17 benefits of Breathwork that improves your well-being
Breathwork is an effective and powerful tool for healing your own body, mind and soul. It dan be a profound experience that enables you to release stress, emotions, and energetic blockages. It can assist you in a transformational journey towards an improved mental, emotional, physical, spiritual health and well being.
Why Breath work?
1. Improved breath increases Energy
Oxygen is the most important resource required by our cells. The more oxygen, the better the body functions, including organs and tissue.
2. Deep breathing detoxifies the body and boosts immunity
Deep diaphragmatic breathing stimulates the lymphatic system. And actually and 70 % of our toxins are released from our body through our breath. A fully oxygenated blood carries and absorbs nutrients and vitamins more efficiently. Essentially, the cleaner the blood, the better it can protect the body from bacteria, viruses.
3. Breathing exercises can relieve pain and tension
Deep breathwork triggers the release of endorphins, which besides helping us feel good, also can combat pain
4. Breathwork can improve digestion
Deep breathing will assist in healthier and cleaner blood flow, which promotes the function of organs, including your intestines.
5. Breathwork can help lower blood pressure and slow down heart rate
When the muscles relax, the blood vessels can dilate. This improves circulation and can lower blood pressure. Deep breathing can also slow down and regulate the heart rate, which also affects blood pressure
6. Breathwork decreases stress and increases emotional balance
When stress enters our life, our brain releases cortisol, aka “stress hormone.” Deep breathing will lower your heart rate, more oxygen will enter your bloodstream and communicate with the brain to relax
7. Breathwork can relieve anxiety and ease depression
Built up emotional stress in the body can result in depression. And an overstimulated nervous system over time can cause anxiety or a controlling mind. Breathwork helps to calm the nervous system and let go of emotional stress
8. Breathwork can enhance feelings of happiness, wholeness and courage
Deep breathing can release endorphins. Our “feel good” chemical, helping you reach an emotional balance and a wanting to arise
9. Breathwork can open for increased self love and self-acceptance
Some styles of Breathwork (i.e Conscious connected Breathing, circular breathing or transformational Breathwork) can enable transient hypofrontality. In short this means that we bypass a part of our frontal lobe where the inner critic exists, the monkey mind, exists. Slow down the inner critic and gain an open heart.
10. Breathwork can improves sleep patterns and alleviate insomnia
Deep breathing can increase the melatonin production, “sleep inducing hormone”, which is often at low levels in insomniacs
11. Breathwork can calm, ground and regulate our nervous systems
Our breath is connected to our voluntary and autonomic system, the parasympathetic- and sympathetic nervous system. The parasympathetic can bring us to a relaxed, calming state. The sympathetic nervous system is our fight and flight mode, needed to create drive and energy. In Breathwork we can work with the switch between the parasympathetic- and sympathetic nervous system, which is highly beneficial.
12. Breathwork can increase focus, creativity and strengthen our intuition
More oxygen to the brain will help in achieving clarity, productivity and increased creativity. And a consistent practice breathing can help us quiet the busy mind, listen inward for our inner voice and enhance our intuition.
13. Breathwork promotes deep relaxation
The rhythm and depth of our breath communicates with our brain. Practice conscious, expanding and slow breathing is, and the mind slows down too.
14. Subconscious Programming and Emotional trauma release with Breathwork
About 95 % of our brain activity lies beyond conscious awareness, i.e in our subconscious realms. Situations, emotions, life events can be imprinted and stored in our muscles and nervous system. And if not released, it might appear as negative behavior. Breathwork can help to let go of stuck energy and heal from within.
15. Breathwork supports addiction recovery
Breathwork can calm and distract the brain, creating relaxation in body and mind. It can quiet those constantly grinding thoughts that make us feel less, and allows us to release blocked feelings and emotions.
16. Breathwork can optimize health on a mental, physical, emotional and spiritual level
To sum it up - working with the breath will assist you in your energetic, spiritual and physical body. The breath will lead you where your mind can´t always reach, to cleanse, release and restore.
17. Breathwork is effective and fun!
The technique of Breath Work is simple. However there might be resistance that does not feel simple.
Fun, slightly challenging but if you have an open mind - you might have one of the most profound experiences in your life! The experience during and after Breathwork is different every time!
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