9 Yogic Breathing Exercise For Mind-Body Balancing and Healing

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9 Yogic Breathing Exercise For Mind-Body
Balancing and Healing

• Regular daily practice of deep breathing is the
  best way to improve your Mind-Body well-being.
  Yogic breathing exercise has many physical
  benefits to maintain, balance, and restore your
  physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual
  health. But along with deep breathing, you
  should also know what is the right technique.
• The deep breathing practices given in advanced
  yoga training show that the mind, body, and
  breath are so intimately connected that they
  influence each other profoundly. The benefits of
  regular deep breathing practice that we are
  familiar with are scientifically proven,
  including the following
• Rejuvenates the body and mind
• Improve blood pressure
• Muscle Relaxation
• Reduced anxiety and depression
• Restore energy levels
• Improved immunity
• Muscle Relaxation
• Lower stress-induced cortisol levels
• Reduction in PTSD symptoms
• Releases bodily toxins
• Improve the lung function
• Sympathetic nervous system

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• Breathing exercises in yoga
• Deep breathing techniques include a variety of
  rhythmic breathing exercises, each having a
  different effect on the mind and body. Regular
  and appropriate yogic breathing exercises
  strengthen the lungs, heart, and muscles in
  general and gain strength, but over-exercise and
  improper breathing techniques can lead to mental
  disturbances and even nervous tics.
• You must learn the practice of breathing
  techniques with respect and caution from a
  qualified teacher who will also be able to guide
  you otherwise it becomes destructive for the
  practitioner.
• 9 Yogic Breathing Exercise For Mind-Body
  Balancing you should be familiar with
• Kapalbhati (Breath of fire)
• First of all, let us tell you that Breath of Fire
  is known as Kapalbhati in Pranayama. Thus
  Kapalbhati is made up of two words, Kapal means
  forehead and Bhati means light. According to
  researchers, Kapalbhati Pranayama can purify the
  entire respiratory system of the body. This
  exercise named Breath of Fire can improve the
  skin as well as promote the supply of oxygen in
  the body. Apart from increasing mental
  concentration, Kapalbhati Pranam can also be very
  beneficial in reducing belly fat.
• How to do the Breath of Fire (Kapalbhati
  Pranayama) breathing exercise?
• Sit in any one of the three postures, Padmasana,
  Sukhasan, or Vrajasan.
• Now straighten your waist and make your fingers
  in knowledge posture and keep them on your knees
  and close your eyes.
• After this, while calming the mind and body,
  start taking long and deep breaths.
• While pulling the stomach in, keep exhaling
  through the nose with a jerk. This process is
  done quickly.
• In this process, keep the mouth closed and
  breathe through the nose, in this way do this
  process 15-20 times continuously, which completes
  one cycle of Pranayama.

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• How to do Humming bee breath
• Close your eyes after sitting on the mat.
• After this, close the ears with your thumbs and
  keep your ring finger and middle finger on the
  eyes.
• After this, close your mouth and take a deep
  breath through your nose.
• Keep the mouth closed, make the sound of hummmm
  like a bee, and keep exhaling.
• Do this pranayama for 15-20 seconds.
• Breathe again and keep repeating the same process
  after 3-4.
• Deep Breathing Exercise
• Yogic breathing exercises also include deep
  breathing exercises.
• According to research, deep breathing has also
  been considered very useful for the lungs.
  Through this, problems like pneumonia and lack of
  oxygen can also be overcome. Deep breathing
  exercises can be very beneficial for children as
  well.
• How to do deep breathing exercises
• Sit on a clean place by spreading a mat and keep
  the spine straight.
• Now take a deep breath through the nose and
  slowly exhale it.

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• Lion Breathing Exercise is also obtained to end
  the bad odor of the mouth and to clean the
  tongue.
• How to do Lion Breathing Exercise (Simhasana
  Pranayama)
• To do this exercise, first spread a mat on the
  floor.
• After this, to do this lion breathing exercise,
  sit in Vrajasana.
• After that keep your hands on the knees keeping
  your arms straight.
• Take a deep breath through the nose, raise the
  shoulders, then press the knees while spreading
  the fingers of the hands.
• After this start looking upwards by widening the
  eyes, and taking out the tongue.
• While exhaling, start making a sound like the
  roar of a lion, the sound should come out of the
  stomach instead of the throat.
• Before doing the lion breathing exercise, note
  that if your knee is injured then refrain from
  doing this exercise.
• Along with this, during pregnancy, do lion
  breathing exercises only after consulting the
  doctor. If you have any pain in your wrist, do
  not put too much stress on the wrist while doing
  this Yogic Breathing Exercise.
• Lip Breathing Exercise
• Lip breathing is such a breathing exercise that
  can be done very easily anywhere, at any time.
  According to a study, lip breathing exercises can
  improve the oxygen level of the body. This
  breathing has also been considered a very
  beneficial exercise for patients suffering from
  inflammation of the lungs. Also may be able to
  relieve shortness of breath as well as
  strengthen its efficiency.
• How to do lip breathing exercise

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• How to do Ocean's Breath
• Keeping your spine straight, inhale slowly
  through both nostrils until the lungs are
  completely filled with air.
• While inhaling, constrict your larynx and feel
  the air coming out of your throat. By doing
  this, there should be a sound like waves in the
  slow sea when the breath comes and goes from
  your throat.
• Keep in mind that the breath should be long and
  deep.
• Breathing is to be done through both the left and
  right nostrils as mentioned above.
• In this way, one cycle of Ujjayi Pranayama is
  completed.
• You can do this activity for 10 to 15 minutes.
• If you are having trouble sitting, then you can
  do Ujjayi Pranayama lying down or even standing.
• Bhastrika or the bellows' breath
• For example, a blacksmith in his workshop heats
  iron with the help of bellows to shape it and
  remove its impurities. Like it, this Bhastrika
  Pranayama also clears the mind and removes
  negativity from inside the body. In this yogic
  breathing, the impure air is expelled with a
  strong speed like a bellows, and the pure air is
  taken in at the same speed.
• How to do the bellows' breath
• Close your eyes and keep your body stable, keep
  both hands in Gyan Mudra.
• Now take a deep breath in through the nose like a
  bellow and exhale.
• Remember, while breathing in, the lungs should
  expand and while exhaling, the lungs should
  contract. You have to do this process 12 times.