A BREATH OF FRESSSH AIR @ WORK

The Art of Breathing

What if there were something you could do right this minute to improve how engaged, productive, and creative you are at work? As it turns out, there is, and you’re already doing it—

Breathing!

Breath your way to better performance, higher productivity and sharper focus. It is mindful breathing. Brilliant way to enhance your overall wellbeing. The breathing techniques centres one to a place of calm and self-awareness. This is where your inner strength and resourceful lies. Knowledge, skill and business expertise can only get you so far at work and in life. Also, your ambition and drive cannot be sustained in the long term. Burnout and chronic fatigue is common trend amongst very passionate professionals and brilliant business owners.

Benefits of Art of Breathing

1. Sharper Thinking and Clarity of thought

2. Increases your Attention Span, Alertness and Focus.

3. Improves your Response and Reaction to Stress and Emotion

4. Empowers people to manage their Stress. Builds Resilience

5. Refreshes your Mind and Brain

6. Improves your Cognitive Processing.

7. Feel Good Factor increases

8. Relaxes and Calms the Mind/Body

9. Improves Posture and Performance

10. Boosts Energy levels and Improves Stamina

11. Elevates Moods and Encourages Better Engagement with people

12. Strengthens the Immune System. Decreases Absenteeism

13. Assists in Weight Control.

BOOK  A BREATH OF FRESSH AIR @ WORK - THE ART OF BREATHING WORKSHOP FOR NEXT WELLNESS DAY

Each session is 20 minutes. The breathing exercises are done sitting.

THE SCIENCE OF BREATHING

Breathing correctly means supplying your body with sufficient oxygen and replenishing the brain and other vital organs with essential nutrients. Your cardiopulmonary system plays a major role in moving these nutrients around—which means it’s the road transporting all the toxins in our systems, too. Breathing, in other words, can help you control the traffic, keeping the good stuff moving while clearing the non-essential.

You take about 20,000 breaths a day. The average human respiratory rate is 30 to 60 breaths per minute at birth, decreasing to 12 to 20 breaths per minute as adults. Its significant change.

But as you get older, the way you breathe changes. Especially when you’re stressed or alarmed, your bodies operate on your more primitive (fight, flight, or freeze) instincts. You take short, fast breaths (adrenaline kicks in) to prepare for danger.

But prolonged periods of stress mean you constantly breathe like this: only ever using the top third of your lungs. It’s the bottom third of your lungs, however, that supply two-thirds of your breathing capacity. So, shallow, thoracic breaths mean you aren’t getting what your body need to function at optimal level. As a result, your cognitive abilities get sluggish, you have trouble staying alert and connecting with others, and just dull.

Breathing correctly means supplying your body with adequate oxygen and replenishing the brain and other vital organs. This way you navigate life with more vigour, vitality and verve @ WORK.