Breathing affects our state of mind, emotion, and body. It can make us feel excited or calm, tense or relaxed. It can also make our thinking confused or clear.
Below is a breathing technique use with the practice of Pranayama or yoga exercises.
Watch this informative video from QuarkTech Inc. They explain more in depth the practice behind conscious breathing.
Many of us especially women have learned to breathe through our chest instead of through our abdomen because we are too self-conscious about our stomach protruding out thus making us look fat. So we tend to breathe really shallow in our chest area.
I admit, I am guilty too.
Didn’t even know I was breathing incorrectly until I was trying to learn how to sing.
The instructor pointed out the proper way of breathing is to breathe from your diaphragm…the very same place you access your voice.
What do you know? That’s how babies and dogs breathe. They aren’t afraid of bulging tummies. They don’t suck in their guts.
Let’s learn how to breathe like a baby again.
Such a huge difference breathing from my abdomen. I feel more energize and my mind feels clearer.
So I want to share this video of Vineeta Gogia, an experienced yoga instructor, showing you the correct breathing technique.
Feeling frustrated and frazzled. Tired of suppressing my emotion, not letting it all out. And tired of feeling fake. I wanted to be my REAL self without coming across as an uncaring or even a selfish bitch.
I want to release my emotion in a healthy way. Yet, I find it that I still have a cap on. And there’s only a little peep of opening. A part of me just doesn’t feel it appropriate letting it all out.
When my fiance walked out, I accused him of judging me and labeling my emotion as unacceptable as if there is something wrong about me feeling this way. I got so furious that he was not willing to be there with me and support me by allowing me to feel through these emotion. I felt he was rejecting me…ALL of me. I couldn’t help it but felt there is something seriously wrong and unacceptable about me.
That lead me to ask myself how can I feel and release these emotion and still be alright that I am feeling frustrated and angry. It prompted me to surf the net for some answer. How to be my genuine self without feeling guilty.
