The vast majority of modern people cannot breathe efficiently. For those who are actively involved in sports, proper breathing during physical activity is established by itself, and everyone else needs to master it on their own for this. What is it for and how can it be done?
No matter how strange and ridiculous it may sound, the overwhelming majority of people use their breathing apparatus with hardly a quarter of its actual effectiveness. Interestingly, young children breathe correctly; from this it can be concluded that the habit of breathing incorrectly and ineffectively is not congenital, but acquired. Most often this is provoked by physical inactivity, or insufficient physical activity.
When a person moves a little, most of his organs do not need an active flow of oxygen-enriched blood; that's why he gets used to breathing shallowly. Ineffective use of the entire volume of the lungs provokes a deterioration in their function and the emergence of various chronic diseases.
Correct and incorrect breathing
Most women breathe only with their breasts. This is partly due to the cult of a slender body - in pursuit of a perfectly flat belly, the fairer sex avoids anything that can give their tummies at least some volume. Children and men mostly breathe from the belly, but their breathing is also shallow. Breathing through the chest overloads the larynx and vocal cords, and breathing through the stomach harms the digestive system.
How to breathe correctly? Correct breathing is mixed, that is, both the chest and abdomen are involved in the process. Modern man has become so unaccustomed to the natural breathing mechanism laid down by the very nature that he is forced to consciously learn it anew.
Learning to breathe correctly: how to do it?
First you need to master the correct inhalation. To do this, you need to use mainly the diaphragm, relaxing the muscles of the shoulder girdle as much as possible. In this case, the duration of the inhalation should be approximately half as short as that of the exhalation.
To practice correct breathing, exhale, completely emptying your lungs of any residual air. When you feel the urge to inhale, inhale slowly through your nose - this takes about 8 seconds. At the same time, fill your lungs with air, starting from the bottom - first, the stomach is slightly inflated, then the diaphragm, and finally the upper chest.
Exhale, which lasts twice as long as inhalation, do in reverse order - chest, diaphragm, abdomen. After exhaling, take a short pause and only then take another breath. This pause avoids hyperventilation and dizziness from intense oxygen saturation.
Do this workout every day on an empty stomach or a few hours after eating, and you will soon master full breathing.
