Feeling Overwhelmed? Try These 3 Breathwork Techniques to Help You Find Ease
Breathwork is a way to consciously control your breathing to help you find more mental, emotional, and physical ease. We live hectic lives and it’s important that we make the time to pause…and breathe to find more ease and manage our stress in a healthy way. Releasing the breath and breathing more smoothly will help you push out negative energy and welcome in a sense of calm.
Find a comfortable seat or standing position, let your shoulders fall away from your ears, soften your jaw and soften the space between your brows - then give these breathwork techniques a try!
Energy Boosting Breath.
This breathing technique clears the mind and gives you more energy. The goal is to breathe in a bit more than usual. Inhale through your nose, pause when you are at lung capacity, then take a few tiny breathes in and pause again. Release by exhaling full out of your nose. Repeat three more times.
The Breath of Acceptance
When you’re feeling overwhelmed by stressors in your life take a few moments to try this breathing technique. Holding on to these emotions takes more energy and mental capacity than releasing them. Use this to help you find ease and let go of the negative energy. Take a long deep breath in through the nose, pause, then exhale fully with the sound of hmmm. Repeat three or more times, then follow up with the energy boosting breath.
Reconnecting Breath
It’s important that we root down and come back to our physical body when we’re feeling ungrounded. This breathing technique helps you feel safe and helps you reset. If possible - lay on the ground or yoga mat with your feet on the mat with your knees bent. Place one hand on your heart and one hand on your stomach. Then take a deep breath in through the nose and exhale a bit more out of your mouth. Repeat three or more times.
Square Breathing
This is technique is one of the most common breathwork exercises that’s great to calm the nerves. Breath in through the nose for 4 counts of breath, hold for 4 counts, then exhale out the mouth for 4 counts of breath. Repeat three or more times.
4-7-8 Breathing
Use this technique when you’re feeling anxious. Take a deep breath into your belly for 4 counts of breath, then hold for 7 counts of breath, then exhale our of your mouth for 8 counts of breath. Repeat three or more times.