Reform Agency / Yarek Gayosso
Sunday, 16 April 2023 | 08:18
CD. from Mexico (April 14, 2023).- Learning to breathe can be an incomparable ally against stress and can generate many benefits for the functions of the body.
The human body is made up of 11 different systems: nervous, respiratory, digestive, hormonal, circulatory, reproductive, binary (kidneys), tegumentary (skin), skeletal, muscular and the immune system. Of all these systems, the only one that we can consciously control is the respiratory system.
“There is no need to forget the breath for the rest of the organic functions of the body, when the body deprives itself of its deep and long breath, it deprives itself of the oxygen and the exchange of carbon dioxide and is generating bad functioning in the body that can lead to stress, pain, panic attacks, lack of awareness and memory, lack of attention, that’s why breathing is so important in our lives”, explains Yoga master Angie Bazán.
“All the organs are composed of tissues and the tissues require oxygen to function, when the body does not have enough oxygen the organs obviously do not complete their functions. Organically, all body systems function through respiration, without respiration everything starts to collapse until it causes death”.
The expert reveals that the power of breathing changes your life because it gives you clarity of thought.
“Obviously to lowering stress just by paying attention to breathing in order to benefit you organically and therefore greatly improve your thinking quality, that’s when your thoughts are clearer”.
“Your mental processes are more positive and the whole focus of your life is more positive too, with the relationship with you, with other beings, with the environment and what you think starts to manifest itself in another way”, he deepens.
Benefits of Breathing Consciously and Deeply
1. Improve concentration and learning
2. Increases libido
3. Cortisol, which is a stress hormone, is reduced
4. The passive side of the nervous system is activated
5. Improve the quality of sleep
6. Relax the musculature
7. If you reduce the narrowing
8. Stabilize hormones
9. Reduce nervous excitement
10. Lower the pressure of the heart
Recommendation:
1. It is not necessary that you put into practice all these techniques or that you know them, but at least have one that helps you to lower stress.
2. It is important to practice daily so that it has a profound effect on your body, mind and emotions.
Breathing exercise to know the level of oxygenation
This breathing exercise serves to investigate how well our tissues are oxygenated. You will have to inhale and exhale deeply, emptying your lungs, you fall without air, immediately start counting the seconds you hold without the need to inhale again, it is not about holding your breath, it is not competence, when you feel the need to breathe, if you brake the content and inhale.
The best oxygenation in fabrics will last longer than you want to breathe. Less than 15 seconds indicates an altered pattern of breathing, less than 30 seconds we can improve and more than 30 is a great result and more than 45 is a very good result.
Holotropic Breathwork
Holotropic breathing is a therapeutic tool from the field of Transpersonal Psychology and aims to facilitate that a person can reach expanded states of consciousness through their breathing, therefore, the mental states that are acquired are very ecuánimes, improving you state of mind and stress levels.
Part of the correct technique is that the abdomen moves slightly while breathing, not the chest. On the other hand, the breath must not be contained at any time, the exhalation must come immediately at the moment when the lungs are nearly full.
box breathing
The breathing of the quad, is a technique that is used when performing slow and deep breaths. You can increase performance and concentration, at the same time it is a powerful stress reliever.
It is also called square breathing because it is composed of four steps that make up a breathing cycle: inhale for 4 seconds, hold your breath for 4 seconds, exhale for four seconds and hold without air for four seconds.
Nadi Shodhana or Alternating Breathing
It is a pranayama that balances the right and left hemispheres of the brain.
The name Nadi Shodhana comes from sánscrito, and is composed of nadi which means channel and shodhana which means to purify, clean. This type of breathing serves to lower stress levels by activating the parasympathetic system.
It consists of alternating the nostril with which you are breathing: you are going to do an inhalation and an exhalation on each side. Inhales through one nostril, exhales through the other.
A breathing cycle on the same side, after changing to the other side, finally, you can alternate them.
The breath Shitali
Pranayama that seeks to empty the lungs of air and have awareness while breathing. So, this type of breathing is intended to achieve an active relaxation, not a passive one.
Shitali means refreshing in Sanskrit. The particularity of Shitali pranayama is that, together with Sitkari, they are the only pranayamas in which inspiration is carried out through the mouth and not through the nasal passages. Breathing through the mouth produces a refreshing effect on the entire body.
It is a technique that cools down your body and relaxes it. It requires that you put your tongue in the form of a taquito and then inhale deeply through your mouth, to then exhale through your nose.
A few cycles of this breath manage to lower activity and energy by activating the parasympathetic system and lowering stress.
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ANGIE BAZÁN
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The face-to-face workshop: Learn to relax by breathing.
Sunday April 16th
2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
$300 pesos
Studio Yoga Om
Cerro de la Estrella 150
Col. Countryside Churubusco
Del. Coyoacan
