Are you breathing right? Know the incredible benefits of pranayama

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Shallow breathing can lead to chronic stress and take a huge toll on our body. Pranayama can come to your rescue. Here’s how. 
Practicing pranayamas daily can boost immunity, make you feel calm and detoxify body.(Pixabay)

While we all want to ace our fitness journey and take all necessary steps to achieve our health goals, we tend to ignore one of the most crucial aspects of holistic health – breathing.

As we carry on with our work and engage with stressors on a daily basis, our breathing turns shallow and rapid. When our breathing is shallow, it doesn’t allow stress to get released which in turn could lead to many health problems.

The ancient practice of pranayama – one of the limbs of yoga – aids in regulating our breath. Various pranayama techniques from bhramari, kapal bhati, nadishodhana, ujjayi, bhastrika help us gain control over breath and help us get rid of stress and provide body with necessary oxygen.

Practicing pranayamas daily can boost immunity, make you feel calm and detoxify body.
Pranayamas (breath work) improves immunity, provides nutrition to every cell via blood flow, detoxifies the blood, relieves tension and makes you feel calmer. But in order to procure these benefits, it’s very important, we need to practice pranayamas daily,” says Dr Dixa Bhavsar, an Ayurveda expert.

If you are looking for a mantra to release stress on a daily basis, all you have to do is to breath right and practice pranayama.

“Even one deep breath done the right way, can drop your cortisol levels immediately (less corrisol= less stress). It can move you from stress to de-stress mode. If this is what it can do in a moment, think about its benefits when you practice it regularly,” says the expert.

Benefits of pranayama

Here are all the benefits of practicing pranayama every day by Dr Bhavsar.

* It will reduce your anger

* It regulates your hunger or appetite, so it could be the first step in your weight loss journey

* Pranayama can improve your personal or professional relationships. Considering you are in control of your breath, you will also be in control of your moods and hence will be able to interact better with people around you.