Deep Self-Love With Breathwork
It’s time for a moment of deep self-love and deep self-care with breathwork. This month we are practicing and embracing loving ourselves greatly.
I know how busy you are……like REALLY busy. From coming out of Covid, trying to catch up on lost moments with loved ones, caring for everyone and everything, and trying to establish a “NEW” normal, the work situation is in flux. I know, just trying to handle the last couple of years has been really tough. All of this outpouring of energy can really take a toll on one’s body, mind, and soul. It’s time to tap out for even five minutes to practice radical self-care.
Absolutely there is a link between life and our breath. In fact, it’s the thing that makes us well living. But the crazy thing is, that most of us aren’t breathing correctly. In the US and Northern America in general, people only use 20% of their lung capacity meaning our brains are highly under-oxygenated. On average we breathe 23,000 times a day without even thinking about the life-giving force of our breath. Now more than any other time is so important to practice deep self-love by embracing our breath and doing some conscious breathwork.
Radical self-care with breathwork
Have you ever watched a baby breathe? Babies naturally know how to connect with the rhythm of their breath. I like to think of these sweet young angels as already practicing self-care through breathing. But what happened? Why can we no longer breathe deeply and rhythmically? As you grew older life happened. You experienced ups and downs, moments of happiness, success, and joy as well as moments of trauma. As life happened it colored your overall health and well-being with stress, fear, and other emotions that we experience in everyday life. All of these impact our breathing and body. For each emotion we feel, there is a corresponding and specific breath pattern whether we are aware of it or not.
When you’re feeling anxious, your breathing becomes shallow and irregular.
When you’re feeling relaxed, your breathing becomes slow, deep, and steady.
With each intentional breath, you are making the decision about how you want to feel. You’ll all be noticing what you’re holding onto and what needs some transformation. We do all of this through the power of our breath.
When we shift the way we’re breathing, we also shift the way we’re feeling. We have a saying at Mongata that we have to “feel to heal”. Connecting to ourselves using the breath is one of the most important ways to start this journey.
Where Are Your Holding Patterns
We all have what is called holding patterns within our bodies. These are places where we hold parts of our emotional experience.
When you are feeling overwhelmed, there is a part of your body that is holding onto that emotion more so than other parts of your body.
When you are feeling anxious, there is a part of your body that is holding onto the emotion, sometimes to the point of shutting down.
When you are sad or depressed there is a part of you, your body that is holding on to that emotion.
Your body is holding onto each of the emotions that you experience until you intentionally let it go.
Inviting you now to take a second and have awareness where on your body your are feeling anything. Any tension, pain, or constriction. Are you feeling pain or butterflies in your stomach? Are you feeling a tightness in your chest? Do you experience headaches? Just noticing. Just having an awareness of where you could be holding onto emotions.
Once you locate it, just put your hand on that body part and then breath into it holding the intention of allowing the breath to release the anxiety, pain, emotion out of the body.
When you set the intention of releasing the emoting living in your body using your breath, it allows you to not only feel a sense of comfort but allows you to feel at home in your body. It empowers you to heal the places you feel wounded and release what doesn’t serve you by breathing out the energy.
As you intentionally breathe into that place, notice the lightness and release with each breath.
The truth is that your body knows exactly how to recalibrate to a place of balance. You just need to let it.
As you release the old emotions that are no longer serving you, you create more space for these support of emotions and vibrations that do. As you let go, you release yourself from past stresses. More importantly you now have a new skill so when you experience stressors again, you’ll know exactly how to take care of them and transform there.
Could there be any more deep self-care than that?
If you want some guidance on building your own breathwork practice, I recorded a free breathwork session on our podcast that you can download below.
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