Breathing For Your Mind

Are you looking for ways to improve your anxiety, stress, depression, and overall mental health?  Take a deep breath!  Breathing deeply is one of the most efficient ways to aid in your mental health.  Breathing exercises can be done anywhere, anytime, and it’s free!

Breathing Has Its Benefits

If you’ve looked up natural ways to help relieve anxiety, panic attacks, or stress, you’ve probably come across the topic of breathing exercises.  How exactly does it work?  Incorporating breathing exercises into your daily routine will give you the following benefits:

Ability to Ease Panic Attacks– panic attacks make it difficult to focus on anything else while it’s happening, and they can be downright unbearable.  Breathing exercises help you to focus on deep breathing which sends a message to your brain to calm down.

Ability to Do It Anywhere, Anytime– it doesn’t matter where you are or what time of day it is, and it requires no tools.  You can do it at home, at school, at work, while walking, while in bed, and even while shopping.

Ability to Meditate– breathing exercises often lead to meditation.  When you learn breathing exercises first, it is typically easier to learn how to meditate later on. Meditation is a powerful tool that you can use together with breathing exercises.

Can I Teach Myself?

You bet!  You can start simply by taking deep breaths.  This is much different than your natural breath.  Find a quiet place to sit and inhale deeply through the nose.  Hold this for a few seconds and then exhale through your mouth.  You can also try belly breathing.  For belly breathing, you should put your hand on your stomach and focus on the sensations while you are inhaling and exhaling.  You can also check out more breathing exercises here.

Actively Breathing

If you typically stay active and exercise to support your mental health, try adding breathing exercises to your daily routine.  Using both together can drastically improve your overall well-being.  Breathing exercises are best paired with activities like yoga, pilates, walking, and hiking.  If you’re a beginner, try entry-level yoga to focus on easy and gentile movements alongside breathing techniques.

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