Dr. Kate Vittavene - Say Goodbye to Stress: Powerful Breathing Techniques: How you can permanently cope with stress through effective breathing exercises and learn to be relaxed--the key to better quality of life and

Say Goodbye to Stress:

Powerful Breathing Techniques

How you can permanently cope with stress through effective breathing exercises and learn to be relaxed - the key to better quality of life and health

By

Dr. Kate Vittavene

introduction

Introduction

In this book you will learn how important it is to breathe properly. Breathing not only supplies the lungs with oxygen, but the oxygen also reaches the cells via the blood, where important metabolic processes are carried out. However, a sufficient supply of oxygen is also extremely important for your body in general and for your psyche. However, due to stress or other complaints, it can be that you have acquired incorrect breathing over time, so that correct breathing and thus also the adequate oxygen content can no longer be achieved.

The consequences can be further physical as well as psychological problems. With the help of this book you will learn how to get back to normal breathing and how to get your body supplied with the maximum supply of oxygen. The various breathing techniques and breathing exercises will help you to get rid of wrong breathing habits and to regain correct breathing. But the right breathing technique also has a generally positive effect on your mind. You become more relaxed and relaxed. You can treat yourself to a real break in the otherwise stressful time. Various possibilities, such as the progressive muscle relaxation according to Jacobsen or mindfulness exercises, yoga and even tai chi can help you to further promote your relaxation level. This is how you can achieve better stress management. Especially the yogic breathing meditations and the pranayamas are always part of scientific studies.

In these studies it became known that the various breathing techniques only had positive effects on you. This book describes numerous breathing techniques and breathing exercises, as well as the corresponding instructions, so that you can start right away from home. The best part about this is that you can easily learn these techniques from home rather than having to spend money on a teacher to explain how to do it. At the beginning it can of course be the case that you have not yet mastered one or the other breathing exercise to perfection. But after doing it a few times, you will find that it will become easier and easier for you.

The breathing

T he breathing is one of your body's automatisms. You have no direct influence on this and yet you can control it directly and consciously. You can use certain breathing techniques to alter your breathing, but if you run out of air, your body will reflexively inhale to fill the lungs with air again. Even infants breathe properly right from the start. Only later can incorrect breathing habits creep in. Whenever there are problems with breathing, be it due to a previous illness or a bad habit, you should learn how to breathe correctly again. This is how you can find your way back to healthy breathing techniques. You breathe in and out about 20,000 times a day. That is more than seven million breaths over the whole year. With the right breathing technique, you can To improve your breathing in a certain way and to control it consciously. This control of breathing can have a positive effect on you by increasing your well-being, reducing stress or counteracting it. Likewise, with the help of proper breathing, you can sleep better or have a better quality of life in general. On the other hand, permanently incorrect breathing can have a negative effect on the entire body. Breathing is - like the heartbeat - one of the most important actions and procedures of your body. Without breathing, you would not be able to speak, let alone perform any action. But nowadays almost everyone is under constant stress. Be it at work or at home. Constant sitting and brooding have a negative effect on breathing. It leads to, that you breathe shallowly or sometimes hold your breath. This holding of breath ultimately also disrupts the flow of the respiratory system. It results in the formation of carbon dioxide, which stresses the nervous system. If you then inhale in the wrong way, certain emotional states can be triggered. Physical discomfort can also be the result. It ends up in a kind of vicious circle. This can intensify fears and panic attacks in particular, but also depression. Conscious perception of breathing serves as the basis for all breathing techniques. So start paying more attention to your breathing in your everyday life. Do you breathe through diaphragmatic breathing or rather through chest breathing? Once you have learned how to distinguish the breathing techniques,

Health effects from improper breathing

T he opinion persisted that as long as one breathes, sufficient oxygen is also absorbed and then used. However, new findings have made it known that the respiratory system and its function, as well as the oxygen uptake and utilization of oxygen by the individual cells, can be disturbed by many different influences. Due to the emergence of civilization and the ever-advancing technology and the general demands on each individual, as well as the ever-deteriorating living and eating habits, the individual was faced with more and more stress - be it physical or psychological stress, which also resulted from permanent stress , Agitation or fear and worry can arise.

These stresses ultimately lead to disruption and a flattening of external breathing. This is followed by the disturbed oxygen uptake and utilization of oxygen by the cells, which in turn leads to an oxygen deficiency in the organism. Normally, the cellular oxygen exchange process happens in connection with certain respiratory enzymes. These respiratory enzymes activate or ionize the oxygen, since it is only possible in the ionized form to enter the oxidation and combustion processes. Due to the high environmental pollution and air pollution, as well as the associated toxic effects on the organism, damage to the sensitive and important respiratory enzymes occurs. This promotes an interruption or throttling of the oxygen change process. This basic biological disorder of faulty oxygen exchange is the main factor behind all other physical disorders that can develop. Such a disruption of the oxygen utilization can also lead to so-called functional disorders of the various systems and organs in general. If the problem of poor oxygen utilization persists over a longer period of time or even permanently, the once temporary disorder turns into a permanent problem. Organic damage occurs and the resulting organic diseases. It is now known that a chronic lack of oxygen is the cause of many mental and physical complaints and illnesses. These usually occur in the second half of life. But which breathing is the right one? Most people breathe through chest breathing, which keeps the abdominal muscles slightly tense. With this breathing you breathe permanently on the back burner. But breathing in the abdomen alone is not ideal either, because here too you get less air than with full breathing. Full breathing is therefore the best breathing, for the most oxygen uptake and for the largest lung volume.