How to use yoga for breathing regulation?

Modern people pay more and more attention to health preservation, especially now that our food, clothing, housing and transportation are facing dangers at any time, and many safety issues are exposed on TV and the Internet every day. This requires us to take good care of our bodies in our daily lives. Yoga is a popular way of keeping fit in recent years. Today I will introduce to you the techniques of yoga breathing.

Chest breathing

Steps: Take a deep breath, feeling the chest rise (the ribs expand outward and upward), then exhale slowly, relaxing the ribs inward and downward. Repeat this several times, and when you become proficient in it, you can put your hands down and practice. Efficacy: In fact, everyone's normal breathing is chest breathing, but it is relatively shallow. Regularly practicing this kind of deep chest breathing can help expel waste gas and stagnant air from the body.

Abdominal breathing

Abdominal breathing is also called diaphragmatic breathing. The diaphragm is a powerful membranous muscle that separates the lungs from the abdominal organs. The more the diaphragm moves downward during inhalation, the more air is inhaled into the lungs.

Steps: First tighten your abdomen as you exhale, then take a deep breath, and let your hands rise as your abdomen rises, without expanding your chest. Exhale slowly, drawing your abdomen toward your spine so that the maximum amount of air can be forced out of your lungs.

Key points: It is best to imagine the abdomen as a balloon. Inhaling is blowing air into the balloon, and exhaling is letting the air out of the balloon.

Efficacy: The abdomen is where qi and blood converge. Regular abdominal breathing can promote qi and blood circulation throughout the body. Normally our breathing cannot reach the bottom of the lungs, but abdominal breathing can help expel the waste gas from the bottom of the lungs by massaging the abdominal organs.

Note: When practicing abdominal breathing, do not move your chest and shoulders. The difference between abdominal breathing and thoracic breathing is that thoracic breathing is mainly psychological, and its ups and downs are mainly in the chest, while abdominal breathing is mainly physiological, and its ups and downs are mainly in the abdomen.

After reading the above methods, I wonder if you have remembered them all. Yoga is a very effective way to stay healthy. It has been increasingly popular in recent years. The yoga breathing method mentioned above is only part of the effect of yoga. Yoga actually has many other effects. If you are interested, you might as well learn it yourself.