How
To Improve Your Mood And Health With Deep Breathing
Exercises
It is relatively
well known now that exercise releases endorphins that
can help to pull you out of a bad mood and to aid in
alleviating depression. However, mental fatigue and
depression are hard moods to simply overcome. You may
not wish to train for forty-five minutes to an hour.
It might be too hard to even get down to the gym for
this to occur!
Here is a good idea, instead of looking at your workout
session in terms of an hour each time, shorten it.
Plan just fifteen minutes!
Change the manner in which you train. All you need
is your body, (preferably fresh) air, and your ability
to breathe. You can do simple health and mood-enhancing
routines at home in a very short time.
A good tip is to avoid doing exercises that require
minutes in between to recover. Make sure you are constantly
doing physical activity for those fifteen minutes. This
will keep your mind occupied and remove the chance of
thinking about what it is that is bothering you. Those
nagging problems won’t have an opportunity to
take hold of you training in this manner.
By the time you have reached fifteen minutes of continual
movement through deep breathing exercises those endorphins
will have kicked in and you’ll be feeling great!
No need for an hour of gym based training.
Now, after you have done this for just fifteen minutes,
perhaps you will want to go to the gym. Perhaps you
will want to do more. Or perhaps not.
The point is this. If you allot fifteen minutes each
and every day to simple body movement and breathing
exercises you will feel a lot better than if you just
go to the gym twice a week for forty five minutes and
while there you train in a disjointed fashion!
Essentially be your own gym. If you learn certain health
and mood improving deep breathing exercises you at least
have a choice. Either just do them for ten or fifteen
minutes each day or do them and do a standard gym session.
In essence, you utilise your breath to wake you up and
get the endorphins to kick in so to speak, and this
provides the impetus to do more.
Beginning is half done. When you awaken yourself using
deep breathing exercises you are much more likely to
want to take the day by storm!
Try the following examples for easy to do, and access,
exercises using nothing more than your ability to breath
and using simple body movements.
1. Standing up straight, hands by your side, expel all
the air from your lungs. Raise the hands, bringing palms
together above the head, making a full inhalation at
the same time. From this position slowly allow your
arms to drop back down to your sides while expelling
all the air from your lungs. Try this ten times.
2. Standing normally swing your arms forward while
rising up on your toes. While doing this inhale deeply.
Then as your arms swing back and behind your body bring
your heels down and exhale. Make this a dynamic movement.
Perform for twenty to thirty repetitions.
3. Standing normally inhale deeply while gently bridging
backwards (not too far!) and then bend forwards exhaling
all the air from your lungs. Come back to normal standing
position and repeat ten times.
Try these three for now focusing upon breath first
and body movement second. Use them as a short circuit
in the morning or any time you need a mood enhancer
or quick increase in energy levels!
Have at it!
About the Author
Tim Webb is a fitness instructor, Ju Jutsu instructor
and competitor. He specialises in easily accessible
deep breathing exercises that combine breath and mind
together. His site http://www.breathforsuccess.com
offers a product that provides deep breathing exercises
for invigorating yourself, relaxing, and highlights
how your breath can be tied in with your goals to move
you towards them in record time!
|
