Breathing techniques – Positiveify

Yoga was born in ancient Indian times but is becoming increasingly popular all over the world due to its wonderful benefits. Yoga includes various postures known as Asanas. Practicing yoga Asanas daily can sort out a number of problems in life. Asana are comfortable postures that can be practiced easily for a long period of time. Saint Pantajali in 200 BC wrote his book in which he classified postures into two parts. The meditation postures are known as Asanas and physical postures known as Yoga vyayam. However, in general, all yoga exercises are considered Asanas. The Asanas taught at Shree Mahesh Heritage meditation school are rooted deep in the yogic times and have healing effects on the body and soul.
Most of the Asanas are derived from nature and animals such as a tree, mountain, cat, deer, rabbit etc. Asanas have an amazing impact on the body and mind of human beings. Asanas are beneficial in treating many body ailments and treating stress and other mental problems too and serve amazing benefits if practiced regularly. At Shree Mahesh Heritage meditation school, you learn Asanas that don’t involve a lot of effort but have amazing therapeutic results.

How to perform Asanas:

Asanas are performed by synchronization of body movement with the breath. When we perform Asanas while inhaling, it involves expanding of the abdominal area and when performed while exhaling, the abdominal area shrinks.
Asanas are performed slowly to enable concentration. The time for which we perform Asanas or their number is of no concern but the quality. These should be performed such that the body is relaxed all the time, and there is no strain. The teachers at Shree Mahesh Heritage meditation school guide you step by step to perform Asanas in the most effective manner beginning from primary Asana to complex ones.
When body movements are coordinated with breathing, this practice calms the mind, improves the functioning of the nervous system and increases the capacity of the lungs. Asanas should be performed for a longer period of time only after significant practice of primary postures. The teachers at Shree Mahesh Heritage meditation school teach you Asanas in the easiest way, starting from the most basic to the complex ones step by step, so that your body adapts along the way. The 200-hour yoga training at Shree Mahesh Heritage meditation school involves various Asanas beneficial for your overall health.

Improves mental health:

Various asana that include deep and mindful breathing and most of the Adams in general are helpful in improving brain capacity. As Asana stimulates various parts of the brain, this makes us think more calmly and feel joyous. There are so many mental disorders like headache, migraine, bipolarity, anger issues that people nowadays suffer from. Asanas can help with reducing these ailments if practiced on a daily basis. There is a flow of positive energy in the brain after performing Asanas.

Improves body posture:

The office lifestyle nowadays, that forces us to sit on a chair in front of a computer screen for long hours, deteriorates our body posture a lot. Improper body posture leads to joint pains, back pain and muscle pain. It also affects our digestive system and increases fat. Asanas involves postures that involve balancing techniques and a straight spine. Different Asanas that involve stretching improve flexibility of the body. Thus, Asanas help in making our body posture better.
Makes you healthy and fit: Asanas involve movements of different body parts and their stretching. These lead to cutting extra fat from your body, making you flexible, leading to a good physique. Many Asanas also help in building strength and endurance. If practiced on a daily basis, Asanas make you healthy and fit and improves your immune system. Asana does not take a lot of hard work like other exercises, you can do it while you are relaxed. A healthy mind dwells in a healthy body, and Asanas make your body and mind healthy without much effort.

Woos away stress and anxiety:

Different postures, especially the ones that involve breathing techniques, are helpful in calming and clearing the stress and anxiety from the brain. You are able to focus and understand things properly. Asanas lower stress hormones like cortisol and promote relaxation.
Improves the nervous system: Asanas are primarily the body postures that decrease the heart rate and blood pressure, so that when our body is calm, our brains are able to transmit a message more easily. Asanas involving meditation activates our brains and increases their capacity to maintain overall coordination between mind, body and soul.

Helps in developing immunity:

We are often exposed to bad environment, bad food and water and polluted air, due to which we are prone to so many diseases. Bad food habits and taking soft drinks can also be fatal as it accumulates fat inside our body and, consequently, leads to diseases like diabetes, obesity, blood pressure and heart disease. Moreover, common cold and fever are now more frequent than ever. Now Covid has also come. So it is necessary to become immune enough in order to live a healthy life. Asanas that activate various body parts, reduce fat and calms us down to normalize blood pressure can prove life-saving.

Summary:

Yoga Asanas can be performed comfortably by anyone, and they nourish and tone the body and mind and stimulates the much ignored glands in the body. Practicing Asanas daily has many health benefits. Shree Mahesh Heritage meditation school is the best place to practice Asanas away from the bustle of the city. Here you get the calmest environment that rejuvenates you while performing Asanas, and you’re guided by the best yoga teachers.

Breathing is something that we do all the time naturally. But there are some rare times when we notice that we are breathing. It happens either when we are anxious and tired, or when we are deeply relaxed. We breathe faster when we are tired, whereas our breathe rate is low when we are relaxed. We need to work on breathing because it can make us stress free, helps us in sound sleep and makes our mental health better. Breathing exercises can help a lot.
Breathing exercises are not only simple but also satisfying. We are often recommended breathing deep when we are angry or worried. Breathing deeply and slowly reduces anxiety real quick. However, many of us fail to realize the importance of deep breathing due to our busy work life. Taking out a few minutes to contribute to our well-being can only impact us in a positive manner. We can do more work and multitask if we are relaxed and calm. At Shree Mahesh Heritage meditation school, students are taught how breathing exercises can help you reduce otherwise existing stress.

Why do we need to work on our breathing?

Most of us are caught in a busy schedule, a lot of pressures and workload. Working hours are uneven, and there is cut-throat competition everywhere. We are intended to do a lot of work in a small time. Moreover, Covid has caused tremendous loss to many people, and everyone is quite overwhelmed by the situation. Students are exposed to the screen more than ever, the phone has become the new source of knowledge for them. They have to work a lot on computers. All this has made us quite frustrated and anxious. We are now angry more frequently than ever. And this is consecutively causing strain in relationships, distress in families and deteriorated mental health. It’s quite crucial at this point to find an escape from all the frustration and anxiousness that has surrounded us. Many people may not have time to take long sessions or attend webinars to learn how to reduce stress, simple breathing can find you an escape. Working on your breathing doesn’t need you to contribute much time, money or equipment, but can easily lead you to a stress-free life. The online sessions at Shree Mahesh Heritage are very useful as they can teach you simple yet powerful techniques to woo your stress and anxiety miles away. The teachers at Shree Mahesh Heritage have expertise in teaching breathing practices so that anyone can easily adapt them and include them in daily lives.

How to work on breathing?

Breathing is no big deal, we have been doing this for years. But breathing in a particular way that is slowly and deeply can have positive impacts on our overall health. Breathing exercises are simple and easy, we do not put a lot of effort into them, we do not take so much time to do them. We just need a calm environment and a few minutes to work on breathing. If done in a natural environment, it will add icing on the cake. Shree Mahesh Heritage Meditation School is the best place to do breathing exercises with a calm environment and amazing teachers to help you. The breathing techniques that they teach are easy to practise and learn, which can help you reduce your anxiety quite quickly and easily.
Easy breathing exercises to reduce stress
To work on our breathing, there are various techniques that can give us a wholesome result.

Deep breathing:

Deep breathing is beneficial for the brain. It helps with pushing more oxygen-rich blood to the brain, which makes brain muscles strong and stimulates stress-busting chemicals. It is the easiest breathing exercise and doesn’t need any equipment of effort. It calms the brain, and we know that a calm brain is capable of taking the right decision, facing challenges and managing workload. Deep breathing relaxes the body, mind and soul. Shree Mahesh Heritage finds you the calmest place and cleanest environment to practise deep breathing.

1. Find a calm place to sit and forget everything for a while.Make yourself comfortable, don’t sit as if you were forced to.

2. Put your one hand on one side of the chest and other hand on the belly.

3. Start taking long and deep breaths and try to relax your whole body.

Alternate nostril breathing:

This exercise is helpful in curing breathing ailments and cold. This is good for
lungs and lung diseases. It can help in opening blocked nostrils. This exercise is also good for the brain and activates various brain parts.

1. Sit comfortably with your spine straight.

2. Close one of the nostrils with the thumb and deep inhale from the other.

3. When you are done inhaling, release the closed nostril and close the other nostril with the forefinger.

4. Properly exhale

5. Repeat the process up to 10 times from both the nostrils.Relax when you’re done.

Mindful breathing:

Mindful breathing is as beneficial as meditation. It helps to reduce anxiety, sleeplessness and stress. It is also helpful to people with high blood pressure or diabetes. The purpose of mindful breathing is to make you forget everything else and focus fully upon yourself for a while. Mindful breathing cleanses negativity from the mind and helps us observe everything in a much deeper manner. The most quiet place to practise mindful breathing is the mountains, and Shree Mahesh Heritage is surrounded by mountains to give you an appropriate environment to practise the same.

Find a quiet place to sit as you need to focus.
Sit or lie comfortably and start taking slow deep breaths.
Try to focus on the sound of your breathing, listen as you inhale and exhale.
Forget about everything else for a while
Pass out all the negativity and worries from your brain and concentrate.