… seated position; pull your stomach in completely. You should be able to feel a hollow in this area. Continue to exhale in the same position and move your chin toward your chest. Hold this position for 15 seconds and relax with normal breathing for a few minutes. This helps to reduce the fat near your stomach and greatly improves your digestion and metabolism.
5. Deep breathing
A bit of practice before implementing breathing into your exercises helps you become aware of your abdominal muscles. Practice deep breathing by sitting or lying in a comfortable position. Place your hands on your belly while you inhale through your nose. Notice your belly lifting and filling with air, much like inflating a balloon. Continue to pull the air in until you can’t inhale anymore. Pause briefly, then slowly exhale through your mouth. Instead of forcing the air out, allow it to slowly release while pulling your belly button toward your spine to expel all of the air. Increase the effectiveness of each ab exercise by visualizing your abdominal muscles tightening and releasing with each breath.
6. Suck & Stuck breathing
Start by sitting on the floor, legs crossed. Close your eyes.
Take a slow, deep breath, drawing all the way down to the point below your belly button. Take note of whether your shoulder blades are drawing up toward your ears! This is one of the most common signs of spinal misalignment.
Notice the areas in your upper lungs, spine, and ribcage where you might ache or ‘stick.’
Notice whether your diaphragm is having any trouble drawing breath down and into your lungs. Stress will prevent you from breathing as deeply as possible, contributing to your maligned spine and sticky spots.
Release the breath slow and long. Imagine tension and stress leaving your body on the exhale.
Suck in another slow and deep breath, imagining it pouring down your spinal column, touching each and every one of your vertebrae, all the way down to your sacrum.
Notice again how there may be ‘stuck’ spots along the spine where you are out of alignment. Rather than resisting or cringing, try to breathe into and through these tiny pains and hitches.
Release the ‘stuck’ energy via the breath.
Repeat this awareness-building breath until you’ve moved through all of your stuck spots. You may notice that you’re clenching your jaw in response to releasing another place in your body. This is great! If you notice this, you will have revealed to yourself where some of your energy is misplaced and out of balance. You are in the act of breathing through your stress and pain into better posture!
Continue breathing in this manner, making note of all ‘stuck’ spots and focusing on releasing and breathing through them, for a minimum of five minutes each day.
7. Shining the Skull breathing
This is undoubtedly the best exercise for losing belly fat that also strengthens the muscles in the stomach and relieves respiratory problems, colds, eyestrain, and other allergies. You need to sit in a comfortable position and inhale completely. Hold your stomach muscles in completely, while you exhale. Repeat the same for 30 seconds and come back to normal breathing for 3 seconds. Repeat the same breathing exercise three times.