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Refocus And Recharge In Less Than 2 Minutes

This quick, simple and powerful exercise will help you clear away emotional or mental debris and help you come back to your center and the present moment. It improves focus, attention and wellbeing – it’s like taking an eraser to a chalkboard. This exercise helps to restore the oxygen/carbon dioxide ratio in the bloodstream as well as balance autonomic nervous system function. You can do it as many times a day as you like – you will feel the benefits immediately.

THE RESET BREATH

Conscious breathing pioneer Gay Hendricks advocates the following breathing practice to optimize several of the scientifically validated benefits of conscious breathing, like reduced anxiety and depression, lowered blood pressure, feeling less stressed and overwhelmed, increased energy levels, and encouraged muscle relaxation.3 Because many people do not take full inhalations (think chest breathers) and do not exhale fully, a tremendous amount of CO2 stays trapped in our pleura and our body.

This excess CO2 concentration leads to higher blood acidity and the age-related wear and tear associated with oxidation. To prevent this metaphorical rusting of our body, utilize the Reset Breath to balance your pH, avoid getting sick, and powerfully presence yourself.

How to Reset Your Breath

1. Find a comfortable, seated position with your spine relatively straight but supported*, and close your eyes.
2. Place one hand on your diaphragm, the other hand on your heart and take a few regular breaths, full, breaths, in your nose, out your mouth without a pause at the top or bottom. Ground your feet on the floor. Connect with your circle of love (people real and imagined that love you unconditionally). Feel the breath rise like a wave, starting in the lower belly and flowing up to your upper chest. Again, the exhale should be relaxed and easy, not forced, as if you were letting out a sigh at the end of a long workday. Enjoy a few easy diaphragmatic breaths.
3. Next, inhale through your nose and gently exhale out your mouth. It’s essential not to hold your breath at the top of the inhalation and likewise exhale in a smooth, easy way.
4. After you exhale all your air, hold your breath, without tightening any muscles, for one or more heartbeats. Just before your body would tense to reach for more breath, gently inhale through your nose and exhale as you enjoy a few transitional diaphragmatic breaths.
5. When you’re ready again, repeat steps 1–3 for about two minutes. You just infused your bloodstream with higher levels of oxygen and created inner alchemy!
6. It is recommended to practice reset 5 times per day. (five sets of 3). Pick a regulat time for 3 (when you are brushing your teeth or going to bed) and two times when you are starting to feel anxious.

You are cleansing old carbon dioxide from your body. you are dumping excess carbon dioxide. Imagine your blood is flowing with a balanced ration between oxygen and carbon dioxide.