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Health Benefits Of Deep Breathing

Have you ever witnessed the first rains after summer and taken in the deep heavenly smell of the freshly watered earth? Or have you ever gone for a walk in the park and found yourself surrounded by the green trees and felt compelled to take in a deep breath only to find the most pleasant smile upon your face?

Until recently we thought that all this was due to the surroundings and nature itself. Now it’s time to realise that you can achieve the same results anywhere as long as you breathe in and out deeply. It provides our body with a great amount of oxygen, expanding the lungs and clearing our blood.

BREATHING EXERCISE TO HELP SMOKERS

Many of us tend to look upon deep breathing as part of our yoga exercises or something you do when you are fed up. We fail to realise the various health benefits of deep breathing. If you have anger management issues, deep breathing can come to your rescue.

Health Benefits Of Deep Breathing

So start paying attention to how you breathe. Many of us have become shallow breathers with our fast lives. Breathe deeply and live long. Below we discuss the health benefits of deep breathing.

Releases toxins: One of the health benefits of deep breathing is the detoxification of your body. A deep breath helps to release toxins from your body, where as if you breathe shallow, other organs must work overtime to achieve the same.

Reduce tension: Having a stressful day at work? Have a serious anger management issue? The health benefits of deep breathing involves reducing the tension in your body and relaxes your muscles. AT WORK? TRY THIS!

Massages internal organs: We all dearly love a long massage session to pamper our body. We should realize that our internal organs also require this. This can be achieved when you are deep breathing.

Blood production: Another use of deep breathing is that it leads to an increase of oxygen supply to your body, which increases the haemoglobin in your blood. This leads to increased blood production that will help in the normal functioning of your body.

The correct posture: Today, many of us are stuck to our desks for the better part of our day. We all have heard the lectures on maintaining the correct posture. The best use of deep breathing is that it compels us to sit in the proper posture.

Against respiratory problems: Deep breathing helps protect against respiratory problems. Taking deep breaths expands the lungs and strengthens it. Thus, the lungs become healthy and immune to diseases.

Weight control: There are lots of diet controls and exercise regimes to help get you in shape. Did you know that the health benefits of deep breathing also help in controlling weight? The extra oxygen leads to faster metabolism of fats.

The nervous system: The health benefits of deep breathing also include benefits to the nervous system. This includes the brain, the spinal cord and all the nerves spread throughout the body. The extra oxygen nourishes them all.

Better concentration: Life often overwhelms us with its various problems and we are often left wishing for a broom to sweep our mind clear. The health benefits of deep breathing do just that and help in concentration.

Increase in stamina: The health benefits of deep breathing include an increase in the metabolism rate. This means that our body is better able to absorb nutrients there by providing us with better energy and stamina for our activities.

Story first published: Saturday, February 15, 2014, 21:53 [IST]
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