hi i'm donna i'm dondi i'm titanya welcome to the better breathing challenge this is such a
great time of the year to do a challenge to help your lungs help your breathing
it's seven techniques seven days and we are so happy you're with us and each of these techniques
these eaten energy medicine exercises will help your lungs help your breathing but it is also
great in a pandemic like we are experiencing but in the time of colds and flus as well
and also all these exercises are going to help your walking your stamina swimming if that's your
choice or anything it's great it'll affect so many systems in the body and as we get older our thymus
right here in the middle of our chest shrinks more and more and is not super available to us
but when we make it available to us by tapping it or thumping it it activates it again and actually
makes t-cells for your immune system it's so important for your immune system so and it's
very good for your lungs so if you if you thump your thymus and take at least one slow long breath
and let it out slowly
that exhale is so important for moving out some of the toxins in your lungs
but it moves out from every cell in your body all right now i'm going to do a lung flush which means
lung meridian runs from right here on the lungs up over the shoulder and off the thumb
but we're going to take it backwards to flush it like backwashing your pipes or
something we're going to trace it with our hand from the thumb to the shoulder
to the lungs and shake it off and and now we're going to go forward three times
and again deep breaths are long slow breaths in and one long slow breath out okay the other
side from the thumb this is backwards you're back washing and now we're gonna go forward three times
one more time the next exercise we're going to do is on the sternum bone which is this bone in the
middle of your chest about four inches and we're going to massage it this helps your lymphatics
now our lymphatics don't have a pump and we need to massage them or work them through exercise this
goes right into your lungs for better breathing it also helps protect your lungs and your heart
this is fabulous and if you are a swimmer or a runner you could even have an extra boost
of energy when you massage these points yes the sternum boys incredibly good for longevity yes
so the next points are the same points we started with in the lung flush where these points it goes
from in the middle from our breast all the way up to our shoulder right in the middle is a point it
may be tender on some of you which it is on me you can breathe in and with pressure just
move into those points it's very good if you are experiencing even grief some unknown grief and you
want to just move that grief out yeah very good all right we're going to work with the neck a
little bit i'm going to unzip this so you can see when i was little my mom gave me this technique
for sore throats so also not just breathing but sore throats we're going to work along this
line from the chin all the way up to the bottom of the ear and down so we're going to stretch
with our fingers and this is deep pressure all the way up to just the bottom of the
ear and slightly behind the ear there's a really important point there and you're going to stretch
down now with pressure down all the way to the clavicle chest area and then coming to the heart
and resting on the heart now let's do the other side again coming to the chin
i'm really just using this other hand here to to counterbalance stretching up are you two laughing
we're gonna keep filming here below the ear you two stopping at the bottom of the ear and
then stretching down the neck we have a lot of laughs in our family all the way to the clavicle
and chest area and your hands on your heart now this gets that that energy moving through
the neck through the throat so it can really empty out and be a prevention of sore throats
next we're going to work a little bit on our digestion which is directly connected
to our breathing studies show that when you take long slow breaths
you can have better digestion and a better metabolic rate so this technique is going
to look a little similar to cat cow many of you know cat cow from yoga
we're going to bend our knees and put our hands on our lower thighs just above our knees
thumbs inside and on our in-breath we're going to pull our bellies up and curve our spine in breath
hold it there for a moment and on the exhale bring your belly down we'll do it again
and you want to get a nice real uh pull of your spine in there and it will help stretch your back
as well so we're going to end with bringing some real love and juice and energy to our lungs so
you're just going to rub your hands together and then put them right on the top of your lungs
and the energy from your hands are healing and they go right into your lungs and you can um
you can be conscious of of grief there's a lot of sorrow and grief going on right now during covet
so just it just giving some love and nourishment and caring and sympathy uh to your lungs and to
anybody else you know in your life you can uh you you can yeah you can take a deep breath in
and out through your mouth
and release
happy holidays everybody thank you