8 health benefits of breathing through one nostril

Introduction: People usually use the phrase "breathing out of one nostril" to accuse others of joining in the conversation. However, in medicine, breathing out of one nostril has very good health effects. Recently, medical research has found that breathing out through one nostril, that is, breathing alternately through both nostrils, brings eight major health benefits to the body.

1. Make people energetic

When you feel sluggish and exhausted, just a few alternate nostril breathing exercises can quickly restore your body's energy.

2. Improve brain activity

When your attention is distracted and your thoughts are confused, alternate nostril breathing can help boost brain activity. Before an exam or interview, practicing alternate-nostril breathing for 5 minutes can effectively activate the brain and help people perform better.

3. Clear the lungs

Practicing alternate nostril breathing for 5 minutes every morning and evening can help expel waste gas and impurities from the bottom of the lungs.

4. Stabilize the excitement

When you are anxious or excited, alternate nostril breathing can help calm you.

5. Eliminate frustration

When you are feeling down or depressed, doing a few sets of breathing exercises mindfully can help relieve your overreaction to negative emotions.

6. Improve sleep

If you cannot fall asleep quickly at night, lie on your right side and slowly press your right nostril with your right thumb and breathe through your left nostril. This can activate the parasympathetic nervous system and help calm the mind.

7. Regulate the body's heat and cold cycles

In Indian yoga, the left nostril represents femininity, gentleness, calmness and composure, while the right nostril represents masculinity, heat, radicalism and power. Regularly breathing through one nostril can balance the heat and cold in the body.

8. Use both sides of your brain

Alternate-nostril breathing makes the most of both sides of the brain and increases the use of the entire brain.

The basic practice of alternate nostril breathing is

1. Press the right nostril with your right thumb and inhale slowly through the left nostril for a few seconds;

2. Press the left nostril with your ring finger and then release the right nostril with your thumb, exhale through the right nostril; then inhale through the right nostril.

3. Repeat 1-2 sets. However, if you have diseases such as high blood pressure, you cannot practice holding your breath.