The ability to hold the breath will help you to float long distances under water, and in certain cases can even save to you life. There are many exercises helping to exercise respiratory muscle and lungs together with it. Let's consider one very effective exercise helping to hold for a long time the breath.
Instruction
1. To learn to hold the breath for a long time in one day it won't turn out. It is regularly necessary to train. Occupations need to be begun with setting of the correct breath. Exercises are performed standing or sitting, at the same time the breast, the head and the neck have to be on the straight line.
2. At first make the greatest possible exhalation. Exhale evenly and smoothly. At the same time air has to pass without tension. Then make the breath: at first the diaphragm finishes, then the lower part of edges, then average and the upper part of the thorax is moved apart only at the end. Don't stick out the diaphragm. Full breath not necessarily means filling of lungs to the maximum. The main thing is to distribute evenly inhaled air on lungs.
3. Then make in a row several full deep breaths that lungs were extremely filled. Hold the breath deeply in the breast so as far as you will be able only. When you feel that you aren't able to hold air in lungs with the force any more push out it through the mouth. This operation needs to be repeated several times.
4. The person who began to practice these exercises first for a long time won't be able to hold the breath. However constant trainings considerably will enhance its abilities. Arm with hours and track, what is the time you could not breathe.
5. If to train breath it is constant, then finally your occupations will lead to expansion of the thorax and increase in their vital stock. By the way, yogas found that retardation of breath brings benefit both to respiratory and digestive bodies, and nervous system and blood in general. They claim that the held breath helps the organism to collect the slags which collected in lungs. The air which is let out after breath holding from lungs carries away with itself and them.
6. This exercise is recommended by yogas of the whole world for treatment of gastric frustration, liver diseases and also for treatment of diseases of blood. Besides, the delayed breath is capable to save the person from the unpleasant smell from the mouth. As in certain cases it appears only from insufficient ventilation of the lungs.