Changing the rate of your breathing is the fastest way to support your nervous system response.
3 Breathing Practices
1. Balancing your breath is always safe and healthy. If you’re feeling up, it will bring you down and if you’re feeling low it will bring you up.
Practice water breath by:
• Inhaling through your nose for 1-2-3-4
• Exhaling through your nose for 4-3-2-1
• Repeat up to 10 times
2. Up-regulating your breath stimulates your sympathetic nervous system to give you more energy and must be practiced with caution. Never practice while driving.
Practice coffee breath by:
• Draw the belly back sharply on the exhale 10 X allowing a partial inhale to happen naturally
• Repeat 3 times with rests in between
3. Slowing down your breathing triggers a parasympathetic, rest and digest, nervous system response allowing you to feel calmer. Never practice while driving.
Practice whiskey breath by:
• Inhaling through your nose for 1-2-3-4
• Exhaling through your nose for 8 to 6 breaths
• Repeat until you feel relaxed
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After decades as a teacher, I realized the deepest education is that one of the soul. My journey through anxiety and self-doubt led me to meditation, yoga, Reiki, sound healing, and emotional freedom practices. Now I guide others through retreats, trainings, and Soul Skool to return home to themselves and embody their best life.
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