To be sure you do this correctly, you must clearly distinguish three parts of the full breath: lower or abdominal, middle and upper chest.
A full breath starts by filling the abdomen, then expanding the chest and finally lifting the upper ribs.
The exhale is just the reverse: upper deflates, then the middle and finally the abdomen pulls in as the navel point pulls back towards the spine.
Method:
Sit straight. If the spine is in a balanced position, the ribs and muscles are able to move freely.
Begin the inhale with an abdominal breath.
Then expand the chest and finish by lifting the upper ribs. All three parts are done in a smooth motion.
As you exhale start by relaxing the ribs and then slowly emptying the chest.
Finally pull in the abdomen to force out any remaining air.
Continue in a rhythmic way, as the exercise requires. Each part of the breath expansion is distinct.
When all three are combined you have a complete long deep breath.
Benefits:
Relaxing
Calming
Regulates emotions
Cleans your blood
Increases mental clarity
Increases patience
Makes you more positive and optimistic
Reduces and prevents build-up of toxins in your lungs
Stimulates the production of hormones in your brain, which work to eliminate depression
Increases your capacity to control your negative emotions
Increase aura size and strength
Filling your lungs to capacity will feed your electro-magnetic field
Revitalizing and readjusting your magnetic field will make you less liable to fall victim to accidents, sickness and negativity
Aids in speeding up emotional and physical healing
Helps you achieve more mental control, concentration, and focus
Brings your brain to a new level of alertness to help you make good decisions
As your lung capacity is expanded and fully used, your breath plus your concentration stimulates your pituitary gland to secrete differently, open and increase the function of your intuition
It will re-tune and reset your brain so that correct decisions will flow automatically in a crisis situation
Pumps spinal fluid to your brain, giving you increased energy and vitality
Regulates your body’s pH (acid/alkalinity), which affects your ability to handle stressful situations – it actually increases your stress thershold
Reduces and prevents toxic buildup caused by not clearing the mucous lining of the small air sacs (alveoli) of the lungs
Energizes and increases alertness and awareness due to the life force (prana) in oxygen
Aids in releasing blockages in meridian energy flow
Activates and cleans nerve channels
Aids in breaking subconscious undesirable habit patterns and addictions
Reduces insecurities and fear
Re-channels previous mental conditioning of pain so as to reduce or eliminate pain (as, for example, in childbirth)
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