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BREATH IS MEDICINE BY JOEL JELEN OF RESET BREATHING
In 2016 I was given an opportunity by Wirral Life magazine to begin highlighting the power of the breath and it ’ s role in improving health and creating wellness .
Hopefully , some of you will have felt the benefits and now appreciate how nature and the breath used correctly , really is pharmacy-free medicine .
For the remainder of you and the magazine ’ s flourishing new audience , whether you were born with a condition that affects your breathing or you subsequently developed one over time , have you thought about a resolution for the remainder of this year to breathe better ?
Irrespective of you acknowledging or not , how your breathing affects your mood , your health and everyday life , how about treating yourself to some more calm , relaxation and energy in 2017 because that ’ s exactly what the breathing techniques that Reset Breathing teach will give you .
We work with companies and organisations as well as offering individual breathing re-training .
In our workshops , we regularly cite how practice of these techniques known as Buteyko , are a really powerful tool in combatting everyday stress in the workplace as well as the home .
When we ’ re feeling stuck or under pressure to make an important decision quickly , it ’ s perfectly natural to react from a place of fear or to become too easily overwhelmed .
Setting intentions and breathing consciously for a few minutes each day can help us break those habits of the mind that hold us back . Just to emphasise , it is literally a few minutes each day .
For example , you may have received an email that really upset you and you were about to reply with a harsh response . Everyone knows the phrase ‘ and breathe ’ but we take advice that a little step further . Try taking yourself off for a twenty minute breather as soon as possible before replying to an email like that .
Stay with the emotion that ’ s in your body , feel it and breathe through it , very gently and silently through the nose and tummy , not analysing the situation but just staying present with your breath and feeling that emotion . Enjoy the calmness and the different perspective that appears .
It ’ s highly likely you ’ ll want to step away from the drama and calmly reply asking not to be forced into making a choice or decision .
The mind is like water . Sometimes it ’ s still and calm like a beautiful lake . Throw in a pebble ( a thought ) and we create a little ripple . At other times , it can be a murky , stormy , rough sea . When it settles , it becomes clear again .
As Bruce Lee once said : “ Be like water making its way through the cracks ... do not be assertive but adjust to the object and you shall find a way around or through it . Empty your mind , be formless , shapeless like water my friend .”
Joel Jelen is a highly experienced and qualified Buteyko breathing re-trainer . He is a fellow & board director of Buteyko Professionals International and the International Academy of Breathing & Health . He is also their retained UK & Ireland PR adviser . www . resetbreathing . com
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