Breakthrough Breathwork Meditation?

How can it help my breathing?

One of the questions people frequently ask us is: What are the physical benefits of Breakthrough Breathwork Meditation and how can it help my breathing?

Breakthrough Breathwork Meditation opens up your whole breathing mechanism permanently by releasing tension and blocks that may even have arisen with the traumatic first breath at birth. 

The result is more expansion of the chest and lungs for a more open breath, which   helps respiratory illnesses such as asthma as well as increasing sports performance. 

This expansion in turn results in more oxygenation of your system.  It is medically proven that cells lacking in oxygen, anaerobic cells, are prone to all kinds of disease including cancer and heart disease.  Whereas cells with enough oxygen strengthen the immune system, and give rise to a feeling of greater aliveness and vitality. 

With full healthy breathing our body is designed to expel 70% of its toxins through our breath. However, as most people sub-ventilate, breathing to only a third of our capacity, we are not detoxifying nearly as well as we could. As Dr. Andrew Weil says:  “Improper Breathing is a common cause of ill health.”

Many people have been helped with numerous other physical ailments such as chronic pain fibromyalgia, migraines and insomnia. And of course Breakthrough Breathwork Meditation addresses the psychosomatic component of any condition by allowing the release of repressed emotions and past traumas including abuse and abandonment. With Breakthrough Breathwork Meditation you are activating your own healing energy, your life force. 

We offer Asheville Breathwork Workshops, private Breathwork Sessions online and in person, private retreats and practitioner trainings.

“The breath has the capacity to ease pain and soften tension.  When you concentrate on breathing, your mind is able to gather together all its scattered energies. Your mind becomes much more focused, quiet, and clear. In fact, when you focus on your breathing, you are in the present, in the here and now. You are able to truly shift from one state of consciousness to another.

Some great thinkers have actually said that the breath has the power to actually move matter and consciousness to new states of being. The breath is the life force. When you focus on breathing, you focus on directing the life force within you.  This focuses and quiets your mind and helps you move energy. That’s why it’s so powerful to breathe into your difficulties. It moves them, shifts them, and transforms them.”

There is a powerful use of the breath, which contributes more specifically to the healing of the emotional body. This method enables a person to release the locked up emotional traumas that have been repressed by us, so that they stop influencing us from an unconscious level of our awareness.

Breathwork is a very effective method of opening our awareness to the many influences that have been hidden from our normal consciousness. Much of our decision making happens in an instant. What most people don’t realize is that the output of information for that snap decision has gone through the unconscious supercomputer before offering up its result. If the unconscious software is infected with a virus of deep emotional trauma, conflicted emotion and emotions we are in denial about, the decisions can be self-destructive, limiting and contribute to a cycle of creating more pain.

This process allows for the personal exploration into the unconscious emotional software and energies that are influencing you in ways that undermine your full potential.

Even if no deep emotional experiences stand out in your awareness because they are made invisible by the veiling power of denial, they do exist. They have to be taken out of the darkness of your unconscious mind and emotional matrix and brought into your awareness, so you can release the pain and understand the causes of how this pain was influencing your life from that hidden place inside.

Using one’s own breath in a guided and controlled rhythm begins the process where a person begins to slow down the incessant chatter of the mind with its ceaseless array of thoughts.

In this amazing process of guided breathing, you begin to become aware of your total presence. You are triggered into being fully alert, alive, aware of your body, feelings and senses. You are conscious of the total physicality of your being as well as levels of emotion and feelings that can no longer be locked in or repressed, they now demand a release. And the release happens. Naturally and deeply, on a physical and cellular level.

After the completion of the breath cycle, the body rests, and a feeling of deep relaxation and peace is experienced.. A sense of being at-one with oneself, with one’s life and with the world at large. This is the state of no worry, and no thought, full of peace and serenity and unlimited potential. We rest in the expanded inner space that reflects a harmony of mind, body and spirit.

 How fortunate we are that there is wisdom from ancient times to today that can teach and guide us in consciously harnessing the full benefits of our breath. It is our most potent nutrient, and our most potentiated vehicle for awareness and self-actualization – and it is available every moment.

     From the simplest of breathing techniques that encourage relaxation and stress-reduction to intensive breathing techniques that help humans to penetrate the deepest parts of themselves, access their greatest gifts and fully flower as a being – breath is a surprising, delightful and awesome blessing.

Be aware of your breathing.  Notice how this takes attention away from your thinking and creates space.  Remember from time to time to notice that you are breathing.  If you really notice that you are breathing, meaning bring your attention to your breath, just one conscious in and out breath, and a different dimension is there in your life. Be present at every step of the breath, the in-breath and the out-breath.

There is no thought when you are present with the breath.  What is extremely significant, when you are aware of your breath is that what you are really aware of is you are aware of awareness. That’s the beauty of it.  What that means is you entered the dimension of presence and space has opened up in your life.

Eckhart Tolle