Benefits of Breathwork

Physical

• increases energy and vitality

• strengthens core and improves posture

• relieves chronic pain (can be used as temporary pain management or reduces or eliminates pain completely)

• blood oxygenation (note that cancer cells cannot survive in a fully oxygenated environment)

• diaphragmatic breathing massages internal organs and helps with digestion

• improves circulation which reduces strain on the heart

• increases lung capacity

• significantly aids detoxification (can help purify lungs from smoking)

• significant stress and cortisol reduction (many chronic illnesses are linked to stress)

Emotional

• helps to connect with and release repressed and suppressed emotions such as anger, sadness, fear, etc.

• being stuck in emotions leads to avoidance and numbing; this practice supports moving through them which creates the ability to be more present and live more fully

• feeling emotions reduces the manifestation of psychosomatic illnesses and dis-ease in the body

• encourages expression of what has been unconsciously held in

• helps to get in touch with childlike nature (laughter, play)

• facilitates moving through trauma which can create a feeling of lightness and liberation from the past

Mental

• opens black and white thinking up to seeing many possibilities

• reduces insomnia and improves quality of sleep

• enhances focus/concentration

• increases oxygen flow to the brain which reduces brain fog

• can access meditative states more efficiently and easily than through meditation

• helps to slow down a busy mind to the point of no thought which leads to states of ease and calmness

• improves cognitive clarity and the ability to integrate insights

• shifts automatic thinking patterns (ruminating, stuck in one viewpoint) to an expanded and higher perspective

• raises the vibration of thoughts (from negative to more positive)