Healing Begins Now Community Group
This group is for people who are looking for a place of serenity and can engage in a variety of tools such as meditation,thought change, prayer, affirmation, music and more that will help you handle stress and illness in your life while on the journey to healing. Life can be quite hectic, and by stopping in a few minutes a day, you can allow HEALING TO BEGIN NOW.
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How good is YOUR breathing?
Take our Free Breathing Test and see!
Is the way you breathe making you sick, stealing your energy, hampering your productivity or shortening your life? Take 20 minutes to find out. Receive your answers and our recommendations immediately.
Could any of your health, wellness, or performance goals be hindered by incorrect breathing?
Do you have restricted, shallow, under, or overbreathing?
Do you have or suspect a breathing problem?
Take this free breathing test. Then learn how easy it is feel and perform better!
You will receive answers and recommendations to your home or office email address.
Visualization is most effective when coupled with deep, controlled breathing to help you get into the proper mental state.
One of the best ways to learn how to breathe properly is to learn and practice the Complete Breath. Its name indicates that you are using all of the lungs and breathing apparatus to their natural maximum extent. This is a fundamental breathing exercise that you should practice every day.
Performing the Complete Breath on a regular basis is a very effective technique.
Adding targeted visualization and imagery is even more powerful.
Following is a very powerful breathing and visualization technique that is recommended. It helps develop robust health and improves vital capacity. It can also be used to help reduce stress and relieve chronic pain. It helps maximize your energy levels and can be used as a quick "pick me up" when you feel yourself starting to fade. This movement not only enhances your breathing, it also expands your internal energy.
Perform this exercise while standing with feet shoulder width apart. This exercise is designed to enhance your breathing and expand your chi, or internal power.
Step 1: Start with hands hanging at your sides. Inhale deeply for a count of 4. As you inhale, move your arms out to the sides, palms up. Continue moving arms over your head until your fingers almost touch. Stretch your arms out wide, then up very high so that you really expand the chest and lengthen the spine. When your hands are directly above your head, your palms are should be facing down.
Step 2: Exhale to a count of 6. As you exhale, push palms straight down in front of you. Imagine you are helping to push the air out of your lungs until they are completely emptied. Push your palms down to the level of your abdomen. Then move hands to your sides. Repeat.
Step 3: Once you have the basic breathing and movement pattern down, add this visualization:
With the Inhalation: Imagine clean, white, healing, purifying air entering first your lungs, then your entire body. The air is sparkling with energy. With every breath, you pull more of that energy into you.
With the Exhalation: Imagine a gray, black cloud of negative energy, toxins and impurities being expelled from your body.
As you continue breathing, imagine your lungs are becoming cleaner and clearer as you take in clear air and sparkling energy and force out impurities, toxins, and negative energy.
Your lungs are now filled with healing blue air, like the relaxing beautiful blue of a clear sky on a perfect day.
After you have your lungs feeling great, extend the healing blue color throughout your body. If you have a spot that is particularly tight or painful, breathe the healing energy into that spot.
This is a great exercise to do on a daily basis. You can use it whenever you need an energy boost or need to de-stress.
Effortless Deep Breathing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh_C4LBBMrY
How good is YOUR breathing?
Take our Free Breathing Test and see!
Is the way you breathe making you sick, stealing your energy, hampering your productivity or shortening your life? Take 20 minutes to find out. Receive your answers and our recommendations immediately.
Could any of your health, wellness, or performance goals be hindered by incorrect breathing?
Do you have restricted, shallow, under, or overbreathing?
Do you have or suspect a breathing problem?
Take this free breathing test. Then learn how easy it is feel and perform better!
You will receive answers and recommendations to your home or office email address.
Visualization is most effective when coupled with deep, controlled breathing to help you get into the proper mental state.
One of the best ways to learn how to breathe properly is to learn and practice the Complete Breath. Its name indicates that you are using all of the lungs and breathing apparatus to their natural maximum extent. This is a fundamental breathing exercise that you should practice every day.
Performing the Complete Breath on a regular basis is a very effective technique.
Adding targeted visualization and imagery is even more powerful.
Following is a very powerful breathing and visualization technique that is recommended. It helps develop robust health and improves vital capacity. It can also be used to help reduce stress and relieve chronic pain. It helps maximize your energy levels and can be used as a quick "pick me up" when you feel yourself starting to fade. This movement not only enhances your breathing, it also expands your internal energy.
Perform this exercise while standing with feet shoulder width apart. This exercise is designed to enhance your breathing and expand your chi, or internal power.
Step 1: Start with hands hanging at your sides. Inhale deeply for a count of 4. As you inhale, move your arms out to the sides, palms up. Continue moving arms over your head until your fingers almost touch. Stretch your arms out wide, then up very high so that you really expand the chest and lengthen the spine. When your hands are directly above your head, your palms are should be facing down.
Step 2: Exhale to a count of 6. As you exhale, push palms straight down in front of you. Imagine you are helping to push the air out of your lungs until they are completely emptied. Push your palms down to the level of your abdomen. Then move hands to your sides. Repeat.
Step 3: Once you have the basic breathing and movement pattern down, add this visualization:
With the Inhalation: Imagine clean, white, healing, purifying air entering first your lungs, then your entire body. The air is sparkling with energy. With every breath, you pull more of that energy into you.
With the Exhalation: Imagine a gray, black cloud of negative energy, toxins and impurities being expelled from your body.
As you continue breathing, imagine your lungs are becoming cleaner and clearer as you take in clear air and sparkling energy and force out impurities, toxins, and negative energy.
Your lungs are now filled with healing blue air, like the relaxing beautiful blue of a clear sky on a perfect day.
After you have your lungs feeling great, extend the healing blue color throughout your body. If you have a spot that is particularly tight or painful, breathe the healing energy into that spot.
This is a great exercise to do on a daily basis. You can use it whenever you need an energy boost or need to de-stress.
Effortless Deep Breathing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh_C4LBBMrY
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Even though I can't access the links now, the text of this post is very helpful
Additional plug ins needed it says for the test.
The video link at bottom says this-
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Sorry about that.
xo Sun