Breathe Inner Peace and Calm - Breathwork and Prana Control for Wellbeing

In Sanskrit, "prana" means life energy and "yama" means control. The practice of pranayama involves breathing exercises and patterns. You purposely inhale, exhale, and hold your breath in a specific sequence. In yoga, pranayama is used with other practices like physical postures (asanas) and meditation (dhyana).

Whilst breathwork or practice is used to control prana. These are not the same thing. Your prana sits on your breath but is not your breath. Your breath is the vehicle. Your prana the passenger. Retention of breath is also a way to control the prana in the body. Prana is a subtle energy that is within the oxygen. It is also within food, sunlight, water, and the air. The body absorbs prana from the elements that contain it and uses it in the body for every function that the body performs. Prana is the life force that makes us feel alive!

The body has a built-in stress reliever. Deep breathing is not just relaxing; it's also been scientifically proven to affect the heart, the brain, digestion, the immune system. Research has shown that breathing exercises can have immediate effects by altering the pH of the blood or changing blood pressure.

Breathwork supports so many of the challenges everyone experiences. It reduces stress creates feelings of openness, love, peace, gratitude, clarity, communication, and connection. Breathwork also helps release trauma or mental, physical, and emotional blocks and anxiety, depression, fear, grief, and anger.

It is no wonder that breathwork is a popular healing modality in Western and Eastern cultures.

With this knowledge, none of us needs to fall victim to the ailments of stress anymore, as we all have access to conscious breathing and the ancient practice of pranayama without restriction. If we didn't have our breath, we would not be alive. 

This 15-minute guided meditation is a gentle and straightforward introduction to bringing awareness to your breathing, observing your natural breathing rhythm, and its relationship to your mind and consciousness. It is a great place to start and feel how your breath and breath awareness has a natural and powerful effect on your nervous system, mind and overall health.

Let's meditate together.