Can you push out your belly like you are pregnant? Practice it for five minutes daily for a week - it'll help your breathing enormously.

Another client came in with a moderate case of costochondritis that he developed from bench pressing. He would let the barbell bounce off his chest. The repeated impact, along with his other chest workout activities, ultimately led to chest pain...

"Most of us know this state [of pratyahara]; when you’re in it, you feel like you’re at the bottom of a well. You register the sounds that occur around you, for example, but these sounds do not create disturbance in your body or mind."