| In a world of corporate stress, traffic jams, bill | | | | your chest fell first and then your stomach. You see, |
| collectors, and unending debt, it comes as no surprise | | | | for some reason, though your subconscious has |
| that a large number of deaths are directly related to | | | | allowed your regular breathing to become skewed, the |
| high blood pressure and stress. The world is a savage | | | | yawn has remained, as it should be. Use this as a |
| place in reference to the physical health of an individual. | | | | guideline to go by. |
| There does, however, seem to be a solution to stress | | | | First, lie flat on your back, no pillow, with your entire |
| related health issues that the modern world so | | | | body straight. Close your eyes. Breathe in forcing the |
| adamantly offers. The source of this opportunity of | | | | air to make your abdomen rise. Then, breath out, |
| hope does not come in the form of a pill, a shot, or a | | | | releasing the air. Do this a couple of times. Next, inhale |
| technology oriented miracle cure. It actually comes | | | | causing your chest to rise. Again, release the air. |
| through a process that originated centuries ago. It is | | | | Practice this a few times also. This part of the |
| known simply as, Yoga. | | | | process is simply warming up for the real run. |
| Ninety Nine percent of the global population do not use | | | | To actually practice the art of yoga breathing, remain |
| their respiratory system to one hundred percent of its' | | | | flat on your back. Now, breath in, deeply, allowing your |
| capacity and/or potential. The daily trials that we | | | | stomach to rise first, then your chest. Now, do the |
| experience cause drops and spikes in our breathing | | | | same series of events in reverse. Breath out the air, |
| patterns, which in turn lowers or raises our blood | | | | first allowing your chest to sink and then your stomach. |
| pressure, etc. The process is long, drawn out, and can | | | | One way to make this process simpler to remember |
| literally have diverse negative effects upon every | | | | is to think of your body as a bottle and your breath as |
| organ and system within our body. These are some | | | | water. You are filling your body as you would the |
| truly frightening facts. However, through the art and | | | | body. The lower part fills first, then the upper. In |
| exercise of Yoga, we can actually retrain our bodies | | | | exhalation, if you siphoned the water from the body |
| and minds to breath as they were originally intended, | | | | the upper part would empty before the lower. This is a |
| before the cruelties of everyday life sat in. | | | | perfect example of the order of events. |
| In the process of Yoga breathing, do not expect | | | | Continue this process for 21 breaths. Then, open your |
| immediate results. It is a process of teaching our | | | | eyes and get up slowly. As you rise, you will notice |
| subconscious to act differently than it does at the | | | | what seems like intensity in your senses. Colors seem |
| moment. The subconscious can be a very stubborn | | | | brighter, more intense. Sounds are clearer, more |
| aspect and you must be patient with it. | | | | noticeable. The effect is the same on all your senses. |
| Moving on, the actual process of Yoga breathing is | | | | There are medical reasons for this sudden intensifying |
| quite simple, once you get it memorized, and | | | | of your senses, but they are too diverse to list here. |
| memorizing is the first part of reprogramming your | | | | The sensation will begin to ebb after a few minutes. |
| subconscious. Consider a yawn for an example. Go | | | | Nevertheless, it is truly an awesome sensation. |
| ahead and yawn. Interesting that the mere mention of | | | | In the long run, this practice could save your life. Do not, |
| a yawn makes us want to do it. This is the old | | | | however, let it end here. Study into the art of Yoga. |
| subconscious taking over again. Make it a deep yawn. | | | | There are numerous forms of Yoga that can be |
| Relaxing, is it not? Now, consider how you yawned, | | | | practiced to enhance your life experience on a |
| your inhalation, and exhalation. When you inhaled, the | | | | physical, emotional, and spiritual level. There are several |
| air went to your abdomen, your stomach being the | | | | forms of Yoga breathing that will also enhance |
| first to rise. Then your chest rose. As you exhaled, | | | | particular areas of your life. Give them all a try. |