Welcome everyone. Did you know that singing strengthens your immune system, improves your posture, lowers your stress levels and strengthens your lungs. There are many millions of people worldwide who are suffering with respiratory issues, from asthma, bronchitis, to allergies to emphysema, COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, well, I have something to share with you, you're going to start to learn to sink that's going to help strengthen your lungs, particularly that diaphragm to get that muscle strong. So you can feel healthy. So are you guilty spending many hours looking down at your smartphone being hunched over in a wrong position on your computer reading or writing, being in this forward head posture, rounded shoulder position, crunching in your lungs, not allowing your lungs to inflate and open up correctly. Another words, if you're not standing up straight, and your shoulders are not back and your chest is not forward. That's a big problem, because you're not allowing the full amount of oxygen to make its way into the lungs. So the red blood cells can take that oxygen to every cell, tissue gland and organ throughout your body. The bottom line is that if our cells are not receiving the adequate amount of oxygen, they start to become sick, eventually they die. And what about chronic stress that causes contraction and tightening of the muscles, not allowing our upper chest to relax, not breathing from our belly. That causes more stress and less oxygen, leading to more complications and problems. So singing will strengthen our diaphragm, it will strengthen our abdominal muscles, it will help support better posture, the diaphragm separates the abdomen from the chest. When the diaphragm contracts, it goes downward it flattens when we inhale. And this creates a vacuum effect that pulls air into the lungs. And when we exhale, the diaphragm relaxes, and the air is pushed out of the lungs. Common lung problems limit the amount of oxygen that's getting in there because there is excessive stale air that's sitting within those lungs. Therefore there's less space for that oxygen to be taken up. So these singing exercises is not only going to strengthen your diaphragm, but it's going to get rid of that stale air so that fresh oxygen can get to those cells of your body to keep you strong and healthy. And guess what, one of the greatest things that you can do to get rid of that stale air to contract that muscle that diaphragm and to work those abdominal muscles is to laugh. So the more you can entertain yourself and continue laughing. The stronger those abdominal muscles as well as that diaphragm is going to get is going to release that stale air to make room for that full amount of healthy oxygen to get into the rest of the cells of your lungs.
So I want you to be aware of your respiratory system to make sure you
Breathing correctly. We never want to breathe from our chest, when to breathe from our abdominal area. If we take our fingers and bring it underneath our ribcage and trace it along into the middle part underneath, and we cough right underneath our fingers is our diaphragm.
And those muscles are contracting along with that diaphragm to bring oxygen into our lungs. So we're going to take one hand and put it below your rib cage on your abdominal area, and take your other hand and put it right behind it on your spine. Okay.
And I want you to breathe in from your belly and feel what it's like to breathe in. From your belly, feel the diaphragm go down and feel the back part of your lungs. Expanding, that's where most of the air is going to be held in the back part of our lungs. So breathe in, either from your mouth or nose at this point doesn't matter. Breathe in.
You feel everything expand.
And blow it out slowly and feel everything comes together as your diaphragm comes back up.
You can feel everything compressing together.
breathing again, nice and deep, the diaphragm will go down when you breathe in, diaphragm comes down. It's your lungs are filling up with all the way in,hold it, feel everything expand, breathe out.
Everything constrict and come in.
And now you can have the feeling of what is happening within your diaphragmatic region. So now let's get in the same position, put that hand back on the belly at the back of the hand right behind it on the spine, kind of like we're seeing watching yourself in. We're going to take a nice deep breath as we feel that diaphragm go downwards, filling our lungs up with air. Once we're filled up with there, we're going to breathe out of our mouth. Okay, we can breathe in and out. But we're gonna breathe out of our mouth.
And we're going to make this sound
as long as you can to, to make sure that all that air, all that stale air, everything is coming out of the lungs. And while doing so you're going to feel the muscles contract at the end. I want you to squeeze those muscles. As you squeeze down, that diaphragm is going to contract as a goes all the way back up. You're going to feel the muscles contract which is going to strengthen that whole surrounding area to allow you to breathe easier, better and to get stronger. Let's go ahead and I'll show you the first one. Hands together sandwiching yourself. Breathe in as much as we can through the mouth. Here we go.
You're going to hold it now why can I blow it out.
Blow and feel everything
constricting, keep blowing out.
We have no more air left. Relax.
We're going to breathe in again.
And breathe in again as much as you can. Again, we're gonna float all the way out froze we can't we feel that muscles contract in our belly and feel the diaphragm come up and it's gonna squeeze and we're gonna let every little bit of that air come out. Okay, and do that again. Let's go deep breath.
