Stretch & Breathe - the importance of proper breathing during your stretching routine
Hi everyone! A month ago we've started the 30 days Stretching challenge to increase our flexibility.
We have tried different kinds of exercises, trying to figure out which work better for us and we are happy to say that we will show you our personal stretching routine very soon!
In the meanwhile.. we want to talk about the importance of proper breathing while you stretch.
In fact your breathing does have a huge impact on the efficacy of your flexibility routine.
There are many breathing mistakes people do while they stretch like holding their breath, breathing quickly or too deeply, inhale and exhale at the incorrect time that can really affect your exercise and even cause significant problems..
Powerful Meditation Music - our favorite tracks ever!
Hi guys! Last week we've posted an article on the "Positive Vibes" section about Meditation. In particular we've given you a few tips to start this practice. So, if you'd like to start meditating but you don't know where to start or what to do, we suggest you to read it: hopefully it will allay your doubts.
Today we want to suggest you a few powerful tracks, our favorite ones, that we use while meditating. As we've already said before, music is not at all necessary to meditate, but it may be a great help for you to relax and focus on your breath more easily.
Meditation - How to get started
As we have told you in a previous article meditation daily practice has great calming effects and gives myriad truly amazing benefits to your health. Not only it helps you feel calmer
but it also can help combat stress, it reduces anxiety and depression, it helps with irritability, making you sleep better, be mindfulness and feel more peaceful and happier.
It also helps you to sharpen your thinking and to stay focused, it helps you to recharge so that you feel you have more energy throughout your day, allowing you to procrastinate less, and get more done in the same amount of time.
And I'm Feeling Good - the only true reason why you should meditate
We don't know why, but every time we talk about "Meditation" there is someone asking what is so exciting about being sitting in an awkward position, trying to become some boring Buddha reincarnations. ... Wait, what?!?
Okay, we get it, most people don't understand meditation or the benefits it can bring to your life, but this is because they don't even know what Meditation really IS.
"Meditation is becoming one with your mind."
The purpose of meditation is to slow down and eventually stop the incessant activity of the mind.
There are many different meditation styles and techniques, but the point is to lead the mind to a state of "thoughtless awareness" and to focus the attention on the present moment. Mastering the ability to put the "attention" on specific things (such as your breath) is one of the key aspect of Meditation. It helps you to get in control of your mind, being mindful and aware.