Breathing is a physical activity that we have to do tens of thousands of times every day. I need not say more about its importance. Everyone knows that if we don't breathe, we will die. Only by breathing the oxygen inhaled by our bodies can we maintain our basic physiological activities. It is such an exercise that we have to do every day, but most of us can't grasp its essentials and can't breathe well. There are two ways to breathe, one is the chest breathing that many people are doing, and the other is the abdominal breathing of our protagonist today.
Chest breathing:
Chest breathing is a kind of behavior that most of us are doing now. This is a relatively shallow way of breathing. When you inhale air, the shape of your abdomen remains basically the same. If you can observe yourself and find that your chest fluctuates greatly while your abdomen fluctuates slightly, then you are doing chest breathing. Why is the chest breathing bad? Because when inhaling, the diaphragm of the body is not easy to fall off, and the range of motion of the ribs and abdomen is limited, resulting in little air inhaled. As we all know, the oxygen content in the air only accounts for 265,438+0%, and there is an exchange rate between air and oxygen. When you inhale little air, there is little oxygen. In addition to the problem of insufficient breathing, there are other hidden dangers to our health.
When we breathe by chest breathing for a long time, our parasympathetic nerves can't be relaxed in time, which also affects our digestive system and has a bad influence on our gastrointestinal absorption. Because the breathing is too shallow, it can't make our stomach move normally, and the absorption is gradually reduced. We can't feel qi in the deep part of another lung lobe of our body for a long time, and our lung function will deteriorate to some extent.
Abdominal breathing:
Compared with chest breathing, abdominal breathing makes our diaphragm move more freely. When inhaling, our abdomen relaxes and the diaphragm presses down. Although this makes our stomachs bulge out, it is not elegant, but when it bulges out, it makes our stomachs crawl and contract, which has the opposite effect on our digestive system. It can help us strengthen our digestive function. It can also squeeze our abdominal muscles to a certain extent, which is also an action of stretching the abdomen. Moreover, with abdominal breathing, we can breathe in more air and exchange gas in our bodies, which is also a great benefit to our health.
It is this simple improvement that you can get better gastrointestinal absorption and optimize the gas exchange in the lungs. Moreover, when you use abdominal breathing, your abdomen is also moving. Don't underestimate the importance of breathing changes. Only by doing these little details well can we get better and better and keep fit more and more efficiently. Finally, I wish all our friends learn abdominal breathing as soon as possible, which you should master in your life.