Deep Breathe Relaxation Tips

By Marc Galeazzi

In today's society, stress seems to be a way of life. In fact, stress accounts for a majority of the illness and general dis-ease that manages to find its way into our lives and bodies. When your body is overrun with stress it weakens your immune system, and lowers your body's ability to deal with viruses that are waiting to set up shop in your body.

Everyone needs to take a little time out of their day to relax. Center yourself and let the tension release from your muscles and the problems escape your mind. My personal favorite method to achieve this is deep breath relaxation.

There are a plethora of benefits to using deep breath relaxation methods including a deep meditative state the can be achieved. This will help to balance your body, fill your cells with oxygen and energize your being. These techniques have been developed and improved upon for thousands of years by the mediation masters.

If you take up these practices on a daily basis, you will be on your way to leading a healthy life. Breathing and relaxation are a wonderful 1, 2 punch in preventing diseases, lowering blood pressure, reducing anxiety, and fighting depression.

To start, find a quiet and peaceful place where you can sit or stand comfortably. Sit up straight and inhale a deep breath from your abdomen, not your chest. Take long, deep, slow breaths. Feel you lungs fill with oxygen, close your eyes and breathe out.

In the beginning it can be hard to concentrate and stay focused on your breathing. Your mind will want to wonder, effectively distracting you from you goal. If this happens to you, just keep breathing, deep and slow and focus on your breathe. You will achieve a relaxed state where your stress will be released and your mind will be calm.

For ideal results, you will want to reach a meditative state once a day for a half of an hour. If you do this daily you will find your mind and your body felling more vibrate and healthy, and the stress melting away.

If you would like to read more articles like this one, please visit my website at http://www.relaxationtips.org

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Marc_Galeazzi

Harness Your Energy With Breath Control

By Conrad Raw

You probably already know that the brain has two hemispheres, the right and left, and that the left side of the brain generally controls the right side of the body and vice versa.

The left part of the brain is in control when logic is needed. It controls verbal tasks, paying attention to details and linear thinking. The right hemisphere, on the other hand, is more creative. It covers visualization and intuition.

Wouldn't it be great if you could call on the creative or the logical qualities of your mind or the other when you needed it?

The truth is you can, just by using a little breath control. Paying attention to how you breathe and taking the time to breathe correctly can make a big difference in your energy levels.

You've probably thinking you didn't know there was a wrong way to breathe, and there really isn't, there are just more efficient and less efficient ways depending on what you want to do.

Let's say for example that you're studying for a test. Maybe it's a math test. You need all the logical brain you can handle so that you can focus on remembering and understanding the material at hand.

Take a quick break from your studying, use the tip of one finger to gently close your left nostril by pressing it against the fleshy part of the nose. Then just breathe in and out through the right nostril for a couple of minutes.

Likewise, if you need energy to harness your creative powers, gently hold the right nostril closed and breathe only through the left nostril. This process works because it activates different energy pathways in the body, activating different properties of your mind. It's a very powerful process.

This is a really simple way to change your energy patterns through breath control and to give yourself a little boost and an extra dose of focus. It has been scientifically shown that we naturally breathe out of one nostril at a time, and we unconsciously change which nostril we are using about every 90 minutes, and the levels of activity in the parts of the brain actually change correspondingly to the change in the breath.

This makes a lot of sense because it keeps a good supply of oxygen going to both parts of the brain, but when you need a boost you can easily selectively breathe through one nostril or the other to bring more energy and focus into the work that you are doing.

This is one simple way to use breath control to improve your life. It just takes a few seconds; I hope you'll try it!

Conrad Raw is an expert in practical techniques for personal and spiritual development. He is the author of "Forbidden Secrets Of Personal And Energetic Development." He travels the world to learn and teach and is the founder of Greater Human Potential, a website devoted to bringing you easy to learn techniques to increase your human evolution. Visit his website for a free newsletter filled with tons of great tips and advice.

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Conrad_Raw