There are times in life when we feel under pressure. This pressure might originate from internal or external causes. When these negative emotions accumulate in our bodies the tendency is that you begin to have gasping, shallow and short breaths. This is the natural way your body responds when you are stressed, angry or anxious. Proper deep breathing exercises can help to ease that uncomfortable feeling, uplift your mood and keep your performance at its peak.

The Health Benefits of Deep Breathing

Your breathing pattern can help you to restrain the stress response as well as help in processing such stressful emotions quickly. Deep breathing will help release stress in your body thereby making you feel calmer.

To effectively relieve stress as we all know comes with many health benefits. Deep breathing exercises will help you achieve that and it is free and can be done anywhere. These breaths will ease the fear and angry feelings and lead you into being more focused and having a relaxed mind. Deep breathing could be used to treat sleep problems, anxiety disorders, pains and so on.

I will list below some deep breathing benefits that may motivate you to try out some simple deep breathing exercises.

Deep Breathing Relaxes Your Mind

Sending enough oxygen in the brain will help reduce your levels of anxiety. When you slowly take in a deep breath, you will notice that your mind and body become very relaxed. It makes your mind free from obscurity that leaves you to easily understand and brings in more insights into you. If you can practice regularly deep breathing exercises, it will help you to decrease your stress level, relax your body and mind which in turn will make you sleep better.

It Helps Relieve Pain Naturally

You may not understand how it works, but it does. Just imagine what happens when you are in pain. You gasps as if you are exhausted. Once such happens, if you take in deep breaths, it will help in easing the pain. Taking deep breaths will release endorphins all over your body. Endorphins are natural painkillers that our bodies create. As you take in long breaths, the upward and downward movement of the diaphragm will help your body to remove toxins from the organs. This will ease blood flow in your body.

Blood Quality Improvement

Practicing deep breathing helps in disposing of the carbon-dioxide in our bodies while increasing the oxygen in the blood. An increase in oxygen in the blood increases the quality of blood in our bodies.

Deep Breathing Strengthens the Lungs and Heart

The lung is healthy and strong when you take in deep breaths. This enhances your respiratory system and hence a good way to fight problems with respiration.

Once you carry out constant breathing exercises, you reduce the workload on your heart. Deep breathing as said above makes for an efficient functioning of the lungs. This means there will be more oxygen in your blood that is sent by the heart to your lungs.

It Strengthens Your Immune System

Taking deep breaths will help to strengthen your immune system. The movement of oxygen in your bloodstream is done so by attaching haemoglobin in the red blood cells. This helps to enrich your body as it will metabolises vitamins and nutrients. Taking deep breaths before meditation can also help bring inner peace.  If you plan to start on daily meditations, this post will be of help to  you.

I found myself unconsciously taking deep breaths as I typed out this post. It makes my mind and body feel so relaxed. There are many other benefits that you can get from taking deep breaths. Your intestinal and abdominal muscles gets strengthened, you get a healthy sleep, reason why when you feel sleepy, you yawn a lot. This is to show that your body also responds naturally when you feel tired and need rest by making you to unknowing take deep breaths by yawning. You also need to focus on your breathing especially when you are carrying out physical activities or exercises. Taking deep breaths will help you care for your body as well as help improve on your self-awareness.

I know you may have had a hard time like me reading this post as you may find yourself unconsciously taking long breaths. Don’t hesitate to drop a few words in the comment section below.