What if (re) do we learn to breathe?

The meetings, the files that are connected and the many requests make us forget the essential!
In order not to be breathless (re) do we learn to breathe?

It inspires and expired, we do it without thinking about it because it is vital for us. But various studies have shown that, in a society where everything goes faster and faster, we no longer take time to breathe correctly. However, making the breath, it is possible to improve your general state of health. So, do you really know how to breathe?

Breathe as a source of well -being

Breathing is essential for life. But breathing in the right way can offer you many benefits. A loose and profound breathing will allow you:

placate stress calming the pressure

Your state of mind influences your breath and vice versa. When you are stressed, your impulse accelerates, the breath is short, you have the feeling of not breathing well.

By inspiring and running away deeply, reduce the heart rate and the level of adrenaline. This will help you find calm and serenity and allow you to better manage your emotions. In addition, good breathing promotes concentration and memorization.

To reduce fatigue by increasing cells

The first role of oxygen is to give you energy. Breathing more slowly, oxygenes plus the tissues and cells, facilitating the elimination of toxins from your body. A «whip» effect that increases good humor!

To help you lose weight by facilitating digestion

Breathing exercises also reduce appetite and therefore body mass. How? By adopting long and profound breathing, it helps digestion by stimulating the use of sugars and fats from your body. To optimize the results, it combines these breathing exercises with a balanced diet and the practice of regular physical activity.

(Re) Learn to breathe

Breathing well is excellent for health! It seems obvious, however many of us don’t breathe in the right way. Learn to master your breath, you will immediately feel the effects. Here are some tips to become aware of your breathing and work it. Do not hesitate to integrate them into your daily routine (ideally three to four times a day: in the office, to the harvest, before bedtime, etc.).

Breathe slowly and deeply

Take large and long inspirations through the nose to fill the air lungs as much as possible. Then he expand through the mouth blowing to compress the diaphragm as much as possible and empty the lungs of air. At the beginning, this exercise can be boring, even uncomfortable. But with a little training, you will do it without thinking about it.

Breathe for the belly

In adulthood, we have the annoying tendency to inspire and exhale through the nose by blocking the air in our thoracic cage, which gives us a short breath. This type of breathing is useful during physical effort but should not be adopted daily. If you observe a child’s belly, you will see it very clearly inflating and deflated. And yes, children breathe through the belly. Over the years, we lose the reflection, however, essential for «healthy» breathing.

Breathing through the belly, ask your main respiratory muscle: the diaphragm. Insulating, the diaphragm descends and the belly swells. It grows on abs and viscera. Taking out, the diaphragm goes up and the belly is widening. Performs a deep massage that releases tensions. Diaphragmatic breathing will allow you to increase respiratory breadth using 70% air against 30% in chest breathing.

Diaphragmatic breathing exercise

This simple exercise will allow you to become aware of your breathing and orient it in terms of belly:

• • Sit comfortably in the elongated or sitting position.
  • Put a hand on the belly and the other on the chest to hear their movements and adjust the breath.
  • It inspires slowly and deeply through the nose swelling the belly (and not the upper part of the chest). So, in a second step, swells the chest. To help you, view the air swells the belly and then the chest.
  • Then download the equally slowly through the nose or mouth by counteracting the abs and going down the diaphragm to empty the air of the lungs as much as possible.
  • Relax the muscles of the face, shoulders and abdomen.
  • Repeat this exercise for 5-10 minutes

Depending on the progress as sessions, you can increase the duration of the exercise and slow down the rhythm of breathing. By practicing it before bedtime, you will fall asleep more easily and your sleep will be restful.

Give yourself a breath!

Are you breathless after mounting a staircase or dancing for a birthday? The practice of a daily sports activity is the key to giving you a breath. Our aquatonic coaches will recommend a sport suitable for your level of progressing quickly.

At the same time, the adoption of slow and deep breathing on a daily basis will allow you to increase body energy. Your resistance and effort tolerance will be increased by ten times and you will take back better after training. No more sides and breathless breath!

Blow and have fun, life is beautiful!

Take time to blow! Learning to breathe is also to know how to give time only for yourself by emptying all the negative thoughts or emotions accumulated during the day.

Claudine Grantger, a sophrologist and hypnotherapist, offers you a few minutes of meditation to practice at home. For a reconnection with yourself and the world, a return at the present moment.