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Ellen Gould White über: "Are breathing exercises useful?"
Answer
Breathing exercises are extremely beneficial and important for health, as deep inhalation cleans the blood, revitalizes circulation, and promotes digestion. Care should be taken to deliberately engage the abdominal muscles while breathing, to fully expand the lungs and prevent disease. Such exercises are not only physically refreshing, but also calm the nervous system and promote healthy sleep.
The Importance of Deep Breathing and Exercise
After the correct posture, breathing and voice formation are the most important. Those who sit and stand upright will tend to breathe correctly more than others. But the teacher should instill in his students the importance of deep breathing. Show how the healthy activity of the respiratory organs supports the blood circulation, revitalizes the entire system, stimulates appetite, promotes digestion, and produces a healthy, sweet sleep... Exercises should be provided that promote this, and care should be taken that the habit is solidified.
To have good blood, we must breathe well. Full, deep breaths of pure air that fill the lungs with oxygen cleanse the blood. They give it a radiant color and send it as a life‑giving current to every part of the body. Good breathing calms the nerves; it stimulates appetite and makes digestion more complete; and it leads to deep, refreshing sleep.
Voice training occupies an important place in physical culture, as it tends to expand and strengthen the lungs, thereby warding off disease. To ensure correct delivery when reading and speaking, make sure the abdominal muscles have full use during breathing and the respiratory organs are unrestricted. Let the effort rest more on the abdominal muscles than on those of the throat.
The stomach, liver, lungs, and brain suffer from the lack of deep, full breaths that would electrify the blood and give it a bright, lively color, and that alone can keep it pure and give each part of the living machinery tension and strength.
The lungs should be given the greatest possible freedom. Their capacity develops through free action; it diminishes when they are constricted and compressed. Hence the harmful effects of the widespread practice... of bending over at work. In this position it is impossible to breathe deeply. Shallow breathing soon becomes a habit, and the lungs lose their power to expand.
Pure, fresh air... refreshes the body and tends to make it strong and healthy, while its influence is also clearly felt on the mind, granting a certain degree of calmness and cheerfulness. It stimulates appetite, makes the digestion of food more complete, and produces a deep and sweet sleep.
- Deep breathing health
- Abdominal muscles breathing exercises
- Fresh air effect blood circulation
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