Caro Dooling
Writer and expert7 years ago
Breathing techniques can work wonders for emotional balance. Calming the mind, helping to add perspective and understanding to your emotions – follow our simple breathing techniques to aid a quiet and rejuvenated mind:
For Balance
- Sit in a comfortable position with your spine straight
- Take the first two fingers of your right hand (the index and middle finger) and bend them in to the palm of your hand
- Using the right hand, place your ring finger on the left nostril to completely block the air passage on the left side
- Inhale through your right nostril
- Block the right nostril with your thumb, and exhale through the left nostril
- Keeping the right nostril blocked, inhale through the left nostril
- Block the left nostril with your ring finger, and exhale through the right nostril
- Repeat the sequence 7 times
For more detailed breathing rituals visit Expertise for Is your Breathing Right?
Caro Dooling
Writer and expert