I went on a 'breathing bender' for awhile, interesting (altered) experience. These days I've settled down a bit from my exorcism-grade hyperventilating but use it as a tool as needed.
"My generation found it really difficult to ... ‘meditate’, but breathwork was something they could focus on and feel the effects of immediately.” She sees it as being a bit like yoga or mindfulness, but without the complicated bits. “I think more and more people need to hear about breathing. It grounds you in the present moment."
“When you inhale, you can think you’re breathing in everything you need: love, compassion… The exhale corresponds to the surrender, the letting go of everything you don’t need.” [1]
While temperament is often seen as 'developmentally stable' with increasing age, pharmacotherapy, and psychotherapy, such structured breathing activities can, according to one small study [2], produce profound positive temperament changes, reducing things like novelty seeking as to decrease the risk of immaturity, leading to a more organised character development with progression in the development of self-awareness and self-transcendence.
People in the study underwent major positive changes in their automatic emotional responses
They became more sociable and experienced less interpersonal mental distress
Positive self-awareness changes were supported by a significant reduction in overly accommodating, intrusive/needy, domineering/controlling problems, and hostility and interpersonal sensitivity symptoms.
They developed higher self-awareness leading to improved self-transcendence - people experienced more equanimity, find it easier to let go of conflicts and struggles about control and being controlled and grow in the direction of being more sensible, idealistic, transpersonal, faithful, flexible, self-forgetful, and creative
Benefits here
Does the breathing pattern cause the emotion or does the emotion cause the breathing pattern? A study indicates that emotions may be caused, at least in part, by the way we breathe.
My primary experience with breathwork, tai chi, dance and yoga so far is that they are simple effective tools to shift from an unhealthy material locus of control to a more spiritual locus of control, the breathwork being particularly potent. It gives life force energy a drive away from death drives, lower desires and a reach towards healthier desires, emotions and spirit. It's not quick and simple to rapidly replace negative material habits and the energy that has been devoted to them but each day I work on bit by bit incorporating more activities, while as much as I can, lessening the unhealthy material binds, to ones that reach for healthy spirit over unhealthy matter
If I could describe it, each session I devote to breathwork, tai chi etc 'alchemises' the stagnant Chi that is bound to unhealthy matter and moves the energy away from that binding into a new more freer emotional and spirited dimension. I feel lower desires and emotions being 'dissipated' and able to 'let go' of the old to embrace the Now with a trend towards improved healthier states. I start to notice an improved capacity for greater loving-kindness in thoughts and emotions. Life becomes more sacred and holy.
Life force energy shifts from negative state to a new field of the positive emotional and spiritual experiences
In the mind, my constant negative thought loops and fighting of thoughts gives way to a clearer, clean slate of mind where I am empowered to imprint my mind with positive mental states through prayer, mantras etc, not at the mercy of always being controlled by persistent negative realms of mind
I start to feel deeper places of heart, gentleness and kindness, compassion etc and develop a healthier holding of Self
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