People's breathing forms are divided into chest breathing and abdominal breathing. Chest breathing mainly depends on the contraction of intercostal muscles to drive the chest, thus affecting the lungs. Abdominal breathing refers to the breathing in which the diaphragm moves up and down to enlarge and narrow the chest cavity, supplemented by intercostal muscle movement. Compared with the two, abdominal breathing makes up for the defects of chest breathing and has many benefits.

How to take a deep breath to the waist?

This has to talk about abdominal breathing. In fact, ancient doctors in China have long recognized that abdominal breathing has a unique miracle of getting rid of diseases and prolonging life, so they created fitness methods such as "exhaling", "turtle breathing", "stuffy abdomen" and "fetal breathing".

Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in Tang Dynasty, especially advocated abdominal deep breathing. He practices the method of regulating qi between dawn and noon every day, lying on his back in bed with his hands and feet spread out, holding his thumb joints with both hands, four or five inches away from his body and four or five inches away from his feet, counting his teeth and drinking chalcedony (saliva). Then, the bleed air enters the abdomen from the nose until it is completely absorbed. If you are bored for a long time, spit it out from your mouth to expel air, and then suck it into your chest and abdomen through your nostrils. This kind of deep abdominal breathing is refreshing. Leng Qian, a health care expert in the Ming Dynasty, wrote a 16-character health care order in "Essentials of Aging": "Breathe, and the qi will return to the navel; -I will swallow it, and I will meet you in fire and water. " These sixteen-character secrets include three health care training methods: lifting anus, swallowing body fluid and abdominal breathing, which are magic weapons to eliminate diseases, strengthen health and prolong life.

Chest breathing is not good for lung health. The advantage of abdominal breathing is that after breathing, the amplitude of upper and lower muscles becomes larger, and the chest volume expands and contracts to the maximum extent. Breathing about 10 to 15 seconds can inhale 1000 to 1500 ml of air, so that the lung tissue can be fully utilized, the alveoli of the middle and lower lungs can get healthy exercise during ventilation, and the exercise ability of the lungs can be improved. Delay aging, maintain good elasticity, improve vital capacity, make the body get enough oxygen, distribute it all over the body with blood circulation, meet the demand of the brain for oxygen, and make people energetic. Due to the enhancement of lung function, the ability of lung immune cells to swallow and remove dust and germs is invisibly enhanced, and various lung diseases are effectively prevented.

Abdominal breathing:

There are two methods of abdominal breathing: cis breathing, that is, bulging abdomen when inhaling and contracting abdomen when exhaling; Reverse breathing refers to contracting the stomach when inhaling and bulging the stomach when exhaling. Abdominal deep breathing is easy to learn. Standing, standing, sitting and lying down can be done at any time, but lying in bed is better. Lie on your back in bed, loosen your belt, relax your limbs, concentrate your thoughts and get rid of other thoughts. You can also say that you are in qigong state. If you do cis-breathing, inhale slowly through your nose and bulge your abdomen slowly. Inhale and exhale 10 to 15 seconds, hold your breath 1 second, and then exhale slowly from your mouth, breathing 4 times a minute. The length of abdominal deep breathing is controlled by the individual, and it can also be combined with chest breathing, which is an alternate movement of the respiratory system. It is best to do deep abdominal breathing twice a day all the year round.