Posture Breathing Exercise
The following activity is designed to correct bad posture habits, which are among the greatest impediments to proper breathing. Practice this activity several times a day at the job and at home. It will bring relief to your tired shoulders, spine and eyes, making you more alert and energized.
While sitting relaxed in a chair, let your chin rest on your upper chest as you slowly lean forward, exhaling. With eyes closed continue leaning until your hands and elbows rest comfortably on your legs. After slowly exhaling in this position, sit upright quickly while sniffing in a full breath of fresh air through the nose. As you do this let your eyes open wide and then hold your full breath for 10 seconds (if necessary, first begin with holding for 5 second counts).
Take special note of how the sudden inhalation works to force your posture to healthy alignment as you sit up straight. After holding the inhaled breath, release slowly through the mouth. Then close your eyes, lean forward and repeat the exercise two more times.
Nerve Force contains much of its power in the breath. – Yoga Sutras
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. – Henry D. Thoreau
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