But the next day, when I experienced the SKY breathing technique, I felt a state of rest, peace, joy, and clarity Id never known.When youre stressed, you might let out a long exhale or sigh.
The rhythm of our breath indicates whats going on in our nervous system. A smooth, light, and fine rhythm of breath means the mind is more at peace. In the midst of your workday, stop sometime, close your eyes, and notice the rhythm of your breath. A few minutes spent like this can do wonders for your nervous system. It wasnt until I started studying the Sudarshan Kriya breathing technique that I noticed how often I was holding my breath. What I learned is that when our negative emotionsfear, loneliness, anxiety, anger, or shamedont have a release valve, its like having a kink in the hose. Water cant flow right and things can get backed up in a hurry. Ill share those benefits, along with my story of approaching this practice as a slight skeptic, but lets first dig deeper into the SKY technique. In fact, the translation from Sanskrit makes it obvious the impact of this technique. Su means proper, darshan means vision, and Kriya means purifying action. The physical benefits alone are numerous: it lowers the cortisol levels in our brain (the stress hormone), enhances brain activity, lowers blood pressure, and strengthens the immune system. A breathing technique like SKY is designed to increase our prana, or life energy, which can become depleted with chronic stress, too much thinking, unhealthy food, and a lack of sleep. Increasing the prana in our system makes us feel more alive, more energized, healthier, more self-aware, and more connected with ourselves and others. It flushes out the stress and toxins that accumulate and returns us to the natural rhythm of our body, mind, and spirit. When a close friend died and I went through a tough divorce, the time had come for me to make a change. I was tired of spending so much time working just so I could pay the bills and have a vacation now and then. I felt strongly that there had to be much more to life than such a mundane level of existence. I was meeting with a client one day when she handed me a flyer for a workshop that would be teaching the SKY breathing technique. Ill be the first to admit that I looked at a weekend workshop with some skepticism. After hundreds of training workshops during my years in corporate America, that was not my idea of fun. The migraines had been running my life for years, and seeing how breathing in a specific rhythm had helped to minimize that pain, I thought Id give the workshop a try.
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