【正确答案】正确答案： Learn to Breathe to Have a Long Life Life cannot go without breathing, but you probably make a mistake when doing this. According to a British survey and the statistics of Chinese respiratory medicine specialists, more than half of people do not breathe properly. What is worth recommendation is to breathe deeply. What functions does abdominal deep breathing have? First of all, it can prevent respiratory system diseases, including asthma, chronic bronchitis and emphysema pulmonum. Deep breathing can gradually enhance musclecontractility and improve other functions to treat and alleviate disease. Secondly, deep breathing may help people relax and reduce insomnia symptoms. Professor Lu Yifan, from sports medicine department of Beijing Sport University, says, deep breathing can effectively make strained nerves at ease, release anxiety, alleviate the pain and help the sleepless go to sleep. What's more, deep breathing will prevent, or even cure high blood pressure, which is the findings from a Japanese professor's experiment. It is found deep breathing can make all the pulmonary alveoli at work. If you breathe deeply three times a day, respectively in the morning, at noon and night, you will see the effect. The most important thing is deep breathing can bring longevity. In Ask for Vitality from Breathing, the American scholar points out, practicing deep breathing with control can bring brain out of tiredness, regulate nerves system and make people relaxed and comfortable. It is all due to the fact that deep breathing can inhale and exhale far more gas than ordinary breathing. How can we learn to breathe properly? There are two key points, as Professor Lu suggests, one is to inhale as slowly, peacefully and deeply as possible, and the other is to exhale completely so as to discharge all the waste gas out of your body. The most scientific breathing way is to inhale-pause (hold breath for 10 to 20 seconds)-exhale. The above three steps are beneficial for digestion and absorption, thus doing favor in health. Another way of breathing, proposed by Long Cunxiu, is founded on the abdominal model with deep and long breathing, to put muscle groups concerned into biggest movement in breath. This is called "wholly breathing". As Long suggests, this kind of breathing can be practiced everywhere at any time, especially faced with sudden negative emotions. It can help you master the strength and rhythm, improve efficiency, adjust mind and body, and stabilize mood.