Breathwork Quotes

The mind and the breath are the king and queen of human consciousness".

Being calm is a skill that starts with proper breathing. Dr. Tully taught me that breathing deeply and regularly is not only the key to remaining calm, but also instantly connects us to a higher vibration.

The key experiential approach I now use to induce non-ordinary states of consciousness and gain access to the unconscious and superconscious psyche is Holotropic Breathwork, which I have developed jointly with Christina over the last fifteen years. This seemingly simple process, combining breathing, evocative music and other forms of sound, body work, and artistic expression, has an extraordinary potential for opening the way for exploring the entire spectrum of the inner world.

Remember! To breathe is vital and your birth right, not a chore.

Your breath is your power. Whether you realize it or not, you derive all your personal power from your breath.

Your energy body is your personal frequency. It is as unique to you as your fingerprint.

The only truth, is infinity. The flower, the one sacred breath and the beauty- all are one. We awaken, we are the one. We see our true divinity. Oh, sacred one, we truly are one. Take the sacred step. Breathe the infinite scent. Return to who you are, and awaken in this state.

Although our brain and nervous system only represent two percent of our body weight, they use a full 20 percent of oxygen we consume. When our breathing is dysfunctional oxygen supply is limited, and the conscious mind will work a little slower and perceive incoming stimuli as slightly more stressful and threatening

One of the quickest ways to feel happy is through the pranayama technique called circular breathing. When you equalize the lengths of your inhale and exhale, you balance the sympathetic and parasympathetic sides of your nervous system.

In the ancient Indian Upanishads, the answer to the question “Who am I?” is “Tat tvam asi.” This succinct Sanskrit sentence means literally: “Thou art That,” or “You are Godhead.” It suggests that we are not namarupa—name and form (body/ego), but that our deepest identity is with a divine spark in our innermost being (Atman) that is ultimately identical with the supreme universal principle (Brahman). And Hinduism is not the only religion that has made this discovery. The revelation concerning the identity of the individual with the divine is the ultimate secret that lies at the mystical core of all great spiritual traditions. The name for this principle could thus be the Tao, Buddha, Cosmic Christ, Allah, Great Spirit, Sila, and many others.

There’s so much to do in Bali that you may feel a little overwhelmed when it comes to packing. On a recent trip, I hiked a volcano, went island hopping and snorkelling, went to yoga and breathwork classes, got massages, visited waterfalls, dined at upscale restaurants, spent an afternoon at a beach club, wandered through rice paddies and visited temples.

For every in-breath there is an out-breath, and as these two currents meet in the nose, a fine microclimate is set up.

I INHALE THE PRESENT MOMENT AND ALLOW MYSELF TO EXPERIENCE THE PERFECTION OF ALL THAT IS.

I CHANNEL THE ENERGY AND THE WISDOM OF THE UNIVERSE FOR THE HIGHEST GOOD OF ALL.

Your confidence, your endurance, the vitality you require to live your life, the very essence of your life itself and your chi, or life energy, are stored in your breath.

I am deeply nourished by the energy that flows through the universe.

I trust the divine unfolding of the universe as it flows through me now in this precious life of mine.

I am a clear and perfect channel for the precise amount of energy I need in this moment.

It takes a lot of energy to suppress, repress, tamp down or try to keep a lid on what’s really going on. As you breathe, you create a safe space to discover yourself.

As you breathe, you let go of ego interference and enter the realm of experiencing your own beautiful soul.

Failing to exhale properly is a common symptom of high blood pressure.

Processing other people’s energy is a huge, hidden cause of much anxiety and depression.

Impaired breathing, such as short and forced exhalation, makes the sympathetic part more active, resulting in shallow breathing, a tense body, increased stress, and fight or flight behaviour.

Your energy body includes the bioenergetic field surrounding your physical body. It contains your chakras, the acupuncture system and your breath. Your pranamaya kosha infuses your physical body with life force.

Human Technology suggests that meditative experience can be deeper if preceded by stimulation and energizing our bodies and breath.We do this through "meridian exercises", an effective way of moving our bodies to improve our breath-work and to enhance our awareness while energizing our bodies.

One is in the cultural taboo against rounded bellies. Fashion dictates that both men and women must have flat bellies. The gaunt fashion-model look still has power over certain segments of the population, as does the ramrod-straight military-inspired look for men.

MATCHING YOGA-BASED STRATEGIES TO GOALS FOR INTERVENTION Challenge Goal Chair-based Yoga Posture Feeling frozen, rigid, holding on to things (hoarding, constipation) Letting go Forward Fold Anxiety, tension, panic Decreasing hyperarousal Neck Rolls, Ratio Breathing, Belly Breathing Isolation Building relationship Mirrored mindful integrated movement; group practice Defensiveness, avoidance of intimacy Opening boundaries Sun Breaths Dissociation Grounding Mountain pose, noticing feet on floor Feeling off-balance, conflicting feelings Centering Seated Twist, Seated Triangle, Seated Eagle, balanced movement, bringing awareness to core Emotionally overwhelmed, unprotected Containment Child’s pose (adapted) Stuck, unable to make decisions or take action, unable to defend self Unfreezing; reorganizing active defenses Movement-based postures Somatic dissociation, emotional numbing Awareness of body Any mindfulness practice Reenactments, revictimization Boundaries Sensing body, creating physical boundaries Feeling helpless, disempowered Empowerment (feeling core power) Lengthening spine, Leg lifts, moving to standing posture Emotionally numb or shut down, low energy Decreasing hypoarousal Activating postures (standing), breathwork

Once you get the message from a feeling (say, “I’m scared”), you may want to make it disappear. Breathing is the fastest and most effective way to do this. Take a few big breaths into the physical sensations of any emotion, and watch what happens. Many times, that’s all it takes to move it out of your body. I have witnessed this done a thousand times now, but it still moves me to see the look on people’s faces when they learn that they are the master of their feelings.

The major problems with feelings is that we tend to ignore them, hide them, or let them linger longer than they need to. Conscious breathing can become a most useful ally in learning to handle emotions. There

The unpleasant qualities of emotions come from not letting them through, from holding on to them by not participating with them. By directly participating with feelings, largely through breathing with them, you can rid yourself of much unnecessary negativity.

Frequently the whole book would boil down to a single breathing practice, with an entire philosophy wrapped around it. Sometimes, maddeningly, a book would spend two hundred pages promoting the spiritual value of a particular style of breathing, only to say at the end that it could not be taught in a book.

This is why if you corrected only this one problem and did nothing else, you would make major improvements in your mental, emotional, and physical functioning. We will use correct diaphragmatic breathing as the jumping-off place for all the activities that follow. If

According to one medical researcher, poor breathing plays a role in more than 75 percent of the ills people bring to their doctors. In most cases, poor diaphragmatic breathing is the culprit. On

At any rate, the woman found her way to a longtime colleague of mine, Dr. Loic Jassy, and engaged in several sessions of breathwork activities. Within a month the disease disappeared and has not returned. It is a comment on modern medicine that no one in the research project expressed any interest in how she had healed herself.

She reasoned that since the disease affected her lungs, learning to breathe properly might help. She asked the research team at Stanford to teach her, but no one could tell her what healthy breathing was!

I’d heard about a practice called Holotropic Breathwork created by a Czech psychiatrist named Stanislav Grof. The main focus wasn’t to reboot the autonomic nervous system or heal the body; it was to rewire the mind.

One of the therapists that has financially profited from the lore about archetypes is Dr Stanislav Grof, controversial for his LSD psychotherapy, and more recently, on account of his Holotropic Breathwork TM. The commercial trademark is surely indication of an investment that raises questions. Dr Grof describes in one of his books his vision of archetypes (including the anima) while under the influence of 200 milligrams of MDMA (known as ecstasy). That is not proof of archetypal significances, but rather a strong indication of confusions prevailing in alternative therapy. Archetypes are big business, whether or not they carry the credentials of LSD or Ecstasy.

I FEEL THE DIVINE PRESENCE WITHIN, CREATING PERFECT HEALTH INSIDE AND OUT.

I AM CONSCIOUS OF MYSELF AS A LIVING, BREATHING BEING.

This is a book about subtle energy for those who can’t bring themselves to ‘believe in’ subtle energy. It is a book of ideas and practices, many of which come from traditions which are usually called vitalist, for sceptics of vitalism. It is an exploration and a celebration of that set of feelings which are undeniably, irrefutably real to consciousness, and appear to stem from ‘subtle energies’, and the schemes of belief which work best for experiencing, cultivating and manipulating these subtle sensations. It is about learning new languages, the languages of breath and energy-sensing.

Set your timer for 3 minutes. Close your eyes and begin to count your breaths. When the timer alerts you that 3 minutes have passed, make a mental note of the number of breaths you took. Continue to sit for another minute or so and take notice of how you feel. Be careful not to impose ideas about how you think you should feel. Be honest. This is important.

Breathwork is one of the two royal roads to pre-verbal consciousness (the other being psychedelic therapy), to the healing of those traumas that no verbal technique can reach, because these memories are not coded in words or symbols.

recommend including in your practice: breathwork, visualization, and sound. All three have benefits, but the simplest way to differentiate them is to know that you do breathwork for the physical benefits—to find stillness and balance, to calm yourself; visualization for the psychological benefits—to heal the past and prepare for the future; and chanting for the psychic benefits—to connect with your deepest self and the universe, for real purification.

A daily conscious breathing practice creates space for your presence, where your intuitive self can emerge and truly flourish.

Along the way, I will introduce you to three very different types of meditation that I recommend including in your practice: breathwork, visualization, and sound. All three have benefits, but the simplest way to differentiate them is to know that you do breathwork for the physical benefits—to find stillness and balance, to calm yourself; visualization for the psychological benefits—to heal the past and prepare for the future; and chanting for the psychic benefits—to connect with your deepest self and the universe, for real purification.

Train your brain with daily breathwork and meditation 5–20 minutes per day.

Beginning in 1973, Stanislav Grof, the Czech émigré psychiatrist who is one of the pioneers of LSD-assisted psychotherapy, served as scholar in residence at Esalen, but he had conducted workshops there for years before. Grof, who has guided thousands of LSD sessions, once predicted that psychedelics “would be for psychiatry what the microscope is for biology or the telescope is for astronomy. These tools make it possible to study important processes that under normal circumstances are not available for direct observation.” Hundreds came to Esalen to peer through that microscope, often in workshops Grof led for psychotherapists who wanted to incorporate psychedelics in their practices. Many if not most of the therapists and guides now doing this work underground learned their craft at the feet of Stan Grof in the Big House at Esalen. Whether such work continued at Esalen after LSD was made illegal is uncertain, but it wouldn’t be surprising: the place is perched so far out over the edge of the continent as to feel beyond the reach of federal law enforcement. But at least officially, such workshops ended when LSD became illegal. Grof began teaching instead something called Holotropic Breathwork, a technique for inducing a psychedelic state of consciousness without drugs, by means of deep, rapid, and rhythmic breathing, usually accompanied by loud drumming. Yet Esalen’s role in the history of psychedelics did not end with their prohibition. It became the place where people hoping to bring these molecules back into the culture, whether as an adjunct to therapy or a means of spiritual development, met to plot their campaigns.

With Breath Awareness, the breath breathes you; with Conscious Breathing, you breathe the breath.

Quantum physics points at something we all sense intuitively: that our conscious thoughts have the power to affect our actions. This book will teach you the mental precision needed to harness this power. This all sounds nice, but what does quantum physics and all this mind talk have to do with your daily life? Well, have you ever asked yourself, Who is this person I’ve become? or What can I do that could help me change and or manage my problems? Am I actually happy and at peace? How do my thoughts, feelings, and choices impact the world around me? Searching for these answers often goes two ways. Perhaps you believe you’re a prepackaged, preprogrammed genetic avatar. The fates have decided what will happen to you—there’s no fighting it. Or you believe you have some level of influence over the quality of your life, perhaps through that elusive magic elixir, that exercise regimen, that new diet, or that meditation or breathwork you just did. Or maybe you do all these things and just hope for the best—because they’re healthy and good for you and must do something, right? And you may feel good for a few hours, but what happens when things aren’t going so well? What do you do when your spouse walks mud into the carpet, that person you can’t stand at work sends you a nasty email, or your best friend has a breakdown? The 5-Step Neurocycle Good mind-management skills can take you beyond healthy but short-lived mindfulness practices, such as meditation, which help in the moment to calm and prepare the brain but often don’t address the main issues behind your thinking. Meditation may bring awareness, but what do you do with that awareness? Awareness, not managed correctly, can do more harm than good.

First, you prep that amazing brain of yours, and this is where mindfulness, meditation, breathwork, tapping, and so on are essential. You can do some breathwork (my favorite, because of its scientific base and effectiveness, is the Wim Hof method)3 or something similar. This is a simple, mind-driven action that prepares your mind and optimizes your brain and body, allowing you to calm down enough to react in the most favorable way. Next, you go beyond the mindfulness your preparation has created into directed neuroplasticity through the 5 Steps:

You should breathe through your mouth as often as you eat through your nose! * * * Consequences of chronic mouth breathing: - Face distortion because mouth breathing affects the facial profile. John Mew who pioneered the field of Orthotropics found that the face becomes long and teeth become bucky over time in habitual mouth breathers. - Dental crowding - Tooth decay: This is because mouth becomes very dry overnight from mouth breathing. After 3-4 hours of mouth breathing, the mouth pH becomes more acidic. When teeth are acidic (< pH 5.4 ) they start to deteriorate and tend towards decay. - Anxiety, because when breathing through the mouth, the sympathetic nervous system is activated. The vagus nerve connects the brain to the gut and regulates our stress response. Engaging in relaxation and nose-breathing can help with vagal toning and regulation of the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems. - Gut dysbiosis because of the sympathetic activation making parasympathetic digestion less effective. - Brain fog - Learning difficulties - Night time bedwetting in children

One of the reasons why psychedelics and probably breathwork can be so effective is that people are doing their own heavy lifting. …At least in the type of work that [I do in] clinical research with psychedelics, people come out feeling they have done (rightfully so) the heavy lifting. It’s not like, ‘Oh, I took some pill, and thanks to Pfizer, who was able to figure out a way to manipulate my serotonin system, I’m feeling better. Thanks to Doc So-and-so who knew that I needed Lexapro rather than Prozac.’ It’s like, ‘No, you faced your own demons, dude. You did the hard work. You cried your heart out about that thing you did you don’t feel good about and you came out with a laundry list of what you need to fix with your life, and with this renewed sense because you feel like you’ve earned it.

Some doors only open from the inside. Breath is a way of accessing that door.

If you suffer from anxiety, learning different breathwork techniques will have powerful effects on you.

Being at peace with my past is reflected in my present breathing.

Smiling and breathing practices are synergetic and yield more than the sum for some

Luck is crucial from the first inhale we take as we emerge from our mother's womb to the last exhale we make at the end of 'tour-de-life.

Kissing with a mouth-breather can give the impression that one is about to make love with a vacuum cleaner

might seem like meditation is a fit here, but many people find meditating energizing. So we don’t usually recommend meditating before bed. Breathwork can be nice, though, just concentrating on long, easy breaths: Inhale for a slow count of four, and let the breath fall out in a slow exhale for a count of six. Do this for five to 10 minutes, then relax and breathe normally. You’ll likely find that your breath has “stretched” and become fuller, longer, and easier.

Don Juan said that the sorcerers of antiquity, the inventors of the recapitulation, viewed breathing as a magical, life-giving act and used it, accordingly, as a magical vehicle; the exhalation, to eject the foreign energy left in them during the interaction being recapitulated and the inhalation to pull back the energy that they themselves left behind during the interaction.

Pranayama. Buteyko. Coherent Breathing. Hypoventilation. Breathing Coordination. Holotropic Breathwork. Adhama. Madhyama. Uttama. Kêvala. Embryonic Breath. Harmonizing Breath. The Breath by the Master Great Nothing. Tummo. Sudarshan Kriya.

Vogel makes the prediction, which he stresses is as yet far from established fact, that since living things all have a high water content, the vitality of a person must be in some way related to the rate of respiration. As water moves around the body and through its pores, charges are built.

you do breathwork for the physical benefits—to find stillness and balance, to calm yourself; visualization for the psychological benefits—to heal the past and prepare for the future; and chanting for the psychic benefits—to connect with your deepest self and the universe, for real purification.

Spirituality involves a special kind of relationship between the individual and the cosmos and is, in its essence, a personal and private affair. By comparison, organized religion is institutionalized group activity that takes place in a designated location, a temple or a church, and involves a system of appointed officials who might or might not have had personal experiences of spiritual realities themselves. Once a religion becomes organized, it often completely loses the connection with its spiritual source and becomes a secular institution that exploits human spiritual needs without satisfying them.

Amanda Capobianco who first coined the hashtag #HealingIsTheNewNightlife after moving to Williamsburg in Brooklyn, where she expected to spend late nights listening to bands in grimy dive bars and instead found herself socializing at sound baths, moon circles, and breathwork sessions.

There are times when your only available tools are your mind and your breath.

You can learn how to achieve the highest states of personal enlightenment literally relaxing your mind through your breath.

I breathe in all that comes to me for the highest good.

I inhale the highest and best vibrations. I inhale all the joy of life's blessings.

I now joyfully accept this precious moment. I let go of the habit of overthinking, judging and worrying and shift to being present in this moment. I live in the now.

I breathe in joy, I release stress and tension. I inhale peace, I exhale and let go to my highest good.

I experience my own beingness in this moment breathing.

It is good to be you breathing into your body in this precious lifetime.

I radiate energy and uplift everyone around me.

It is so empowering to know you always have your breath and can alter your state of mind naturally without any medication -- legal or illegal -- through breathing exercises.

One of the simplest free forms of energy is right under your nose -- literally.

As you breathe fully and completely, inhaling and exhaling, noticing the circle of prana in your body, you may observe how you feel more in the present moment than ever before.

As you breathe, you release what ails you. You don’t have to figure it out. You don’t have to remember the story. All you really have to do is give yourself permission to breathe into the possibility that your soul knows when and how to release the trauma for your highest good.

Your breath can take you into a place where you feel so happy, so at one with all that is, that all is naturally forgiven. Pain and suffering simply fall away, and you experience an inner knowledge that everything that has ever happened to you has all been in divine order.

Chi, prana, energy -- whatever you want to call it -- has its own intelligence and will take you wherever your soul calls you.

As you explore your own breath, however, you will start experiencing your own energy body, your own specific frequency.

By changing your breathing patterns, you have the opportunity to create the space where you see your personal story from a higher perspective and let go of the thought patterns that have kept you stuck.

An imbalance in your energy body will eventually filter down to a disturbance in your physical body. That’s because all illnesses and diseases begin in our energy field and filter from the spiritual into the mental, into the emotional, into the energy body and finally into your physical body.

I recommend breathwork because your breath is available to you anytime, anywhere -- no drugs, no natural healing remedy, no practitioner required.

Your breath is the cheapest, easiest, most accessible power tool you have at your disposal to increase your life force.

Here are some examples: Breathwork is a really amazing tool because you can do it anywhere, anytime. Strenuous exercise, or other types of physical activity like going for a walk, running or riding a bicycle. Listening to music, using a weighted blanket, taking a warm or a cold bath, smelling something like essential oils or a flower. Dancing, humming or singing. Socializing, connecting with a loved one and laughing. Getting a massage, simply stretching your body and doing grateful flow exercise are all ways to regulate your nervous system before approaching a financial decision.