BREATHWORK

Breathwork is the most transformational thing I’ve ever done in my life and it could be for you too. As soon as i discovered this amazing technique i wanted to learn how to facilitate it so that i can hold space for others to experience.

As a holistic therapist my Breathwork classes vary and include a mixture of gentle movements to get the energy flowing, Reiki healing and always finishing with a meditation.

Consciously connected breathwork benefits us as human beings we hold onto tension within our bodies and in doing so we create physical, mental and emotional blockages. This technique helps to release the blockages and transform your life and energy.

In today’s society, we are very busy and often neglect our bodies’ built-in natural healing capabilities.

The fact is, most of us live everyday inconsciously, which could manifest as living without knowing who you are, what you want out of life, what matters most to you, what your unique strengths and talents are, and how your actions affect you and others.

Breath is the most powerful mechanism and is literally right beneath our noses waiting to be explored, yet we rarely give it more than a passing thought.

Conscious Connected Breathing is a powerful and safe way to infuse the body with oxygen and energy, recharging our own (often depleted) systems to work to their healing capacity.

It facilitates openings to higher levels of consciousness and allows us to tap into our deeper resources and live our lives joyfully and in abundance. Consciously changing the way you breathe sends a signal to the brain to adjust the parasympathetic branch of the nervous system, which can slow heart rate and digestion and promote feelings of calm as well as the sympathetic system, which controls the release of stress hormones like cortisol.

So if you have an open mind to try something new, you might just have an experience that will change you life. I offer group and 121 sessions

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Contact: Jo Graham on 07738 460 000

Deep breathing can improve the following

• Mood

• Sleep

• Blood pressure

• Respiration rate

• Metabolism and digestion

• Concentration and focus

• Nervous system

• Brain activity

• Depression

• Grief

• Anxiety

• Anger

Experience deep peace and let go of any emotional baggage.

change or influence from a supporting role, this will leave you with several stressors that you can control or influence change over.

am delighted once again to contribute some of my work with the Wirral Wellbeing Magazine.

It is my mission to assist, educate & inspire as many people as I can, on their own journey to stressless wellbeing & happiness, via Mental health awareness, Cognitive behavioural therapy, Neuro linguistic programming, Mindfulness and the Routes & Dimensions of Wellness.

How good is your circle of concern vs your circle of control, how much Capacity do you have to deal with your stressors?

You’re probably asking yourself, what is the Circle of concern vs the circle of control.

30Mph, every item of loose contents, the passengers, dog, shopping, laptop all become projectiles, also travelling at 30Mph until they hit a solid object.

List all those stressors in numerical order of importance on the second blank page!

All your internal organs continue to travel at 30Mph until they hit your rib cage, your brain and upper thoracic spine also continue to travel until they are brought to blunt force traumatic stop.

You now have a list of all the stressful factors in your life that you can begin to systematically work through one day at a time! This is your circle of control.

This exercise is one of my very favourites for removing all the jumbled up cognitive dissonance inside your head, getting it down on paper and providing you with the list of issues you can resolve, it removes so much clutter from the brain that you are clinging onto because you don’t know where to place it, and you will feel relief from unburdening yourself from the things you can’t control from your circle of concern.

This is why experts, over time have established that speed limits are required for safety, and seat belts were introduced to slow down or dramatically improve the chances of survival.

The Graphic will give you a visual idea, but in a nutshell, we are constantly absorbing exteroceptive stimulus via our senses, so all the information that is being taken in via what we can see, hear, feel, taste and touch. This stimulus triggers Neuroceptive responses or reactions (makes the body do what the brain tells it as a reaction or response to sensory stimulus) think, don’t touch that hot plate or don’t look know but.

Kaizen Wirral Mindset CiC - The Human Speed Limit, and Cadence, why we must have the Discipline to slow ourselves down and regulate our ambitions.

Did you know?

The speed of light is 299,792 Km per second.

The top speed of my car is 142 Mph (allegedly)

Usain Bolt holds the fastest speed ever achieved by a human 27.5 Mph.

Now if we are constantly absorbing the tv news, the covid news, the war in Ukraine, the fuel crisis, the hose pipe ban, the political instability of the country, knife & gun crime, this stuff is heavy and it’s a burden to carry, but its not really your burden! It is inside your circle of concern but its outside your circle of control unless of course you have an active role in any of the above examples.

Average sprint speed is 15mph or 14 seconds per 100m.

According to Strava the average jog speed is 9.3Mph.

Cadence is a rhythmic sequence of routines, processes, and systems that keep us in a state of flow and do not push us outside of our unique stress threshold.

Take 2 pieces of blank paper, begin to write down every single issue that you can think of that has you a little stressed out, when you hit a brick wall and think that you have exposed all the stressors, keep going because I can promise you that the sub conscious brain is holding onto way more than it needs too.

Once you feel that you have transferred all the cognitive stressors onto the first page, get a different colour pen or a highlighter and cross out everything on that page that you have no control over, or you cannot

Vehicles in the UK can travel at 3 even 4 times the road speed limits, but they can’t ( by law ) due to the statistical likelihood of having an RTC - road traffic collision, and the catastrophic consequences of the collision at speed.

When a Vehicle crashes regardless of the speed whilst in the collision there are 3 points of impact !

The vehicle hitting the item, vehicle, person, wall whatever, at the speed of collision - let’s say it’s

If you wanted to take this exercise a few steps further, you could draw up a Matrix of control, and place the stressors from your circle of control into further categories such as, Personal, Family, Work or business matters, Finance, Health, and ask yourself the following questions.

Cultural norms often push us to go faster and achieve more, the pressures and stressors lead to an internal belief that you must override your neurobiological needs and rely on coping strategies that do not actually discharge our stress activators.

What immediate action can I take?

What supporting role can I play?

How can I influence better outcomes?

If you are an A - Alpha type personality, Competitive, Organised, Ambitious, Impatient, highly aware, Aggressive, or Neurotic - Frantic - and generally Overwhelmed, we must impose a Speed limit for our own safety.

Where is external help required?

Where do I need to apply acceptance to the things I cannot change?

We must install or own Human safety belts. You are probably aware of the feelings pulling us towards stimulants like caffeine, sugar and sweet treats or energy drinks, or worse getting to the end of a working day and numbing out with alcohol or comfort foods.

Once you have completed this exercise, you will now have far more capacity to cope with the day-to-day stressors that simply keep coming, but in a far more resourceful, logical and responsive manner.

Until our next edition, where I will discuss Capacity building in detail, please remember that we grow through what we go through, as long as we learn the lessons.

Mindful behaviours like Meditation & Breathwork will Proactively assist you in taking control of your Human Speed Limit, it’s essential to control the self-imposed Stressors of the A type personality.

Maybe fear and the uncertainty of the current economical climate drive you to become more perfectionistic, were all under a great deal of stress, so you push harder, faster, multitasking whilst listening to that internal critic that keeps telling you that you can and must work harder.

MINDFUL PRACTISE carry, but its not really your burden! It is inside your circle of concern but its outside your circle of control unless of course you have an active role in any of the above examples.

This will eventually lead you to a physiological dysregulated nervous system.

Make time for your Wellness or else be forced to make time for your Illness like, Overwhelm, Nervous breakdown, Heart attack, Heart disease, Obesity, and ultimately an early trip to the dead centre of town.

Take 2 pieces of blank paper, begin to write down every single issue that you can think of that has you a little stressed out, when you hit a brick wall and think that you have exposed all the stressors, keep going because I can promise you that the sub conscious brain is holding onto way more than it needs too.

Where is external help required?

Speed propels the Vitality of life, Attitude controls it, Momentum maintains it, Patience protects it, Leadership guides it, Entelechy unleashes it.

Where do I need to apply acceptance to the things I cannot change?

Once you have completed this exercise, you will now have far more capacity to cope with the day-to-day stressors that simply keep coming, but in a far more resourceful, logical and responsive manner.

Until the next issue, we cannot outthink a feeling, Nervous system regulation and calibration are a must under these current climates and are available at www.kaizen-mindset.co.uk

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Once you feel that you have transferred all the cognitive stressors onto the first page, get a different colour pen or a highlighter and cross out everything on that page that you have no control over, or you cannot

Until our next edition, where I will discuss Capacity building in detail, please remember that we grow through what we go through, as long as we learn the lessons.

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