Cardiovascular Benefits
How you breathe directly affects your cardiovascular system. Daily practice of deep, diaphragmatic breathing has been shown to have a positive effect on essential hypertension (high blood pressure of unknown cause). Other problems such as headaches and migraines, which can be caused by a lack of oxygen, will also benefit from deep breathing. Although breathing from your diaphragm is easy to do, the habit of doing it must be consciously cultivated before it can become automatic.

Mind
With our attention focused on correct breathing and developing positive patterns we can directly affect the brain wave cycle, inducing at state of calm, focused awareness, leading to meditation. When we allow the mind to have a single point of focus we dramatically reduce our stress levels and develop a more balance more harmoniuos state of mind. This eventually pours into our everyday awareness enabling us to react in a calmer and more positive way to everyday challenges and lifes ups and downs, rather than reacting to it, in a negative way.