Alternate Nostril Breathing
A few minutes of alternate nostril breathing (pranayama) can help restore imbalances in your brain. It improves sleep, encourages a calmer emotional state, boosts your thinking power and calms your nervous system.
We don’t breathe equally through our nostrils, we tend to breathe more dominantly through the left or right nostril. The left nostril is calming – the right nostril is energizing
Yogis believe that many diseases can be traced to disturbed nasal breathing. Consciously breathing through your right and left nostrils alternately helps you to activate and access your whole brain.
Alternate nostril breathing – purifying breath
Use right thumb to close off right nostril.
Inhale slowly through left nostril
Pause for a moment
Now close left nostril with ring finger and release thumb off right nostril
Exhale through your right nostril
Now, inhale through right nostril
Pause
Use thumb to close of right nostril
Breathe out through left nostril
Continue for 2-3 minutes
Sit quietly for a few moments after completion.
*Do not do this exercise if you are pregnant or have a cold or a sinus infection.
Benefits of Alternate Nostril Breathing:
Revitalizing, The increase in oxygen intake helps to nourish the body and brain with the vital life force of breath.
The holding of the breath between inhales and exhales helps to regulate and direct the flow of breath in the body- helping to maximize benefits and the flow of prana.
Improves brain function and merges the left “thinking” brain and right “feeling brain
Is a great preparation for meditation.
Encourage a calmer emotional state
Improves sleep
Great preparation for meditation
Calms your nervous system:
Regulates the cooling and warming cycles of the body
Clears and boosts your energy channels
Promotes deep relaxation by clearing the mind and calming the body.
Have a Prana-fied day!
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