| If there's one medical condition which can seemingly | | | | specifically cure insomnia, close your eyes during the |
| strike anyone at anytime, that is none other than | | | | exercise. |
| insomnia. This common sleep disorder can have | | | | 3. Next, try to constrict your throat muscles. At this |
| psychological, physiological, environmental and medical | | | | point, it would help if you will visualize that you are |
| reasons. Now, if you are one of the millions of people | | | | breathing through a hold in your throat. This type of |
| who are suffering from this condition, did you know | | | | yogic exercise is also known as 'ocean breath' |
| that there is a type of yoga which can help cure it? | | | | because of the sound that will be made by the air |
| The key is to learn about the breathing techniques | | | | passing through your throat. The point of this step in |
| involved in the Ujjayi Pranayama - a style of yoga | | | | the exercise is to breathe through your throat instead |
| which is also called ocean breath, hissing breath and | | | | of through your nose. |
| victorious breath. Ujjayi literally means rising victoriously. | | | | 4. Find a nice, slow and relaxing rhythm as you |
| When you practice this style, you can use the | | | | continue with this style. Imagine that you are in a |
| techniques to cure any sleeping disorders that you | | | | peaceful, calm beach with only the sound of the surf |
| may have. | | | | as your companion. |
| 5 Steps to Develop a Breathing Technique | | | | 5. Continue with this exercise until you relax completely |
| To help you out, here are the five steps that you need | | | | and fall asleep eventually. |
| to follow if you want to develop a technique based | | | | As you can see, the steps involved in this breathing |
| from Ujjayi Pranayama yoga - which should help cure | | | | exercise are quite easy. The good thing about using |
| you of insomnia: | | | | the Ujjayi Pranayama techniques is that it will produce |
| | | | health benefits like lowering your blood pressure and |
| 1. Begin the yogic breathing technique by taking five | | | | ultimately relaxing you once you go to bed and try to |
| long, deep and slow breaths. This should help in the | | | | sleep. As your body regains its equilibrium, your mind |
| relaxation phase. | | | | will also calm down and you can emerge successful in |
| 2. If you are using the Ujjayi Pranayama steps to | | | | the fight against the sleeping disorder which is insomnia. |