Breathing Exercises - Applicability

I know there was a lot of information given to you at one time, and it might be real hard to absorb all the great information presented. But it is crucial for me to begin practical training.

This part aims to facilitate your awareness of your level of your arousal in pre and during competition, and aids to regulate your arousal. So put in simpler terms, I am here to help you learn to control your own emotions, hence reducing stress and anxiety.

The reason we did this breathing technique is to show you the proper way of breathing, and most importantly inhale all the way to abdomen through the diaphragm. It is necessary for you to learn the fundamentals from this breathing technique, so you would be able to relax and reduce high stress and anxiety during your pre-competition for your Seattle pro-tour, coming up next week.

2^nd Practical Breathing Exercise

Another pre-competition breathing exercise:

Ok, now let's move to another breathing exercise.

1. Inhale slowly and hold for 10 seconds (tension building in lung and chest?)
2. exhale with a sigh as you let go of the tension in the rib cage
3. now just allow yourself to inhale naturally whenever it needs

Between your exhale and inhale, can you feel that moment of quietness and calmness?

If YES… continue

If NO… repeat if you can’t find the moment of quietness

4. If you can feel that moment of quietness and calmness, then you are relaxing yourself!
5. Whenever you are feeling too tense, try to find the moment of quietness by doing this exercise.

(It is critical for me to show you the proper way of breathing in order to bring effective relaxation techniques through breathing, so you can benefit from this session)

This breathing exercise aims to help you learn to find that moment of silence,

the moment of quietness, and calmness. This breathing technique will greatly

reduce tension, anxiety and stress when the moment of quietness is found.

These are only some of the basic breathing relaxing techniques…