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Breathe Your Way to Calm and Success
I'm often asked by clients why they feel low, or why they keep sabotaging their best intentions to be successful or be free from the blues or stress.
The answer to this question very often lies in their past. It might be that as young person or child they didn't feel loved, or maybe they felt their childhood was tough, or perhaps they felt they didn't do well enough.
We tend to act on our feelings and then make stories to justify them. For example a smoker who wants to quit might protest it's impossible because of the stress they feel. Yet there are millions of non-smokers dealing with the stress in their lives.
Whatever it is that holds you back or keeps you stuck there is a way to be free. You can let go of the past influencing your life negatively and undo its hold on you. You do this by letting go of it. Now, I don't expect you to believe me that it's as easy as that. You have to decide if you're ready to go ahead and make that change. What I am suggesting is that you can succeed by taking small, regular steps.
Here is a way for you to begin the process yourself:
Exercise:
Lie down somewhere cosy and where you won't be disturbed for a while. Cover up with a blanket if you need to and begin some deep, slow and gentle breathing.
Breathe out fully and then breathe in to the bottom of your lungs using your diaphragm. At this point your stomach should be moving and moving outwards. Having inflated so far, you then breathe in more to include the chest and eventually right to the very top of the lungs. You'll know you're breathing deeply when you feel the bottom of your rib cage moving outwards.
Continue like this for 10 or 20 minutes, breathing quite regularly and rythmically. You may notice feeling very different. Perhaps your mind drifts back to past scenes and memories.
This is similar to hypnosis techniques for transformation. Hypnotherapy is often used to help people go back in their lives to uncover painful situations, which may still be affecting them, decreasing their interpersonal skills and abilities.
Your subconscious may take you to past memories or scenes from your childhood that you've forgotten. If this happens, act like an observer and ask yourself: 'What's the learning I need from this'. Getting insights from past memories helps you leave them and move on. You can free yourself from whatever limiting effect they're having by simply observing them and asking what you've learnt from it. Then you can choose whether you have to continue to respond like this in every similar situation.
However, if this doesn't happen don't worry the overall aim is to de-stress. With this exercise you'll develop a deep sense of peace and calm and be in a resourceful state to dash off and do the million things that you have to do.
It can be amazingly effective and what's more, it's free. Making a habit of it pays dividends. It gives your mind space to process life's daily problems and information. You'll find your much more creative and that your energy levels are generally much higher.
About the Author Liz Labrum, Master Practitioner in Neuro Linguistic Programming and Hypnosis is a writer and speaker specialising in Personal and Professional Success. Her latest e-book is Beat the Burnout Blues
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