Healthy Body Healthy Mind

​General purpose: Awareness about breathing – unconscious activity.

Specific purpose: Sharing spiritual way of breathing and thinking.

what
Breath, a simple must thing for us. What’s first thing came in your mind when I said breath. Life, oxygen, swimming, yoga, stress reduction technique.
Breathing is probably the easiest way to know that we re still alive. Birth is beginning and death is last chapter and all rest of the chapters of busy life are threaded by breathing.
Deep breath, shallow breath, Normal breath, relaxed breathing, breathing from diaphragm, all the time, most of the time we breath.
Have you ever come across suggestions like this:
Stop, Breathe, Notice, Reflect and Respond. Specially to Nasty emails and comments.

Now that you have responded to stressful client email, or writing any new report. Our breathing pattern changes as our thoughts; still on subject or expecting response etc.you will feel more control.
When we are babies, we all take deep, relaxing breaths from our abdomen - watch your children when they are asleep to see how their stomach rises and falls rather than their chest. As we get older, stress often changes the way we breathe.

Now think of your favorite fragrance Floral, citrus, woody, clean, crisp ocean breeze: 

Inhaling or thoughts of favorite fragrance changes ours mood. Journey from unconscious to conscious mind and related thoughts.

When yoga teacher teaches poses, he constantly reminds to breath. Efficient breathing is important in any peak performance dancing. If you are woman, you need to know how to breathe when delivering baby. Breathing is art and skill of living.

Good thing about technique and skills that it can be learned and improved.

How

'If you're breathing properly, you can feel your diaphragm pushing down into your belly through it isn't crucial for the abdomen to go in and out while you're breathing, it can be a good technique.

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To practice this technique all you have to do is exhale air out as much time as possible, inhale; try exhaling as many times as possible then inhale. You will realize how we can breath from diaphragm.

If this doesn’t work, imagine you are entering in Starbucks or coffee shop and inhaling the aroma of coffee, does it make you feel better. Possibility that along with aroma you inhaled more oxygen than normal.

Why

When we are stressed, our bodies operate on the 'fight or flight' response to whatever is scaring us. This means we take short sharp breaths to help prepare for the 'fight' we will have to face.

As we breathe, we determine signals to our brain and that becomes our habit.

I suggest if time permits one must read book power of habits. It doesn’t talk about breathing exercises but how habit affects us. As breathing happens automatically, many of us don’t give the breath as much attention as it deserves nor have we learned to harness its full potential to calm our minds.

In summary I would like to say small things in life makes big difference. Your friends are for hours; family members for years; but breathing is life.

Paying few minutes attention of breathing and thinking what thoughts come with each type of breath one can know more about self.

Because Healthy body got healthy mind