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Breathing exercises

Diaphragmatic breathing

1. Place one hand on

your chest and the other

on your abdomen.

2. As you breathe in, the
hand on your abdomen

should rise higher than

the one on your chest. Repeat this exercise

for 4 times.

3. Take a slow, deep 6. Gently contract your
breath in through your abdominal muscles to

nose and hold it for a completely expel all the

count of seven.
air from your lungs.

4. Take a slow, deep

breath in through your 5. Exhale slowly through
your mouth for a count
nose and hold it for a of eight.

count of seven.

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