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The Power Of Breathing

5 valuable ways breathing can benefit your life — Photo by Le Minh Phuong on Unsplash

Breathing is essential to life for all humans. Something so crucial to our survival you would think we would talk about it more. Until I came across the well known Wim Hoff I never gave it much thought. Maybe it’s because our breathing is self-regulated and we don’t have to think about it at all unless we are in danger of not breathing. Of course, breathing keeps us alive but it also has so many positive qualities for our body and mind. We have to talk about this topic a lot more until we all see the benefits of breathwork In our life which has led me to write 5 valuable ways breathing benefits your life.

There have been countless studies on breath work from Harvard medical school to Wim Hoff himself who isn’t a doctor but can back up all of his claims on breath work through scientifically-backed research. There is so much research out there on breathwork it’s a no brainier that it works.

How It’s Benefited Me

Since I have started breathwork as a morning routine and using it as part of my Yoga exercises. It has helped me tremendously. I can’t say if it has helped me health-wise but definitely for mental control of the things I do. I can last longer in holding positions I never thought possible for that length of time. The biggest takeaway is the calmness it has brought to my life. I feel way more present and less stressful and from it have become a better dad and husband at home.

Below I have put together the 5 Valuable Ways Breathing Benefits Your Life so you can understand why taking up breathwork should be part of your daily routine. I hope this helps you with your self-improvement journey

Why You Should Do It?

Improve Your Health

From research, these are just some of the benefits you can find when deep breathing can be beneficial for your health. We all want to live a healthy life and simple breathing techniques can help you achieve that goal.

Lower your heart rate
Improve digestion
Lower your blood pressure
Improve diabetic symptoms
Stimulates lymphatic system
it detoxifies the body
Reduce depression
Better manage chronic pain
Reduces Inflammation
Natural Painkiller
Reduce stress levels in your body
Better regulate your body’s reaction to stress and fatigue
Reduce the possibility of burnout for caregivers

If you are suffering from any of these above now is the time to invest in breathing work.

Keeps You In Control

Whenever I do Yoga or my exercise routine. Breathwork has pushed me on to new levels of growth. For me, it boosts willpower to carry on and stay in control of my mind and body when I’m in some uncomfortable holding positions in Yoga and helps push me on when I’m feeling extremely tired doing HITT cardio. Whenever you’re doing any form of exercise make sure breathwork is part of it.

Keeps You Calm Under Pressure

Breathwork is an amazing tool for bringing oxygen back to the brain when you’re under pressure or you have lost control of your emotions. It’s a tool that’s been amazingly used on our 7-year-old son. Now he’s dealing with all kinds of different emotions and breathing has allowed him to come back to centre within seconds. For me as an adult whenever I get stressed out on a deadline or when it gets a bit overwhelming. Breathing takes all of this away and brings me back to a clear mind.

Helps With Relaxation

All meditation has breath work within it and the reason is. It calms the mind into a relaxation state where you feel one with yourself. It’s the closest thing you can get to being asleep but awake at the same time. If life is getting out of control take an x amount of time throughout your day and practice deep breathing work. You will feel the relaxation benefits from it immediately.

Keep You Present In The Moment

When life feels out of control breathing can help bring you back to the present. At that moment you can forget about the past and future and just focus on what’s happening around you. This has been proven to elevate stress and anxiety in people. It’s also a great way to focus on what’s is important and that’s the here and now of your life. The part you can control and breathwork help you do that.

In my life, I lived in the past and future and ultimately I was unhappy because of it. When I focussed on breath work and staying present I became happier and in-turn my pains of the past evaporated. My future inturn improved because of the focusing on the present and has gave me great clarity on help to move into it with positivity.

Final Thoughts

If we can make this mainstream and teach it to all children not only will they have a tool to keep themselves in control but also dealing with the stresses of adulthood. I reckon we would all make better decisions and deal with life’s difficulties and setbacks a lot better. As well as seeing amazing health benefits from it too. I recommend Wim Hoff if you are going to start and is easily accessible on YouTube to get started. I hope you have been inspired to give it ago. Have an open mind, research it and you will be thanking yourself you have taken breathing work up I have no doubt.

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STAY SAFE, STAY HAPPY

Why Cleaning Is Great For Our Mental well-being?

Positive Effects Of Cleanliness with a dust pan and brush

As small kids, we have all been there when a person of authority has asked us to tidy our bedroom. My mum loved telling me to do this. I did hate it when I had to do it or help tidy downstairs. Maybe it’s because we were forced to do it and didn’t know the positive effects of cleanliness on the mind.

As an adult, I now know that it doesn’t only make your home or office space look neat but it’s great for decluttering the mind. A clean home equals a focused mind we like to say. You know the feeling you get when you have tidied up the whole house? How well does it feel? That’s a cleansing of the mind. A declutter of a negative atmosphere into a positive one.

As a father now, I see my younger self in my son. Especially, when we ask him to tidy up. At 6 years old we are trying to instil this positive habit in him as this is a great tool for the mind. Especially when it comes to focusing and creative thinking.

So in today’s blog post as you saw from the title – we will discuss the positive effects of cleanliness on the mind and how it has helped me. Also why tidying up is great for the mindset and how you can apply it to.

The Positive Effects

Boost your energy

When you clean your home or workspace it really does give you a boost of energy. You feel like you have accomplished something. We all know the feeling when we have succeeded or won a race. You get the same feeling from cleaning and your energy will be at a higher level for the rest of the day.

Create a new direction

Before you tidy up anything. You always have in mind how you would like the room to look after it’s done. This is a great tool for helping you move forward in your life. It can also help plan a new direction you want in your life too. It’s as if it has accessed the visualisation part of your brain and unlocks new possibilities for your future.

It calms your mind and reduces stress and anxiety

An untidy home can boost stress and anxiety tenfold. That’s why it super important to have a clean home and workspace. Especially if you are under stress at work or feeling anxious about things in your life. Cleaning has been proved to releases these tensions and I have experienced this too. Whilst you’re cleaning with the music in the background you start to feel more relaxed in the process. I definitely find cleaning quite therapeutic.

Its a form of meditation

Meditation is a great way to calm the mind and it’s something I practice daily. When cleaning, I get the same calming feeling too. With stresses of my life slowly going away whilst cleaning the dishes. With the repetitive actions is similar to the repetitive breathing techniques which is easy for the brain to perform without thinking too much. With the music on in the background, it also helps put you into a calm happy state similar to if you were hearing the wind chimes. Overall cleaning can help you get into that Zen state and help you feel better about yourself.

It tells you a lot about how you are feeling

How tidy your home can look can tell you a lot about how you’re feeling. If the hoover hasn’t been out in a while or those dishes are endlessly piling up. Something is wrong in your life that needs to be addressed. It has been proven that the tidiness of your space has an effect on your self-worth. So by just getting started to clean your space. You can start to form new pathways ahead and build your self worth with an amazing tidy up which can create a fresh win. It can be a symbolic message of change and the formation of new thoughts. Straight after cleaning, get your journal out and start planning for your future and what you want to change.

It’s a mini-workout

I don’t know about you but every time I clean, the sweat starts rolling off my back. Some tasks can take 20 mins and deep clean could take over an hour. Your body is moving repetitively for a long period of time so those calories are definitely burning off. You could actually look at cleaning as part of your exercise routine for the day.

A healthier family

Regular cleaning is also crucial for keeping you and your family healthy. With mould, a build-up of dust, bacteria on a worktop surface if left unclean can cause health problems. That’s why it’s important to clean regularly to make sure your health is not put at risk. A top tip is cleaning up after you have used something. Try having a day out of your week that’s designed for just cleaning. Your health will thank you for it.

Less maintenance

With regular cleaning, a great benefit is less maintenance on your home. Especially if you want your deposit back if you’re a renter. Keeping up to date takes away the pain of doing everything all at once which for me is painful. So I would set a list of things that are terrible to clean after long term use. I would do this once a month so you can keep up to date with your cleaning and then you will have less time for you to worry about it.

Overall the positive effects of cleanliness on the mind clearly show cleaning is essential for your mental well-being and for your health. It can be a great way to unwind and after a busy day a chance to do something simple and easy to accomplish. By planning and scheduling times to clean, it can also really help because if you don’t it will hit you all at once. As this is a real pain for everyone. Apply these tips and you see the benefits. SO GET CLEANING!

FUTURE MINDSET

At Future Mindset, we are here to push the boundaries of our thoughts and actions. By chasing discomfort in our lives, it can lead us to unlock things inside us we never knew was there. Let’s change our mindset to change our future.

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