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Breathing
therapy
Complete breathing
(the process of breathing into 4 stages)
is simple and very effective . In the following, we shall
present the so-called schedule:
Stage 1. Breathe in for
6-7 seconds and keep counting.
Stage 2. Keep the
air into your lungs for 10
seconds.
Stage 3. Breathe
out for 6-7 seconds.
Stage 4. After
expiration, do not inhale for 4-5 seconds. After a 10-24 seconds
break (while breathing normally), do the exercise again: 1-2-3-4 and
pause. Breathe gradually: 3-4 complete breathing (make a pause every
10-24 seconds), three times a day (during the morning, the noon and
the evening), for the first two weeks. Increase your breathing gradually, until you
get up to 8-10 breath/stage, during 6th and 7th
week and to 16-20 breath/stage during the 12th and 14th
week.
Force respiration (“The Cross”)
Keep
your legs spread, your hands along your body and start making the
exercise. You must be completely relaxed.
1. Breathe suddenly,
through your nose, until you feel the air flood "hitting"
your rhino-larynx. Close your fists and lift your arms aside and
backwards, up to the level of your shoulders. Bow your head and
sprain your body backwards. All your muscles should be very tensed
then. Inspire for 4 seconds.
2. Keep the air into your lungs
for 4 seconds. Be aware and do not exceed the time because it is
dangerous.
3. Exhale suddenly. Sprain your body forwards,
keeping your arms straight ahead, until you almost touch the
floor. Cross your arms to eliminate the tension and return to your
initial position. Expire for 4 seconds.
Warning:
During the first week, your should make the exercise in the
morning and repeat it for 15 times; another 15 times, at
noon; and another 15 times one hour
before going to sleep. During the second week, increase the number
of the exercise up to 20 times.
Yoga breathing -
controlled breathing (in three stages)
1. Abdominal
breathing: take a deep breath through your nose until the air
reaches the lower part of your lungs (swell out your abdomen).
2.
Thorax breathing: continue to breath until the air fills the
mid-part of your lungs (the abdomen returns to normal size and the
thorax is slightly dilated).
3. Clavicula breathing: keep
breathing through your nose until the top of your lungs is filled
with air. Keep the air into your lungs for 10 seconds then exhale
through your nose for another 10 seconds. The exercise must
contain three stages of 15 minutes each.
KAPALABATI (Iron man's bellows)
Technique: inhale and breath out, one
after the other; make no break and do it intensively. Make it
faster, by contracting the abdominal muscles. You will be able to
eliminate all the air out of your lungs. Swell out your abdomen,
when you inhale. The exercise has a therapuetic result
in case of sinusitis, bronchitis, tracheitis, laryngitis,
problems of the vocal cord, TBC, etc. Due to Kapalabati, you clean
your breathing system and nasal tract. Lately, specialists have
observed that it also helps curing the bronco-asthma.
During
the first week, you should proceed to 5-10 stages and 15
inhale-exhale exercise a day.
Warning! At the
end of each stage, keep the air into your lungs for 10 seconds,
then put your chin on the collarbone and proceed to a deep
expiration. The second week, perform two stages of 50
inhale-exhale exercise each. Beginning with the fifth week,
continue with a stage of 100 inhale-exhale exercise a day. (While
making your Yoga exercise, turn face up North).
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