The Healing Powers of Breathing Techniques

Today’s focus is on the healing powers of breath. We don’t hear much about breathing techniques in traditional Western medicine because no one can financially benefit from teaching you how to breathe deeply. The only cost involved is time and if you are experiencing stress in your life, this is a simple yet powerful and effective tool that you can use to help combat it.

Scientific research-based evidence has been demonstrating that many disorders including heart disease, diabetes, stroke and cancer are largely preventable, and that although a disorder may run in a family and have a genetic component to it, our lifestyle (epigenetics) is truly the determining factor in the outcome of whether or not one will develop a disease.

Good health is a choice, not a chance. This means that the person who is seeking to maintain or enhance health must take responsibility and daily actions towards this goal. Taking responsibility for generating and maintaining optimal health is the necessary element we all must implement immediately in order to meet the urgent need for solutions to the crisis in medical costs and the crisis in quality of care in the USA. The traditional Western medical system is tragically lacking in strategies that patients can and should implement themselves to support their own healing process.

How Can Breathing Techniques Help Heal Me?

The body has the innate ability to heal, for as long as we provide it with the right and necessary tools it needs to do so and create an internal healing mechanism that is the immune system. Positive thoughts, breath, water, sleep, real food, exercise/movement, sunlight, relationships, stress management and the environment we create around us are powerful tools for rebuilding and maintaining health.