Reasons for a headache
Headaches often arise from stress, tension, sleep problems, lack of fluids, insufficient physical activity, poor eating habits, to name just the most important circumstances.
Try the following breathing techniques, then choose the ones that are most effective for you.

1. The 4 + 4 technique
Inhale for 4 seconds and exhale for 4 seconds.
This will lengthen your breath a little. Long breaths are calming.
It can relieve headaches and migraines.
Duration: 5 -10 breaths
Click here for the exercise (choose a 4, hold 0, from 4, relax 0, duration 5 or as you like)

2. The nostril breathing
Everyone has noticed that one nostril is open and the other is blocked.
Now, when you measure your brain waves, you have found that they are activated on the left side when you breathe with your right nostril. And vice versa. The different effects of breathing through the two nostrils have been known for thousands of years.

1. Close the right nostril – breathe through the left nostril

They say: breathe through the left nostril for a few minutes and you will come
not only to more rest, but you can also increase your creativity.
The right hemisphere then takes the lead.
By breathing with the left nostril you will notice the following effects more intensely:
More calm, creativity, relaxation, introspection, intuition,
pictorial representation of processes, empathy, receptivity, etc.

2. Close the left nostril – breathe through the right nostril

They say: Inhale for a few minutes through the right nostril
and you will improve clear thinking.
This means that the left hemisphere takes the lead.
By breathing with the right nostril you will notice the following effects more intensely:
More concentrated thinking, willpower, clearer trade impulses, more warmth.

Curious? Then try it out for 3 minutes!

Exaggerations
If one nostril dominates for several hours,
then it can easily lead to exaggeration and discomfort.

If the left nostril dominates as the predominant airway, hypersensitivity, depressive feelings or listlessness can occur.

If the right nostril dominates as the predominant airway, then it can lead to stress, over-motivation, “too much at once”, tension, excessive feelings of pressure.

What can you do with this knowledge?
If you are in a stressful phase, breathe through your left nostril for 1-5 minutes. When you need more energy, breathe through your right nostril for 1-5 minutes.
So you don’t have to count the minute (s),
A gentle tone sounds after every minute and a minute counter is displayed.

Click here for 3 minutes of training with the right nostril locked to promote sleep.

Effects of alternating breathing
This breathing technique also relieves headaches including migraines,
calms, centers, harmonizes and leads to more well-being.
And it cleans the sinuses.

Harmony is balanced
Both sides working together are ideal. When both sides are equally involved, one speaks of balance or harmony.
If you want to train alternate breathing, click here:

Click here for 3 minutes of alternating breathing.

Other effective methods

1. Breathe into the lower abdomen or the pelvic area
Focus your attention on the lower abdomen or on your pelvic area.
Inhale until you feel like the breath has reached down there.
When you breathe out, the air escapes from your body.
The head area relaxes due to the slowed breathing.

Variant:
Imagine the inhalation goes down to your feet.
If you do this correctly, you will immediately feel an invigoration of the feet.
The exhalation happens as if by itself.
This exercise has the advantage that the accumulation of energy in the head area dissolves and the energy sinks down to the feet. This promotes a more even distribution of energy throughout the body.

2. 4×4 breathing or box breathing
Inhale for 4 seconds, hold your breath for 4 seconds, exhale for 4 seconds, and relax another 4 seconds.
To keep the rhythm, imagine a square and go through each of the four sides of the square with your finger.
An easier way of practicing is possible if you go to “My breathing training” and select the settings there:
A 4, hold 4, out of 4 and relax 4. Click here.

3. Body point LV3
An elderly lady told me the next day that her headache had gone and that the following exercise helped very well:
While sitting, you can work the back of the other foot in the area between the first and second toe for a while (for example 1 minute) with the heel of one foot.
Then you change the foot positions and work on the other foot.

Justification:
This directs the energy down into the feet.
The liver meridian runs on the dorsum of the foot between the first and second toes.
There is the famous point Liver 3.
If you want to know what effects it has, then click here.

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