Deep breathing to instantly boost your energy

I asked my doc for some tips that you might be able to use right now to instantly boost your energy. She suggested practicing deep breathing.

“Most of us breathe very shallowly”, she told me. “When we get upset, we hold our breath. Consequently, get stuck in that feeling of fear or anger, and those two emotions are energy zappers”.

Here’s how to do it:

• Take long, slow, deep breaths as soon as you start feeling stuck on a negative emotion.

• Breathe in through your nose, filling up your stomach, and then breathe out through your mouth. Do this until you establish a rhythm, like waves of the ocean moving in and out on the shore.

• Connect with what you are feeling so that you can release it.

• Now ask yourself, “What am I feeling that I need to release?”

• Let that feeling surface.

• Is it anger, frustration, insecurity, or something else?

• Allow yourself to rally feel it.

• Hold your breath for the count of five.

• AS you exhale, imagine that there is an orb of gold light in front of your.

• Release those feelings that are keeping you stuck into the gold light.

• Feel as if the gold light is a powerful vacuum cleaner, pulling all negative emotion from your body, organs, and cells.

• Keep breathing and releasing until the negative feelings dissipate or until the negative emotion feels neutralized. You will feel a shift.

“It is important to release the feelings and then replace them with something else,” She told me. “This is the step that most of us forget”.

Here’s how to do it:

• Once you have neutralized the negative feelings, begin to visualize how you want to feel (joyous? Peaceful?). Then begin to bring in those feelings associated with that condition or state.

• For this part of the exercise, imagine an orb of white light.

Allow that white light to fill your body and the entire space surrounding you.

“Remember, nature abhors a vacuum, so you need to fill up the space you have just emptied of negativity with gorgeous and beautiful energy and visualizations”.

“If you can visualize it, you can believe it. If you can believe it, you can do it”. Nowhere is that truer than with energy. If you can visualize the kind of positive, joy ours energy you want to fill your life with, you will be on the way to creating it. And that’s the kind of energy we all want in your lives.