Soul Happy Breathwork

Breathwork

Our breath can be truly transformative. When we focus on our breath, we learn a great deal about our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual state. 

Breathwork is an effective way to become aware and allows you to focus on the present moment.  Regulating your breathing can help you address the root causes of stress or anxiety and even help you overcome your triggers. Conscious breathing will change how you respond to daily life and help you react with deliberate intention rather than a response based on anxiety, stress, or fear.

For example, when the breath becomes erratic, it signals to our body that we are anxious, fearful, or worried. When it is calm and regulated, we feel safe and at ease. Paying attention to our breathing patterns allows us to pay attention to our emotions and what we need at any given moment.

The way you breathe affects and influences your nervous system and brain. When you slow your breathing down and focus on the breath, it activates your nervous system. This activation of your nervous system is responsible for whether you respond calmly or with some type of stress response.

Breathwork moves us from our sympathetic nervous system ( fight or flight mode) to our parasympathic (rest and digest mode) allowing us to use our energy to heal, digest, process emotions, build immunity, and create harmony, calm, and homeostasis within our bodies.

Deep breathing releases neurotransmitters that trigger the release of feel-good chemicals, which leads to feelings of happiness and relaxation. When you breathe deeply, it increases your oxygen inhalation and causes you to exhale toxins. 

Taking deep, calming breaths when a trigger or stressful event occurs immediately calms the mind and body. Deep breathing can cause you to handle situations in a present and mindful way.  When you learn to respond to stressors mindfully, you will experience greater success in your recovery and develop more resiliency and gratitude.

With our hectic lifestyles today, it is common to feel stressed, exhausted, overwhelmed, anxious, depressed, and run down. This is because cortisol dampens our immune system. How? It’s all to do with our nervous system. Our nervous system is made up of the sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight state) and the parasympathetic nervous system (rest and digest state).

When we are in the rest and digest state, our bodies are calm and ignite inner healing.  When our breathing is calm and smooth, we experience feelings of connection, trust, and safety.

However, when we are in fight or flight mode, we are ready for an attack from a dangerous situation. Our bodies produce cortisol, we feel anxious or worried, our heart rate gets faster, our breathing gets shallow and energy is being taken from our digestion and immunity.

Unfortunately with our busy, stressful lifestyles today, we are in flight or fight mode a lot more than we should be, creating excess cortisol production, and honestly, it’s slowly killing us. It’s killing our immune systems and our circulatory system, affecting the function of our hearts, causing strokes and heart attacks, damaging our respiratory health, interrupting our sleep, creating anxiety and panic attacks, affecting our digestive systems, and forcing cells to multiply at an excessive rate leading to ill health.

Breathwork unveils a profound journey within, offering a gateway to enhanced well-being and self-discovery. As you embrace the power of conscious breathing, you embark on a transformative odyssey that transcends the boundaries of the physical and touches the realms of the mind and spirit.

The benefits are not merely physiological; they extend to mental clarity, emotional balance, and spiritual harmony. In each intentional breath, a symphony of rejuvenation unfolds, fostering a resilient mind and a vibrant life. Embrace the breath as a guiding force, and let its rhythmic dance lead you to a harmonious existence—one where vitality and inner peace intertwine effortlessly.

Breathwork is said to change and balance brainwaves; over time, this recalibrates the brain, which eliminates many symptoms caused by old emotions and trauma. The parts of yourself long forgotten wake up, and you can feel inspired, creative, and spiritual.

By controlling your breathing, you can become fully aware of your immediate state of mind and emotions and become present in the moment. When you become fully aware of your feelings, you pave a pathway to intentionally and objectively respond to what is happening around you.