Breathing To Be Cancer Free

Breath to Be Cancer-Free: Tips for Improving Your Health and Wellness

Have you heard about QiGong or Yoga? They are both popular practices that focus on improving physical and mental health. However, if your goal is to prevent cancer, these practices can be even more effective. In both QiGong and yoga, breathing plays a central role in achieving health. By altering your breathing technique, we may improve our capacity for building the immune system and fighting cancer cells. Today, we will dive into the important role of breathing, QiGong, and yoga in helping us be cancer-free.

Breath Basics

Our breathing must come from the stomach, not the chest. Our bodies were designed to breathe from this place, so when we learn to do so, we can breathe more efficiently. Initially, focusing on just sitting and breathing using the stomach may suffice, but soon we find that working more of our diaphragm allows us to breath more deeply. Babies can show us what a relaxed, steady breathing pattern looks like from an early age, so practicing it in order to fight cancer is not always a difficult task.

Yoga

We can improve our breathing while practicing yoga through simple breathing exercises. Let us imagine ourselves sitting in chair as we focus on our breath. Sitting in meditation position (Sukhasana) and fully relax our body, starting by calming our thoughts, and focus solely on calming the mental activity. Breath slowly in and out, pause after each inhale, and hold it for two or three seconds, and then slowly exhaling. After a certain number of rounds, you'll start to feel a pleasant heaviness in the chest and gradually losing tension throughout the body; you might even feel a sense of relaxation.

QiGong

In QiGong breathing there are three parts we focus upon. Firstly, we let our breath come naturally and deeply into our bodies, enabling our lungs to fill right up. Secondly, let your mind focus on drawing more chi (spiritual energy) in through your perineum and between your fingernails. Lastly, breathe out slowly, clearing the mind by blowing kisses to space outside yourself (ah, an occasional dramatic outburst may be welcome, everyone has their weaknesses!).

At first, doing the breathing exercises may seem challenging or even painful. But when your muscles and emotions relax and you forget about your surroundings, you will start to lose any urge to drink or eat. Remember that taking care