Breathing To Lose Weight
Learn How To Breathe Properly
Did you know breathing to lose weight can be done? Most of us do not breathe properly, and how to do it properly can do wonders for your health as well as help you lose weight.
Even more important than food and water is breathing and how we do it. Breathing right can make a difference to how you feel emotionally, physically, the health of your skin, improving your energy levels and helping you to think clearly.
I will quote a passage from a book I have, titled The New Joy of Beauty: Complete Guide to Lasting Energy and Good Looks 
1. We tend to think that the energy we have comes from the food we eat. But as the ancient traditions teach, air not food, is the primary fuel for driving the human engine.
Without the oxygen air contains, your body would not be able to break down the nutrients you take in through your foods in order to produce energy and to nourish your cells.
When air is first taken into the lungs, it fills the tiny alveoli within them. Oxygen diffuses through their membranes into your bloodstream and is carried throughout your body to every cell of every organ and tissue.
Your blood is capable of absorbing up to four times as much oxygen as water can, as long as there is enough iron available to produce haemoglobin which carries the oxygen through the bloodstream.
One of the most important common symptoms of iron-deficiency anaemia is the inability to catch your breath – you simply cannot get enough oxygen.’
This book also has some easy breathing exercises to do, here is one from the book I do everyday twice a day, and it only takes about 5 min.
This exercise will increase your lung capacity, slim your middle, purify your blood and help you learn the art of fuller breathing.
- 2. Resting hands on your rib cage at the sides, just above the waist, breathe out completely. Now inhale gently through the nose, letting your abdomen swell as much as it will to a slow count of five.
- Continue to breathe in through the nose to another count of five, this time letting your ribs expand under you hands and finally your chest too (do not raise your shoulders in the process).
- Hold your breath for a count of five; now slowly let it out through your mouth as you count slowly to ten, noticing how your rib cage shrinks beneath your hands and pulling in with your abdomen until you have released all the air.
- Repeat 4 times.
There are many other exercises in the book; this is just one of them. I swear by this one, it has made such a difference to my waist.
This is a really interesting and helpful book, over the years I have often referred to it as I have done for this article. Here is the link to it The New Joy of Beauty
Most of us breathe using our upper chest and this is not right, when done correctly you not only help the body take in more oxygen, it will also help you burn more calories, speed up your metabolism which in turn helps you burn more body fat.
Did you know, when we were babies we were all breathing correctly.
Your tummy should move out when you breathe in and go in when you breathe out. As you start to pay attention to how you are belly breathing, eventually you will get the hang of it and it will become a habit.
Exercising is another great way to help with your belly breathing, and help with your weight loss regime. Don’t solely rely on the breathing exercises to do it for you.
You have to eat right and do some aerobic exercise, even if it is a walk a couple of times a week. Make it a good fast paced walk, and you will reap the rewards to looking younger and breathing to lose weight.
For more information on breathing
Yoga breathing will help you; relax, increase your lung capacity, and body detoxification. Discover the many health benefits in yoga at Mind and Body Yoga.
References:
1.Kenton, Leslie., ‘The Breath of Vitality’, ‘The New Joy of Beauty, The complete guide to lasting energy and good looks’. Vermilion (United Kingdom) 1995.
2. Kenton, Leslie., ‘The Art Of Full Breathing’, ‘The New Joy of Beauty, The complete guide to lasting energy and good looks’. Vermilion (United Kingdom) 1995.
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