What if we told you that one of the most powerful tools for cleansing your body, releasing emotional baggage, and rejuvenating your thoughts is with you at this very moment?

That's right - it's your breath!

Breathing is a fundamental aspect of life that we often take for granted. It fuels our bodies, enables our minds to function, and even has the power to transform our emotional state.

Conscious Breathing Changes You Feelings

The secret lies in the life-changing science of intentional breathing, a practice that goes beyond the unconscious, everyday inhalation and exhalation we hardly pay attention to.

Scientific research has begun to unlock the intriguing possibilities of our breath's potential. This potential not only extends to physical detoxification, but also to the elimination of emotional toxins, accumulated from stress and personal traumas.

Structured breathing can retrain your body's nerve plexus, helping to release old emotional patterns and induce a state of calm. It has the potential to break the cycle of continuous stress, resetting the body to a more relaxed state.

Let’s uncover the techniques that can enhance your wellbeing, reduce your stress, and revolutionize your approach to health.

Let's unlock the secret to detoxify your body, emotions, and thoughts!

Moore Breathing

Breathing exercises have been recognized as a method in many therapeutic applications (Jerath et al., 2006)¹ .

It may also be true that breathing in a specific way - also provides a means of changing body chemistry: and a way to retrain the nerve plexus of your body... to clear your body’s memory of your old traumas and emotional patterns.

Clear Old Trauma

Such intentional breathing exercises might facilitate the clearance of old traumas and emotional patterns, as seen in some neuroplasticity research (Cramer et al., 2011)² .

Exhalation can eliminate certain toxins, and structured breathing may enhance this process, promoting a healthier body chemistry (Straub, 2012)³ .

Expel Volatile Body Toxins

Certain chemicals with short half-lives, possibly including those associated with emotional responses, might be expelled through the process of osmosis from the bloodstream to the air in the lungs and then exhaled (Rice, 2015)⁴ .

Through regular, intentional breathing patterns, it is possible to naturally exhale carbon dioxide and expedite the release of other waste products. Such gasses can be cleared from our lungs through the physical process of osmosis (Guyenet & Bayliss, 2015)⁵ .

By exhaling deeply and slowly, the diffusion of volatile waste molecules into the lungs for removal may be increased.

Release Residues of Stress Chemicals

Personal life traumas and extreme stress may cause an elevation of the fight-or-flight survival emotions for several months, resulting in an accumulated level of stress chemicals and their residues. (Gordon, 2016)⁶ . They accumulate in our bloodstream and become trapped in the stiff and tense muscles over time. (Sapolsky, 2004)⁷ .

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Retrain Your Emotional Plexus

In addition, the neural plexuses throughout the body could be habituated to perpetuate the production of stress chemicals, creating a continuous stress cycle that may persist subconsciously long after the initial traumatic event has passed.

Techniques such as yoga postures, specific breathing exercises, and the intentional stimulation of emotional plexus, analogous to the 'soapy nerf ball' metaphor I’ll explain later, might also enhance the body's natural detoxification process.

Footnotes

1. Jerath, R., Edry, J. W., Barnes, V. A., & Jerath, V. (2006). Physiology of long pranayamic breathing: neural respiratory elements may provide a mechanism that explains how slow deep breathing shifts the autonomic nervous system. Medical hypotheses, 67(3), 566-571. ↩

2. Cramer, S. C., Sur, M., Dobkin, B. H., O'Brien, C., Sanger, T. D., Trojanowski, J. Q., ... & Vinogradov, S. (2011). Harnessing neuroplasticity for clinical applications. Brain, 134(6), 1591-1609. ↩

3. Straub, W. D. (2012). Biochemistry of Exercise. Nova Science Publishers, Inc. ↩

4. Rice, P. (2015). Understanding the Human Body: An Introduction to Physiology. Great Courses. ↩

5. Guyenet, P. G., & Bayliss, D. A. (2015). Neural control of breathing and CO2 homeostasis. Neuron, 87(5), 946-961. ↩

6. Gordon, R. S. (2016). Unifying psychophysiological models of the stress response. Bioscience Hypotheses, 3(1), 5-32. ↩

7. Sapolsky, R. M. (2004). Why Zebras don't get ulcers: The acclaimed guide to stress, stress-related diseases, and ↩