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Conscious Breathing draws on more than twenty years of research and practice to present a simple yet comprehensive program that can be used every day to improve energy, mental clarity, and physical health. As the essential life-force of the body, the breath influences how we feel on every level. Clarity Breathwork was developed based on the circular, connected breathing, which is an ancient form of breathing to help achieve higher states of consciousness. With Clarity Breathwork, your subconscious mind will be activated which will help you achieve awareness and insights in order to achieve a new life. Conscious Breathing. I love d esignating two 5-minute windows each day for this exercise. Choose a place where you will not be interrupted. I personally find sitting in my (parked) car, in the backyard, or even in my closet to be wonderful options.

Conscious breathing is an umbrella term for medical and therapeutic methods that improve the breathing function. These methods involve directing awareness to breathing and developing habits that improve respiration. Human respiration is controlled consciously or unconsciously. Conscious breathing can aid in stress reduction, improving breath-related conditions.

Training methods[edit]

Pranayama is part of the Yoga tradition and mainly deals with exercises, such as prolonging in- and outbreaths, holding pauses on the in- or outbreath or both, alternate nostril breathing, or breathing with the glottis slightly engaged etc.
The Buteyko method focuses on nasal breathing, relaxation and reduced breathing. These techniques provide the lungs with more NO and thus dilate the airways and should prevent the excessive exhalation of CO2 and thus improve oxygen metabolism.
Coherent Breathing is a method that involves breathing at the rate of five breaths per minute with equal periods of inhalation and exhalation and conscious relaxation of anatomical zones.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Applications[edit]

Meditation[edit]

Conscious breathing in meditation usually does not change the depth or rhythm of breathing, but uses breathing as an anchor for concentration and awareness.^{[citation needed]}

Mindfulness and Awareness Trainings use conscious breathing for training awareness and body consciousness.^{[citation needed]}

Vipassana Meditation focuses on breathing in and around the nose to calm the mind (anapanasati).^[4]

Psychology and psycho-therapy[edit]

Accelerating and deepening the breathing can be used to access suppressed nonverbal memories.^{[citation needed]}

Rebirthing uses conscious breathing to purge repressed birth memories and traumatic childhood memories.^[5]

Holotropic Breathing was developed by Stanislav Grof and uses deepened breathing to allow access to non-ordinary states of consciousness.^[6]

Transformational Breath uses a full relaxed breath that originates in the lower abdomen and repeats inhalation and exhalation without pausing. It integrates other healing modalities and breath analysis. A key feature is intensive personal coaching and the use of 'bodymapping' (acupressure points).^[7]

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Integrative Breathing combines specific benefits of various schools of conscious breathing according to the needs of clients.^[8]^[9]

Research considers drug abuse disorders,^[10]post traumatic stress disorder,^[11]alcoholism and smoking.^[12]

References[edit]

^Wilfried Ehrmann: Coherent Breathing. Tao 2016 ISBN978-3-96051-538-8
^'Learn this simple breathing technique to calm your mind in minutes'. The Independent. The Independent. 2018-03-16. Retrieved 2018-12-06.
^Alderman, Lesley (2016-11-09). 'Breathe. Exhale. Repeat: The Benefits of Controlled Breathing'. The New York Times. Global Internet: The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-12-06.
^William Hart: The Art of Living. Vipassana meditation. HarperOne 2009, ISBN978-0060637248
^Leonard Orr: Rebirthing in the New Age. Trafford. ISBN978-1425114169
^Stanislav Grof: Holotropic Breathwork: A New Approach to Self-Exploration and Therapy. Excelsior. ISBN978-1438433943
^Judith Kravitz: Breathe Deep Laugh Loudly. The Joy of Transformational Breathing. Free Press Ink 1999 ISBN978-1929271016
^Wilfried Ehrmann: Handbuch der Atemarbeit. Param 2004, ISBN3887550501
^Tilke Platteel-Deur: The Art of Integrative Therapy, Bookrix 2014
^Brewerton, Timothy D.; Eyerman, James E.; Cappetta, Pamela; Mithoefer, Michael C. (2011). 'Long-Term Abstinence Following Holotropic Breathwork as Adjunctive Treatment of Substance Use Disorders and Related Psychiatric Comorbidity'. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction. 10 (3): 453–459. doi:10.1007/s11469-011-9352-3.
^Descilo, T; Vedamurtachar, A; Gerbarg, PL; Nagaraja, D; Gangadhar, BN; Damodaran, B; Adelson, B; Braslow, LH; Marcus, S; Brown, RP (2010). 'Effects of a yoga breath intervention alone and in combination with an exposure therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder and depression in survivors of the 2004 South-East Asia tsunami'. Acta Psychiatr Scand. 121 (4): 289–300. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0447.2009.01466.x. PMID19694633. S2CID6209543.
^McClernon, F.Joseph; Westman, Eric C.; Rose, Jed E. (2004-06-01). 'The effects of controlled deep breathing on smoking withdrawal symptoms in dependent smokers'. Addictive Behaviors. 29 (4): 765–772. doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2004.02.005. ISSN0306-4603. PMID15135559.

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By Susan McConnell, MA, CHT, “The Internal Family Embodied” Topic Expert Contributor

We have all experienced the automatic changes in our breath when we are stressed or frightened. The sympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system causes our breath to become more rapid, more shallow, and higher in the torso. Once the perceived threat is gone, the breath is supposed to be governed by the parasympathetic branch and return to a deeper, slower rhythm.

However, sometimes parts are frozen in the time and place of the stress or trauma and continue to believe they are in danger. The individual’s nervous system becomes locked into the fight-or-flight mode and can’t return to the rest-and-relaxation phase of the parasympathetic branch. Somatic IFS’s tool of Conscious Breathing can help with these and many other burdens in the internal system.

Conscious Breathing Techniques Gay Hendricks

Breathing is both a voluntary and involuntary process. It is controlled automatically from the brainstem but can also be controlled voluntarily from the motor cortex. As an involuntary process, conscious breathing can access parts that are otherwise unavailable to our awareness. As a voluntary process, various breathing techniques can assist with unblending and bringing Self energy to the part. These techniques are also effective with clinical issues such as trauma and addictions, depression and anxiety, working with chronic illness, and improving one’s general health and well-being.

I describe some breathing techniques below that are examples of working with the voluntary muscl