Breathing Techniques

Breathing techniques are so simple to carry out that sometimes they are unnoticed as a way of healing the body. Breathing techniques are based on the thought that breath is the main source of life in the body.

In fact breathing techniques are nowadays being utilized by western doctors for different treatments, for everything ranging from sports performance to controlling high blood pressure and from headaches to emphysema.

So how can breathing techniques help in the process of healing?

If you breathe slowly and deeply, you inhale oxygen which then aids in removing waste products from the body and finally helps in increasing the energy. If we learn to breathe properly with the appropriate technique we could aid the body to detoxify faster and enable it to transfer more energy over to work on healing the body instead.

Many people who used breathing exercises mentioned that they had fewer colds, greater endurance and more energy. By not breathing properly you also lose a great amount of muscular energy as we are likely to keep the shoulders and ribs raised abnormally high when we make use of the chest muscles to breathe with, rather than making use of the diaphragm.

The main principles of breathing techniques are based on the fact that oxygen is important for energy production and therefore the way you breathe influences your levels of energy. If your breathing is very shallow, you will not get all the oxygen that you need for the best production of energy.

According to the system of yoga, we take in not only oxygen but also prana or energy. According to yoga, pranayama comprises different ways of exhaling, inhaling and retention of prana. These techniques of breathing or Pranayamas are made to allow the free flow of energy in the body and to clean the energy channels of the body called nadis.

To master pranayama, your mind pictures the smell of gas and toxicity while on inhale, your mind pictures pure, clean oxygen feeding your body. Since many years, yogis have strained on the powerful practice of pranayama to expand prana, or life-energy, revitalize the body and transform themselves.

It is supposed to have a great healing effects and breathing techniques are not only helpful in controlling the diabetes, but can also heal the disease as well.

If you love to learn the basic Indian techniques of pranayama, the easiest way to learn the technique is to breathe in for 8 seconds and breathe out through the nose for 8 seconds. Keep in mind we only need to use basic breath control here.

Breathing techniques can properly allow the energy to flow into the chakras, and allow the body to go back to its normal health state.