yoga classes help this, or you can find the basics of yoga in the internet with breathing excercises.
honestly, i only really find it useful when I’m exercising. Of course, I smoke about 15 a day, so cutting down would probably help…
How to learn to breathe
How I did it: In abnormal psych, during our anxiety disorders chapter, my prof did an activity with us and taught us how to breathe properly. You have to breathe from your stomach. Your stomach should go out when you breathe in and retract when you breathe out. If your chest is moving more than your stomach, you're breathing stressfully. You chest should move as little as possible. After being aware of this and changing my breathing when I noticed "stress breaths" it was simple. When my anxiety levels go up, I switch my breathing. It calms me instantly.
Lessons & tips: Take notice when you breathe. It's hard at first but eventually you'll always be thinking of it.
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and plus i drank coffee, plus it’s mad-sunny out despite oh-so-frigid cold, but so delightful to walk thru a city park on lunch instead of work and mind not focussing on anything, need to sleep and needed to have not drunk the coffee… who knew coffee, just coffee, could make one so unfocussed?
nobody ever talks about how hard it is to breathe properly or meditate when you have consistant sinus problems. that being said, i went to this class at my church based on the book “full catastrophe living” but ended up missing too many sessions. however the once a month zen group was really nice last week. I’m trying to meditate more and breathe more deeply.
I’ve always been what you could call ‘highly strung’. Learning to breathe, for me, means taking time to process and understand what has happened on any particlar day or time. Its about maintaining my composure and dealing with things on an intellectual level rather than an emotional one.
I tend to jump in the deep end too quickly, blame it on the Leo in me, but I’m generally over dramatic and jump to conclusions.
So learning to breathe and compose my thoughts and emotions before I speak will be something that will turn me from ‘dangerous’ to ‘deadly’.
Just try me :)
ketat is struggling
Now , I will redefine my goal as “to learn how to breath” in certain period of time.
ketat is struggling
The experience of consicious breathing is just amazing, it reveals another world to me, the different way of living, different quality of life… sit down, shut my eyes and do nothing but concentrate on natural breathing, the mind and spirit become calm as the air come in come out, feel the stomoch become warm , the things before all around my head now all gone…
I have realised that is only way I can “real” aware of my breath, once I go back to the outside, I forget always…to simplely breath.
I wonder who can teach me how to remember to breath.
Practise being aware of each breathe that I take… I find that if I do my breathing slows and I feel calmer…
to everyone who responded to my last entry, on how to defuse anger when talking to someone who is getting melodramatic.
I was touched at the thought you all put into your comments, and I want to let you know that it really helped to read them.
you rock!
p.s. the situation is under control. no worries. :)
someone’s anger, when they are ranting at you?
even after you say, Right, you are right?
how do you get them to be calm, to treat the situation calmly, instead of waxing melodramatic?
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