When you notice that you lack energy and have trouble continuing with your tasks, it’s time for a restorative break. These exercises that harmonize body and breathing will help you overcome the slump.
1. CLAP YOUR HANDS TO RELAX
Any sound can modify the mood, but the most important is the one that is made with the body itself.
Clapping around the body mobilizes the energy of the organism, transforms it and allows to recover the lost mood. With the applause, the tissues vibrate and mental stimuli are activated.
To do this you must follow the following indications:
- Stand or sit.
- Upward path. He begins to clap from the pelvis, making with his hands and arms a circle that goes up the left side of the body until he reaches the head. On this tour he applauds seven times.
- Downward travel. Continue clapping as many times descending the right side of the body to the pelvis.
- Do it three times each way and then observe what happened.
2. OPEN YOUR BREATH AND FREE YOURSELF
- Listen to your breath and feel where on the trunk it expands as you breathe in.
- Place your right hand on that point and take five breaths. Feel how the air moves your hand up and down.
- Put your left hand where you have not felt the expansion of the trunk and observe for five breaths if there is really expansion or not.
- Imagine that the air you breathe in goes to the palms of your hands from your lungs and that from the palms of your hands you breathe it out through your lungs through your nose.
- At the end, leave your hands at the sides of your body, listen carefully to the breath for 10 breaths and observe how it has changed.
3. PALMEA TO CLEAR YOURSELF
- Put your palms facing each other and rub them together in circles.
- With your wrists relaxed, pat vigorously with your fingertips the lung area, under the armpits and the upper back, as far as you go.
- Rub your neck with your palms, from the top of your chest to the nape of your neck and under your jaw.
- With your fingertips on your head, pat very lightly from the forehead to the nape of your neck
- Stroke the face 3 times with the palms to the tips of the ears. Increase the pressure.
- Dry wash with your palms from the forehead to the nape of your neck and from the neck forward with your arms relaxed.
- Listen to your body three breaths.
4. SQUEEZE AND RELEASE YOUR FEET
- Standing or sitting, with your legs bent, press lightly with your left toes against the floor and release.
- Repeat five times and observe the differences with the other foot.
- Press with the instep and release, with the heel and release. Listen and compare your feet.
- Raise your leg 1 cm and then let it fall to lead.
- Repeat the exercise with the other foot.
5. RAISE YOUR SHOULDER BLADES AND RELAX
When you raise the shoulder blades, the breath opens and you relax the neck.
- Standing, drop your head forward, continue to drop your torso with arms and hands, your lower back and your entire trunk.
- With the trunk forward, make a circle with the shoulder blades directing the shoulders towards the ears, the ceiling and backwards towards the buttocks.
- Hold this position for five seconds and then drop shoulders, shoulder blades and arms.
- Rest two breaths and repeat three times.
When finished, pick up the trunk upwards as if you were pulled from behind to the ground. Finally, place your head on the trunk and feel how the space in the chest area and your mood has changed.
6. VIBRATE YOUR SPINE
- With your feet apart, center your weight between your legs.
- Bring the weight to your toes, return to the center of the foot and repeat slightly separating the heels from the ground.
- When breathing, stand on tiptoe, place your palms parallel to the floor, and stretch your shoulders and hands toward the floor, as if pressing down.
- Hold your breath and count to four.
- Release the strength of the arms and vibrate a little from the heel, go up and down slightly without touching the ground and bring the vibration to the whole body. When you reach the ground continue to vibrate your knees so that they transmit the vibration to the hip, trunk, head and arms.
- Rest, listen for five breaths and repeat three times.
WATCH YOURSELF AND BREATHE
When the day goes wrong, it’s time to change your attitude. First of all, the first step is to recognize when and where our mood changed, to realize what may have affected us and to what extent.
Then we will have to make him want to get out of there. Two resources that we all have are breathing and the organization of the body with respect to the earth.
- Trust the breath. Observe it without manipulating it and you will see how it improves.
- Feel the weight of the body. Notice how it is distributed and makes a minimal pendulum movement from side to side or back and forth to notice the parts of the body that from the supports are projected towards the sky.
You will feel that you gain space and improve your mood. The day will change for the better!