Feel your breath move down to your tailbone, into your abdomen, outward along each rib, moving the attached muscles in your chest and back, until it finally moves your 1st ribs along with the attached neck musculature.

Just imagine the healing power that all of this movement and proper oxygenation can induce via simple BREATH!

Listed here are just a few ways that this slow, deliberate, deep, and meditative breath can aid in healing:

• Calming down the fight or flight nervous system, which is overactive in common disease states such as anxiety, hypertension, tension headaches, asthma

• Speeding up healing of musculoskeletal ailments such as costochondritis, back pain, tailbone pain, neck pain

• Aiding recovery from infections by improving lymphatic flow through the body

• Laying the groundwork for a meditation practice to help achieve optimal physical, mental, and spiritual health. Just give it a try for 5 minutes a day, you likely will start to crave these peaceful minutes!