Inhaling Positivity and Exhaling Negativity For A Joyous Life
Breathing brings calm and peace to your life and balances your mental health.
The ABC of breathing
When a child is born the nurse makes it cry. Why is it so? Life is based on breath and when the child cries loudly it begins to breathe and this is the beginning of new life.
Breathing is essential to life. When a person stops breathing we say his heart failed him. So breathing is essential for living.
“The trick to life is to just keep breathing”. — Johnny Lung
Did you know that breathing in is inhaling the essence of life and breathing out is taking out the toxins from the system?
Inhalation gives strength and the body is controlled; breath retention makes the mind steady and better health providing longevity and exhalation purifies the body and spirit.
How do we inhale positivity? We have to ask our breath to help us. Close your eyes and inhale. Is that difficult? We inhale with a deep breath and begin to inhale freshness. A long breath in is life indeed. A longer breath out with the intention of exhaling negativity exhales all the negativity from our life.
How can mental health benefit from breathing? The coordination of breath with the sensations in the body gives the feeling of being in the moment. It does not make any judgements of people. It teaches you to be in the present and to think clearly. It is a world of peace.
Breathing can be done at any time of the day. It is not only the difficult exercises that are useful for good health and for reducing weight. It is a simple pose in which you sit that takes you places of higher consciousness. It helps you to inhale freshness and exhale negative thoughts.
The most important thing is to sit straight. The back should be upright. When we close our eyes the mind automatically becomes free from looking and hearing negative things.
When you breathe in it gives you a sense of comfort and when you sit straight the energy flows upwards. When you complete one cycle of breathing it relaxes your body completely. Deep Breathing has an impact on the nerves of your body and relaxes them.
Benefits of deep breathing
It has been tested scientifically and found that it is true that is a scientific relationship between deep breathing and the health of a person. The USA National Institute of Health has tested and ascertained that there is a positive effect of deep breathing from the diaphragm and a person's physical and mental health it is an effective relaxation technique and complementary to medication.
#1. Relaxation: Deep breathing has an effect on the nerves of the human body and helps it to relax. Once the body is relaxed, one of the basic benefits is good sleep and rest giving revival to the body. The person becomes calm and cool and soothed from mental worries.
#2. Mental stress: Deep breathing reduces stress and has an effect on improving the health of patients who suffer from high blood pressure. Anxiety and depression are related to mental stress. Deep breathing has a calming effect. It must be remembered that medication is a must and deep breathing is complementary to it.
#3. Boosting Immunity system: When you breathe deep the lung capacity increases and it boosts immunity. Whenever people suffer from allergies or viral deep breathing helps to improve the condition. During the recent Covid outbreak it was suggested that if people were to do yoga and do different forms of breathing the effects of COVID -19 would be lower or minimal.
#4 Enhancing focus to being in the present: While deep breathing a person is able to be more in the present and he can focus on whatever he does. The feeling of happiness begins to radiate as the person becomes sure of himself and his surroundings.
The Takeaways
Deep breathing does not have negative effects. It only has positivity. It brings joy to the person who practices it. As health begins to improve the person is calm. His energy is high, he is able to focus, the mental disturbances are lowered and it helps to elevate the mood of the people who are depressed. The brain’s power gets adjusted because breathing acts as a pacemaker to regulate it.
Yoga and meditation are both related to breathing. It is prana (life in Hindi))that is a vital practice of yoga, leading to meditation and not so much the poses themselves. The deep breathing exercises remove energetic blockages and serve to purify the body, increasing prana flow.
Conclusion
Breathing has mind and body healing effects. With time the joys of an inhaling are due to the positivity it brings to the mind and removing toxins and giving away negativity to joyous thoughts in life.
A very apt quotation about breathing may be cited — “When the breath is unsteady, all is unsteady, when the breath is still, all is still. Control the breath carefully. Inhalation gives strength and a controlled body, retention gives steadiness of mind and longevity; exhalation purifies body and spirit”. — Goraksasathakam