 Hello Earth citizens! This is Linda from Brain Education TV. If this is your first time, welcome! Please subscribe to this channel, like this video and click the bell for notifications of each new episode. In this video, I will lead you through a 10 minute routine to help you breathe easier and breathe better. Are you currently suffering from short, shallow or uncomfortable breathing? When you're not able to breathe comfortably, it's because there's a lot of stress and tension that's stuck in your chest area. Usually when we're healthy, our breath goes all the way down to our lower abdomen and we're breathing with our lower abdomen. If you think about it, a baby, if you watch a baby breathe, a baby breathes through its abdomen. Only adults breathe through their chest as we get more stress and more tension through the aging process. So if you're feeling like you're not breathing from down here and you're breathing from up here, and your breathing sounds like this and there's some unexplainable discomfort around this area, this routine will help you release stressful tense energy from the chest so that your breath can go down to your lower abdomen, breathing deeper, more comfortable and longer. Alright, so to start, you can sit on a chair or you can sit on the floor, whichever is comfortable for you. Have your spine straight, pull your shoulders back a little bit so your chest is open. If you scrunch like this, if you hunch your chest closes, so pull your shoulders back so your chest naturally opens. And in this state, clasp your hands together like this. Make flat with your thumb. So not crossing your thumb, but make your thumbs flat like this. And with the flat part of your thumbs, tap the middle of your chest. So not too high, not too low, right at the center of your chest here, like this. Okay, if you have a lot of tension here, you will feel painful. Whatever you feel, it's okay, breathe out through your mouth. The most important thing is that you breathe out through your mouth. It's through your breath that you release stuffy, stressful, tense energy. So tap that same spot to begin with and breathe out through your mouth. So once you feel like you've got this motion down, feel free to close your eyes and feel your chest. So you can focus on the sensation in your chest. Keep breathing out. Feel free to make a little bit of sound too. Anything is okay to help you release heavy energy that's stuck in your chest. We'll tap here for another one minute. Keep tapping. Try to tap deeply into the middle of your chest. The deeper you can tap, the more stuck energy you can release out through your chest. Breathe out. 30 more seconds. Breathe out through your mouth. Heavy energy is leaving through your chest. Stuck energy, blocked energy, negative energy, tense energy, leaving through your exhale. 10 seconds. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, and stop. Now we're going to go to your two acupressure points that are related to your lung. So your two points are going to be right here. So from your armpit inside, from your shoulders inside, there's a little tender spot right here. So we're going to tap the left side and then the right side. So again, with the same hand posture, let's tap the left side one first, alright? So same thing. Tap here. Exhale out through your mouth. If you found a spot that feels a little bit tender, for some of you it might be very tender, depending on how much blockage you have in your chest. It's a little tender spot there. You found the right point. Breathe out. Same thing here. Through your exhale, heavy energy from your chest, your left lung is coming out through your mouth. Make a soft ah sound to help pull out heavy energy from your left lung. If you've got the motion, if you've got the location, please close your eyes. Focus on your left lung. Let's tap here for one minute. Tap deeply as if you're tapping into your lung. Exhaling out. 30 seconds. Eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, and stop. Okay, now the other side. So the same point right about here. Equal distance from your armpit, from your shoulders right here. All right, so with the flat side of your fist, your thumb area, tap the right lung. The right acupressure point for your lungs. Breathe out. Heaviness from your chest. Dark, negative, stressful, stuck energy from your right lung is coming out through your mouth. Tap deeply into your right lung. Let any heavy energy, stuck energy, blocked energy, leave your body through your exhale and soft. Let's go 30 more seconds here. Seven, six. Okay, now with your palms, sweep down your chest. If you're sweeping out any remaining debris, any heaviness, let's left, down, down. Okay, your left lung. Let's sweep your left lung from your left lung down through your fingertips. Through your fingertips. And now the right lung, touch your right lung. Sweep down to your fingertips. Down to your fingertips. Okay, and return. Now feel your chest. Take a deep breath in. Exhale. One more time. Breathe in. And exhale. How does your chest feel? If you have a lot of blockish still left to be clear, feel free to watch this 10-minute routine again and go through the tapping motion one more time. When you have a lot of stressful energy that you're holding inside, just one round of 10 minutes might not be enough for you. But the key thing is, is after doing 10 minutes of this, can I feel a little bit, even just 1%, can I feel slight improvement? That's the important part that you feel. If you don't feel it yet, that's okay. We have a lot of work to do inside. Just keep going. Keep trying. And the focus here is to keep exhaling out as you stimulate the blockage to come to the surface. Let it come out of your body through your exhale. You did a great job. To experience a full one-hour brain education-based class, please visit a local body and brain yoga studio near you.