Breathing and the importance of meditation for good health
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Welcome to “Breathing and the Importance of Meditation for Good Health“! This course is your gateway to unlocking a healthier, more vibrant life through the power of deep breathing and meditation.
In today’s fast-paced world, taking time to breathe deeply isn’t just a luxury; it’s essential for your well-being. Together, we’ll explore the powerful connection between breath, meditation, and optimal health, giving you the tools to boost both your physical and mental vitality.
You’ll dive deep into how breathing influences your body and mind, starting with the autonomic nervous system. You’ll learn how to tap into the parasympathetic state – the key to calming your mind, reducing stress, and promoting rejuvenation. Mastering this state will help you navigate life’s challenges with a clear, focused, and relaxed mindset.
Scientific research has proven that deep breathing and meditation combat stress, anxiety, and even depression. In this course, I’ll guide you step-by-step to harness these powerful tools, building a solid foundation for emotional and mental resilience.
This course isn’t just about theory; it’s about real transformation. By the end, you’ll have the practical techniques you need to foster a calmer, more resilient, and empowered life.
Here are five reasons why you should learn how to breathe deeply.
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Boost Your Mental Clarity – Deep breathing helps clear your mind, sharpen your focus, and increase productivity, so you can take on the day with confidence and purpose.
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Reduce Stress & Anxiety – By activating your body’s natural relaxation response, deep breathing calms the nervous system, melting away stress and anxiety in minutes.
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Strengthen Your Immune System – Regular deep breathing promotes better oxygen flow, supporting your immune system to keep you healthier and more resilient.
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Improve Emotional Resilience – Deep breathing helps you regulate your emotions, giving you the strength to stay calm and balanced even during life’s most challenging moments.
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Unlock Inner Peace – Mastering deep breathing creates a profound sense of inner peace and harmony, helping you connect to a deeper sense of well-being and joy.
Are you ready to transform your health, mindset, and emotional well-being? Join me and start your journey today.
I look forward to connecting with you in my next post.
Until then, be well and keep shining.
Peter. 🙂
Transformational Coach and Qi Gong Instructor
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Breathwork and Meditation - An IntroductionBreathwork and Meditation - An Introduction talks about the importance of being in touch with your body mindfully and how this can empower you to better health.
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Why deep breathing is important
Why deep breathing is important discusses exactly that. Once you begin to realise how our body works, you will see the importance of deep breathing for yourself.
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Breath Break
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Why is it so important to know about the autonomic nervous system?
Why is it so important to know about the autonomic nervous system discusses this very fact. Autonomic means automatic and there are elements we can actually influence with this automatic response. Once we learn this knowledge, this is very empowering.
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Explanation of chest box breathing
Box breathing is one of the quickest techniques I have learnt to help me slow down my breath and deepen it. This is why this type of breathing is featured throughout this course, as it is the easiest to learn, and many people I have taught this technique to, report amazing transformations for them. I wish the same for you too.
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Chest box breathing exercise for 3 minutes
Keep up your practice every week and let me know how you are getting on as you build up your empirical evidence.
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Module 1 testThis is a test on how much your knowledge has grown since going through the lectures.
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How deep breathing shifts your autonomic nervous system
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How deep breathing can help you make better decisions
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How deep breathing can reduce the stress of tests and exams
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Breath Break
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Preparing your space for meditation
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Why is the enteric nervous system so important
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Box breathing using chest and abdomen for 3 minutes
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Module 2 test
This is a test on how much your knowledge has grown since going through the lectures.
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3.1 Your gut brain connection. Why is this important?
Your gut brain connection discusses the vagus nerve and how important this information is when we are trying to deal with stress and anxiety.
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3.2 Why pro biotics are so good for your gut?
Why pro biotics are so good for the gut discusses exactly this, and research that was published in Science Direct which highlights this point.
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Why our breath becomes shallow
Why our breath becomes discusses how our energy keeps rising to the head because of the busy world we live in today. This is not a good state for a healthy mind and body.
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Breath Break
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Building up lung capacity
Building up our lung capacity carries on the theme of deep breathing and why it is important to build up our lung capacity. Also we start to look at water up fire down principle, which is the next video.
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The principle of water up - fire down
Water up fire down is an ancient principle from the East and we have coined expressions from this principle in todays world, like cool head or fire in the belly for instance. This is the ideal position the body should be in for optimal health.
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Intestine exercise
Intestine exercises are one of the quickest ways I have found to warm up the lower abdomen. As we have learnt from the previous video it is so important to keep this area warm. Try to incoporate this exercise into a daily routine, even for a short period and if you are anything like me, you will notice many changes in your body. And once you have created the habit, you will also notice that your body has missed doing these exercises if you lapse for too long.
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Box breathing slowly chest and abdomen
This box breathing video is an for the whole of the lungs and will repeated throughout this course.
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Module 3 test
This is a test on how much your knowledge has grown since going through the lectures.
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Observing your thoughts
Observing your thoughts discusses how important it is to observe your thoughts. Are our thoughts actually us? Where do they come from? Why do we hold so much importance on them? These are very interesting questions and we will be addressing these in the video.
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Sensitising your brain to your body
Sensitising your brain to your body discusses how we can actually live our lives on autopilot. This can be detrimental to health and really moving towards a mindful life can really enhance your health and well being.
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Scientific study on learning new skills
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Breath Break
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Fair maiden works the shuttle explanation
Fair maiden works the shuttle is a well known Ki Gong exercise that helps you co-ordinate your movement, your breath and your mind together. This is the essence of Ki Gong and is a moving meditation. You have to keep the mind engaged with the body otherwise this is just gentle exercise.
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Fair maiden works the shuttle exercise
Fair maiden works the shuttle is a well known Ki Gong exercise that helps you co-ordinate your movement, your breath and your mind together. This is the essence of Ki Gong and is a moving meditation. You have to keep the mind engaged with the body otherwise this is just gentle exercise.
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Box breathing exercise
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Module 4 test
This is a test on how much your knowledge has grown since going through the lectures.
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5.1 Why should I breathe deeply every day?
Why should I breathe deeply everyday discusses the benefits to you when you start to take on this habit. Life does change and you will sense and feel it.
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Creating a new habit creates a new you
Creating new habits creates a new you discusses how we can change our subconscious and actually make some of the self sabotage mechanisms disappear by creating new habits to help us become our best version.
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Taking back your power
Taking back your power discusses how powerful we actually are and we need to take that power back.
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Breath Break
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Focus More Stress Less Re Create Your Life
Focus more stress less and re create your life discusses how the distractions of life can take us away from our purpose. We need to focus more and take our power back.
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Putting it all together
Putting this all together discusses how we can put our new found knowledge into our everyday lives.
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Vagus nerve breathing for a quick turnaround
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Box breathing exercise
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Module 5 test
This is a test on how much your knowledge has grown since going through the lectures.
