Health Tip of the Month - Breathing!
Hello Everyone. Each month HF Living Magazine will be featuring a health tip that will hopefully enhance the reader and his or her family’s health/life. What is a health tip you might ask? This health tip corner will include any subject that I, Suzi Konopka, the contributor hopes will be helpful to the reader, which can include a wide variety of topics. If you have any questions or would like to contact me please email me at: [email protected]
Breathing from Our Belly!
Something so natural and simple unless one has health issues that may affect his or her breathing. Because breathing is so natural we often don’t think about how we breathe. Many people tend to ‘chest breathe’. This occurs more often than not, which can create undue stress in the body such as fatigue. Take a moment and think about how you breathe. As you inhale, the diaphragm, the muscle that divides the abdominal and thoracic cavities, pushes down into the abdomen, causing it to protrude/inflate. Much like a balloon. You breathe into a balloon and the balloon inflates. Exhalation does the opposite, allowing the diaphragm to rise into the chest while relaxing the abdominal muscles. Picture when you push the air out of a balloon — it flattens, much like the abdomen when one exhales. Research shows many benefits from deep breathing/diaphragmatic breathing:
-Deep breathing enables the muscles to relax.
- Deep breathing improves blood flow to the abdominal region.
-Deep breathing helps calm the nervous system.
-Deep breathing massages the internal organs.
First, always make sure to listen to your body and do what is comfortable. You know your body better than anyone else.
Sit comfortably in a chair or lie down on the floor. Place your hand on your belly. Breathe in through your nose, maybe for a three-five count. Pushing your belly button away from your spine. Feel your breathing, listen to your breathing, pause and than slowly exhale through your nose three-five count gently drawing your belly button into the spine. Repeat and notice how your mind and body relax together. Suggestion…if you or a family member has had a long day…put on some relaxing music (Lazaris Remembers Lemuria) sit or lay comfortably and BREATHE. Enjoy the day!
Hello Everyone. Each month HF Living Magazine will be featuring a health tip that will hopefully enhance the reader and his or her family’s health/life. What is a health tip you might ask? This health tip corner will include any subject that I, Suzi Konopka, the contributor hopes will be helpful to the reader, which can include a wide variety of topics. If you have any questions or would like to contact me please email me at: [email protected]
Breathing from Our Belly!
Something so natural and simple unless one has health issues that may affect his or her breathing. Because breathing is so natural we often don’t think about how we breathe. Many people tend to ‘chest breathe’. This occurs more often than not, which can create undue stress in the body such as fatigue. Take a moment and think about how you breathe. As you inhale, the diaphragm, the muscle that divides the abdominal and thoracic cavities, pushes down into the abdomen, causing it to protrude/inflate. Much like a balloon. You breathe into a balloon and the balloon inflates. Exhalation does the opposite, allowing the diaphragm to rise into the chest while relaxing the abdominal muscles. Picture when you push the air out of a balloon — it flattens, much like the abdomen when one exhales. Research shows many benefits from deep breathing/diaphragmatic breathing:
-Deep breathing enables the muscles to relax.
- Deep breathing improves blood flow to the abdominal region.
-Deep breathing helps calm the nervous system.
-Deep breathing massages the internal organs.
First, always make sure to listen to your body and do what is comfortable. You know your body better than anyone else.
Sit comfortably in a chair or lie down on the floor. Place your hand on your belly. Breathe in through your nose, maybe for a three-five count. Pushing your belly button away from your spine. Feel your breathing, listen to your breathing, pause and than slowly exhale through your nose three-five count gently drawing your belly button into the spine. Repeat and notice how your mind and body relax together. Suggestion…if you or a family member has had a long day…put on some relaxing music (Lazaris Remembers Lemuria) sit or lay comfortably and BREATHE. Enjoy the day!