Breathing Exercises-Helping you to get Relief from Stress and Anxiety

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Breathing Exercises Helping You to get Relive
from Stress and Anxiety
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• Nervous system of a human body gets activated
  when it comes under stress. This response enables
  your body to deal and face short term emergency
  cases. Performance level would increase manifold
  as you would become more active than before. The
  ability to hit harder, run faster and staying
  awake for a longer period of time would be
  developed by doing proper breathing exercises.
  Your body and mind get calm by doing these
  exercises, resulting in improved health.
• It is advisable to do these exercises in case you
  are stressed or highly anxious as these would
  prevent a full-blown panic attack. If you are
  suffering from anxiety and stress, then you may
  sometimes feel it developing inside. These often
  comes with signs such as a lump in throat, heart
  start racing fast, breath becoming shorter or
  even butterflies in your stomach. You can do
  following exercises to control the such
  situations

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• Activating Diaphragm
• For this exercise you can lie down and then bend
  your knees in upward position or can sit up with
  proper support. Ensure that you are using the
  upper portion of your chest to inhale and without
  tensing up. Then you should lift shoulders in
  upward position and bring them down slowly in a
  relaxed position. Keep on repeating the same
  process for at least three times.
• After this, you can do diaphragmatic breathing
  buy placing a hand on your abdomen and the other
  hand on your chest. If the hand on your abdomen
  goes down when you exhale and rises up when you
  inhale, also the hand your chest does not moves
  at all then your diaphragm is working properly.
• By thinking relaxing or calm thoughts, keep on
  practicing this exercise for at least 2-3 minutes
  with relaxed chest, neck and shoulders. The
  distressing thoughts in your mind can be taken
  off by doing this breathing exercise.

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• Holding breath for small durations
• This is done by inhaling and exhaling small
  breaths through your nose. Hold your breath just
  after exhaling and count five before gently
  inhaling again. Just after this you can repeat
  the diaphragmatic exercise at least ten times.
  You can repeat this process of doing both the
  exercises one by one.
• There are three vital points to keep in mind to
  achieve effective breathing exercise which can
  help you to overcome the stress and anxiety.
  These points are as follows

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• The nose should be used for inhaling every breath
  during the exercise. We need to understand that
  the main function of our nose is breathing
  therefore it should be used more than breathing
  from mouth. Though during exercise you can exhale
  from your mouth as many people find it quite
  relaxing.
• Secondly, you should calm down and relax fully
  during the exercise because tense muscles would
  not let your mind to get complete rest.
• Third point to remember is breath holds as these
  help carbon dioxide to stay inside your body a
  bit longer. This might help in restoring and
  prevention of hyperventilation.
• Breathing exercises are easy to learn, but it is
  advisable to visit a physiotherapy centre to get
  favourable results. Search online if you are
  looking for a physio. Crows Nest is the home for
  some of most renowned physiotherapist

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