The
Healing Power of Connected Breathing
Futile
Breathing
Due to poor breathing habits, limiting decisions about
ourselves, and suppressing emotional experiences, the
average person utilises only about 1 litre of their 6 to
7 litre lung capacity. These dysfunctional breathing
habits, are known as futile breathing, being
characterised by short, shallow irregular breathes and
tends to be associated with internal stress and
disharmony leading to confusion, tiredness, illness, and
poor results in life generally.
Connected
Breathing
During Connected Breathing the breath is guided back
to its natural state: relaxed, rhythmic, flowing, and
open. This promotes the 'whole body' integration of our
physical, mental, and emotional states of being
.
Eastern cultures
have explored the power inherent in the breath and speak
of the energy as 'chi' or 'prana'. Our breath is a major
source of energy supply . About 16 to 17 times per minute
we say "yes " to continuing our life here on Earth and
take another breath. We breathe about 10,000 litres a
day, oxygenating some 27 trillion (27,000,000,000,000)
cells.
Expanded
Awareness By
practising connected breathing in a relaxed, passive
state we start to 'build up' the amount of energy in our
bodies. Our vibrational rate starts to increase and we
seem to 'shift gears' and open the door-way to altered
states of consciousness. In the presence of an
experienced practitioner, we then have an opportunity to
gently release suppressed or unresolved emotional
experiences and gain valuable insights into our
lives.
Making
Changes with Breathworks
Emotional
Release
As a
culture we are 'emotionally stifled'. We are taught to
suppress most of our feelings. We do not know how to
express our feelings to enhance our personal power,
effectiveness and peaceful interactions. Typically the
emotions of sadness, anger, and fear are suppressed. The
suppression of feelings, however does not mean the
freedom from them. On the contrary, it seems that the
harder we suppress them, the harder they pursue us.
Connected
breathing gives us an opportunity to develop emotional
freedom. In a safe and supportive, environment we can
release our feelings gently. This often leads to feelings
of lightness and great relief, like dropping a heavy load
off our back that we have been carrying around for a long
time. People also report experiencing feelings of inner
peace, harmony, love, joy for life, and a freedom to be
who we truly are.
New Decisions :
New Results At
the time of releasing the suppressed emotions we gain an
opportunity to become aware of the first time that we
made limiting decisions about ourselves, others, and
life. These decisions are the basis of our beliefs and
usually reside in our subconscious. Though we may be
unaware of them, they affect virtually everything we
do.
By becoming aware
of the context in which we first made a negative decision
about ourselves and having released the emotional charge
on it, we have the power to make new, life enhancing,
decisions. New decisions mean new beliefs, thoughts,
actions, and results!
Deep
Connections The
connected breathing process often leads to a deep
connection with the very core of our being. This leads to
understandings of ourselves, our purpose in life and our
place in the universe at a very deep level.