WHAT ARE BREATHING EXERCISES?
Breathing exercises are deliberate attempts to control exhalation and inhalation. Carried on in a systematic manner and in a rhythmic process, breathing is the best way to not just rejuvenate the body but also to purge the body of the accumulated waste substances. This is particularly effective with reference to the lungs. Breathing exercises have been in use in yogic centres, martial arts training schedules and also in meditation classes. The most wonderful part of the breathing exercises is that it does not cost any money. One can do the breathing exercises with the help of one’s limbs. Just the thumb and the first finger can be the means to do the breathing exercises. There is another set of breathing exercises called ‘kapal bhatti’ where one simply needs to breathe out very fast and in quick succession in a set of six-eight times once daily. There have also been revelations in the Oriental treatises that breathing can also help in determining the sexes of the offsprings at the conc