How to Control Your Body By Alternate Nostril Breathing You are a practical person; guess how long it takes

executives to become frustrated and annoyed attempting to solve a problem, before they just quit? Wait same question for a high school student? Answer: two-minutes flat for both people. After two-minutes - the executive and the student throw their hands up and start cursing the one who asked them to solve the problem in the first place. What if it takes three-minutes to solve and they gave up too soon? Loser. How come? It is human nature to look for shortcuts and ways to escape anything too complicated. Power breathing Did you know that humans do NOT breathe through both nostrils simultaneously? Bear with me I would not waste your time because your life and health are deeply involved with balance breathing. You have a DOMINENT nostril for breathing 24/7.They alternate every 2-3 hours from left to right, and there is a significant difference between left-nostril and rightnostril breathing. Would you consider spending five-minutes daily doing this Yogi breathing exercise, for improved health and maybe more longevity? Google: Applied Psychophysiology & Feedback, vol. 33, #2, 65-75. The scientific research indicates a very important bodily change by alternate nostril breathing switching from the Sympathetic to Parasympathic Nervous system. More later. Google: Nepal Medical Journal 10 (1) 25-7 lead researcher: U. Dhungel. Decrease in pulse rate, decrease in respiratory rate, decrease in Diastolic blood pressure by the use of alternative nostril breathing. So What If your nostrils are not functioning because of a cold, allergy or disease, you are not clearing your breathing passages. Your vitality is reduced and you become sluggish, and your immune system becomes ineffective to destroy toxic cells, bacteria and viruses. Breathing Controls Our Emotions Get this: breathing adjusts to what you are thinking (positive produces diaphragmatic deep breathing), negative causes shallow, short breathing cycles.

Breathing reflects your senses including what you are seeing-hearing-feeling. Even your eating and what you smell in your environment affects your breathing patterns. According to Dr. Phil, your thoughts control your body. Imagine biting into a crisp dill pickle your brain knows it is sour and prepares for the taste by causing excessive salivating in your mouth. Even as we speak, and you mentally visualize the sharp dill pickle, your mouth is watering. So? Your mind controls your body it is called the mind-body connection. Does this mean you can use alternative nostril breathing for accelerated healing? What Benefits You are oxygenating your entire body and your brain in particular. Did you know your three (3) pound brain requires up to 25% of all your oxygen? Your brain is only 3% of your body mass and uses a quarter of the oxygen. Moreover if you are learning, the brain adds another ten-percent. Insomnia If you are lying in bed wide awake when you want to be dreaming up solutions to career problems, do this. Close off your right nostril and breath exclusively through your LEFT nostril. Why? You turn off your right hemisphere with its emotions by triggering your Parasympathetic Nervous System. Who Cares Your Sympathetic Nervous System contains your Fight-or-Flight response. It triggers your body by the release of Adrenaline (epinephrine). Your Parasympathetic Nervous System contain Acetylcholine which relaxes you, and overcomes stress. Parasympathetic slows your heart beat, decreases your pulse rate, slow your breathing, and lower your blood pressure. You will fall asleep after two-minutes of Alternative Nostril Breathing. How to 1. Close off your right-nostril with your right thumb. 2. INHALE through your left-nostril (deeply). 3. Release your thumb from your right-nostril, and EXHALE through your right-nostril while covering your left-nostril. 4. Close off your left-nostril, and INHALE exclusive through your rightnostril. 5. Close off your right-nostril, and EXHALE exclusively through your 6. Left-Nostril

7. Repeat 1-6 a total of three-times. Inquiring Minds Must Know Your brain has two separate hemispheres, a left and a right. The left-brain (hemisphere) controls logic, order and verbalization. You right brain (hemisphere) controls emotions, pattern recognition and holistic-thinking. They work together through your Corpus Callosum. Wait your left-nostril operates with your right-hemisphere (brain), while your right nostril cooperates with your left-hemisphere (brain). There is a cross over effect. This exercise produces optimal balancing of both hemispheres. Give your mind something to do inhale at a count of FOUR, and exhale to a count of EIGHT. Why I Bother With Another Stupid Exercise It takes under five-minutes, some executives report health improvement more vitality and less fatigue doing it for only two-minutes. You know it is working when you are diaphragmatically feel your belly pulling inward. The secret is that you are taking in more oxygen. Good for all the cells in your body and in particular, your brain energy. Endwords Unless you can motivate yourself to spend 5-minutes for better health, you will not work more than two-minutes on a challenge before your surrender. It is a matter of willpower. Do a mind-experiment and see the results. Our experience is a positive one. Please take NOTICE: This is not a website that claims expertise in medical matters. We do not make a diagnosis, nor recommend cures. We are not competent. This is a review of articles on Alternate Nostril Breathing. We strongly recommend discussing this matter with your medical professional before attempting it. See ya, copyright 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler If you are excited by quickly learning to read and remember 3x your present rate, contact us for a free, no strings attached report on Speed Reading. www.speedlearning.org