Breathing is an activity we do every time. Did you know that we breathe as much as 22 000 a day?
But because it is so united with us, we often do not consciously doing it. In fact, sometimes we breathe the wrong way. Though breathing, if done correctly, can help ease your mind filled with stress, reduce heart disease, allergies, and even lose weight!
When weight gain, often times we think the problem is only on the foods we eat. In fact, the possibility of what we think is also affected. Emotional stress can cause weight gain. Stress accelerate the conversion of calories into fat because you are more likely to overeat or choose unhealthy foods when stressed.
Therefore, first control your stress, then you can control your weight. The best way for that is the focus on slow breaths, which will help reduce stress hormones.
Another factor which causes weight gain can be adjusted by the respiratory heart rate variability (HRV), in which the time interval between heartbeats bervariasi.Studi shown that people with varying heart rate tends to have more self control, while those with heart rate variation low are more likely to succumb to the temptation. The temptation is none other than unhealthy food earlier.
Respiratory Tricks
Try to practice breathing slowly because of this increased HRV and make you more alert to your actions. You also better able to reduce levels of stress and excessive control diet. How to do this breathing, inhale through the nose for four seconds, followed by over eight seconds exhale through pursed lips (like blowing a straw).
Another way is to adopt a breathing method Hindu called ujjayi. Inhale through your nose for six seconds, then exhale through your mouth for six seconds as though you’re trying to create a mist in the mirror. Make a sound like “hahhhh …” pulling or lock into the stomach.
In the next breath, try to make the same sound with the mouth closed. His voice should be like a snail’s house or the cochlea inside the ear.