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Meditation and breathing for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Yogic cooling breath for Chronic Fatigue

If your M.E/ Chronic Fatigue frequently causes you to feel hot, you could try this yogic breathing exercise to keep cool. You can do this in a seated meditation position or just lying down in bed.

Quite simply push your lips out make a narrow round shape with your mouth. Place the tip of your tongue between the teeth, or roll the tongue up and suck in your cheeks. Breathe in slowly and even on a warm day you'll feel the air is considerably colder than usual. Close your mouth, hold the breathe for a moment then breathe out slowly through your nose and repeat.

Do around 5 or more minutes. This might help with the feverishness many M.E / Chronic Fatigue people experience routinely, despite not having any detectable infection. Of course if you've got an accute fever that's a matter for your doctor.

The next exercise is also good for cooling the system.

Lying perfectly still

The instructions for this one are simple enough. Lie down and don't move!

Actually there is a reason for this instruction. It's strange but if you concentrate on lying down and being relaxed it's surprising how you won't seem to get beyond a certain point. However, if you concentre on not moving any of your muscles and you might find you are actually more relaxed - probably because the intention to be relaxed causes tension when it does not happen!

Mentally check all the muscle groups and you'll find little tensions and movements are going on all the time. Just see if you can concentrate on these muscles until they stop moving.

Of course with M.E / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome it is hard to be completely free of such movements, as muscle spasms and tensions are one of the main symptoms. However you can use this to gain a bit of concious control over these unwanted movements and give your over-active nervous system some respite. Lie for as long as you like. But note that your temparature will drop after only a few minutes, so if your M.E / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome means you can't get warm, avoid this. On the other hand I've found it a useful exercise during hot summers when I'm having trouble sleeping.

Although these are very simple exercises please remember I'm not a medical professional or exercise trainer, and read my disclaimer.

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