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Breathing Exercises For Healthy Aging
May 4, 2020 | Health | By Amanda Johnson
Breathing exercises are very useful for everyone irrespective of age and gender. These could be particularly useful for seniors. Your ability to breathe correctly largely affects your strength, stamina and even your mood.
Certain precautions when exercised as a senior go a long way in preventing injury and revitalizing our body cells with oxygen. Precautions for seniors include:
- Not holding breath when exercising
- Proper posture with an arched back making an “S” shape when sitting or standing as you perform breathing exercises
- Sitting with your spine aligned in neutral, lifted ribs, shoulders pulled back and down, so as to allow your lungs to work at peak performance
- Correct posture will help the ribs to accommodate the lungs and increase pulmonary capacity
Importance of Breathing Exercises for Seniors
Breathing exercises are very important for healthy aging. Benefits of breathing exercises include,
- Helps reduce mental and physical stress
- Helps improve sleep
- Improve physical performance
- Enhances creativity
- Promotes focus and mental clarity
- Improves respiratory health
- Enhances sexual ability
How Breathing Exercises Can Enhance Your Sexual Ability
A few breathing exercises help relax your body, concentrate, and enhance longevity in bed, all of which contribute to an improved sexual experience and enhance your sexual ability.
Stress contributes greatly in dousing the sexual passion. Breathing exercises are important because they are one of the best ways to combat stress, hence enhancing sexual ability.
Here are Breathing Exercises that can Help Improve Overall Health
- Stay Calm: These can be carried out by deep breathing and shallow breathing. They are linked to the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous system respectively, putting you in a relaxed state of mind making sex more appealing.
- Go Deep: Deep breathing can help achieve stronger and long-lasting orgasms, and also helps us feel more connected to our partners
- Breathe into Your Body: Breathing deeply and focusing on your genitalia while having sex can help enhance pleasure. By shifting focus there one immediately enhances the experience and enhances probability of orgasms.
How Do I Carry Out These Breathing Exercises?
1. Sitting Breathing
Firstly, you sit comfortably in a chair, then you place your right-hand on your chest and the left hand on your belly. Inhale so your right-hand rises, this is chest breathing.
Inhale again so that your left-hand rises, this is abdominal breathing. This method is highly preferred so as to maximize the benefits of breathing.
2. Standing Breathing
Stand placing both hands on your belly. Next, you take a deep breath in and expand your belly. This is lower lobe deep breathing.
3. Rib Exercises
First, you stand with your arms crossed at the waist in front of your waist line. Take a deep breath in as you raise your arms over your head. Then, relax and breathe out, lowering your arms. Repeat this process 10 times.
Breathing exercises are great for seniors as they reduce stress, improve sleep and improve both mental and physical well-being. Done regularly and in combination of other exercises they could easily fit your daily schedule.
