Deep Breathing Really Does Work

Researchers have found that deep breathing calms you down because it makes brain cells tell the body to relax.

Yummy mummies have long sworn by breathing slowly to relax at their weekly yoga sessions.

Now scientists have found the idea of slow breathing is not mumbo jumbo, but actually works in the brain to create a sense of calm.

An experiment found mice became significantly more blissful after their breathing was slowed down.

While breathing exercises have been used for hundreds of years, and prescribed to panic attack victims, it was not known how they worked. Read more

How to Experience More Sexual Pleasure

Tantra teacher Tao Semko explains how to relax the pelvic floor in order to experience more sexual pleasure.

To relax into more pleasure, whether you're a man or a woman, start by relaxing the muscles of your pelvic floor. You'll benefit in the following ways:

1. you'll feel more varied and subtle levels of pleasure when you make love, moving through your genitals and then throughout your body.

2. if you're a woman, you'll feel pleasure more immediately and fully, allowing for rapid and multiple orgasms

3. if you're a man, you'll last much longer and become multiorgasmic

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Switch on Disease-Fighting Genes with Yoga and Meditation.

New scientific research now proves what the yogis have always known: deep relaxation can have a profound effect on a wide range of medical conditions.

It's a piece of advice that yogis have given for thousands of years: take a deep breath and relax. Watch the tension melt from your muscles and all your niggling worries vanish. Somehow we all know that relaxation is good for us. Now the hard science has caught up – for a comprehensive scientific study showing that deep relaxation changes our bodies on a genetic level has just been published.

What researchers at Harvard Medical School discovered is that, in long-term practitioners of relaxation methods such as yoga and meditation, far more "disease-fighting genes" were active, compared to those who practised no form of relaxation.

In particular, they found genes that protect from disorders such as pain, infertility, high blood pressure and even rheumatoid arthritis were switched on. Read more