I saw this article (An Exercise In Proper Breathing) and couldn't pass up adding this healthy habit. I was watching an Oprah show several years ago about healthy living. The guest doctor told the audience that the most important thing you could do every day to stay healthy was to take six low, deep breaths with your diaphragm. This not only relaxes you, but the lower you breath the more carbon dioxide waste you will get rid of.
As a private voice teacher low breathing is one of the first things I teach my students. Low breath is essential to a full and beautiful singing voice and since I teach low breath I have done a little research on the health benefits of it. Did you know that when we are born into this world we only breath with our diaphragm? Next time you are around a small infant watch their breathing as they are laying down. You will notice their belly rising up and down. That is a sure way to know you are taking a low breath. With a low breath the diaphragm falls down into the body pushing all of your organs which makes your abdomen expand.
The article mentioned above gives some great tips on ways to relax and take time to breath low.
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