Dr. Aravind PadmarajuHealwitharavind · Founder & CEO

Belly breathing reduces stress 😌, boosts oxygen flow 💨, aids digestion 🍽️, and improves posture🧍‍♂️.

13 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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In this instructional YouTube segment, Dr. Aravind Padmaraju explains that most people only utilize 30–40% of their lung capacity by engaging in shallow chest breathing, which limits oxygen intake and overall physiological benefits. He introduces diaphragmatic or belly breathing as a method to achieve full lung expansion, describing how to perform the technique by placing hands on the abdomen and observing the stomach rise on inhalation and fall on exhalation. The speaker emphasizes that belly breathing fully fills the stomach with oxygen during inhalation and fully empties it during exhalation, laying the groundwork for subsequent claims about reduced stress, increased oxygen flow, improved digestion, and better posture presented elsewhere in the video.

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Most of the times we are not breathing 100% of your breath. We are not taking in and taking out. We are only doing 30 to 40% of the breath. That means we are only doing a chest breathing, which is not a complete breathing. So what happens in case of a belly breathing is you completely fill your stomach with oxygen when you breathe in, and you completely breathe out while you are breathing out. So easiest way to do this exercise to understand what exactly is the belly breathing, when you keep your hands on your stomach, basically when you breathe in, you should see that your stomach is coming out, and when you're breathing out from your mouth, you see that your stomach is going in.