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Instantly Relieve Your Anxiety With Breathwork
Did you know that there is an amazingly powerful strategy to reduce stress and anxiety just by reviewing your breathing? Breathwork is a strategy that has been applied for hundreds of years to eliminate stress and anxiety from ones life.
Breathwork has been used in India for generations after generations. It is only now that western cultures are catching up and utilizing this valuable technique.
Some medical research indicates that anxiety and depression are contributed by ones inability to properly deal with negative, uncomfortable or traumatic thoughts or experiences at a deep emotional level. The physical expression of this "hiding" is the bodies flight or fight response that cannot disengage as naturally intended.
The body then slows all metabolic processes such as blood flow, digestion etc, to channel all blood flow to the brain and central systems. This can be commonly noticed with chronic cold hands and feet. The gut feelings of stress (ready to run from danger) and shallow, irregular fast breathing continue as a normal process when the body ideally was designed to return to a calmer, relaxed level of homeostasis.
This chronic level of "stress" starts to affect all our processes. Foods are not digested as they should, vitamins and minerals aren't taken up in the gut wall as intended, allergies or food sensitivities are noticed and a roller coaster of effects are felt from foggy thinking to general feeling of un-wellness.
To get some control back over our body processes, breathwork can be used to begin "mimicking" the way the body is supposed to function and the body will start to function normally.
I absolutely love this because anyone can begin right away...
Breathwork Exercise.
- Sit in a comfortable Chair and make sure there are not interruptions like the phone or family (you might need to make time before falling asleep if you have a hectic family environment.
- Ensure no tight clothes are distracting you
- Put on some gentle music
- Start by breathing out one 'whoosh' through your open mouth as long as you possibly can breathe your air out for.
- Breathe in deeply to intake more air into your lungs
- Repeat and concentrate only on your breath
- When you mind slips to day to day thoughts, bring it back to only focus on your breath
- Repeat this over and over for about 15-20 minutes or until you feel a sense of relaxation and calmness.
Practice this at least once a day and see your anxiety improve. Next time you see your doctor about your anxiety treatments, they may be pleasantly surprised. Good luck with your journey to creating more joy.
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