Breathing is an essential life function primarily intended to supply oxygen and expel carbon dioxide.
However, how we breathe is also very important and can enable us to remain healthy, rectify disorders, improve energy supply and balance our physical and mental well-being.
Stress impairs the natural respiratory flow
If we are continuously stressed, the depth and frequency of our breathing is likely to be adversely affected. We can become so used to this that we do not notice our breathing becoming more rapid and shallow. If allowed to continue, this restricted breathing pattern can contribute to further unforeseen health disturbances, strains, tensions and eventual exhaustion.
‘Proper Breathing’
Understandably, we often think of ourselves as breathing through our lungs but with practice it is possible to imagine ourselves breathing through our abdomen, pelvis, kidney, in fact any organ in our body that we happen to select.
The result of our heart rate variability determines an ideal individual respiratory rate which should be done for 5 minutes. When done according to the instructions, it helps to restore our own ideal rhythm, simultaneously regulating biorhythms, strengthening the parasympathetic system, reducing stress and increasing our energy levels as well as psychic abilities like concentration.
The respiration procedure is illustrated with the aid of a dynamic ball, which expands to correspond with when we breathe in and contracts as we breathe out. The pace of the expansion and the contraction of the ball as well as the length of the breather are determined by the results of the measurement data and individually tailored to the subject of each test.
The relaxation effect is enhanced by the interplay between the breathing ball, varying landscape scenery and embedded classical music.