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Breath Our Key to Connection

Breath is the key to life and to our connection to the earth.


It is one of the best methods we have to come back to ourselves, to connect
with others and to be in the present moment.

Inhale: Taking on of form


Exhale: Dissolving Form

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IN-spiration EX-piration

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Each of us has a breathing signature that is a combination of


structural, habitual, familial and cultural influences.
The circumstances of our birth and how we are tended when we take those
first breaths starts the development of our breathing signature.
As embryos in the womb of our mother, we are attuned to her rhythms and
receive oxygen and other nutrients through the umbilical cord. When we are
born, we have not really fully completed gestation and need the connection
of others (especially mom) to teach our systems how to self-regulate. This
is a physiological as well as emotional need.
We literally learn how to breathe by attuning to the rhythm and
pattern of our mothers breathing.
Your body exists to be in service to your needs as a human. As we grow,
our structure develops to support us.
Insults and injuries to the system can have a long lasting effect on how we
allow ourselves to breathe. For example respiratory infections, pneumonia,
breaking a rib all can affect our breathing signature.
The good news is that once you become aware of your breath
patterns, you have the power to change them for the better.
Your diaphragm is the main muscle of respiration and it also gets a lot of
assistance from the intercostal muscles between the ribs.

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We often think of breathing as an in-out or up-down kind of movement. In


reality, during an inhale, your lungs expand in all directions. The diaphragm

When you inhale, your diaphragm lowers and widens to allow for expansion
of your lungs. At the end of an inhale, your diaphragm naturally rises to
assist in expelling the air from your lungs.

acts as a brake to control how much the lungs expand downward. The lower
floating ribs move up like bucket handles to allow space for the expansion.
When you lay flat on your back, you lose about 30% of your lung capacity.
Bend up your knees and you get most of it back.
Why You Should Breathe Through Your Nose As Much As Possible:
Breathing through your nose warms and filters the air before it reaches
your lungs. This is important for your immune system. Many germs and
toxins can be stopped by the filtration of your nose before they get deeper
system.
Breathing through your nose helps to balance your oxygen/CO2 levels.
CO2 is a master regulator for our internal health. Breathing through your
mouth makes it more difficult to use the oxygen in your system.
Learning to consciously connect with your breath, to slow it down, to breathe
through your nose as much as possible is a powerful method to bring you
into present moment awareness.

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From The Power Of Now by Eckhart Tolle

When you become identified more with the timeless inner body
than with the outer body, when presence becomes your normal
mode of consciousness and past and future no longer dominate your
attention, you do not accumulate time anymore in your psyche and
in the cells of the body. The accumulation of time as the
psychological burden of past and future greatly impairs the cells
capacity for self-renewal. So, if you inhabit the inner body, the outer
body will grow old at a much slower rate, and even when it does,
your timeless essence will shine through the outer form, and you
will not give the appearance of an old person ~

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Thank you for joining me for this discussion of Breathing.

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Heres to a wildly thriving life!

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