Correcting Breathing…

Thanks to our gurus who researched the mental and physical make up of our metabolism to help us lead happier lives. Yes, its Yoga again I am referring to.

I was getting myself treated from a person called Gopalji. He was apparently an ascetic, and a natural healer. He had gained his popularity with people living in the southern part of Delhi, merely through word of mouth.

There was one thing he told me that I would always remember and thank him for – How to breathe….

“Observe your breathing…
1. You tend to take half breaths
2. You tend to reverse the process of breathing.”

Voila, he was right. Now lemme explain what he said. When I observed my breathing when I was in class or socializing, each of my breath was hardly fulfilling the body’s requirement. I would go ‘…huff…huff…’ unconsciously

Also I used to think that it was right to contract the stomach while inhaling and thus expand the diaphragm. On the other hand, while exhaling, expanding the stomach and contracting the lungs. That is what I had been doing all my life.

Nevertheless, I get to tell, the one or two people who happen to flip my blog, not to do the two above at least while working out. Follow the instructions below

1. Inhale fresh pure air, start with expanding your tummy, then expand your diaphragm and lungs. Slowly, your lungs have enough air filled.

2. Exhale with a little force, contract tummy and diaphragm which happens automatically, take out all the waste air, from the body.

This if followed everyday for 10 minutes while working out in the morning is like signing a pact with yourself for definite reduction of weight and prevents you from various unwanted health issues as well. But reverse breathing, remember, turns the whole metabolism upside down. Heat resistance is a problem, digestive system is affected, hence bowel movement, hair fall increases and oil content increases…all the problems you don’t want…

Thanks to Gopalji, he is in exile again, and I am waiting for him to come back so he can give me more tips on natural healing that really work.