Benefits and Effects of Breathwork Archives

March 22 2023

A new perspective on Menopause

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Connective tissue communicates information between your body and your brain. It surrounds every organ, nerve, and vessel in your body and connects bones to muscles, tendons, etc. Facia expands and contracts; however, if we experience a physical injury or emotional trauma, it can cause shock. This restricts movement, where we either freeze and tense up or collapse and faint.
If this survival response doesn’t resolve, we can experience too much tone in the body or too little. We lose our capacity for rhythmical expansion and contraction and miss a healthy sense of connection to our bodily sensations. It leaves us feeling disconnected, numb, or oversensitive.
In times of stress or massive changes, this can translate into feeling isolated, confused, or unable to cope.
You may feel as though your body has betrayed you or that Menopause has been a source of trauma in and of itself.
As the brain rewires in this transformative stage of life, increased sensations might feel frightening, as past pain is likely to resurface from repressed emotions.

Breathwork works wonders to resolve and integrate any overwhelm.
It is essential to approach this situation gently and prioritize your sense of safety across the tender edge between your comfort zone and discomfort to optimize nervous system regulation.

Awareness, presence, and healthy strategies are needed.
For example, if you feel dull, numb, or collapsed, you may need to upregulate through movement and mobilization to unwind from chronic freeze or faint responses.

Physical tension in your muscles and connective tissue is a protective mechanism called “armoring.” The body will not release it until you feel safe.
This is why you cannot clear trauma through your rational mind alone; the core trauma cycle has to resolve experientially in the physical body.

You don’t need to recall traumatic memories to find relief. You can hand it to your breath and body to self-regulate and heal. With professional guidance, you can induce altered states of consciousness to neutralize deep, subconscious beliefs that have shaped your perception and free up from the inside out.

June 18 2020

Re-spiration

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Athletes, Yogis, and Martial artists have used the power of breath for centuries to boost their performance, stamina, and focus. Today, elite performers such as Olympic teams, Navy Seals, and Silicon Valley executives use conscious breathing practices to step up their game.

Sacred practices used to be passed down from master to disciple only. Now, you can ‘qualify’ online. We have access to a lot of information, and it takes more and more discernment to choose what to invest our energy into with maximum benefit.

So, where to start? The most immediate tool to sharpen discernment and create coherence is conscious breathing. Even simply focusing on the breath immediately gets us back to presence.

Respiration means more than providing oxygen for our body; it means re-connection to Spirit. Breath equals vital life force; it animates our body/mind system. The first breath we take at birth and our last exhale is at death. Life is a dance between the opposites, arising in awareness… that which transcends polarities.

In the womb, our umbilical cord feeds us with nutrients and oxygen. Once we see the light of day, if uncut, it would continue for a few hours until we gently transition to nose breathing. That, however, was not the case for most of us. As soon as we were born through the tight birth canal, into bright light, un-muffled sounds, and firm touch, the umbilical cord was cut. Our supply of nutrition ended abruptly, and we began to suffocate. Often, the doctors hung us upside down and smacked us on the bottom… and this is how we took our first breath! …

Most of us took our first breath in survival mode. It entered our lungs much harsher than if we had transitioned naturally to lung breathing. We didn’t have a chance to open up slowly and gradually.

Many drew from this experience subconscious conclusions, like: ”Deep breath equals pain’’ or ”Life is painful” ”If I want to survive, I have to put up with pain.’’

We learned various ways to breathe sparingly and shallowly, barely surviving. We have closed off to living life fully. Using our full capacity appeared too intense and painful.

Most people nowadays use about 30-40% of their lung capacity. Our breath is directly related to the vital life force. Breathing is also our primary way of detoxing. So, we find ourselves in a dilemma where science dictates a different truth than our subconscious.

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In Breathwork, we can practice breathing more fully in a safe, supportive environment. We can gradually increase our capacity to handle stress, bridge the polarities within ourselves, and let go of limiting habits. We get out of our own way and reconnect to what life offers.

By clearing conditioned patterns and habits layer by layer, we become more authentic and selfless in the same instance. When energy flows freely and unrestricted through the body, we begin to reconnect to all aspects of ourselves. We remember how good it feels to be fully alive.

September 19 2019

Change your perception, and your reality changes

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Our perceptions trigger physical responses in our chemistry: immune response, hormonal balance, and so on. With each response, Neuropathways are used or newly created. As responses become habituated, the Neuropathways become Neurohighways, eventually leading to changes in the structure and make-up of our bodies.

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