{"id":72,"date":"2019-11-24T11:40:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T22:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kalem92887712.wordpress.com\/2019\/11\/24\/diaphragmatic-breathing%e2%80%8a-%e2%80%8ahow-to\/"},"modified":"2023-08-09T12:37:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T00:37:13","slug":"diaphragmatic-breathing-how-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myfoodbag.co.nz\/explore\/2019\/11\/24\/diaphragmatic-breathing-how-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Diaphragmatic Breathing\u200a\u2014\u200ahow to"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-images-1.medium.com\/max\/800\/1*XwMZlbmvQXt9_iPQ1Wl5AA.jpeg\" data-width=\"1000\" data-height=\"667\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Our breathing changes when we\u2019re feeling stressed or anxious, we tend to take short and shallow breaths, often referred to as chest breathing. For a number of us, we spend all day only chest breathing. Diaphragmatic breathing or \u2018belly breathing\u2019 is important to practice, as it allows for a full exchange of oxygen in the lungs, and can help to stabilise blood pressure and slow heart rate, our bodies sense this breathing as a state of relaxation.<\/p>\n<p><em>How to:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Step 1. Take a slow breath in through the nose, breathing into your lower belly for about 4 seconds<\/p>\n<p>Step 2. Hold that breath for 1\u20132 seconds<\/p>\n<p>Step 3. Exhale slowly through the mouth for about 4 seconds<\/p>\n<p>Step 4. Pause for 1\u20132 seconds before taking another breath<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our breathing changes when we\u2019re feeling stressed or anxious, we tend to take short and shallow breaths, often referred to as chest breathing. For a number of us, we spend all day only chest breathing. Diaphragmatic breathing or \u2018belly breathing\u2019 is important to practice, as it allows for a full exchange of oxygen in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2353,2361,2363],"tags":[1745,1746,1747,1854],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-fresh-start","category-lifestyle-wellness-tips","tag-fresh-start","tag-health","tag-lifestyle","tag-nadia-lim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myfoodbag.co.nz\/explore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myfoodbag.co.nz\/explore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myfoodbag.co.nz\/explore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myfoodbag.co.nz\/explore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myfoodbag.co.nz\/explore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.myfoodbag.co.nz\/explore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19137,"href":"https:\/\/www.myfoodbag.co.nz\/explore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/19137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myfoodbag.co.nz\/explore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myfoodbag.co.nz\/explore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myfoodbag.co.nz\/explore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}