Breathing Techniques That Helps Release Aches Anywhere in Your Body

Random aches around your body can be treated through breathing techniques. Back pain, knee pain, and sciatica are a few of the annoying body aches that keep you from performing daily tasks. These body aches are mostly coming from poor posture, sudden strenuous movement, muscular imbalances, and other incidents that may tear your ligaments apart. Although these aches are minor, they mustn’t be ignored. However, going to a physical therapist to cure such a simple yet dragging pain can also be expensive. On the brighter note, practising breathing techniques can substantially alleviate random pains that occur in your body. 

Breathing, in general, can help a person regain a clearer mind when positioned in front of pressure. Breathwork is also helpful when doing strenuous activities or exercises. It helps release pain or any kind of discomfort. An ongoing study is being conducted about the relationship between pain and breathing. 

Breathing does not just take away the pain, rather, it sends a signal to the brain to keep it together, slow down, and stay still. Breathin can help a person earn a more relaxed mind while feeling the discomfort of body aches. It also helps a person in panic calm down with just a few deep breaths. Such a phenomenon is triggered because of the neuroplasticity found in the brain that patterns a person’s thoughts when pain occurs. 

Upon the occurrence of pain, breathwork comes in to trigger mindfulness. It will help the person refocus and increase his or her awareness of his or her surroundings and his or her inner feeling. Being able to refocus and become attuned to the external and internal factors. 

Breathing Techniques To Alleviate Pain

• Breath from the diaphragm with relaxed shoulders
• Avoid breathing with tense necks.
• Avoid breathing from your chest which results in faster and shorter breaths when in pain. 
• Take deeper breaths when in pain. 
• Regulate your breathing at a pace you are comfortable with. 

Breathing Techniques

Supine Diaphragmatic Breathing

• Lay down on your back with your knees bent.
• Place one hand on your stomach and the other on your chest. 
• Inhale through your nose for two to three seconds. 
• Try to rise your stomach while you keep your chest still. 
• Exhale through your mouth for three to four seconds.
• Empty the air in your diaphragm.
• Lower down your stomach to the starting position.
• Repeat for five to ten times.

360 Degrees Breathing

• Lay down or stand whichever you are more comfortable with.
• Place a large resistance band around your lower ribs. 
• Breathe in or inhale through the band. 
• Fill your lungs from 360 degrees.
• Minimise shallow breathing from your chest.
• Slowly inhale and exhale through your nose.
• Purse your mouth while in the process.
• Inhales should be two to three seconds.
• Exhales should take three to four seconds. 
• Repeat the process at least five times.