Breathwork involves a series of nasal or mouth breathing techniques. Those who engage in such practices gain access to what is going on within different aspects of their being. This can evoke life-changing 'ah-ha' moments, shed light on perceived obstacles in our lives, strengthen relationships, and preciptate changes in career and all kinds of situations. the question is, why does the opportunity present in our lives? What if everything only has perfect timing?
The Sufi poet Rumi echos, "What you seek is seeking you." Yet, it is not always obvious until the lightbulb goes on inside. The courage to explore, be brave and vulnerable, happens with perfect timing.
We can ask ourselves "who am I?" before breathwork experiences and discover how far we have come after a session, even a series of sessions, a retreat, a course or facilitator trainings. Nothing real changes yet how we feel about who we have always been, shifts. Extensive breathwork shows me that perceived obstacles are themselves the Path to emotional release, deeper awareness, understanding and much more. It brings me face to face with who I AM. Notice 12 ways breathwork empowers me:
1. I finally grasp things that had previously eluded me
We all have puzzles in our lives that we exist to solve, events that do not seem to make sense, situations that appear and disappear or even outcomes that evoke confusion or negative emotion. Every breathwork session allows me to grow conscious of intimate details that join key dots. Our lives are like movies. We are actors, directors and scriptwriters and gradually gain access to insights from each role play. One can no longer lie to oneself when one is privy to the truth. No other practice I have experienced precipitates such clarity.
2. I uncover core beliefs that had been running me
Like many people, at a very young age, I developed unconscious beliefs that created patterns of behaviour later in my life. Breathwork gives me access to events from the creator of each scenario. Thus, I re-experience emotions and pivotal moments that are like waterfalls that trigger new levels of healing.
3. I now feel more confident speaking my truth
Over a period of many years, I had shared some energetic insights in my books, but generally kept these experiences to myself. Breathwork further opens my perception, gives me access to streams of consciousness and enables me to gain new insight into the energetic flow through and around me. Imagine your sense of past, present and future run together and allow you to truly savor all this moment offers.
4. It enables me to own disowned anger
The cultures and situations of our upbringing ingrain morals, ethics and other behaviours. breathwork helped me discover to my surprise that I had a lot of disowned anger that was repressed and in need of release. Through training I learned a variety of techniques that facilitate effective letting go on a whole new level. In my body, I grew privy to pain from betrayal, abandonment that relfected what I had actually done to myself.
5. I strengthen ability to tune into the Soul
Breathwork sessions, combined with regular meditation, empower me to pay closer attention to my Soul. I feel more deeply, recognize intuition is the language of the soul so I act more consistently on that (as opposed to acting on the logical mind which I was taught to do). The more I let go of what is not me, the more I affect the rising of my kundalini and energetic journey from hell to heaven (bliss).
6. I am no longer tone-deaf
Intervals are the spaces between events. For an extended period, I did not notice the intervals. My perception was limited to recognizing sounds of events in a linear way. Breathwork guided me to feel at one with the breath. I came to see we need an ear, an eardrum and nervous system to hear and recently, I detected something subtle joins all perceived events. Vibrations can exist in air but unless we perceive the vibrational intervals, they go unnoticed. Breathwork allows me to stop jumping between events and flow as the energy that is also the intervals. I feel interconnectedness on a whole new level; how flowers go with buzzing bees, why plants go with water and sunshine, why human interdependence with trees goes far deeper than exchanges of oxygen and carbon dioxide.
7. I sense new levels of intimacy in relationships
This goes way beyond personal, professional, and friend-relationships. It is a vision that recognizes all humans are interconnected with all things. Only as we tune into the energy flow of relationships are we aware of the over-reaching melody and harmony everywhere. We can even come to see waves of energy like strands of webs on Earth, into the cosmos and connecting this and other universes.
8. I deepen self-love and acceptance
Breathwork is seemingly growing more popular with well-known people like Anthony Robbins working with Dan Brule and other celebrities getting their own breathwork therapists. This said, breathwork came into my life through synchronicity, at a moment when my body was ready to purge itself of thought forms it had outgrown. This is ultimately about learning to love myself and see my growing love for myself reflected in the world around me. At some point it hit that everything feels like a message about love,or a call for love and appreciation. The more I love and appreciate others, the more I realize to love and appreciate myself. We are One.
9. I gain new clarity
Breathwork is like a conduit or direct channel of energy to and from my Soul. I discover I can lay down and immerse in a session to readily obtain answers from my higher more expanded being. The impulse to reach outside myself for answers is quiting down.
10. I stand more in personal power
Gaining insight on emotional trauma is a great way to show ourselve that thoughts begin and end in the mind. This is a wonderful way to demonstrate I am safe and protected right where I am and also the source of forgiveness that liberates me from any thoughts that bind. Sensing energy fields and what goes on in 'Covert ways' is true freedom.
11. I know selective awareness is a choice
Many people seek spiritual connections and extra-sensory perception. This is something I have always felt and never lost but often hid out of fear. Breathwork helps me feel the humor in the challenges I perceive and the wisdom available in grounding in different countries, environments and situations. I am able to see from a more expansive vantage point the game of life. From the view of continuous stream of consciousness, I am the cosmic consciousness revealing layers of what I am ready energetically to integrate. Breathwork opens me up to see wholeness in every experience and the choice to be aware of our full light, optimum functioning or reduced existence. When ready we can expand and blossom into more potential.
12. I am no longer emotionally- detached from life
Breathwork offers me a window into some very disturbing and traumatic experiences that led me to understand why I chose to experience a fear of life, a fear of being rejected, mistreated, fear of being honest and candid about what I perceive to feel good and right and fear of speaking truth. Rather than continuing to be diplomatic and selectively numbing out, I choose instead to feel and express the full gamut of emotions, to create healthy boundaries and share insights to empower others to feel just as enlivened and uplifted. This enables me to deepen my experience of what it is to be truly human in a multidimensional world.