1. What is deep breathing?
Physiologically speaking, deep breathing is abdominal breathing, or chest-abdomen combined breathing, which is breathing that is mainly based on the upward and downward movement of the diaphragm muscles to expand and shrink the chest cavity, and is supplemented by intercostal muscle movements. To put it simply, a deep breath is a bulge in the stomach when you breathe in, and a stomach that is drained when you exhale.
In experience, taking a deep breath is like smelling a flower. Find a flower, put your nose up and smell it, feel the strength and duration of your inhalation, breathing, and exhaling, and take a deep breath. Disassemble it, inhalation is to inhale the aroma of flowers deeply and slowly, to the maximum extent, to let the aroma moisten in the heart and spleen and abdomen dantian for a while, to exhale is to exhale slowly and slowly, to maximize the exhalation of turbidity, to keep the duration of inhalation and exhalation equal, to maintain the duration of breath for a quarter to half of the inhalation time, so back and forth, is the best and most beautiful and most comfortable deep breathing.
Functionally speaking, deep breathing is the anchor of the clear consciousness, the bridge linking the subconscious mind, the path connecting the universe, the way back to intellectuality, the door to delusional silence, the habitat of great tranquility, great joy, and great energy, and the authenticity and root nature of life.
Second, how to quantify deep breathing?
Generally speaking, each breathing cycle (inhalation, breathing, exhaling) is maintained for 10-15 seconds, and 4-6 breaths in one minute can be regarded as deep breathing.
3. What is the habit of deep breathing?
Most of the time of working life every day, it feels like smelling flowers, and the breathing rate is maintained at 4-6 times / minute, which is the habit of deep breathing.
What are the benefits of developing the habit of deep breathing?
1. Be able to quickly settle chaotic thoughts
Whenever the brain is full of thoughts and noise, take a deep breath for 5 minutes to quickly clear the mind, clarify the brain, tie the heart ape horse, and calm the brain.
2. Quickly replenish energy and improve concentration
Whenever you feel tired, look at the blue sky, starry sky, or face flowers, trees, water features, and breathe deeply for 5 minutes, which can effectively relieve fatigue, quickly replenish energy, and improve concentration.
3. The subconscious mind can be linked
At the end of the deep breath, dwelling in the rest (i.e., in the rest), having a world that you are not aware of, paying attention to the perception of this world, there will be indescribable novelty and beauty.
4. Connect the universe
Every time you take a deep breath, you truly feel that you are one with the universe, that you have integrated into the universe through your breath, that you live in the universe, and that you are as bright and quiet as the blue sky.
5. Return to intellectuality
Whenever you are aware that you have too many words like mosquitoes, when your ugly state is about to be exposed, when you are ready to move, when you are angry, when you are about to impulsively attack, you can quickly take a deep breath, you can crack the amygdala hijacking, let the attention quickly return to the prefrontal lobe, return to the intellect in time, stop the demons of the heart, the flood of emotions, and get rid of the low-level instincts of animal nature.
6. Increase awareness
Whenever you take a deep breath, you must be in a state of awareness, and you are basically in a state of clarity. Normalized deep breathing greatly enhances awareness, liberates from ignorance, liberates itself from ego-centeredness, jumps out of looking at itself, and stands at a distance to see itself.
7. Cultivate calming breath
Frequent deep breathing, can cultivate calm, strengthen concentration, calm the mind, daily life less impetuous, every major event has a calm, in case of things do not panic, not chaotic, not rushed, in the calm response.
8. Exercise cardiopulmonary function
Frequent deep breathing, lung capacity is naturally large, inhaled oxygen is naturally more, cardiopulmonary function is naturally strong.
9. Enrich the middle breath, and speak more rhythmically
Announcers, hosts, actors practice line skills, smell the flowers is an essential lesson, practice for a long time, naturally will be full of energy, the voice is strong and powerful.
