Good Health

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You’d be surprised how many of us don’t breathe in a healthy way – either holding our breath or shallow breathing – and the negative effects are cumulative, so it’s worth paying attention to it now. Place coloured sticky dots around your house as a r

Mother & Baby India

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Breathing exercises help manage labour pains. However, this requires a lot of practice and can’t be studied in just one day. Labour breathing means short, quick breaths - breathe in through the nose and exhale through the mouth. Contractions last for

5280 Magazine

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Meditation has been shown to reduce inflammation response caused by stress, but you don’t have to be a guru to see the benefit. Start with this breathing exercise recommended by Cierra McNamara, who started Platt Park’s Mayu Meditation Co-Op. 1 Press

Mindful

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In her book Breathe, Belisa Vranich says this five-minute routine will allow you to reset your body after a particularly stressful day by drenching every cell in it with oxygen—it will be a welcome relief to a body that’s been flooded with carbon dio

Woman's Day Magazine NZ

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We take breaths around 25,000 times a day but it’s not something we usually put much thought into. James Nestor, author of Breath: The New Science Of A Lost Art, worked with scientists and medical experts to uncover the right way to breathe. “Most of

HELLO magazine

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Camilla is keen to find something positive in these difficult times. As she says: “We have all been broken open for some learnings here, and to ask ourselves the question: ‘What really matters to me?’ “We are all running so fast, we need to ask: ‘Can

Good Health Choices Magazine NZ

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When you’re stressed and anxious, your breathing may become shallow or you might hold your breath, which means you’re not taking in enough oxygen. This can lead to lower levels of oxygen and higher levels of carbon monoxide in your blood and the resu

Australian Men's Fitness

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• Performing a simple routine before every abs set will ensure you get more from every rep. It could be consciously making your entire body tight, starting with arms and legs and drawing that tension in to your abs to make your muscles fully engaged,

Woman & Home Feel Good You

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Forget signing up to an expensive gym class – we already have the most effective (and free!) piece of equipment to boost our wellbeing – our lungs. The problem is we’re not always using them to their full potential. But by making simple adjustments t

Men's Health Australia

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ANYONE WHO’S WATCHED LEBRON JAMES play in recent years will know that as he approaches 35, the NBA star seems impervious to the effects of ageing and physical decline. What you might not know is that the LA Lakers point forward has a hyperbaric chamb

Woman's Day

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We take breaths around 25,000 times a day but it’s not something we usually put much thought into. James Nestor, author of Breath: The New Science Of A Lost Art, worked with scientists and medical experts to uncover the right way to breathe. “Most of

Top Sante

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BREATHING is powerful medicine. Breathing techniques are some of the oldest and most effective ways of awakening, stimulating, balancing and soothing energy within your body and mind. The Eastern arts of yoga and qigong promise that particular forms

Woman's Own

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Slowly inhaling and exhaling will help calm your nervous system, lower your heart rate and, ultimately, lead to you feeling far less tense in bed. Try this NHS-recommended breathing exercise: 1 Lie down, arms away from your sides, palms facing up.

Good Health

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Two types of breathing influence your body state: conscious and unconscious. Unconscious is the kind you do without thinking about it and which keeps you alive, while conscious is where you actively use your breath to create a result, such as raising

Oxygen

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Think about the last time you attempted a heavy lift or did a series of crunches. Did you remember to breathe? “Most commonly, people hold their breath through a movement,” says Belisa Vranich, Ph.D., clinical psychologist, fitness expert and author

220 Triathlon

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It’s a basic but crucial point – we breathe in oxygen to produce energy and anything that limits this means a reduction in performance. So, breathing ‘correctly’ makes you faster. Simple. Snatched, hurried breathing can disrupt the balance of inhaled

Essentials South Africa

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Just like you would train your body and mind for work and activities, it’s also quite important to teach them how to sleep. And while it’s not always as simple as counting sheep, it doesn’t have to be super tough. These straightforward tricks and lif

Good Health Choices Magazine NZ

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Two types of breathing influence your body state: conscious and unconscious. Unconscious is the kind you do without thinking about it and which keeps you alive, while conscious is where you actively use your breath to create a result, such as raising

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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“The best way is to start spending some time each day with your breath,” says Kirsty. Begin by simply noticing your breath. Are you breathing into your chest or belly? Is the inhale or exhale longer or shorter? Begin to consciously deepen and lengthe

WHO

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1 Inhale and stretch your arms over your head. Exhale, sighing as you lower them. Relax and keep your arms lowered for the rest of the exercise. 2 Now imagine that you’re inhaling a stream of peaceful energy into a spot a few inches below your nave

Good Health Choices Magazine NZ

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We do it at least 20,000 times a day, but apparently we still don’t get it right. “If you observe a baby breathing, they breathe fully and completely into their chest and belly. As we get older, our breathing patterns change in response to life exper

Woman & Home Feel Good You

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Chloe Cunningham, health expert, nutritionist and co-founder of Health is Wealth Group, on how breathing can help boost body and mind… Sleep To fall asleep the body needs an increase in oxygen to the brain and a drop in heart rate. An effective breat

Woman

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We all know how to breathe – we do it 17,000 times a day, and six million times a year. But have you thought about HOW you breathe? A few deep breaths can help us feel centred and relaxed – but learning to breathe correctly can do so much more than

Woman & Home Feel Good You

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We do it 20,000 times a day, but apparently we still don’t get it right. “If you observe a baby breathing, they breathe fully and completely into their chest and belly. As we get older, our breathing patterns change in response to life experience, su

220 Triathlon

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30 controlled breaths focusing on breathing from the abdomen If you have one, 30 controlled breaths with a Powerbreathe™ 10mins easy run maintaining abdominal breathing 2 x 6mins easy, breathing in an out through the nose 4mins moderate, breathi

New Zealand Listener

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It turns out the answer to life, the universe and everything is not 42 at all. It’s 5.5. Various religions through the ages, along with more recent scientific researchers, have found that 5.5 is the magic number when it comes to praying or chanting w

Women's Health Australia

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Spotted a breathing workshop on your yoga studio schedule? I do that all day for free, you think. But here’s the truth: breathing is such strong medicine that a growing number of wellness studios want to teach you to put your lungs to work in a more

Healthy Food Guide

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1 Sit in a comfortable position or lie flat on the floor or bed. Relax your shoulders. 2 Place one hand on your chest and the other on your stomach. 3 Take two seconds to breathe in through your nose. You should feel the air moving through your nose

Your Pregnancy

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DID YOU KNOW you take an average of 23 000 breaths a day? Breathing is something the body knows how to do and is the only function in the body that can be controlled on “automatic” (such as when we’re sleeping), or that we can take active control of

Diabetes Self-Management

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SUMMERTIME comes with its own agenda, and it can be a process to reintegrate back into a regular work-mode routine as school starts again and order is (somewhat) restored. Like the seasons, activities change, mentalities shift and projects ensue. A w