Breathing Exercises for Better Health
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There are several types of breathing exercises you can practice to help alleviate stress, relax the body, and help regain focus during anxious times. However, it should be said that before you begin any kind of breathing exercises, you should seek the advice of a health care professional, yoga instructor or other expert. |
If given the go ahead to try some breathing exercises, you should know that many of them are quite simple and easy to learn. Once you learn them, they need to be practiced for several months before you will notice any significant health improvements, though.
Don't quit you breathing exercises if you don't see results in the first few days!
The uses of breathing exercises are related mostly with stress-induced conditions and the effects that those stressful situations can have on the body. When you have learned breathing exercises, they can be used to help with such conditions as panic attacks, anxiety, and depression. Breathing exercises are also useful in relieving physical symptoms of stress like tension headaches, fatigue, rapid heart rate and high blood pressure. Some women have even stated that breathing exercises help with pre-menstrual syndrome.
Some of the common breathing exercises you will find instructions for are:
- Basic natural breathing exercises
- Breath awareness exercises
- Abdominal breathing exercises
- Tension release breathing exercises
- Healing breathing exercises
- Three part breathing exercises, known in yoga as pranayama
- Purifying breathing exercises
This list is far from an all inclusive list of breathing exercises you can learn. Even if you don't practice them all, one or two of them may be useful in your everyday life.
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