(soft piano music)
- Hi there, thanks for checking back.
Now today's video is another tip and trick.
And I know that I've given you
a couple of breathing exercises for relaxation,
but I also hear from a lot of you
that you feel really tired during the day and were worn out.
And we maybe drink a ton of soda,
or coffee, or whatever to get us invigorated,
but since caffeine is something that can be kinda dangerous,
not only for putting us on edge,
when you feel adrenaline in your fingers
and you're very agitated, and easily (gasps) startled,
and all sorts of stuff, as well as our heartbeat.
And it's just kind of intense on our body
if you think about it.
So this is a breathing exercise to kinda mimic
what we get from drinking a cup of coffee.
So it's supposed to be a little bit more invigorating,
And I'm gonna do it with you,
so if you're feeling kind of tired today,
feel free to do it with me.
And it comes from kind of a yogic breath.
If any of you have done yoga before,
they'll call this breath of fire.
I know that sounds kind of intense,
but don't worry, it's not that scary.
And this is kind of a belly breath,
you're actually doing it, they call it belly breathing,
but we're using our diaphragm to kinda
(exhales rapidly) push the air out of our mouth.
And the funny thing with this is we don't even have to think
about inhaling 'cause it happens automatically.
And so I'm just gonna run you through
the first little chunk,
because they say when you first start doing this,
you shouldn't do it for more than 15 seconds,
and you should, as you continue to do it,
you can increase the amount of time you do it
by three to five seconds each time
until you can do it for a full minute.
So let's not do it for a minute,
we're just gonna do it for 15 seconds, right.
We want to build up, we don't want to overwhelm our bodies.
Even if you're feeling really tired,
it's almost like too much is not better.
Okay, so we'll do 15 seconds of this together
and then we'll notice how we feel, okay.
So here we go.
(exhales rapidly)
And then we're s'posed to start breathing
naturally afterwards, back to your normal breath.
And I know it can feel kind of intense, and a lot of,
I have some patients who've said,
well you know what it brings too much awareness
to what's going on in my body.
But it can really make us feel invigorated.
It gives you a lot of energy
because what you're really doing,
when you're breathing out the air
and breathing in really quick,
is we're flushing our body with fresh oxygen.
So our blood is pumping,
it's replenishing areas that get a little stagnant,
and it's waking us up.
So give that a shot if you're feeling really down and tired.
Or maybe it's like three o'clock in the afternoon.
For some reason, three or four, I start to get sleepy.
And so this will be something that we could really do,
and it takes 15 seconds, which is no time at all.
And obviously you can't really do it when people are around
'cause they might wonder what the heck is going on
with all this (exhales rapidly) business.
But it's something that you could sit in your car
for a second, do your quick breathing, get out.
No one would even know.
So hopefully that's helpful,
put that away in your toolbox for later use
whenever you're feeling a little tired.
And don't forget to check out my website.
If you're on there right now watching this video,
I have a free workbook up, and there are videos on there,
and information on there that you just can't get
through my YouTube channel and other ways.
It's only available in my workbook.
So feel free to check that out.
And as always, leave comments below.
Let me know if it worked, it didn't work,
maybe you have some other breathing techniques
that your therapist has given to you to do
and we can keep learning from each other
as we move towards a healthy mind and a healthy body.