Blog 6: The Power of YOUR Breath!
Happy October!!! Hope this blog finds you all well! This blog is about our BREATH! A very powerful tool that we do subconsciously every day to keep us living! I personally forget sometimes that my breath is powerful, especially in high anxiety moments. As you know, we all have defense responses of fight, flight, or freeze when we feel scared, angry, sad, or anxious. How wonderful would it be to rely on our breath to bring our cortisol levels down in those high emotional times? Let's first review how to breathe.... yes, it may seem like a silly question, but I for one, learned a few years that I was breathing WRONG! So, take a quiet moment and focus on your breath. Put one hand on your belly and one hand on your chest. Become aware. Take notice if your chest rises and falls. Does your belly rise and fall? Now take a big inhale through your nose...which rises or gets bigger - your belly or your chest??? Very important question here! The answer should be your belly. Are so