Breathing is a gateway to all techniques aimed at improving health and well-being. Rather than breathing to lose weight strictly speaking, here is an anti-craving breathing exercise so as not to succumb to the temptations of snacking that make you gain weight. Our verdict: yes, it really works!
If there is one activity that seems innate to us, it is breathing. It’s the first thing we did when we were born: at the first breath of air, our lungs “unfolded” and a respiratory reflex set up. It will persist until our last breath.
We breathe like this between 10 and 15 times per minute throughout our life. This represents 400 to 500 million breaths and expirations over an average lifetime. This thought alone can seem exhausting!
Why control your breathing?
Air is our first food. Think: every day we absorb about 8 kg of air, much more than we consume food and liquids combined (about 1.5 kg of solid food and 2 kg of liquids). That is to say the importance of breathing in our bodily and psycho-emotional functioning.
Even if too few people practice it, you can control your breath at leisure and without effort.
You can make it yourself immediately experience : slow down your breath, then speed it up; hold your breath for a few seconds, then resume your normal breathing.
You accomplished all this without difficulty, didn’t you?
This is what you can continue to do to improve your daily life, get rid of pain, curb cravingsdissolve stress and nervous tension… And above all, cut short all the little daily hassles linked to an imbalance of the autonomic nervous system : digestive disorders, insomnia… All these symptoms involve more or less nervous tension. By dispelling it, you will make them disappear.
Breathing to lose weight is not a gadget, it’s an effective tool for fight stress, often synonymous with nibbling. We give you the user manual which is inspired by the work of Dr Yann Rougier ” Programming to heal » (ed. Albin Michel)
Anti craving breathing in practice
This protocol is not strictly speaking a breath to lose weight. It is a soothing breath so as not to nibble and therefore not regain weight.
- Start by sitting down on the edge of a seat so as to keep your back straight. Your feet are on the ground, your hands flat on your thighs. Your shoulders are relaxed.
- Start with a long breath, then heave a deep sigh stuffy opened.
- Then with your left thumbclose your left nostril.
- Inhale through your right nostril slowly counting to 3.
- Then exhale very slowly by mouth, pinching your lips tightly, as if you wanted to cool a too hot soup. Exhalation should last twice as long as inspiration. So you slowly count to 6 as you exhale.
- Repeat three times: inspiration through the right nostril, then expiration through the mouth, pursed lips.
- At the end of the last expiration, remove your left thumb from your left nostril and close the right with your middle finger.
- Then inhale through your left nostril (still counting slowly to 3), then release it and close your left nostril again with your thumb
- Then exhale slowly through the right nostrilcounting to 6. Repeat the protocol three times. The whole cycle lasts between 1 minute and 1 minute 30.
- You can repeat the exercise as often as necessary, whenever you feel hungry.
To be done twice a day, at 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., or in case of cravings. Proven effectiveness on “false hunger”! Then, we treat ourselves to a well-being herbal tea.
To put yourself in the best conditions, always start your breathing exercises with a long inspiration, then a deep sigh with your mouth open. Then display the most beautiful smile on your face to be perfectly relaxed.
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