Feb 4, 2020
Do you feel the shift happening in the healing and wellness industry…
More importantly… are you being called to be a part of it?
The shift in wellness is being led by smart consumers and patients who no longer want to tolerate feeling powerless when it comes to their mental and physical health. Managed care is just that managing illness, symptoms and pain but not actually getting to the cause and effects of our suffering. More and more people are looking for the alternative to a whole host of medications that masks and numbs physical, emotional and mental illnesses as well as the side-effects that are often more dangerous than the cure.
What functional medicine professionals and concerned consumers and patients are finding, is that the source of healing keeps leading us back to the basics and solutions that might seem too simple until you look deeper, like:
MIND BODY CONNECTION
NUTRITION
STRESS MANAGEMENT
SLEEP
MOVEMENT
ATTITUDE & OUTLOOK
An empowering list, as this puts health and wellness back in the hands of each and every person. Breathwork is a studied practice that impacts and supports all of these areas of our wellbeing. That is because all of these areas offer rest, recovery and restoration to the body. We were never meant to process the artificial foods, the onslaught of demands and information we are now connected to through the internet, television, email and cell phones and the stress and complexities these have added to our lives, relationships, work, parenting and last but not least – time where we are unplugged and recovering.
The Mind-Body Connection is the awareness that what we think, feel and experience effects our body. When we are stressed, anxious or upset our bodies react telling us something isn’t right, whether our heart rate speeds up, our breath gets more shallow, or we withdraw and shut down. BREATHWORK helps us regulate and manage our emotions in a way that helps you complete and process emotions rather than store them or stay stuck in them.
Nutrition and choosing a healthy diet needs little explanation, we have more and more choices and ingredients, but we are getting less of the proteins and minerals we need most. Again having most of us seeking our simpler, purer options to put in our bodies. BREATHWORK supplies more oxygen to all our body parts including our digestive system, thus making it work more efficiently. The increased blood flow due to deep breathing also encourages intestinal action which further improves your overall digestion which allows us to absorb more of what we need and process that which we don’t, reducing stress toxins like adrenalin and cortisol which are linked to weight gain, blood pressure, and heart issues.
Stress Management is critical, did you know that seventy-five percent to 90% of all doctor’s office visits are for stress-related ailments and complaints. Stress can play a part in problems such as headaches, high blood pressure, insomnia, heart problems, diabetes, skin conditions, asthma, arthritis, depression, and anxiety. BREATHWORK allows us to tap into the only autonomic function in our power that sends the signal to the brain to respond from a “RELAXED” conscious place or a “STRESSED” survival, unconscious place. Shallow breathing is the signal to our brain that we are stressed and it limits our ability to heal, feel and think from a more conscious place. Deep conscious breathing sends the signal to our brain that we are safe so that we can function fully as our nervous system is not on high alert taking all of our energy and resources to survive. Your body will not rest, reset, recover, or restore in the state of a stress response.
Sleep, when you close your eyes and fall asleep, your brain can attend to other issues within the body. You are in a deep state of rest and relaxation allowing for recovery from illness, sore muscles, producing more white blood cells and healthy hormones that boost your immunity, energy while reducing inflammation. It is not just how much sleep we get but the quality of our sleep. It is hard to reach deeper states of sleep when we are in a stressed, anxious or overthinking state. BREATHWORK helps move the body from stressed to rest, by allowing us to process the emotions of the day in a healthy way and removing the static of our thoughts,
Movement, have you heard the saying – sitting is the new smoking? First stated by Dr. Levine and the evidence that a sedentary lifestyle leads to all kinds of issues including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, depression, and more. The long list of benefits from daily movement and exercise includes weight loss, increased energy, a positive mood, improved sleep, sharpened cognitive ability, and social connectivity, helping us release toxins and release positive hormones that again contribute to our ability to rest, digest and sleep deeply so we can recover. BREATHWORK can simulate exercise in releasing the same signals and hormones to the brain offering the same benefits, so even if you experience pain or feel less able to move, you can always lay on the floor and breathe deeply.
Attitude and Outlook pretty much take care of themselves if we take care of ourselves, by choosing thoughts, feelings, emotions, and practices that support our minds, bodies, and spirits.
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Jan 28, 2020
Although we have more choices, opportunities, with connections and experiences literally at our fingertips – we are also more stressed, tired, overwhelmed, disconnected from who we truly are and what we’re doing every day.
We have words and medications for this, burnout, stress, depression, trauma, anxiety and a whole host of medications that may help mask and temporarily manage symptoms but do not really get to the core that deep down something is not right, we don’t feel like ourselves.
BURNOUT is when we have lost sight of the meaning in our lives, through chronic and repeated stress, emotional, mental and physical exhaustion, toxic thoughts feelings and relationships and feeling unable to wake up and meet the demands and distractions in life.
It doesn’t happen overnight, it happens each time we betray ourselves in what and how we choose, usually in order to prove our worthiness at work, at home, in our relationships. We trade our inner moments of peace, calm and knowing to get a sense of who we are from the outside. This is a vicious cycle that keeps us spinning in states of chronic stress as we just can’t seem to keep up with our needs or sustain a sense of ourselves and our role in the world that is reliable and strong from outside of us – because what is outside is always changing
Bouncing back from burnout is an inside job. It takes that moment of self-awareness to say ENOUGH and the self-discipline and practice to build a foundation of truly KNOWING what that means to you that is dependent on how that shows up outside of you.
We may look back and recognize that we have bounced back before and hope that we will again – but what do you do when nothing seems to work? Here are the signs and stages of burnout inviting you to dig deeper:
- You use caffeine, sugar, alcohol, and people to calm you down and cheer you up.
- increased feeling of need to withdraw, escape, move or run away.
- Feeling empty and apathetic towards things that use to matter to you.
- Constantly doubting yourself or blaming others for problems in work and life.
- Resentment and procrastination at work or at home.
- Behavioral changes, extremes from being passive and lazy to anger and aggressiveness.
- Chronic and persistent exhaustion or physical symptoms like headaches and stomach aches.
Accepting these feelings and habits as normal or “just the way life is” can lead to feeling even more disconnected, lost and not quite sure how to find our way back.
So how do we find our way back?
- Have the awareness that you can’t and don’t have to do it alone.
- Connect with new people, a peer group, a support group, a trusted advisor, mentor or therapist. (even though you really don’t want to, after you do – you will wonder why you didn’t)
- Dare to be vulnerable, it might surprise you how softening is a superpower and a strength that allows a state of flow into your life.
- Make one small change at a time, when we feel pushed into a corner we can react with extreme measures when most of the time the answer is simple. Like stopping, taking time to yourself, breathing, cutting back or out toxic behaviors and situations.
- Find a calming practice that works for you and make it the most important thing in your life, yoga, meditation, BREATHWORK :), painting, gardening, puzzles, nature… your life and the way you feel will start to turn around as soon as you decide.
- Revisit who you are now, what matters to you most, know what you will and will not tolerate so that when you make choices or waver and go off course you will feel it before you get too far off course.
- Choose peace over a false sense of self, power, and security and you will have them all.
When we feel lost, when the emotional, physical and mental stress and demands of life have literally changed who we are? Instead of looking at this through the eyes of loss and defeat, we need to look at it as an invitation, a compass guiding us to living a more authentic life and the muscle to build and use our integrity (the state of being whole and undivided) as our GPS.
Breathwork is a powerful practice that quickly helps with feelings of burnout and chronic stress by removing the static, distractions and distortions in your life. Breathwork is not about what you add or get, it’s about what you remove. Layers of built-up stress, that actually takes up space in your mind, body, and colors every experience unless you have a practice to help you clear and release them allowing you to see you and life clearly, from a place of wholeness knowing versus lack and need.
Breathwork is a game-changer &
in as little as 30 minutes!
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Dec 21, 2019
Unfortunately, your BREATH cannot transform or change difficult people, but it can change the way you feel about it.
If we can’t change our families, work, environment, we have to be able to change ourselves or continue to suffer.
By practicing conscious breathing and leverage the power of our breath, we can reverse the negative responses that dampen our holiday spirit. Better breathing can elicit a relaxed response to the difficult people and situations we can encounter during the holidays. By breathing deeply we can reduce physical tension, promote mindfulness, and help us function in a more rested and peaceful state — all useful in decreasing the impact of holiday stress.
Your holiday survival guide should include more than the spiked egg-nog, be sure to set a reminder to take a few minutes to slow down, pause and breathe.
It sounds so simple if your not a believer yet?
Do a little experiment and take your 2 most stressful days and try one day your way and the other day with 2 to 3, 5-minute breathing breaks. First thing when you wake up, or before walking into a stressful event or family dynamic – spend 5 minutes take 5-second breaths into your belly and then a 5 second exhale and repeat for a few minutes.
It’s not about making your situation better,
it’s about being a better you no matter the situation
Breathwork is a proven pathway where you can choose peace over worry, stress, and being triggered by old dynamics and drama. It is the way to take your power back in the moments you feel most likely to lose your sh*t. The only catch is you have to choose peace, and choose to breathe even when… sometimes we ourselves are addicted to the drama, adrenalin and satisfying our egos in the fight of being right.
If that is the case… choosing peace and your breath will be a revolutionary act to end the habit of chaos and stress will take a little practice, but one that will up-level you and your life just in time for the new year, and your best year yet.
The best time to breathe deeply…
Is when you don’t want to!
Wendi
TRU Breathwork Founder & Teacher
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Dec 12, 2019
For those times that you just feel off…
When you feel triggered, stuck or lost on your path…
When you find yourself trading your peace and path for approval or acceptance…
When you want to withdraw and take a step back because there is too much …. to do, feel, say, be
Do you ever wish there was a switch to take your power back?
That as simply as life can shut you down, it can also be turned back on?
Life is breath, and breath is the switch that can give you your power back.
Most of the time we are living in a state of stress, and while we have accepted this as the norm, IT’S NOT and it doesn’t have to be. We were never meant to process the current amount of data, experiences, and information that cross our bodies, minds, and spirits on a daily basis. It is like a computer having hundreds if not thousands of programs and apps running all at the same time. It will start acting up or just shut down – the same is true with our system. When it is overwhelmed, tired, or experiencing a significantly stressful event, the overflow of emotions will be stored in our body to be processed later. It inhibits us from our full potential because it is something unresolved in us that creates a condition and a lens through which we experience life. It also presents itself as bugs in our system, triggers, anxiety, panic, depression and a host of other mental, physical and emotional symptoms.
You have had this switch all along, right under your nose.
YOUR BREATH
Breathwork can be a life-changing practice, allowing you to access this switch in your brain between the stress response and relaxation response.
THE STRESS RESPONSE
Your breath can determine the way your brain responds by sending a signal – when you have short, shallow rapid breaths you are sending the signal to your brain you are stressed and your body, mind, and spirit responds accordingly. Ultimately limiting your abilities to that of survival based thinking and being (yuck!.. unless you’re being chased by a tiger). The stress response, releasing toxic hormones, causing adrenal fatigue and mental paralysis can be triggered and become a chronic way of living with the daily pressures we now have, like financial worries, work demands, family and relationships, as well as the daily social media, feeds and news of violence, crime, tragedies.
THE RELAXATION RESPONSE
When you practice breathing deeply and consciously into your belly, you send a signal to your brain that you are safe, and when you are safe you experience an increased capacity in all areas, your mind can switch from the survival response and start operating from higher consciousness, body function, increasing immunity, releasing healthy hormones and the ability to process the emotions and experiences in a healthy way. While practicing breathwork you may also have access to release and clear old emotional patterns and scars because you are accessing them when you are in a state where they can be processed vs. being triggered into repeating self-defeating patterns where you continue to stuff and store things that cannot be healed or processed when you are in a state of stress.
Understanding this can help you master your emotions and life – you start to recognize and become aware of when you are living from a stressed or relaxed place, and how living from these places impacts your life, relationships, work, and capacity to take them all to the next level. With a consistent breathwork practice, it becomes a choice and you will find yourself choosing and shifting into peace and relaxation more and more and notice that this place is not passive but full of potential.
The choice is yours & you’ve had the power all along
Just B R E A T H E
Wendi
TRU Breathwork Founder & Teacher
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