How to ignite your turbo power with breathwork

If you want to perform at your best, then conscious breathing is for you. There's a reason why it's called 'breath work.' It isn't just breathing, you've got to include conscious work. However, since it can help increase focus, calm the mind, improve athletic performance, sex life, balance your nervous system, and ignite your turbo power within, I believe it's worth the effort. Won't you agree?

But what exactly is breathwork? How does it work? And how do you do it?

Let's explore with a simple approach

What is breathwork?

According to wikipedia, "Breathwork is a New Age term for various breathing practices in which the conscious control of breathing is said to influence a person's mental, emotional or physical state, with a claimed therapeutic effect."

Indeed, it uses the breath as a tool to help quiet the mind and promote health. Breathwork can help you manage stress, increase energy levels, improve performance at work, reduce anxiety or depression symptoms, improve sleep quality and increase overall well-being.

Using the power of your breath you can manage your energy. You can use it to relax, focus, be more creative and productive, be mindful and present. It gives you the opportunity to let go of the things that are weighing you down so that you can move forward in life and become who you want to be.

How to do it?

Breathe in and out through your nose!

That's it! Simple, right? The technique for each exercise is the same: breathe in through your nose and out through your nose, sometimes but not always pausing before you exhale. In some exercises (the ones with numbers), you'll be asked to speed it up, slow it down, hold your breath, or purse your lips as if blowing down a straw when you exhale, which helps increase the amount of air going out and thus increases focus.

There are many ways to practice breathwork, in a group setting online or offline, by yourself in the office, during a walk, or in nature, or even by doing it during yoga class.

Here are my top 3 preferred ways to practice:

• Breathing exercises: One of the simplest forms of breathwork is to use basic breathing exercises that focus on inhaling and exhaling low and slow (diaphragmatic breathing). This is often taught as the first step and can help you calm down when you’re feeling stressed out or anxious. Then on, there are various counts that help you achieve different states of mind and sensations.
• Pranayama: Pranayama is the yogic practice of focusing on breath. In Sanskrit, prana means "vital life force", and yama means to gain control. In yoga, breath is associated with prana, thus, pranayama is a means to elevate the prana shakti, or life energies. Pranayama techniques help create awareness in the body through slow and deep breathing. It also helps to increase your lung capacity.
• Kriya: Sudarshan Kriya which is a Sanskrit term meaning “proper vision by purifying action” is?an advanced form of rhythmic, cyclical breathing with slow, medium, and fast cycles. This form of cleansing has been used for thousands of years within the yoga tradition as a way to help people tap into their spiritual side, just to name one.

Conscious breathing is the key to higher performance and wellbeing!

Breathing is the most natural thing we do; it’s something you do 24/7 without even thinking about it. However, did you know the breath has been used for thousands of years as a way to manage energy, stress, emotions and focus? Even though breathwork is a new age term, this isn't something new to us.

Breathing can be an incredibly powerful tool for turbocharging your performance in any area of your life.

• Breathing is a powerful tool for managing energy

The breath is our primary means of exchanging oxygen with our environment—and because every cell in our body requires oxygen to function properly (with the exception of red blood cells which transport CO2), it’s no surprise that breathing plays such an important role in keeping us healthy and feeling great!

• Breathing is a powerful tool for managing stress, and avoid burnout

When we experience physical or psychological stressors (e.g., being pulled over by the police while speeding down the highway), our heart rate increases as blood flow goes toward muscles so they can prepare us to fight or flight from danger—this reaction immediately diverts blood away from organs like the digestive tract which don't require immediate attention during these situations since they aren't essential at this time (think about getting into an argument with someone at work, for example).

Breath is the power behind all things. I breathe in and know that good things will happen. - Tao Porchon-Lynch

Now, I hope you’re intrigued by the idea of breathwork and ready to give it a try as a daily ritual to begin tapping into that turbo power.

There are many different ways to do this practice, and I want to welcome you to practice with me live here on LI for 10-Minutes on Tuesdays at 7:00 am CET starting on January 31st, or catch the reply, of course. Let me know if you're coming!

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