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Breathing Exercises Are Essential For Good Health
Breathing exercises become necessary as you age because age does cut back the level of oxygen in your lungs. When you only take shallow breaths, as you do in standard respiring, you'll at last notice stiffness in your rib cage as the muscles surrounding the diaphragm begin to lose their flexibility. This causes off air to develop in your lungs that's composed mostly of carbon dioxide.
You can do the exercises when you wake in the morning or just before you go to sleep at night.
In reality, if you engage in these exercises when you retire to bed, they will help your muscles relax making it a lot easier for you to fall asleep and get a good night's rest. If you need to, place some small pillows under your neck and knees so you backbone is straight. As you breathe naturally, take notice of the rise and fall of your chest and abdomen.
Lay your hands on your belly, just under your rib cage where your diaphragm is found. The lungs do extend down to this point. A helpful tip to let you know when the lungs extend to this point is to set your hands so the tips of your middle fingers are a touch touching one another.
As you take a deep breath and your lungs expand, your fingers will begin to move apart. In true respiring exercises let the muscles of your stomach relax and feel it filling with air. After you feel as if your belly is full, let the air expand your chest and lungs. As you let the breath out slowly, you may feel your belly begin to pull inwards causing out the last bit of air.
You may do humming respiring exercises in which you're making a humming sound as you breathe out slowly. By focussing on your respiring and humming each time you breathe out, you will experience a feeling of relaxation in all parts of your body. Chinese respiring exercises involve taking short breaths. To do that exercise you're taking three short breaths in through your nose without breathing out between them.
On the third inhalation, open your arms out to your sides, still keeping them at the same height. When you take in the third inhalation, lift your arms up over your head. Then as you exhale, you bring your arms back to the beginning position by your sides.
You mustn't take more than twelve breaths in this exercise as it can lead you to feel lightheaded. One caution about this form of respiring exercise is that you should only engage in this exercise when you're in a sitting position. It may lead you to hyperventilate if you are standing or lying down.
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Filed under Medical Mobility & Disability Equipment by on Apr 1st, 2010.

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