Breathing Exercises For Stress Relief in Bethesda

If you look hard enough, you will see different breathing exercises ingrained in most martial arts techniques, meditation practices, yoga techniques, etc. Being mindful of your breathing is very literally a way to influence your mind and body. We see many patients at our Bethesda chiropractic clinic that could benefit from these exercise routines.

Important Reasons for breathing exercises

Studies have shown that you can use breathing to activate certain parts of your nervous system, influence heart rate, and blood pressure, ease mental stresses and anxieties and also help fight insomnia.

Here are two techniques I have used in the past and have found to be very helpful at times, whether it is to calm the nerves or to help fall asleep.

"Bramhari" Breathing Technique

"Box" Breathing Technique

And of course, a little laughter.