Use yoga breathing cleverly to clear the body, detoxify and lose weight

Breathe, everyone can. However, people's usual breathing is often too superficial and not deep enough. Our lungs only use 1/3. If a person always breathes very superficial, his body and blood will lack oxygen, which will cause headaches, fatigue, and slow brain response.

Yoga breathing is a complete abdominal breathing that relies on the exercise of the abdominal muscles, intercostal muscles and diaphragm. This breathing is even, slow and deep. It can provide more oxygen to various organs of the body. In order to keep our lungs and lungs functioning well, we must learn yoga breathing.

There are four basic breathing methods in yoga: abdominal breathing, chest breathing, full breathing and single nostril clearing meridians breathing. These breathing are all through the nostrils.

inspiratory

The intercostal muscles expand and the diaphragm descends, increasing the volume of the lungs, forcing air into the lungs.

exhale

The diaphragm rises and the lungs become smaller, forcing air out of the lungs.

1. Abdominal breathing

Practice: Lie on your back, place your hands on your abdomen, slowly inhale in between your nostrils, relax your abdomen, feel the air being sucked into your abdomen, and your hands can feel the abdomen lifting higher and higher. In fact, the diaphragm drops at this time, pressing the air into the lungs. At the bottom of the lungs, when exhaling, slowly contract the abdominal muscles, and the diaphragm rises, forcing air out of the lungs.

2. Chest breathing

Practice: Sit cross-legged, straighten your back, place your hands on the ribs, slowly inhale in your nostrils, while feeling the ribs expand outward and lift upward with your hands, and feel the ribs move down and close together inward.

3. Breathe completely

Practice: Sit cross-legged upright, place one hand on your abdomen and the other hand on your ribs, slowly inhale, feel your abdomen slowly bulge, let the air fill the lower half of your lungs first, and then let the air fill the upper half of your lungs. Now the air fills every corner of your lungs. You have inhaled to the maximum capacity of your lungs, then slowly exhale, relax the upper chest, then relax the lower chest and abdomen, and finally contract the abdominal muscles and completely breathe out the air.

4. Clean meridians with one nostril and breathe

Practice: Sit cross-legged upright, hold the knees with your left hand, hold the middle finger of your right hand, and put the index finger between your eyebrows, place the thumb and ring finger on both sides of your nose respectively, press the right nostril tightly with your thumb, use only the left nostril to slowly perform 5 full yoga breathing deeply. At this time, you should close your eyes, carefully experience the movement in your body, and breathe in your breath evenly and gently. After doing this, release your thumb, press the left nostril with your ring finger tightly, and slowly perform 5 full yoga breaths with your right nostril. Repeat for 5-10 rounds. (Editor in charge: Teng Xiaolan)