What is Breathwork? The Quick Energy cleanse

What is Breathwork? 

What is Breathwork? Breathwork like Breathing exercises is often used to stimulate your focus away from the hustle-bustle of life and ensure a healthier mind and body. Some even focus on changing your breathing pattern in certain positions or to correspond with certain points of your body. 

There are a number of different types of breathwork therapy and they all breathe in a conscious, regular manner. This can help people relax after exercise, or feel energized and I have personally found 3 methods that are the most beneficial. 

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What Is Deep Breathing? 

Before we talk about those 3 breathwork methods let’s understand what deep breathing is and what the most basic benefits are. As we are born into this world breathing is a natural thing as no muscles have developed anywhere other than the one whom we can do nothing else but breathe from the diaphragm. And without a Sifu, a guru, a master teacher, or a knowledgeable parent/guardian, we slowly but surely develop a shallow breath.

As the muscles grow the breath rises as does the place, We breathe naturally assuming a quicker but lesser breath to be best, especially as the human race as a whole becomes more compatible and lazier as we progress. This lesser breath known in the breathwork community as shallow breathing leads us to the terminology and point of this paragraph A deep breath is to draw your breath deeper than the chest and down into the diaphragm.

What does deep breathing do for you? 

Breathwork 101 – The benefits of so-called deep breathing or what I like to call “breathing” when simplified, which I will do for now and then go more in-depth later on.

If we look at the diagram shown here we can see the lung starts at the top of the chest covering that whole area passing the chest and into the midsection This is where the diaphragm sits like a horizontal dome shape sitting across the span of the bottom of the lungs and this muscle as it expands pulls air into the lungs, but it’s not that simple we also have the muscle groups around the chest as well as the abdomen muscle groups that play a part in breathing.

If we breathe the emphasis is on the chest muscles this way we are able to breathe very fast but with increased tension and very little air(oxygen) intake, as we are only filling the upper portion of the lungs, this can also lead to hyperventilating in various forms as the air we are taking in does not compensate for the effort we using. 

Deep Breathing With Intention!

As we want to fill our bodies with as much oxygen as we can find the obvious method is to fill the lungs fully and not just the top portion, and because we have developed bad habits we must have some intention in how we breathe at least until the correct way becomes natural once more as it was at birth.

To do this we simply need to focus on filling the area around the diaphragm and abdomen so we can physically see this area move as it expands and contracts and not the chest moving up and down. As the deepest part of the lungs fill it is a natural progression for the top part to fill as the air is drawn from the top to start with.

What Does Deep Breathing Do For Me?

When we are able to breathe in this way the benefits are many from 1000’s years of practice and now also scientifically proven mental and physical healing properties come from breathwork especially deep breathing, from something as simple as getting more oxygen through the lungs and into the bloodstream creating not just a greater physical ability by feeding the muscles the much-needed oxygen to all the chemical changes it causes throughout the body.

5 Amazing Health Benefits From Deep Breathing

These changes during breathwork can be tied to such amazing healing benefits as increased relaxation of the physical body can mean

1. Less stress – Stress can be held accountable for many physical and mental disease

2. Anxiety – One of the main mental manifestations of this is anxiety, leaving us in a vicious cycle because the more stress the more anxiety the more anxious we are the more stressed out.

3. Blood Pressure – Calmer mind, calmer body this means reduced stress and reduced blood pressure as well as some other chemical changes that aid in this I’m not qualified to talk about.

4. Mental Clarity – More oxygen to the brain means a better function of it even though the brain is not a muscle it works in a very similar way filled with blood vessels and arteries and needs to be exercised just the same.

5. Better Sleep – A calmer and more relaxed mind and body means better resting, a deeper sleep can benefit much more than many hours of restless sleep. 

Bonus Info – It’s super good for your lungs and one of the most beneficial physical workouts when you consider how many muscles are worked in any one form of exercise. There are 3 to 5 groups of muscles used for breathing in and out so there are many muscles involved in breathing exercises. 

Are there more ways to breathe? 

There are certainly other breathing methods but for me personally, I can only talk about the ones I have practiced and that have been beneficial to me my study is mostly based around 30 years of tai chi and qigong practice and teaching also with other forms of meditation and chi exercises that has led me to try and appreciate. 

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What Are The 3 Breathing Exercise Methods?

There are 3 main breathing methods I recommend from beginner to advanced respectively.

1. (Beginner) Breathing for meditation – Many forms of meditation from tai chi, qigong, yoga, and seated meditation use the relaxed and calming abdominal deep breathing method, preferably done by breathing into the diaphragm via the nose and releasing out through the mouth in a circular motion, never breathing fully in till bursting or fully out till passing out but always alternating from one to the other before this happens.

Although breathing in through the nose is optimal it is not essential to the practice especially if you have some form of sinusitis restricting your nasal passages. But there are chemical benefits from using the nose so use it if you can. Also if you have an extremely good working nose you can breathe in and out via this alone.  

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2. (Intermediate) Breathing for health with breath-hold. This method was made increasingly popular and for good reason by the amazing and awesome Wim Hof (The Ice Man) if you have not heard of Wim I would check him out especially if the science behind breathing is important to you Wim is the leading expert on the science of breathing as well as a super awesome loveable dude.

This method involves the abdominal breathing method to oxygenate followed by a timed breath-hold and has been proven very beneficial to our health.

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3. (Advanced) Che Che Ho. This method comes with a story and a set of exercises and I will make another blog for this separately, along with possible videos.

This method again is abdominal breathing but at a much quicker level and a very high oxygen saturation level. Also, a specific method of taking a breath is used.

This method can get you very dizzy if you have not done any other form of breathing exercise, I would not recommend you start with this one.  

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Please check out our other blogs for more information on some of the meditation methods we mentioned in this blog ie: qigong, seated(yoga), and tai chi