All of us have heard about the benefits of deep breaths and exhalations, that's why we teach ourselves to breathe deeper while training. However, today we will tell you what will finally confuse you in the dilemma, which is good and what is bad. We offer to your attention breathing exercises by the Buteyko method, the aim of which is shallow breathing and ultimately a complete refusal of deep breaths.
From the wrong breathing, although we do not suspect it, all diseases arise. Blood must be saturated with the necessary amount of oxygen, and if it is not so, then the metabolism fails. Professor Buteyko developed his respiratory gymnastics in 1952 and since then his team has been treating chronic diseases: asthma, allergies, pneumonia, etc.
What causes diseases?
As Professor Buteyko himself claimed, during a deep inhalation, the lungs are not saturated with more oxygen than with superficial breathing, but carbon dioxide becomes critically small. His statement is confirmed by the fact that lung volume in healthy people is 5 liters, and in patients with bronchitis - 10-15 liters. Buteyko calls this fact hyperventilation of the lungs, in which there is a shortage of CO2 in the blood. The reason for this is a violation of tissue respiration, an increased tone of smooth muscles and respiratory tract spasms.
How do you know if you are not sick yet?
Respiratory gymnastics by the Buteyko method begins with the definition of your stage of the disease. For this, a "control pause" is made with a pulse measurement.
Sit comfortably in the chair. Straighten your shoulders and straighten your back. Rest for 10 minutes to equalize the breathing. Take a normal breath, then relax the abdominal muscles and automatically exhale. Do not breathe and remember the position of the second hand on the clock. At the same time, either you or someone else should measure your pulse. During the delay of breathing, we do not look at the clock, we lift our eyes upward. When we feel the push of the diaphragm, or the push in the throat, you can breathe again, having first glanced at the clock. Now let's compare the results:
- pulse below 70 beats / minute "pause" breathing - from 40 seconds - you are healthy;
- pulse up to 80 beats per minute, "pause" - from 20 to 40 seconds - you are at the 1 st stage of the disease;
- pulse up to 90 beats per minute, "pause" - from 10 to 20 seconds - you are in the 2nd stage;
- pause was less than 10 seconds, with any pulse - you are in the 3rd stage.
Such a measurement can be conducted no more than 4 times a day. The result should be similar for several days.
Now let's start exercise breathing exercises Buteyko.
- We exhale. Without breathing, we turn our heads to the right, to the left, while our eyes look upward. When there is no longer any strength to hold our breath, do a quick exhalation (exhale the rest of the oxygen from the lungs). We breathe normally.
- Put the palm on the cheek, inhale and exhale, hold our breath. In this case, at the place of contact between the palm and the cheek, we must evoke a feeling of resistance.
- Hands put on the back of the head, we breathe out our noses. We put pressure on the back of the head, we do it beforehand. Breathe normally.
- We exhale, hands raise into the sky. We pull our hands upward, while not breathing, and the body makes light rotational movements.
Buteyko's breathing exercises were often conducted by the professor for children. The professor did not for a reason believe that it is at a very young age that one can easily and effectively learn how to breathe properly.
While doing gymnastics on Buteyko you may have conflicting feelings: the desire to breathe, disgust for activities, etc. All this is normal when a person learns. You need to overcome this critical moment, and then your recovery is not far off.
In addition, there is the concept of "breaking". This is what the period of exacerbation of chronic diseases is called during treatment, when the disease seems to be even fiercer than before. And this is also typical, and, as the professor argued, is part of the process of curing from illness and hardening of the spirit.