Yoga Breathing

I love this focus on my breath when I am feeling a little anxious or stressed about something. It helps me to get back to the present quickly and quietly….

Sit or lie down. Start to breath filling your lungs from the bottom to the middle and then finally filling the top, just reverse the process to breath out, top, middle and then bottom. Like filling up a glass and emptying it out.

When we get stressed most people start shallow breathing, just filling the top part of our lungs. Instinctively we may know that a big breath to the diaphragm relaxes us but most of us forget, except maybe those who enjoy their stress releasing cigarettes…. If you are a smoker wanting to give up try yoga breathing fresh air before having that cigarette. You may not want it anymore.

Have a great week.