Latest / Inner Alchemy with George Stuby – Trauma, Music and Plant Medicine / E 17 Test
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- George Stuby: This episode today is about conscious connected breathing, one of my favorite breathwork techniques, and I will first explain you more about the technique itself, and then I prepared a guided journey for you. And both the explanations about the technique and a guided journey are from a ten day course I built called The Missing Piece. Today we will dive more into breathing to be Precise into conscious connected breathing. Sometimes it's also referred to as circular breathing or continuous breathing. And the name is coming from the breathing technique itself, because in this breathing technique, we connect the in-breath with the outbreath. And we remove the two breath retentions, holding the breath on full lungs and holding the breath on empty lungs. So the in and out breath are flowing into each other in this connected circular way. And I've created an audio journey for you that is guiding you ⁓ through this breath work and with that also through the rhythm. And all of that is in the journey. So, in this video today, I wanted to first introduce it to you, and now I want to ⁓ explain you a few things that are important to know. So, what does this breathing technique do physiologically? Physiologically speaking, it first activates ⁓ the sympatheticus, so it ⁓ mobilizes energy, and after a while it also activates the parasympatheticus. So, with that, it's almost sweeping through this whole stress response system. And with that, it can help to complete stuck stress cycles in the body and to release tension that has been stored in our body. On an emotional level, it can help emotions that are stuck to move. And it brings us underneath our intellectual mind, our inner critic, you could say. And through that, we can reach. Deeper things. And that's by the way, very common for techniques that are also bring us in an altered state of consciousness. For example, also hypnosis. And through that, breathing can be a tool that accelerates emotional ⁓ processing. And with that, it can be a massive shortcut to traditional therapy. Talking therapy that just happens in the mind in this intellectual safety zone. And because it's bypassing certain protective walls, there can also be moments in the journey where resistance is coming up. And that's totally normal. It could be, you know, a part of you that tells you, I don't want to do this, this is stupid. I should ⁓ do the I should clean up the house right now, or I should ⁓ be on my phone or do something different. Resistance comes up in many different ways. And as I also will mention in the audio file, I'm experiencing this almost every time I'm breathing. And it's good to just breathe through it and to stick with it and to send to center yourself in yourself and to yeah. Go through it in your breath. So, all in all, it's a fantastic tool to get out of the head, get into the body, and to meet what is there in any given moment. And sometimes our bodies can react quite strongly to breathing. Some very typical things are that you might feel some tension, for example, in your hands, and that they might move into this claw position. You might experience Being more hot or being more cold than before the breathing. You might maybe experience some sweating, you might experience a raised heartbeat. If that occurs for you, then that's totally normal and totally safe. And you can continue breathing. And when you feel actually, maybe I stop now, then experiment with that too. You will have that audio recording, you can do it many times. ⁓ the invitation is actually to do it many times. So you can also like slowly ease your way into it. On an emotional side, you might meet sadness and there might be some tears. You might meet anger and you feel the urge to scream. You might find laughter and you feel like laughing. You also might find numbness and no feeling at all. And all of this is also totally welcomed. For me, breathing often comes also with insights, with clarity, with ideas. And for me, that's also connected with moving into an altered state of consciousness and moving below or above, depending how you see that, your own thinking, your own habitual mind. And with that, there might be also some visual experiences, there might be a slight Distortion of time, for example, that those 15 minutes feel super long, or that they ⁓ just seem to have disappeared into nothingness. ⁓ all of that is also normal. And you might experience all of this together, or a few things that I mentioned. And it's also very common that in different moments when you use this practice, it's a bit going into different directions, and sometimes it's more clarity and more like. Insight, sometimes it's feeling emotions, sometimes it's very physical, and we might tremble and shake or have this kind of claw positions. All of that is really welcome. And it's a great idea to lean into this process and to lean into the breath because ultimately breathing also in this way is very safe. The breath is your ankle, you can always stop, you can always slow down. Yes, there is a rhythm to the music, but if you feel like doing deeper, longer breath, ⁓ that's also totally fine. And yeah, you can really experiment and make this practice your own. If you are right now pregnant, if you have any heart conditions, any kind of seizure disorders, or severe hypertension, then please talk to your GP about breathing and ask for his recommendations around that. Because in those states with those conditions, in those moments of life like pregnancy, it might not be the right thing for you in this moment. And something that really works well for me is to do conscious connected breathing two times a day. Once in the morning, once in the evening. And what I like to do is I'm, you know, setting my alarm in a way that I can stay in bed for another 15 to 20 minutes and then ⁓ I can do the breathing and then get up afterwards. And I feel it's a really beautiful and activating start into the day and also a great way to process certain dreams of the night. And then in the evening, for me it's a beautiful technique to slow down and to you know disconnect from the day. And because conscious connected breathing is also. Activating the parasympatheticus after a while, it's also really great to slow down and to already tap into an altered state of consciousness and to kind of continue that then when I'm falling asleep and when I start to dream. And now that you have heard about the background of the technique, we can dive into the guided journey. Enjoy. This breathwork journey with conscious connected breathing. Big Shakespearean sigh out to breath in your body while you breathe out. Last time two breath in and letting go with a sigh. ⁓ I invite you to lay on your back as flat as possible. So if you have a pillow under your head, please remove it so your head is lying flat on the floor, mat or mattress. Which makes it easier and deeper to breathe. And we are going to breathe in and out through the mouth. And it's totally normal that there will be some resistance coming up. Some thoughts such as I don't want to do this. Let's stop. Or similar thoughts. So that's totally normal. I experience this every time I'm breathing. And invitation is to just gently breathe through it. Whatever is alive in this moment in your inner, in your emotional world. And my voice will guide you through the breathing. This continuous flow of breathing in and out, removing the breath retentions. When not holding the breath, it's flowing in a connected circular way, like a wheel turning, breathing through the mouth. Release and record. Release. Shadow Mm-hmm. That's all we do. Well we do. ⁓ Shape. Ooh. Svahe tacitud are shurina di ju. ⁓ Wow. But Dio Wow. S we do. Good luck. Yeah. Salah Dz. ⁓ Sama ta sali varput deva shima praġu. ⁓ Breathing all the way in into the belly, into the chest, and then hold your breath. And we're picking up the tempo a bit and breathing. Now it's the time out to Myself out unconditionally. Myself It is the only way to Searching for Send out open. Nothing pass after that poison might be. Recognize my soul out Pure Sent. So I learned out at Fin Out. I come back. I surrender my sin out to the high offense, out I forgive the offense ⁓ and I am. Yes. Just a time out to love out all of yourself out unconditional. Love yourself for it is the only way to the baby. Out to drink in out in You know. Of yourself out. 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Thank you yourself for once again having taken the time for this practice of breath and Maybe hold yourself. Do some of the tapping. Further calm and stabilize your nervous system. Feeling a deep sense of gratitude for Thank you. Taking with you what you have received in the last moments of this deeper connection with your breath, with yourself. And with this we have reached the end of this breath journey and you can stop here or if you want you can keep on floating with the music for a few more long and deep.