DEEP-BREATHING EXERCISE

1. Lie on the floor in. a comfortable position. Bend your knees and move your feet about ten inches apart with your toes turned slightly outward. Keep your spine straight and the small of your back flat on the floor.

2. Place one hand on your abdomen and one hand on your chest.

3. Inhale slowly and deeply through your nose, filling your abdomen with air and pushing up your hands as much as is comfortable Your chest should move only a little and only with your abdomen.

4. Exhale through your mouth, making a soft whooshing sound like the wind blowing gently.

5. Continue this process of deep breathing for five to ten minutes at a time, once or twice a day

6. At the end of your deep breathing, compare how you felt before you started with how you feel now.