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Here you can try for yourself the effects of breathwork. You can try these simple breathing exercises wherever you find yourself, right now.
All the breathwork exercises explained here are safe and will enhance your sense of well being in one or more ways.
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19 April 2010
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"Practicing regular, mindful breathing can be calming and energizing and can even help with stress-related health problems ranging from panic attacks to digestive disorders."
Since breathing is something we can control and regulate, it is a useful tool for achieving a relaxed and clear state of mind. I recommend three breathing exercises to help relax and reduce stress: The Stimulating Breath, The 4-7-8 Breathing Exercise (also called the Relaxing Breath), and Breath Counting. Try each and see how they affect your stress and anxiety levels.
28 September 2009
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Dear
Friends, This week we'll
introduce
"From Head to Heart
Meditation". "Visualize yourself as headless; move
headlessly, It sounds absurd but it's one of the most important exercises.
Walk and feel as if you had no head. it will be difficult in the beginning.
it will feel very strange. But by and by you will settle down to the
heart.
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18 August 2009
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BioDynamic Breathwork -LIFE
CHANGING!-How You Can Benefit from it.
This one is simple to do.
Just
take a moment any time you remember to do so - on the subway, in the
shower, eating a meal, on the phone, out in nature....
The trick is
just to keep remembering to bring yourself back into a moment of being in
all your senses...and when you forget again--that's ok--just catch yourself
and experience the process all over again!
First, become aware of
your body in space--standing, sitting, talking, laying down, walking, and
so forth. See what part of your body you feel most easily.
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06 January 2009
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For 5 minutes a day (over the next month) simply observe how you breathe. It may be helpful in the beginning to find a quite space in which to do this. But also try it in other locations and notice the differences. For extra credit: Make written notes of your observations about your breathing. These notes will be valuable in future work
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21 July 2008
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This is a nice deep relaxing exercise to try when you want a good nights sleep
- Breathing from your abdomen, inhale slowly to a count of five (count slowly "one...two...three...four...five.." as you inhale)
- Pause and hold your breath to a count of five.
- Exhale slowly, through your nose or mouth, to a count of five(or more if it takes you longer). Be sure to exhale fully.
- When you've exhaled completely, take two breaths in your normal rhythm, then repeat steps 1 through 3 in the cycle above.
- Keep up the exercise for at least five minutes. This should involve going through at least ten cycles of in-five, hold-five, out-five. Remember to take two normal breaths between each cycle. If you start to feel light-headed while practicing this exercise, stop for 30 seconds and then start again.
- Throughout the exercise, keep your breathing smooth and regular, without gulping in breaths or breathing out suddenly.
- Optional: Each time you exhale, you may wish to say "relax", "calm", "let go", or any other relaxing word or phrase silently to yourself.
Allow your whole body to let go as you do this.
20 May 2008
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A cleansing & energising breath, powered by abdominal contractions
Once the diaphragm is felt during Long Deep Breathing then there are a couple of ways in which one can begin to do Breath of Fire, where the air is pulled in and pumped out very rhythmically, just like pumping a bellows, without any tension being felt whatsoever on the abdominal muscles, chest and rib cage muscles or shoulders, which remain relaxed throughout the breath, so that it may almost seem that you can continue the rhythm indefinitely with little effort at all.
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20 May 2008
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This exercise is utterly simple, takes almost no time, requires no equipment and can be done anywhere. Although you can do the exercise in any position, sit with your back straight while learning the exercise.
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20 May 2008
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If you want to get a feel for this challenging work, try your hand at breath counting, a deceptively simple technique much used in Zen practice.
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20 May 2008
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A very fine, short (though not shallow) breath exercise comes from the Chinese Tai Chi Chuan. In subtle ways, this exercise uses the body in leading the mind and spirit to greater openness with each other and the environment.
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28 April 2008
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This five step technique will have you connected to powerful belly breathing in no time at all... and a big thanks to Cathy Wong for this technique
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25 April 2008
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We assume that you have already practiced the basic breath-energy exercises, have done a few connected breathing (rebirthing-breathwork) sessions, and have done some chi kung or yogic breathing (abdominal control). We assume you have worked most of the bugs and blind spots out of your breathing mechanism. If you haven't, then this exercise may accelerate that process. And we realize that it may be challenging to learn this exercise without hands-on, one-on-one coaching.
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