Breathwork and the Benefits
Breathwork is a powerful, safe and gentle breathing technique which releases stress from the body and increases your energy level, for the purpose of experiencing more ease and pleasure in your life. Developed in the early 70’s it has been practiced by many thousands of people throughout the world.
In a Breathwork session, a professionally trained Breathwork Practitioner guides your breathing in a manner that increases the level of oxygen in your body, which increases your energy. The increased levels of oxygen stimulate the body’s natural ability to cleanse itself. Since 70% of body toxins are eliminated through breathing, it supports us to learn to breathe freely and fully. Breathwork also raises the blood’s alkaline level, a result sought by many health care professionals.
Other substantial benefits of breathwork are that it releases stored emotions from the body and accesses the part of the brain that stimulates memory. By learning to breathe consciously, one is able to uncover and release limiting thought patterns from the past. You can receive tremendous value from discovering how current issues in your life originated from decisions you may have made earlie on. By becoming aware of these decisions, you are able to choose differently in present time. Becoming consciously aware of patterns of undesirable habits is the first step to change and creates physical, emotional and mental healing and well-being. Breathwork accelerates personal and spiritual growth, increases greater self-love, aliveness, joy and creativity and awakening to one’s true self.
Breathwork and the Benefits
Life is dependent on breathing. Breathing may be considered the most important of all of the functions of the body, not only are we dependent upon breath, we are dependent on correct habits of breathing for vitality, performing at your best, in heightened spirits and freedom of disease.
• Breathing Detoxifies and Releases Toxins.
Your body is designed to release 70% of its toxins through breathing. If you are not breathing effectively, you are not properly ridding your body of its toxins, i.e. other systems in your body must work overtime which could eventually lead to illness. When you exhale air from your body you release carbon dioxide that has been passed through from your bloodstream into your lungs. Carbon dioxide is a natural waste of your body’s metabolism.
• Breathing Releases Tension.
Think how your body feels when you are tense, angry, scared or stressed. It constricts. Your muscles get tight and your breathing becomes shallow. When your breathing is shallow you are not getting the amount of oxygen that your body needs.
• Breathing Relaxes the Mind/Body and Brings Clarity.
Oxygenation of the brain reduces excessive anxiety levels. Paying attention to your breathing. Paying attention to your breathing, breathe slowly, deeply and purposefully into your body. Notice any places that are tight and breathe into them. As you relax your body, you may find that the breathing brings clarity and insights to you as well.
• Breathing relieves Emotional Problems.
Breathing will help clear uneasy feelings out of your body.
• Breathing Relieves Pain.
You may not realize its connection to how you think, feel and experience life. For example, what happens to your breathing when you anticipate pain? You probably hold your breath. Yet studies show that breathing into your pain helps to ease it.
• Breathing Massages Your Organs.
The movements of the diaphragm during the deep breathing exercise massages the stomach, small intestine, liver and pancreas. The upper movement of the diaphragm also massages the heart. When you inhale air, your diaphragm descends, and your abdomen will expand. By this action you massage vital organs and improve circulation in them. Controlled breathing also strengthens and tones your abdominal muscles.
• Breathing Assists in Muscle Recovery.
Breathing is the oxygenation process to all of the cells in your body, including the cells in muscle tissue. With the increase in oxygen, comes increased muscle recovery and strength.
• Breathing Strengthens the Immune System.
Oxygen travels through your blood stream by attaching to hemoglobin in your red blood cells. This in turn then enriches your body to metabolize nutrients and vitamins.
• Breathing Improves Posture.
Good breathing techniques over a sustained period of time will encourage good posture. Our modern lifestyle has ruined our posture, which has impacted our bodies ability to access our major breathing muscle, the diaphragm, which over time gets exhausted creating tight, sore muscles with trigger points around the whole body. Over time you’d likely end up with a long-term condition of disease. Solution activate your diaphragm and breathe.
• Breathing Improves Quality of the Blood.
Deep breathing removes all the carbon-dioxide and increases oxygen in the blood and thus increases blood quality
• Breathing Increases Digestion and Assimilation of Food.
The digestive organs such as the stomach receive more oxygen, and hence operate more efficiently. The digestion is further enhanced by the fact that the food is oxygenated more.
• Breathing Improves the Nervous System.
The brain, spinal cord and nerves receive increased oxygenation and are more nourished. This improves the health of the whole body, since the nervous system communicates to all parts of the body.
• Breathing Strengthens the Lungs.
As you breathe deeply the lungs become healthy and powerful, a good insurance against respiratory problems.
• Proper Breathing makes the Heart Stronger.
Breathing exercises reduce the workload on the heart in 2 ways. Firstly, deep breathing leads to more efficient lungs, which means more oxygen is introduced to the blood, so the heart doesn’t have to work as hard to deliver oxygen to the tissues. Secondly, deep breathing leads to a greater pressure differential in the lungs, which leads to an increase in circulation, thus reducing the workload on the heart.
• Proper Breathing assists in Weight Control.
If you are overweight, the extra oxygen burns up the excess fat more efficiently. If you are underweight, the extra oxygen feeds the starving tissues and gland
• Breathing Boosts Energy Levels and Improves Stamina.
• Breathing Improves Cellular Regeneration.
• Breathing Elevates Moods.
Breathing increases pleasure-inducing neurochemicals in the brain to elevate moods and combat physical pain.
• Breathing enhances Clarity & Guidance.
When in meditative states with breath a slowness can occur a clarity of the many aspects of your being, clarity, intuition, and direction are all very common.