5, Breathing

Breathing is what I always focus on the most myself, and also when I teach people. 
Most of the time breathing is controlled by our subconscious mind so we don’t have to think to breath, but that’s why when our emotions change, usually our breathing automatically changes too.
When we get nervous, scared, angry, panicked, or shocked etc, our heart beat gets faster, then our breathing gets faster and shallow.
​Breathing is directly connected to our subconscious mind, so controlling breath with our conscious mind is one of the keys to controlling our emotions. 
Controlling our mind and emotions are very important to be healthy and energetic, which I explained on the previous article about “MINDSET".  
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http://www.mmaitodojo.com/sensei-toshis-blog/how-to-be-healthy-and-energetic-all-the-time-part-2

We can get a lot more benefit from changing our breathing. 
Controlled, slow, and deep breathing takes maximum air (oxygen) into our body and brain, so it makes our body and brain function work at their best.
Putting more oxygen into our body makes more energy, and quick recovery from muscle fatigue, and even makes quicker injury, and sickness recovery, makes our immune system stronger, even against serious sickness such as cancer, since cancer cells thrive in low oxygen environment. 

Martial Arts breathing method is using our lower part of stomach ( TANDEN 丹田 ),
which is supposed to be the centre of our body. 
Controlled, slow, and deep breath with focusing TANDEN movement, which make us aware of the centre of the body, that make all the Martial Arts moves and techniques better.
Also It’s known that this kind of breathing can make a hormone called serotonin work better in the brain, so it promotes a feeling of calm and relaxation.

Whenever you have a little moment, try this breathing method, especially when you feel tired, busy, stressed, or depressed from work etc. That will recharge your energy, and make you feel like you are reborn!!

Recovery Part 2 

I think feeling nature is a good way to relax and refresh our mind and body, like looking at a nice big ocean with the sound of weaves and smell of the ocean at the beach.
​Listening to birds and the wind, looking at the greens grass and trees, and breathing in fresh air at the mountains or in the bush.
You will get relaxed nature, and will feel that we are still part of it.

Also I recommend to go to see someone you haven’t seen for a while, family or friends. Visit someone you respect who gives you positive energy ( Try not to visit negative people, they suck all your positive energy ).

If you don’t have the time or chance to go somewhere like that, you can just simply listen to nice relaxing music, read books, or just do breathing exercises whenever you get a little bit of time. 
Deep breathing is one of the best things to relax and refresh our mind and body.
If you keep doing slow and relaxed deep breathing for a while, you go into meditation stage.
And meditation makes your mind and body recover well, like after you have a good sleep.
I will go into more details about this topic “ Breathing “ next time.

Having good quality sleep and relaxing and refreshing time make your body and mind recover, so you will always be healthy and have a lot of energy.

The next topic is “ Breathing "