Breathe your way to Relaxation

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Dear friends,

 

We all know the biggest killer of modern world and we get attacked

by it day in and out without knowing that we have a solution right

in our own breaths.

 

Stress is our emotional reaction to any given thought. We have very

little control over our thoughts. If we are not careful with the

sharp weapon called our " Mind " we could very well be subjected to

its destructive effects rather than constructive ones. That's what

actually happens in most psycho-somatic illnesses and stress related

disorders.

 

How do we know that we are stressed? The commonest symptom of mild

stress could be changes in appetite (over or under-eating),

disturbed and un-refreshing sleep, irritability and occasional

emotional outbursts, listlessness, nervousness, lack of interest in

work, difficulty in concentration and forgetfulness.

 

Many a times it is not the mind but our body that gets affected

first. Unexplained backache, repeated headaches, tendency to

repeated cold , cough and throat infection are some of the most

common problems directly related to the stress.

 

Of course, we all know about hypertension, cardiac problems,

acidity, diabetes and hoards of other psychosomatic illnesses which

are directly related to the stress.

 

It is amazing how easily we ignore our own system to the point of

break-down while trying to take care of every thing. Even our

vehicle gets much better treatment and services at times than our

physical body!

 

Though it is imperative to go to the root cause of the stress but it

is not always practical. Because when we are stressed out our

thinking capacity becomes slightly stunted.

 

Meditation under these circumstances is also a futile effort. So

what do we do?

Just change the way you breathe.

 

Don't believe me? Try the following:-

 

Try and remember an incidence when you felt extremely angry or

disturbed. Now close your eyes and re-live those moments for some

time….. Feel the emotions that you felt at that time. Observe the

effect on your body now. Also observe the changes in your breathing

pattern.

 

Simply observe your breath……. Now regulate your breath…… Count

slowly 1-2-3-4- while breathing in and again count 1-2-3-4- while

breathing out. Take an equal quantity of breath in and take equal

quantity of breath out. Continue just for 5-7 such breaths and

notice the difference in your state of relaxation.

 

Now try and think of the same incidence that disturbed you before

this breathing exercise and you will that this time it will fail to

make any significant negative impact on your body.

 

Isn't it amazing? Our emotions directly affect our breathing pattern

and the reverse is also true. The moment we change our breathing

pattern suddenly we start feeling different. Our Yogis knew these

techniques very well. Patanjali has described it beautifully in his

famous book, Yogsutra.

 

Feeling tired and lethargic by now? Do rapid and fast breathing and

see how refreshed you feel!

 

 

Dr. Neeta Pandya, [b.H.M.S.]

I am a founder member of Mumbai based organization International

Academy Of Life.

After practicing as consulting homoeopath, I have branched out into

alternative healing, meditation and Yoga teaching.

 

We conduct workshops for individuals and corporate like Asian Paints

and Taj, etc. Our specialization remains instant techniques of

meditation and relaxation.

 

I am Reikie Master, Yoga and Meditation teacher, Pranik healer,

Clinical Hypnotherapist and past life therapist. I have evolved a

special system of healing called integrated Healing.

 

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