Breathing Exercise

Free Breathing Exercises & Techniques

We offer you free breathing exercises for relaxation or metabolism and weight loss and we offer you free meditation breathing techniques. Here are the first ones.

Whether your use this exercise for relaxation or as an aid to weight loss, you will be breathing for health! Additionally, there are our two free e-courses to help you on your journey to health, relaxation, or weight loss:

• Meditation for Health and Relaxation
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Meditation shouldn't be confused with religion. It is a spiritual or breathing practice. It is neither religious nor anti-religious; it's nonreligious. It works from the inside out. It supports the person on all levels. It produces greatly improved health and precious peace of mind.

If you do not meditate daily, we encourage you to start. In our judgment, there is no living as comfortably as one might without using meditation, which is fully covered in our e-book The 7 Steps to Mastery:

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sidebar quotation from Andrew Weil, M.D.: "Breath is the master key to health and wellness, a function we can learn to regulate and develop in order to improve our physical, mental, and spiritual well-being."

This is an example that Andrew Weil promotes in more than one of his books, including Natural Health, Natural Medicine (which, even though he doesn't fully appreciate the importance of strength training for health and wellness, we recommend as a valuable, sensible book).

Health is a balanced, resilient wholeness. Being unbalanced is being unhealthy. Improving breathing improves balance and health on all levels because it treats the whole person.

Notice that breathing is the only bodily function that can be performed consciously or unconsciously. The reason for that is that it is controlled by both the nerves of the voluntary nervous system and the nerves of the involuntary (autonomic) nervous system.

It's like a bridge between these two systems. It's the critical connection between mind and body.

According to Dr. Weil, much illness comes from the "unbalanced functioning of the autonomic nervous system." The strong drugs that medical doctors (allopathic medicine) use may or may not correct such imbalances.

A natural alternative is to work with the breath to improve many "involuntary" functions, as yoga adepts from India are often able to do.

In other words, improving your breathing (like regular aerobic exercises) will improve your general health. In addition, breathing exercise done on a regular basis will increase your metabolism and aid natural weight loss.

Noticing our breathing is paying attention to what we are doing. Instead of living mindlessly, in other words, without paying attention to what we are doing, whenever we do it we are focusing on what is real right here and right now.

The more we do that, the more mindfully we are living. There is no better habit than paying attention to the present moment. Therefore, as simple as it is, we encourage you to develop it.

Free Breathing Exercises

This one is called "Relaxing Breath"

This breathing exercise for relaxation or to lower blood pressure may be done sitting, lying, or standing. If you are seated, it's best to keep your back straight. It should be done at least twice a day, but please do it whenever you feel agitated, annoyed, angry, nervous, or otherwise upset.

It's a good practice to use this breathing technique whenever you are lying down just before sleeping. If you happen to wake in the middle of the night, doing it will help you get back to sleep more quickly.

1. Place the tip of your tongue on the alveolar ridge just above the inner surface of your upper front teeth and keep it there for the duration of this exercise.

2. With your lips and teeth open, exhale completely making an audible "whoosh" sound.

3. Close your mouth. Inhale through your nose for a silent count of four.

4. Hold the breath for a silent count of seven.

5. Open your mouth and exhale audibly for a silent count of eight.

6. Repeat the cycle four times and resume breathing normally.

The more you use this breathing technique, the greater its benefits, which are cumulative. It's a terrific tonic. You can give it to yourself whenever you want. If you work with it conscientiously, you'll be glad that you did. Breathing for relaxation is just one of the many benefits.

More Free Breathing Exercises

If you begin regularly to use this one, you'll soon find out how beneficial it is. That may lead you to want more. Then you may wish to advance to meditation breathing techniques.

You may not realize that in using the first free breathing exercise you are already meditating! Meditation is as simple as focusing on your breathing. Meditation breathing techniques may be done anywhere at any time. In fact, master meditators are always meditating!

For more free breathing exercises and free meditation breathing techniques, go to the first page of the meditation section.

sidebar quotation from Tielhard de Chardin: "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience."

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