Alternative breathing to enjoy the silence and the moment

Life is full of small miracles: thinking, imagining, feeling ... Paying them the attention they deserve realizes us physically and psychically.

Marveling gives pleasure produces an internal expansion, a deep emotion of gratitude, respect and appreciation. That is why it is usually accompanied by a more aligned physical posture.

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When we naturally get an "Oh!", The column lengthens and we inhale deeply as if we wanted to absorb the moment. We even put our hands to the heart.

We often believe that in order to be amazed we need to stand before a splendid landscape, embrace a baby or another extraordinary experience that leaves us speechless and moistens our eyes. We forget that a mere breath is already a miracle.

Alternative breathing, enjoy the simple

This alternating respiration or aniloma viloma teaches us to enjoy silence and our own breathing, to realize the pleasure of being able to breathe freely and to be thankful that life breathes through our body.

1 - How to place your fingers

Sit on the floor or chair with the spine erect.

With the right thumb it covers the right nostril; with the little finger and the ring finger, the left. Index and heart fold inwards.

2 - Air flow and times

It begins by covering the right nostril and expelling all the air from the left.

Inhale on the left three seconds, open the right nostril, cover the left and exhale on the right six seconds.

Inhale on the right three seconds, open the left nostril, cover the right and exhale on the left six seconds.

Make the exhalation last twice as much as inhalation: it relaxes and helps focus.

Repeat until completing three rounds.