Saturday, July 7, 2012

Students - Breathe Your Way to better learning!

Guess what 'the action you performed more often than anyone else in your life? E 'eat? Sleeping? Crying? Laugh? No! Give up? It is to breathe! You were breathing almost non-stop since you were born, with few exceptions.

So with all those years of practice I think you have probably figured out how to do it right now. Would it surprise you to know that your breathing technique probably was better when he was a child than it is today?

Watch how a baby breathes when it is lying on his back. child's abdomen just moves up and down with each breath, rising when the child breathes in and down when the baby breathes out.

This action is caused by the diaphragm, a powerful muscle located under the chest cavity. And 'the movement of the diaphragm pumps air in and out of the lungs.

Take a few minutes to look at the way you breathe now, without changing the way we are doing.

Notice which parts of your body moves as you breathe. What parts of the body does not move? It's the upper chest to fill with air, while the chest and lower abdomen does not move?

Where do you feel tense? Are your shoulders hunched over or sold? Do your shoulders move up and down as you breathe in and out?

If the shoulders move up and down as you breathe, you enter a lot of unnecessary tension and ineffective in your body. You are also wasting a lot of muscular effort to run an inefficient movement. The shoulders are not designed to pump air in and out of the lungs.

Remember that it is the diaphragm which feeds your breath. If you do not know where the diaphragm is located approximately in the bottom of your rib cage beneath your lungs and on the stomach and intestine.

If your breath fills and expands the upper third of the lungs, while the lower two-thirds do not move, did not take oxygen into your body very effectively.

This is a bad habit that many adults have developed. You may end up over-expanding the air sacs in the upper third of the lungs, never the ones at the bottom of the lungs are filled correctly.

Although we have wonderful breathing techniques, such as children, they often develop bad habits and build up physical and emotional tension, as we grow older. These could possibly hinder our breath and our body and the overall effectiveness of the brain.

A quick change in your body will hurt your brain more oxygen than any other organ. Remember that this body can take up to three pounds at 20 to 25% of the oxygen supply to your body!

If you are a student studying, your brain cells need an adequate supply of oxygen. When you do not breathe correctly, your brain cells can not function at its best, and will not be a good student as it could be.

To increase the ability to think clearly and concentrate, make sure to avoid some of the worst six-altering breathing. If the shoulders are bent forward will decrease your ability to breathe. If only the upper chest is filling up, do not take advantage of all the cells in the lower part of the lungs that are desperate to take some 'air for you.

Put your hands on your lower chest, one on each side. As you breathe in and out, you can feel your lungs fill up and pushing out close to the bottom? Or is the whole movement in the upper chest?

Lie down and respiration way a child does. Let your mind and body to become very relaxed and let your abdomen move up and down freely. You may need to give instructions for mental relax your shoulders, chest and abdomen as you breathe.

Spend some 'time to familiarize yourself with this sense of body relaxation. Try to remember the feeling of breathing easily and freely.

When you breathe in and out, do you make a smooth transition from your out-breath to your breath? Have you noticed that sometimes stop breathing? Learn to avoid this habit. Hold your breath, if it is part of a deliberate breathing technique can cause difficulty paying attention while you learn.

For most of the goals of learning what works best is very smooth, relaxed, and the breath flowing in and out, without a break. If you want to slow down brain waves, while you take in new information, you can count slowly and gently, while breathing in and out rhythmically.

For example, breathing easily while you count to four, and breathe on a regular basis for the count of four. You can relax even more effective, by breathing in the count of four and exhaling for a count of six or eight.

Do this easily without effort, for several minutes before starting to study. Do not pause between your in-breath and your breath, make the transition smooth and flowing.

Whenever you are faced with a learning situation, take the time to control your breathing. Make sure you are relaxed and your breathing flow smoothly.

When you breathe more easily, with less stress, your brain cells are better able to get the oxygen they need for you to be a better student!

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