga can become an adequate stress buster and heal your body and mind completely. Some stress-busting poses for your fast-paced mind are as follows: The lotus pose helps to get the blood flowing throughout the body and relaxes the nervous system. The eagle pose helps with maintaining balance and relaxing the tight torso muscles. The cow face pose, the handstand, the tiptoe, and pranayama all help relax the mind.

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Yoga is as much about controlling your breath as controlling your body. The focus of a yoga instructor is to bring your attention to how you breathe. You are told to be calm, comfortable, and relaxed while doing the asanas. Breathing here is important because it tunes the mind to focus on one thing at a time. This, in turn, provides many physical and psychological benefits.

If you find yourself out of breath when you swim or unable to get to the next level with your swimming, your breathing technique could be out of whack. Practice with some yogic breathing on dry land, perfect your technique with a drill while standing in waist-deep water, and learn bilateral breathing. Whether you’re doing the breaststroke, freestyle, or butterfly stroke, the right way can improve your efficiency and reduce oxygen demand for breathing so it can be used to power your swimming.

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Derived from yoga and practiced for centuries now, the five Tibetan Rites only gained prominence through a 1930s book on them. They are a sequence of exercises that can help rejuvenate the mind and body and slow ageing down. It is important to perform all of these rites in sequence, and right after each other with a short break for breathing. Once you complete the rites, you may cool down by lying on the floor and continuing to breathe. Start slow and increase the number of rounds of each rite as you become more adept at doing so.

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Mindfulness meditation involves becoming aware of your body, breath, and thoughts. It does not aim to change you or your situation, but to make you notice every detail non-judgmentally. It helps you experience life in mundane routines. Mindless meditation while walking through a busy street, taking a break at work, lighting a candle, and eating a simple meal will help you find new meaning.

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The breathing issues in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and lung diseases can be easily managed with proper supervision and adequate health care. And with some breathing exercises, you can ease the breathing and also help improve the functioning of different muscles. Such exercises include the diaphragm exercise that helps the lung muscles, the deep and coordinated exercises for breathing, the pursed lip exercise that focuses on the capacity of the lungs to hold air, and the huff cough exercise that deals with the mucus formation in COPD.

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The Sanskrit name of the triangle pose is trikonasana. Trikon means triangles and asana, as you may already know, means pose or posture. The...

Numerous books have been written on how to quit smoking and many people have not succeeded in quitting the habit. When old ideas don’t work, it is time to try something new. Many unconventional techniques often work wonders where the old time-tested ideas fail. Eating right, practicing breathing techniques, and indulging in hobbies can help a person to quit smoking.

A relaxed mind and fit body with adequate stamina are of paramount importance in determining a man' sexual performance. Exercises that strengthen the arms, core, legs, back and pelvic floor need to be followed daily. Before the act, it's also good to practice deep breathing and mindful meditation to calm the mind and body.