Breathing Out Our Toxic Emotions

Emotional Detoxification is more complete when we combine Guided Yoga and Guided Meditation. Another in our series of posts on overcoming anxiety, finding personal wellbeing and setting boundaries for a healthier soul.

Imagine this: the chemicals and hormones related to our emotions break down slowly and we can expel them through waste elimination, perspiration, and importantly, through our breath.

Imagine that these emotional chemicals of stress are volatile - that they can evaporate readily when exposed to air and be eliminated swiftly through our breath.

The expulsion of these chemicals via our breath is governed by osmosis, occurring at a certain maximum rate. Perhaps, as an example, these toxins dissolve from our blood and into the air in our lungs at a maximum concentration of about 1 part per million.

Visualize that the heavier chemicals might accumulate at the bottom of our lungs. When these toxins reach their maximum concentration, no further detoxification can occur until we expel the stale air and draw in fresh air.

As we slowly pace our breathe in for the count of three and out for the count of five, these chemicals are expelled, allowing more to dissolve from the blood into the lungs and out of the body.

How Emotional Toxins Build Up

Long term conditions like prolonged stress, extreme trauma, or a habitual tendency towards negative emotions can alter our breathing patterns over time. These patterns might become shallow, and our nervous plexus could get habituated to producing these familiar, yet toxic emotions, leading to an accumulation of such chemicals.

Releasing Toxins Takes Time, and Sweat.

As we embark on our yoga practice, we need to remember that the expulsion of these toxic chemicals has its limits and happens at a certain pace. It takes time to retrain the nervous plexus to produce a healthier habit of happier emotional chemicals.

Release Heavy Toxins Faster

Consider the benefits of the Downward Dog posture. As we hold this fantastic yoga position, the heavier chemicals that may sit at the bottom of the lungs can more readily be expelled from the body.

Every minute we spend in Downward Dog, we are aiding our body in the removal of a particular type of toxin usually nestled at the bottom of our lungs.

By combining yoga with deep breathing exercises - and doing so with a specific intention - we can actively accelerate the cleansing of these toxic chemicals from our body during a yoga session.

This dual approach has the potential to significantly enhance our overall detoxification process. Read more about the science of meditation.