Deep breathing exercises are great to do for a quick relaxing exercise

Deep breathing exercises are wonderful to perform anytime anywhere. They help relax the whole body, bring more confidence and self-esteem to the individual, help re-energize the body, improve the immune system to help fight disease and so much more.

Deep breathing exercises work well because when we breathe deep we breathe in the most amounts of oxygen into our bodies which helps us in many ways.

More oxygen inside us help our white blood cells fight disease, more oxygen in our blood flows to our brain allowing us to think more clearly.

More oxygen in our system helps our digestion burn more efficiently allowing us to absorb our food better, deep breathing helps to improve our lymph system which in turn helps to prevent diseases like cancer, and if doing exercise deep breathing also helps higher the bar for the amount of exercise you can do.

Interestingly enough babies always deep breathe when they are born. As we grow up we learn how to shallow breath, which is harmful to our lifestyle. We learn to breathe in shallow breaths because of our surroundings.

If we live in a busy environment, such as a city and we have a stressful lifestyle, our bodies are always in a constant state of fear or tenseness. This state constitutes to quick and shallow breathing.

If we breathed deep most of the time our lives would be very relaxed and much less stressful. We need to learn once again how to breathe deep every day, like babies do so we can live a stress free lifestyle. This will also greatly help us towards our weight loss goal.

Deep breathing exercises are easy to do. Let’s start out with a simple one. Sit on the ground in a cross legged position, or find a comfortable chair which can support your back in a straight line.

If we watch babies breathe we can see their cute little tummies rise up and down as they breathe. This is because they are breathing from their diaphragms. This is the best way to breathe deep because we get the most oxygen to our bodies this way.

Once you are sitting with your back straight empty your lungs and then start a slow breath by breathing in with your nose. Try to breathe with your stomach first and then your lungs.

You can place your hand onto your stomach and feel your stomach push out in front of you as you breathe. This is breathing from your tummy. As your tummy expands and reaches its limit, expand your breathing capacity to your lungs.

When you start to breathe from your lungs your chest should rise up and your shoulders should rise back, letting your chest cavity take in more air. Then, when you have reached this point you can exhale or breathe out.

When you breathe out relax and feel your tummy sink inside you as all the air is expelled. Do this exercise a few times like maybe five times. You will feel so much more relaxed and calm then you were perversely.

There are many other breathing exercises which are much harder to perform, some of them require holding our breath for some time, others require us to do some kinds of yoga with the breathing exercise, but all of these exercises are very healthy for our bodies.

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