Now, when there are especially many reasons for anxiety, we are looking for ways to deal with it quickly and effectively. Qigong breathing techniques will help clear your head, put your feelings in order, calm down and collect your thoughts.
Please note that in moments of stress you breathe differently. To understand how your breathing changes, let’s experiment. Imagine that in front of you is a cube filled with anxiety. Try to see what the problem is in it. Now take a step inside it and pay attention to how you breathe. During stress, breathing becomes shallow, frequent. It seems that there is not enough air.
Now step back. By the way, this technique in itself is excellent for coping with anxiety. You need to imagine that emotions are a cloud in which you are and from which you can get out. Take a step back and look at the worries from a distance. This exercise is especially helpful when you need to speak in front of an audience or have an interview.
Now back to breathing. How to manage emotions with it?
Useful “pulls”
To make breathing even and deep, raise your right hand, and put your left hand on the ribs on the right. As you inhale, stretch your right hand up, and rest your left foot on the floor harder. Then do the same with your left hand and right foot. Now the right hand rests on the ribs on the left. Useful “pulls” will turn out. If it is possible to retire, do this exercise several times until the breath calms down, and calmly return to business.
Hold your breath
Here is another version of the “pulls” that soothe the breath and energize. Stand up straight, raise both arms above your head, stretch as you inhale, as you exhale, lower your arms slightly lower, but not completely, following the movement of the chest. You will feel how it first seems to expand, and then “deflate”. Then hold your breath and stretch again well.
How does this exercise work? It relaxes the diaphragm, tones the circulatory system. Breathing becomes deeper and the body receives more oxygen. And the better the blood circulation, the more productive the brain works.
“Rings of the Serpent”
In spine qigong (Sing Shen Juang), the next exercise is called “Snake Rings”.
Stand up straight and lean forward. Take a deep breath, then exhale and hold your breath. Start stretching up vertebra by vertebra. First the lumbar, then the thoracic, then the cervical. At the end, inhale. At the same time, the diaphragm relaxes, breathing deepens, the brain receives more oxygen.
You can do all three exercises in the morning to energize for the day, or when you need to calm down urgently.
At our traditional conference , which will be held online on October 16, you will have the opportunity to listen to a lecture by Herman Karelsky on breathing psychotechnics in the practice of self-exploration and self-transformation.
The sponsors of the conference are Nika, AllTime, Dyson and Storytel.