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Hi, how are you? This is Damaris Maria Grossman, your Integrative Health Nurse, talking about today pranayama techniques. So it'll be a lot of videos that you'll see in a series. And you can see them at any time, there's no one time that you need to see them. Today's technique is pursed lip breathing, a very common nursing breathing technique that we teach patients. And for ourselves, it's usually used on patients that have pneumonia. postsurgery have had COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and they really need to move more air on the bottom of their lungs or throughout. And what it does is it builds up a little bit more circulation and improves their breathing and gives them a little bit more expansion. So with this breath, it's another one of those where you may have learned it through school, but when you actually do it in and teaching it to a patient, sometimes it's a little harder to know what I always first say is, you know, first get yourself relaxed, you know, as much as you can, if the breath isn't gonna relax, you at least roll the shoulders up, back and down. Breathe in through the nose. Exhale up the mouth. Shake a little bit. And in this breath, we're gonna inhale through the nose. And we're gonna make like as if you're not, we're gonna call it pursed lip. So it's like blowing a candle almost. So you're inhaling through the nose. And then exhaling out with this. Blowing out look as if you're blowing the candle. Inhale. Exhale out for three days inhale, XL. The other main reason why pursed lip breathing is very important for patients is a lot of those chronic lung disease or COPD and emphysema is that they trap they have a very hard time excelling the co2 so expelling exfoliating the carbon dioxide within the body. So the pursed lip breathing, kind of a slow way of kind of exhaling it and then bringing in a breath and just slowing down the breath. So keep it as equal as possible, meaning bring an inhale for three and exhale for three and then let's log in inhale for four and x alpha four. So let's try that. So we're gonna press the feet down into the floor, we're gonna roll the shoulders up and back. We're going to inhale through the nose for three per slip, exhale for three. And how the breath for four through the nose. Exhale the breath, pursed lip for four back to three, inhale exhale, pursed lip for three back to four, inhale Maxell four by that second cycle, you might find yourself coughing, I'm having over a little bit of a cold and congestion so I'm have a little bit more sounding and congested than normal, but that actually will bring out a little bit more it will bring up and maybe open up some more pockets of AV will lie within the lungs and may just help release in some of the tension within that chest because what happens again, like I said is the COPD and a lot of these post surgeries they're their lungs and the ABO lie which is like these little grape sacs within the lungs or are just not exchanging the carbon dioxide of the oxygen within the within the lungs and with this breath does is it just inhales brings air down into the lungs and the exhalation because of the pursed lip just takes and tries to elongate that exhalation trying to get releasing some of that co2 till you're in inhale through the nose and tell it out One more time. Inhale for three. Exhale, three. Great job. Roll the shoulders up, back and down. Take the strapped up, arms up and down the heart center. And that's pursed lip breathing. If you have any more questions, feel free to check out my website, my YouTube channel, or anything even email or text me Have a wonderful day or whatever time it is for you. Not Miss day