Breathwork is not just spiritual stuff. Scientific research has shown that it can help you heal – physically, emotionally and spiritually. Breathwork is for everyone!
If you have a specific goal you are trying to achieve, such as less stress, more energy, better focus, a breathwork healing session can help. Health benefits of breathwork include:
- Breathing problems such as asthma
- Sleep disorders such as sleep apnea
- Anxiety, stress or depression
- Sadness, anger or resentment
- Loss of direction, purpose or intention
- Inspiration, motivation or creativity
- Or simply create an experience of inner bliss!
Breathwork can increase your energy and help you focus on the good feelings by releasing serotonin, melatonin, and dopamine (the brain’s feel-good chemicals).
There is a direct link between breathing and your psychological, emotional, spiritual and physical well-being. By simply harnessing the power of your breath, additional health benefits of breathwork can provide a radical healing transformation in the following areas:
1. Breathwork activates the vagus nerve
When you do breathwork, you activate the vagus nerve, which activates the parasympathetic nervous system. Activating the vagus nerve puts you in a state of calm, peace and focus.
When you switch from the sympathetic nervous system (the day-in, day-out beta brainwave state) to the parasympathetic nervous system, you enter an optimal state where the immune system can heal the body naturally.
2. Breathwork activates stem cell healing
Once in a state of rest, you activate the pineal gland in the brain. In this condition, the brain sends healing chemical and electrical signals through the vagus nerve to the rest of the body’s organs. Additionally, it induces healing in stem cells in the body to activate physical and emotional healing.
3. Breathwork creates coherence between heart and mind
When you are in that calm and focused state, you create coherence between your heart and mind. Heart-mind coherence establishes a state of calm that is easier to concentrate when you go into meditation.
4. Boost your creative life force energy
Rhythmic breathing through pranayama and deep kumbhaka breathing can charge your electrical, creative life energy and move it up through the body for healing and transformation.
By using the power of your breath, you connect the dots between science and the metaphysical through physiology and rhythmic breathing, breath holding and transcendental meditation. I do events all the time to improve people’s experience with their breathing, especially in the air Palm Springs, CA area.
You are your own medicine and you create your reality. So you might as well create a life you love by using the power of your breath!
