Ease up your Mind by These Simple Breathing Exercises
If the COVID-19 lockdown has taught us anything, it is to come back to the basics and take back what we had lost in the rat race of life. Sometimes, underlying conditions such as anxiety and depressions tend to surface when the body is comparatively free, so to ease it up, health care is the primary need of the hour.
Staying indoors during the current situation is the best way to maintain good health. To continue living in that manner, it is imperative to incorporate simple exercises into your home quarantine routine. Let us take a look at some easy breathing exercises you can do at home.
Breathing exercises to practice indoors
Feeling unmotivated and rather sluggish is the common side effect everyone is facing during the COVID-19 lockdown. However, with these simple techniques, you can make exercise at home a permanent lifestyle change.
1. Focus technique
This is a great way to de-stress as it operates on your mind. All you have to do is pick a word that makes you happy and stay focused on it throughout the practice for 15 minutes as mentioned below.
* Lie or sit down
* Alternate between deep and regular breathing
* Place your hand on the stomach and observe the contraction and expansion
* Release every deep breath with a loud sigh
* Keep repeating that word you selected in your mind the whole time
2. Lip-Pursing
This is one of the simplest exercises to do during your home quarantine. It helps slow down your breath and additionally simplifies activities such as walking, climbing stairs, and bending. Try and incorporate the below mentioned method 3-5 times every day and feel free to improvise by extending the counts after prolonged practice.
* Take a relaxed position and loosen the neck and shoulders
* Inhale through your nose only for three counts
* Pucker up that mouth into a duck-face posture
* Exhale through that same stance for five counts
3. Simhasana
* Sit in a tension-free position comfortable to you
* Press your palms onto the knees with the fingers spread wide apart
* Keep your eyes wide open as you breathe in through the nose
* Simultaneously, open your mouth and protrude your tongue out, bringing the tip towards the chin
* Exhale loudly via your mouth while looking onto the tip of your nose
There are many other breathing exercises that one can practice at home, depending on the requirement. Where some of them focus on chest breathing, others tackle abdominal breathing. Stress and anxiety-related yoga are also rampantly performed throughout the world.
The 3 types mentioned above will demonstrate results within very little time if done diligently and sincerely. So let’s throw away those prescription medications and take to a natural and self-induced method of healing.
