Effective Parenting -741 Stale air in your lungs Do you realise that when we breathe the air that is taken in and then expelled out is not the entire capacity of your lungs? That is to say, there will always be a certain quantity of stale air staying in your lungs! Visualise that 20% of the old stale air is blocked inside the lungs. It does not get an opportunity for replacement by fresh air. You can imagine for yourself the effect of such air on your lungs. The atmospheric air surrounding your body is not too pure. Nature never wanted pollutants e.g. vehicular emissions, industrial pollution, cutting of forests, living in concrete jungles. We cannot change this, so we had better accept it. Effect The ultimate stage of lung problems is when the lungs cannot provide sufficient oxygen to the blood. Then the patient is put on Home Oxygen Therapy to improve blood oxygen levels or he is put on a ventilator, admitted to hospital. When the functioning of the lungs goes down, blood does not get enough oxygen. This causes a constant feeling of lethargy in the body. Breathing is such an autonomous part of our bodily functions that we really never pay attention to it at all but if you stop whatever you are doing and observe it consciously, you will realise how you are inhaling air into and exhaling air from your lungs. Cure To compensate for this, I propose a small lung cleanse exercise and other therapy, which will surely benefit everybody. Here is a good breathing exercise that I learned a few years ago. It really cleanses your lungs thoroughly and jumpstarts your day when you do this a few times (5 or so) in the morning. In the morning, when the air is crisp and fresh, I do this lung cleanse or breathing: Process 1. Stand in a relaxed position. Arms loose at your sides and legs slightly apart. 2. Through your nostrils, breathe out normally as you always do and then breathe in. Do this about five times 3. Now, slowly exhale through your mouth until you can’t do anymore but don’t stop here, because there is actually more stale air left in your lungs which we don’t usually exchange when we do our normal breathing. Next, force your diaphragm to push out the innermost air from your lungs by panting, “hah hah hah” with your mouth until you know there is almost no air in your lungs. You will be amazed how far you can go at this “hah” part! (I counted up to 10 on my part!) Next close your mouth and pinch your nose shut. At this point, though you may feel that you have expelled all air from your lungs, you will still be surprised to find that your nostrils flare up. This is due to the last of the old, stale air that is probably as old as yourself, being expelled from your lungs! At this point, you can feel your stomach and abdomen flattening inwards, resulting in weight loss as well. 4. Through your nose, slowly breathe in the fresh, clean and crisp air into your oxygen starved lungs. 5. Fill up your lungs and hold your breath for 5 seconds, counting slowly 1.......2…….3…….4…….5……. At this stage, the oxygen is being circulated through your lungs to all the cells in your body! How invigorating indeed! As for me, I can actually feel my whole body coming alive and my brain is much clearer not as fuzzy as before. 6. Exhale through your mouth again until you can’t and then force yourself to pant again, going “hah, hah, hah” to squeeze out all the air from your lungs. 7. Repeat Steps 2 – 4. 8. Do this for as many times as you like. Other than cleaning almost all the air in your lungs, there is another good benefit of this breathing exercise ===> did you notice that your stomach/abdomen seems to be tighter and flatter? 9. Well, when you are exhaling all the air out from your lungs, both the lungs are being deflated, thus resulting in the diaphragm going up to just right below the lungs. When the diaphragm goes up, it creates a space in our abdomen cavity and our internal organs fall into place to move into that space.
Posted on: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 03:10:18 +0000
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