Silly question, of course you know that you breathe! Well, not really. We have totally forgotten that breathing is as important as eating, exercise or sleeping for health. In Ayurveda and Yoga it is described as ‘life’. It’s even the same word in Sanskrit. Life starts with an inhale and it ends with an exhale. All in between is life.
The breathing is like ‘a communication tool’ to ourselves, that we can use so much more than we do today, when we get aware of it. It gives a clear biochemical and neurological signal to get into a certain state of mind and body. Think about it; if you want to calm down you can breathe deeply and hold the air in. If you want to gear up you just hyperventilate, and if you combine it with motion like jumping, you fly into the meeting room with a clear head, and you don’t need to reach for your fifth coffee.
When you want to be healthy, be aware of how you breathe. At Olive Retreat we teach a few easy breathing exercises (Pranayamas). If you are a client of ours you know how good it is to meditate just after doing Pranayamas. It clears the head, leaving it blank and you just zoom into the silence and stillness within you. I love it!
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Naturopaths who deeply believe Natural Immunity is still the best, and therefore we work in defense of it.
Since 20+ years we have successfully been consultants in the natural health sector to support individuals and we are in particular working with entrepreneurs and professionals. Our mission is to defend natural health, the only one that really works so far. We mainly but not entirely use Eastern philosophy such as Ayurveda, TCM, Yoga, Thai chi, Falun Gong, and only honest modern science.
Everyone can heal naturally, it's what bodies and (free) minds want. Our O• Method is based on physics, chemistry and biology with emphasis on the first one as the rest often follow naturally. We divide our work in three parts: Body-Mind-Soul. To allow them all to detox and let go we work with energy (Prana, Xi, Vitality, Spirit, Pneuma or whatever you call the life force, it's the same force mentioned in ancient texts) to heal on all levels, i.e. from chronic disease, toxicity, depression and traumas using our own method, reaching 96% success rate which is unheard of by others in our sector. Would you know of anyone with that result, let us know.
Considering that we invented and dumped >120.000 (petro)chemically derived substances since 1945, of which many are very toxic, getting healthy will most likely include a good old body detox sooner or later.
My love for Ayurveda started in 1993 with Deepak Chopra and after a few turns in life I quit my job as a Nordic Brand Manager and BI strategist at the largest Nordic telecom operator and re-schooled in natural medicine. Besides Dr. Chopra I have studied Dr. Lad, Dr. Siva (Pune, India) and other prominent teachers in their field, but the real difference comes with a practiced. I added nutrition, Orthomolecular Medicine with Dr. Nielsen (USA/Spain) and herbalism.
Today we teach those whom want to continue our work and we love to dig down in etymology and the original (mainly Avestan, Pali and Sanskrit) scripts to understand the words fully and I fall in love with the concepts over and over again for every sutra. This love affair that created a few books (Amazon), presentations, essayes and many events and consultations, is still giving us Yang-Yin balance and inspiration. I guess with that we are recognizing the value of Dao De Ching 💚🌿💜
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It should have said “Do you know you breathe” It sounds like breeeeeth if you add an e on the end. Hope this helps. Great article by the way!! Ker
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Thank you Ker! Glad you liked it 🙂