ALTERNATE NOSTRIL BREATHING
This balances brain hemispheres, produces relaxation and centeD90000ness. Produces clearer prospective and may help with angina pain.
- A) Sit or lie in a comfortable position. Keep the spine straight.
- B) Close your eyes and focus on the point where your nose and eye brows intersect.
- C) With your left hand in your lap or at your side, place the thumb of your right hand so that it closes your right nostril.
- D) Inhale for a count of four through your open left nostril.
- E)Remove ;your thumb and close your left nostril with middle finger of your right hand. Now exhale through your open right nostril for a count of eight.
- F) After the count of eight and continuing to keep the left nostril closed, inhale for a count of four through your open right nostril.
- G) Close the right nostril again and exhale through the now open left nostril
for a count of eight.
- H) Continue this pattern for three to five minutes initially. Gradually work up to ten or twelve minutes. Stop if you begin to feel dizzy.
(Hint - the pattern is: inhale left nostril, exhale right nostril, inhale right nostril, exhale left, inhale left and back to exhale right, etc. The nostril change is always on the exhale.)
