Deep Breathing Practice
Thursday, July 1st, 2010I love this practice, a very simple technique to keep your body cleansed, nourished and disease-free is to oxygenate your body regularly. I’m talking about a breath practice in which you fill the lungs with nutritious air. Deep diaphragmic breathing will naturally enhance the body’s detoxification processes?
Breathing air is something we do every day all day long. Regrettably the oxygen we breathe is often impure in many cities, so be aware of that. You will not want to practice your deep breathing exercise waiting on the sidewalk of a bustling street as you wait for your bus. Ideally you should do your breathing technique at home, inside or outdoors if it’s in a clean environment.
Stand straight and tall. Next, take in a deep, soothing breath, filling your stomach until you feel it could explode. Hold in the breath for as long as you can (never, ever force it), and then softly release the air out your mouth. Repeat by doing 5 to 10 inhalations and exhalations in this same way.
If you want, you can modify this technique by bringing your arms straight up overhead as you inhale, and then lightly lowering them when you exhale.
Deep breathing moves oxygen into your blood stream, which carries it into your cells and tissues to nutrify and detoxify them of toxic material. Elevated levels oxygen in the body encourages the blood flow as well as the movement of the lymph fluid through our lymphatic system. Both the blood and lymph are incredibly primary to our body’s purification process. Deep breathing actually facilitates a natural lymph node cleanse.