Breathing
Exercise
| "During
stress, breathing becomes shallow and rapid. Taking a deep
breath is an automatic and effective technique for winding down.
Deep breathing exercises consciously intensify this natural
physiologic reaction and can be very useful during a stressful
situation, or for maintaining a relaxed state during the
day." |
What is deep breathing? - Characteristics of Diaphragmatic
Breathing
a. slow and deep breath
b. the diaphragm and lower rib muscles carry on the breathing
process
c. relaxes shoulders, upper chest and stomach muscles
d. more oxygen can be taken in and more carbon dioxide released
with each breath than thoracic breathing
e. lowers heart rate
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Benefits
of deep breathing
a. Calming effects on mind and body
b. Improves fitness
c. increases circulation to entire body
d. wakes up body, prepares muscles for action
e. Prevents motion sickness
f. lowers blood pressure
g. relieves headaches, backaches, and sleeplessness by letting
go of tension
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Deep
Breathing Exercise
a. Inhale through the nose slowly and deeply to count of ten
(Make sure that the stomach and abdomen expand
but the chest does not raise up)
b. Exhale through the nose, slowly and completely, also to the
count of ten
c. To help quiet the mind, concentrate fully on breathing and
counting through each cycle
d. Repeat five to ten times and make a habit of doing the
exercise several times a day, even when not feeling stressed
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Meditation
"Meditation
is one of the greatest arts in life - perhaps the greatest, and
one cannot possibly learn it from anybody. That is the beauty of
it. It has no technique and therefore no authority. When you
learn about yourself, watch yourself, watch the way you walk,
how you eat, what you say, the gossip, the hate, the jealousy -
if you are aware of all that in yourself without any choice,
that is part of meditation. So meditation can take place when
you are sitting in a bus or walking in the woods full of light
and shadows, or listening to the singing of birds or looking at
the face of your wife or child."
J. Krishnamurti - Meditations |
Yoga
| "Yoga
is a 6,000 year old scientific technique for spiritual
development. Yoga is a Sanskrit word meaning "union",
thus its goal is the unification of body, mind, and spirit.
Because the science of yoga is so old it has developed many paths
toward obtaining the goal of union. This state of union is called
samadhi or enlightenment, where we experience the unity of not
just our mind-body-spirit, but experience the whole universe as
one interconnected whole." Timothy Burgin |
Resources:
Easy
Back Exercises
Back
Exercises for Summer. Courtesy of Ivy Commons Family Chiropractic.
Tricep
Exercises
Notice
that most of the exercises are basic exercise and that 'kickbacks' and
'inverted The
Peng
Exercises
someone
grasps the bicep area of one arm and begins to liftly gently but a
good
What
is aerobic exercise Aeribics Guide Aerobic Exercise
What is
aerobic exercise? The exercises? There are three factors that
Abdominal
exercises - Abdominal training and effective ab exerc
Abdominal
Exercises. Which exercises work the abdominals best? The
abdominal muscle group is extremely important since it helps stabilize
the torso, may alleviate back pain and acts as the
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