Most Efficient Technique to Improving Your Energy

Breathing. Seems simple enough, but most of us do not breathe correctly or efficiently. We all know breath is needed to live but do you know what it does for a body, for a mind, for a spirit? Proper breath may be the easiest way to improve your health.

Here is the condensed list of benefits:
• Gives you more energy
• Reduces mental and physical fatigue reducing the need for stimulants and drugs
• Eliminates toxins and waste
• Improves blood circulation, relieves congestion, increases blood supply to muscles and bones
• Increases oxygen and nutrient supply to all cells of the body. The brain and eyes need much oxygen!
• Correct breathing depending on technique can calm or stimulate the central nervous system and balance the brain hemispheres
• Better breathing opens up and balances the subtle energies of the body
• Using the diaphragm with proper breath, massages the internal organs improving their function.
• Facilitates movement of the lymph throughout the body eliminating toxins and improving the immune system
• Shallow breathing puts stress on the organs of elimination
• Proper breath along with a balanced alkaline diet, toxic carbon dioxide eliminates more readily through the breath
• Improves the appearance of the skin, reduces wrinkles thanks to better blood circulation
• Relax deeper
• Recover faster from stress, exertion and injury
• Reduces muscular spasm, tension, adhesions, and fibrosity
Feel like improving your breathing? Try these two options to facilitate relaxation and quiet your mind.
The yogic breath
Sit or lie down with your neck, head, and spine in alignment; a gently erect spine from sitting bones to head, your chin slightly tipped forward, and your face, jaw and tongue relaxed. Place your hands on your chest and breath in and out through your nose, feeling your chest expand. Repeat 3-4 times. Now place your hands on your belly and inhale through your nostrils, let your belly expand with air. Exhale completely through your nose. Repeat 3-4 times. Next, place your left palm on your chest and your right palm on your belly. As you inhale through your nose, breathe into the bottom of your lungs feeling your belly expand, slowly filling the lungs with your breath up into your chest, feel your ribs expand. Exhale through your nose slowly at the same rate as the inhale, releasing your breath from your chest then your belly. Repeat 3-4 times. Now close your eyes, rest your hands on your lap or on the floor, and repeat the yogic breath 10 times.

Alte
ate nostril breathing
Place your right index finger and middle finger on the bridge of your nose. Close the right nostril with your thumb, inhale and at the top of the inhalation, close your left nostril with your ring finger. Release your thumb and exhale through the right nostril. Inhale through the right nostril and at the top of the exhalation close the right side with your thumb. Release your ring finger from your left nostril. Repeat 6-12 times.