Tip Tuesday: How to Be and breathe (Video Version)
LIFESTYLE DESIGN FOR HEALTH AND HAPPINESS
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HOW TO BE AND BREATHE
"Just relax," is easier said than done
I think I have asthma,” I told my doctor.“What makes you say that?” She asked.
“Sometimes I feel like I can’t take a deep breath,” I answered.
After a thorough examination, she determined that my lungs and bronchial tubes were healthy, and I did not have allergies. My breathing issues were not physical but instead a product of stress and muscle tension. She suggested I learn to relax.
At the time, that was easier said than done. But over the next two decades I adopted and refined a yoga and meditation practice, both of which teach mindful breathing. I eventually determined that my breathing problem was not that I couldn’t breathe in but that I wasn’t breathing out.
I was so full of stress and tension, I could not let go of one breath to get another.
Medicinal meditation
I practiced for years with one meditation technique after another until I found one (eventually several) that work for me. I can’t say that I’ve completely recovered all these years later. Sometimes, I still feel the breath being squeezed out of me, but now I know what to do:
· Find a peaceful place to sit with proper posture.
· Either close my eyes or find a fixed point to focus on.
· Breathe out slowly 1,2,3,4…
· In slowly 1,2,3,4…
· Repeat. Slowly.
“What makes you say that?” She asked.
“Sometimes I feel like I can’t take a deep breath,” I answered.
She suggested I learn to relax.
At the time, that was easier said than done. But over the next two decades I adopted and refined a yoga and meditation practice, both of which teach mindful breathing. I eventually determined that my breathing problem was not that I couldn’t breathe in but that I wasn’t breathing out.
I was so full of stress and tension, I could not let go of one breath to get another.
Medicinal meditation
I practiced for years with one meditation technique after another until I found one (eventually several) that work for me. I can’t say that I’ve completely recovered all these years later. Sometimes, I still feel the breath being squeezed out of me, but now I know what to do:
· Find a peaceful place to sit with proper posture.
· Either close my eyes or find a fixed point to focus on.
· Breathe out slowly 1,2,3,4…
· In slowly 1,2,3,4…
· Repeat. Slowly.
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