Summary: Deep Breathing is also known as Diaphragmatic Breathing. There are different variations to Diaphragmatic Breathing and many reasons why this benefits anyone practising it – including you.
Reading Time: 3 Minutes
What is Deep Breathing?
Deep Breathing is a relaxation technique that can help you reduce stress and anxiety and it involves taking slow, deep breaths from your diaphragm rather than shallow breaths from your chest.
The diaphragm is the most efficient muscle for breathing. It is located just below your lungs.
Other names for deep breathing include:
- Abdominal breathing
- Belly breathing
What are the Benefits of Deep Breathing?
Deep Breathing benefits the body and the mind. Here are a few benefits:
| How it Benefits the Body | How it Benefits the Mind |
|---|---|
| Healthier blood pressure | Helps reduce anxiety |
| Useful with tension headaches | Helps manage depression |
| Enhances sleep | Increases immunity |
| Healthier blood pressure | Reduces addictive behaviours |
| Increases physical energy | Helps reduce PTSD symptoms |
| Expands lung capacity |
Aside from the benefits above, another great benefit is stress relief.
Being stressed can prevent your immune system from working at full capacity. Stress engages the sympathetic nervous system (flight or fight). This, in turn, can make you more susceptible to numerous conditions.
Anyone can practise and benefit from Deep Breathing. Deep Breathing can also help several conditions that cause symptoms that affect how you breathe including:
Where Do I Start with Deep Breathing?
Start small. Set aside a few minutes a day. You can do Deep Breathing first thing in the morning, or whenever you feel stressed. Deep Breathing switch on the parasympathetic nervous system. This is the branch of the nervous system that controls the rest, digestion, repair, and reproductive systems within the body. The benefits of Deep Breathing can also contribute to better sleep so you can also so do it before going to bed.
Try if possible to do at least one session of Deep Breathing in the same place and time, especially if you are doing the exercise more than once a day. If that place is at home, combine your benefits with an Elite Universal Earthing Mat Kit.
Elite Universal Earthing Mat Kit
The Earthing Universal Mat can be used on top of a desk under your keyboard and mouse, under your desk to put your feet on, or on the base cushion or back of your chair if you work at a computer.
Knowledge is Power
You benefit the most when you practice Deep Breathing on a regular basis. Invest in your health now by adopting this technique. As the saying goes:” Prevention is better than cure”.
There are several variations of Deep breathing a future post, I’ll go into “how” you can do it.
Book your 30-minute FREE appointment with me today so I can help you understand more about a holistic approach to your health that will help you reach your potential and be a better you.
