An interesting article I wrote about deepbreathing!

How to Improve your Health with Deep-Breathing.
By Jim D. Osborn
Freelantz@sbcglobal.net

It’s something we do on an average of 20,000 times a day! It costs nothing and it’s simple to learn and easy to encompass into your daily routine.

Guru’s of Yoga have been practicing deep--breathing techniques for centuries to help relieve stress and tension, improve energy and promote relaxation.

Breathing incorrectly can cause exhaustion, stress, vocal strain, and hamper athletic activities and can encourage aches, pains, and unnecessary and preventable illnesses. Without sufficient oxygen your body is more apt to develop flu’s and cold’s caused by fatigue which lowers our resistance and our immunity.

Deep-Breathing oxygenates every cell in your body, from your brain to your vital organs. It stimulates the digestive process and helps improve mental alertness and performance.

When we take deep, full breaths our diaphragms move through it’s entire range downward to massage the liver, stomach and other internal organs and upward to massage our hearts. This helps to detoxify the body and promote healthy blood flow.

Slow, deep breathing along with the steady pumping of the abdomen stimulates our nervous system and initializes our “relaxation response.” It helps harmonize our body and this has an impact on our overall health.

It’s important to learn how to breathe more naturally the way our bodies were designed to breathe. Deep-Breathing can influence our metabolism as well, speeding up our system to help in allowing our bodies to get more exercise and make it easier to loose weight.

When the body is tranquil and working to it’s maximum efficiency we feel better, we are clearer in our thoughts which allows our creative side to flourish.
The small sacrifice of your time, 15-20 minutes a day can be of great benefit to your overall mental and physical health. Before work or school or after your day is done to wind down and relax, whatever works for you!

Deep-Breathing consists of four easy steps.
A. Inhale slowly and deeply until your lungs are full.
B. Pause at the end of the intake of breath.
c. Exhale slowly and completely.
d. pause at the end of the exhalation.

It’s easy, free, and very beneficial, and It’s takes very little of your time. It can drastically improve your health and help you maintain a more care-free, stress-free existence.

But as with everything in the world it can be overdone, a word of caution, practice deep-breathing in moderation. Excessive intake of oxygen can cause hyperventilation, dizziness, or even headaches or fainting.