Breath it out!

Have you ever noticed, when a kid is in fear, he will keep breathing in rapidly, but he could hardly breath out?

I read this from an article, it shares of the importance of breathing. When we talk about breathing, we usually focus on inhale, sometimes, we breath out randomly without paying attention on it, in fact, it is very important to parctise to breath out!

When l practised yoga many years ago, one of the yoga masters told us when we breath in, we should think of to collect good energy from universe and deliver them to our body, when we breath out, imagine we are throwing away the toxin from our bodies. I really like this concept, l believe the philosophy of imagination, the so called 'mind control'. When we practise the breathing solely, l think it is important to make it slow, with deep inhale and long exhale. Another skill in breathing is to feel the expanding for inhale, and release for exhale.

In dance, l usually tell my students to breath naturally, unless the movement requires them to take deep breath, for instance when we practise slow camel in belly dancing, the breathing technique helps effectively. In workout class, l have to remind students to breath faster and frequently when we do high impact exercise, this is to obtain more oxygen for stamina and to help for fat burning. In fact when l go fast, l shouted 'breath out' more than breath in, as l realised to remember breathing out is an easier way for breathing, our body knows how to breath in automatically when it demands of oxygen, but it will forget to breath out sometimes. If you do weight lifting, you must breath out when you need energy to lift or push, and this is the same in practicing kung fu too. Breathing out can be poweful, yet a relief for mental training.

And there is an interesting step in belly dancing called 'flutter', it is actually a belly vibration which requests very fast and strong breath out to perform, it is interesting but, ha ha....really hard!

To me, breathing out means---let go! Don't you think human like to carry but forget to let go most of the times?

Oh talk about the article again, the writer reminds all parents to keep one's eyes open for their kids' breathing, do not frighten your kid, if the kid is always in fear and do not breath out properly, he will contract asthma!

Why worry? Breath it out la!