How to Practice Mindful Breathing

Practicing conscious breathing is a practice that can be useful in any moment of our lives: for greater oxygenation, to remain calm, to relax, to walk, to move, to childbirth.

This guide explains how to practice conscious breathing.

1.) First inspired with your mouth closed. Whether you are lying down or sitting or standing is of little importance. The conscious breathing can occur at any time and place. Exhale pushing the air out of the lungs in a natural way but decided. Inspired again by trying to follow the path of air through the nostrils.

2.) Concentrate on your lungs and then you get off the air until the belly, down, until you feel bloated. Place on top of your hand to feel the lifting of the muscles. At first, it may seem strange. Now, exhale very slowly, listening to your breath.

3.) As you inhale to slowly count to four to control your breathing. If you think, you are too fast as they do professional athletes and counted thousand and one, one thousand two, etc. and exhale counting from one to eight. Doing so displays the path of the air that goes in and out of your body …