Breath Work To Anchor You To The Present

A quick and effective pranayama technique accessible to anyone, at any time in any situation you find your emotions and breath being triggered. There are situations in day-to-day life in which we get thrown out of balance and usually all of them have in common a misalignment with our breath. If you find yourself anxious, worried, or fearful try this easy and quick breath work to regain control of yourself to be able to prioritize what's important in the moment.

Transcript

Hello, Welcome people, Welcome in. This is a super quick and super easy technique to shift your energies and regain control of yourself and your breath. I'm asking you what happens when we are in a shock or angry or fearful? We change breathing patterns and if you usually have control over your breathing you also have a fair amount of control over your emotion, That's reality. Hence if you get remotely triggered by daily tests and I call them daily tests because we get triggered every day in every way to show us where we need to work on ourselves to get in our authentic self, Yeah? So to come back to the breath, When and if you get triggered by a particular situation, Often happens that you move your breath on the top of your lungs, Reducing your lungs capacity to a minimum level and for this reason impeding oxygen from circulating freely in your brain resulting in a poor ability of brain function at optimal level, Right? Does that sound familiar to you? Does that happen to you too? This happens to me when I'm tired, When I'm exhausted, I had a poor night's sleep and usually it's always related to sleep and I'd say my my child challenges me for a particular situation, I get triggered because he's also tired or he doesn't want to collaborate for something or maybe you can relate to this one, Sometimes we get cut off on the street, Almost resulting in a car crash, Get that suspension in the breath, We're getting apnea with our breath. What to do on this very much likely to happen episode of everyday life? Because we have the power to imprint our brain with an easy way out, Which is breathing. Breathing is free, Is accessible at any time to anyone unless there's a particular health condition and it's quite easy if you get in a loop of exercising your lung capacity quite often that as a result you get surprised of how much that will impact your life positively of course and I'm not crushing with any revelation here, I'm just sharing stuff that has been going on for forever but we forget how simple it is and easy it can be if you want and how much these tiny things can really change your daily activities for the better. So let's get to us now, Shall we? Shall we be doing a little practice and if you're with me you can find a comfortable sit, If you're on the ground, Cross-legged or kneeling, However you can be with your body in ease, Feel all your muscles melting on the ground, You can also be sitting on the chair and I would recommend to have your feet nice and grounded and as you close your eyes or keep a soft gaze to your heart center, Try to visualize your spine from your tailbone pointing on the ground or on a pillow and feel that gentle lift from your tailbone all the way up to the crown of your head and match your inhale with the lift of your spine and your exhale with your shoulders relaxing a little bit more, Your elbows relaxing a little bit more, Your knees relaxing a little bit more and now with me big inhale, Open your mouth and audible exhale, Two more like this, Big inhale, Don't be afraid of making a sound exhale it out, That will help release tension in the jaw and another one inhale, Whatever tension you're holding on, Inhale it up, Your chance, Exhale let it go, Do one more if you need to, Otherwise let's start breathing through our nose inhale and exhale through the nose, Inhale filling the belly, Expanding, Exhale emptying, Letting go, Inhale create space, Exhale ground a little bit more, Feel more on your own time and when you inhale, Imagine you are inhaling life force energy that fills yourself with light, With positive energies and when you exhale, Let go of your analytic brain for now, Let go of the programming, Your mind being on the future, Just sink in the present, Come with me in the present, Do one more on your own time, Go through visualizing the light, The energy and let go what doesn't serve you right now, In the here and now unless you're pregnant you can practice this breathing technique, If you are pregnant I would just recommend to keep your retention to a maximum of 2-3 seconds okay, So with me we're gonna inhale for a count of four, We're gonna hold the breath for a count of five and exhale for a count of six or even eight if you want to, Let's do the first one together, Let's all synchronize our breath by exhaling now, Inhale 1 2 3 4 hold the breath 2 3 4 5 exhale 6 5 4 3 2 1 one more inhale, Hold the breath, Exhale 2 more inhale, Hold the breath, Exhale inhale, Hold the breath, Exhale all the air out, Come back to a normal breathing pattern, Notice and how the quality of your presence has shifted right now notice the quality of your thoughts, Notice the overall presence of your persona, Notice any psychosomatic shift happening, Any vibration, Any tingling sensation and whenever you're ready you can open your eyes, Notice how you are perceiving your surrounding right now compared to the beginning of this practice and if you like, You don't have to do that, But if you like you can grab your journal and note just briefly what are the situation in which you can use this technique and we've done just four rounds and with just four rounds but even just three, How many of those situation that triggers you can be avoided, Just ask yourself this very simple question and you can share with me in the comments, There's no judgment here in this community, There's just growing together and inspiring each other, So you can share in the comments any good stuff coming out of this or just make my day, Okay so thanks for now and I'll see you in the next one, Bye