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Reduce Your Stress with Yoga Breathing Exercises

By Sydney Heiden

You can reduce your stress levels with simple yoga breathing exercise. Most people do not pay any attention to their breathing. It just comes natural. The lungs just operate and they bring oxygen into the body. Along with the heart, the lungs put oxygen into the bloodstream. Under normal conditions, the natural breathing pattern is slow and regulated. However, during periods of stress, the body tightens the muscles and breathing becomes shallow. It is common to hold your breath when you are stressed.

Because of the reduced breathing, the supply of oxygen is reduced and toxins start to build up.

This results in stiff muscles and causes the supply of oxygen to be reduced further. It is a viscous cycle, and impacts all parts of your nervous system, including your brain. Medical studies have shown that stress, and the reduced oxygen intake it causes, are a leading factor in cancer, heart disease, strokes, premature aging and other diseases.

Breathing also affects our ability to think clearly, by increasing the oxygen that gets to our brain.

A small increase in the oxygen flow into your lungs will help fight off flues and colds. By using proper yoga breathing exercises, you can increase the oxygen to your lungs and help remove toxins and improve your health. Proper yoga breathing techniques can change your metabolic rate and improve your emotions by releasing endorphins and internal chemical reactions. It will greatly reduce the stress in your life and help eliminate the effects of stress.

Yoga breathing exercises improve your mental health. A healthy mind will help generate a healthy body. A healthy body helps to generate a healthy mind. It feeds on itself. Just as stress feeds on itself in a negative way, good health will feed on itself as well.

It is no wonder that yoga is quickly becoming one of the most popular exercise methods in America. It doesn’t take of lot of time, equipment or space to get the benefits from yoga. In fact, yoga breathing exercises can be practiced any time any where. So the next time you start feeling stressed out, just take a deep breath and let the yoga breathing exercises eliminate stress in your life.

Sydney Heiden is a practitioner of yoga and founder of Yoga and Meditation for Beginners

For more yoga tips and information, go to her website, www.Yoga.Cool-Home-Stuff.com

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