Breathing plays a bigger role than you’d imagine – here’s a breathing technique to try for your health.
Obviously breathing is a gesture that we do every day and with great naturalness, without thinking that you could instead go and work on this aspect too, so as to be able to improve it and help your health. Anyone who already plays a sport will be aware that breathing is a fundamental act to control, given that it constitutes the true starting point of the movement, thanks to which the blood receives oxygen and consequently allows the muscles to function. More specifically, in some sports like Pilates and yoga there are several exercises related to breathing and during the movements you must follow a very specific order to inhale and exhale, so as to be able to get the maximum benefits during the lesson. Specifically, there are different breathing techniques and one in particular should be tried to improve your health.
Alternating breathing: what it is and why it is needed
Those who practice yoga with some regularity will surely have already heard the term pranayama, which translated from Sanskrit means breath control, energy management. In fact, according to the art of yoga, breathing exercises help not only to control your lungs, but also all your vital energies and to recover your strength when you feel particularly tired. Perform alternate breathing in fact, allows you to obtain various benefits for your health, given that first perform this exercise for 30 minutes a day significantly reduces stress, and the first results can start to be seen after a couple of months. At the same time it allows you to improve cardio-respiratory resistance, and finally it gives the possibility to reduce anxiety and increase the activity of the parasympathetic system.
To be able to perform alternating breathing, you must first go to an environment where there are few noises, so that you can concentrate as best as possible, and then just place yourself sitting on the ground with legs crossed or kneeling and with the buttocks in contact with the heels. Then we’ll have to bring the index and middle fingers up to the nose and pinch one nostril, taking a couple of breaths with the free one, then switching the fingers. The ideal would be to take at least three particularly slow breaths and repeat everything several times.