WHAT IS BREATHWORK?

“Breathing well means breathing more slowly and deeply. Relax,

feel your breathing, and breathe comfortably. Once aware, it
naturally becomes deeper and slower.
– Ilchi Lee”

WHAT IS BREATHWORK?
Breathwork is a breathing exercise to access your innate intelligence
motioned in a rhythmic breathing which balance the mind and body
accordingly. It is a form of meditation which tricks the body and mind.

WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR BODY WHEN YOU DO

BREATHWORK?
Researches had reported, people who continuously practice breathwork
maintain balance between body and mind, slow the pace of the heart, put an
end for stress hormones, and release endorphins to aid healing, boost your
respiratory health alongside reduce symptoms of post-traumatic stress
disorder.

IS THERE SCIENCE BEHIND BREATHWORK?

Yes, studies have found that performing 10 minutes of breathwork per day is
a non-pharmacological course of action to reduce stress, blood pressure,
anxiety alongside enhance cardiovascular health, HRV, pain management,
focus and endurance.
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF BREATHWORK?
There are countless benefits of breathwork, without further ado let’s dive into
them:
1. Increase joy and happiness
Nowadays, many people lack joy and happiness in their life due to busy
schedules and workload but spending time on breathwork during free
time takes control over breathing. You take control of yourself where
the brain waves slow down from thinking deeper creating happiness
and glitter to one’s life.
2. Improve positive self-development
Self development is an important element and aspect each individual
should look through to our life. By having rhythmic breathing you can
feel the deeper side of yourself and nurture a strong relationship with
the inner-self.
3. Improve creativity
Breathwork enhances to relax the mind which results a peaceful state of
mind delivering the ability to think out of box. Everyone posses a
creative self but it requires some effort to interweave with it.
4. Reduce stress, anxiety, anger and depression
Breathwork supports to overcome stress, anxiety, anger and depression
issues also prevents from falling into those traps. In taking deep breaths
activates the parasympathetic nervous system and suppressing the
sympathetic nervous system which slows down the heart rate and
creates an overall impact on your body.
5. Outflow negative thoughts
Everyone tends to have negative thoughts in terms of fear and over
thinking but breathwork provide the healthy positive inner vibe to
dispose the negative thoughts in terms of exhale and move ahead in
life. Outgrowing negative thoughts are much as important as pursuing
towards goals in life
6. Increase the endurance level (boost immune system)
Amount of oxygen rate you intake influence the rate of energy released
to the cells impacting to boost the immune system and the energy levels
especially achieved through nasal breathing.
7. Improve sleep
There are plenty of factors affecting our sleep nowadays from the
digital world to the environment persisting at home but, breathwork
paves the path to release the negative vibes, refresh the mind and attain
a peaceful, clean and clear mind to sleep effectively.
8. Enhance pain management
Breathwork reduces cortisol which reduce the feel of pain such as
chronic pain. It helps to establish the connection between pain and
control and support you to overtake the control of yourself inorder to
control your pain. It’s more of taking control of yourself and your
feelings.
9. Release toxins from the body
Studies has shown that more than 50% of toxins such as carbon dioxide
is exhaled through breathing. This enhances the intake of more oxygen-
rich blood assisting the blood circulatory system. The more purer
substances resist in your body sustains your life longer and healthier.
 10. Enhance digestion
Breathwork increase the blood flow throughout the digestive track and
intestinal activity alongside reducing gas and bloating. Ultimately, it
turns an individual to be healthier in terms of wealth.
11. Calm ADHD and improve HRV
Practicing multiple breathing practices leads to increase and maintain
consistent level of focus. This is achieved by activating the sympathetic
nervous system and reducing vagal activity of the body due to high-
frequency breathing. The practice of taking 6 breaths a minute along
with slow breathing improves HRV.
12. Overcome cardiovascular health problems.
Slow breathing technique positively affects the cardiovascular system
by affecting the autonomic variables. This takes hold of the cardiac
functions such as blood pressure and especially heart rate.

BREATHWORK EXERCISES
Below are few breathwork exercises you could work on:
• 4-7-8 breathing
• Deep abdominal breathing
• Alternate nostril breathing
• Breath of fire
• Holotropic breathwork
We discussed deeper about breathwork, how it works, the scientific aspects of
breathwork, benefits and the breathwork exercises. I hope you gained a brief
understanding and I strongly recommend you to engage in breathwork for a
healthier and wealthier life.