BREATHE
4 Easy Techniques
This is the most important practice for more energy
What keeps your cells from dying, your body from atrophying and cleans out your entire system to give you more vitality? These simple practices can help with mental health, physical health and bring more energy to your day. Give it a go and see your body start to restore and have more vibrancy. After covid this is the most important thing you can do for your body and you can even do it while sitting on the toilet, on your commute or while you watch netflix. Even better if you are doing nothing.
Breath work 4 Techniques to build upon.
We’ll learn why it’s the most fundamental part of wellness. Learn how to pay attention to the breathe, increase oxygen in your body and use breath work to go into deeper meditative state, all of which support energy, vitality, mental health and healing.
Do you pay attention to how you breathe on a day to day basis? Is it tight? Is it restricted? Is it sharp? Notice where you are breathing, from the top of your chest? Or from the belly and diaphragm?
The point is to start breathing more fully throughout every moment of your life, but for now we are going to retrain the mind and the muscles after life has taught us to hold our breath.
CONNECT
Breathe in a circle- meaning, no sharp inhale or exhale, soften the transition between the in breath and out breath. Pay attention to how you are breathing and starting to slow down and ease muscles from constricting or holding. Try counting to 10 to stay focused on breathing rather than on thoughts.
EXPAND
Stretch the diaphragm by breathing in for as long as you can while keeping the breath slow and steady. At the top of the inhale pull even more air into your lungs 2-3 times and focus on exhaling slowly and evenly. This trains the muscles to be able to open and capture more oxygen with each breath.
RESTORE
Practice the first breath starting to count in for as many as you can and match the exhale to be the same length of time while keeping the rhythm soft and easy, smooth and slow. Start where it is easy and you can keep stretching to lengthen the time for in and out breath. This is a standard meditative breath to practice on a daily basis even if it is only for a few breaths at a time.
HEAL
This breath takes practice but can help you enter deeper meditative, visionary states where you can begin to connect on a more profound level. Inhale while counting as long as you can, Hold the breath at the top for the same amount of time while keeping your muscles at ease. Exhale for the same amount. If you are gasping for breath, try less time and slowly stretch the muscles until you find it easy. The goal is to reach 8-20 seconds
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