Self-Health Care for Healthy Lungs
Because standard drugs are suppressive in nature, they tend to perpetuate asthma and reduce the chance that it will disappear on its own – especially in children. Try these natural self-care measures to prevent attacks, improve your lungs health and lessen need for drugs.
Use a peak-flow meter, a hand held device that you can blow into to measure the amount of air in your lungs.
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Diaphragmatic Versus Chest Breathing
What is our secret of deep Super Power Breathing? How can you draw air into the very base of your lungs? Not by merely sniffing it in through your nose nor by gasping it in through your mouth!
Babies breathe naturally by using their diaphragms to create suction which pulls air into the lungs. Air may enter the body through either the nose or the mouth, but the force which draws it in, filling the air sacs of the lungs to capacity, comes from the strong muscular action of the diaphragm.
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Internal Massage by Diaphragmatic Action
The diaphragm’s effect on the muscles and organs of the abdomen is highly beneficial. To combat the pull of gravity and hold the abdominal organs in place, our abdominal muscles need all the exercise we can find time to give them. Correct, natural diaphragmatic breathing – along with daily exercise and practicing good posture – helps to accomplish many health miracles.
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Bragg Super Power Breathing Calms the Nervous System
The solar plexus is the powerhouse of the body. It’s a network of nerves and ganglia (independent groups of nerve cells) which controls every important vital organ in the abdominal cavity and is located in the very center of the diaphragm.
The more stimulation you give your diaphragm, the more circulation your solar plexus (often called the gut) receives. This increases the amount of nerve energy that is then available to your vital organs. The extremely important pneumogastric nerve (pneuma – lungs; gastro – stomach) passes through the diaphragm and also benefits from this diaphragmatic action.
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Ancient Yoga Breathing Promotes Health
Essential to Ayurveda is the daily practice of yoga stretching and the importance of breathing correctly. Yoga breathing helps the mind and body become one. Learning to breathe correctly helps you remain calm in your daily living, during exercise and in stressful times.
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Sit, Stand and Walk Tall for Health!
Humans – from head to feet – are built to stand, sit and walk erect. Now that we have reviewed the way your breathing apparatus operates, you can readily understand how correct posture is essential to correct breathing. When you slump, you squeeze your lungs and other organs into a cramped position that seriously limits the operation of your diaphragm. You become a shallow breather, able to use only the top portion of your lungs.
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Posture Can Make or Break Your Health!
Why should emphasis be placed upon such a simple thing as the pull of gravity? In your youth, your muscles held your skeleton in proper balance free from strain or discomfort. Perhaps now circumstances have caused your muscles to lose the battle with gravity. Maybe premature ageing, excess weight or an enforced rest has weakened your muscles just enough to cause your frame to be in an uncomfortable state of balance.
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Backaches Afflict 31 Million Americans
It has been said that backache is the penalty people must pay for the privilege of standing and walking upright on two feet. Although some people erroneously believe our ancestors walked on all fours, it is an indisputable fact that we are definitely two-footed. Infants struggle instinctively to stand on their two feet and walk. They need not be taught! They attempt a bipedal mode even if left alone most of the time and never instructed.
It’s absolutely natural for human beings to stand and walk in this manner. This is especially interesting in light of the fact that no other animals spend all of their standing and walking hours on two feet, not even the primates that are most like us – chimpanzees and the great apes.
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Learn to Stand, Sit and Walk Tall For Body Strength and Super Health
To maintain and keep yourself in a healthy state involves many factors including healthy natural food, deep breathing, exercise, rest, sleep, control of emotions and mind, fasting and good posture. If you nourish and give your body loving care, good posture is natural.
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Don’t Cross Your Legs – It’s Unhealthy
When you sit, keep your torso in the same position. Sit on your hips, with your feet flat on the floor or with ankles lightly crossed. You can work for hours at your desk in this position without fatigue, but it’s best to stop hourly for a good body stretch. Stand, stretch your spine up and do some shoulder rolls forward, then backwards. Then for energy do some arm-wide swinging windmills. Also take frequent brisk walks, maintaining healthy posture with your arms swinging naturally in rhythm with your stride.
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