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Written by Stacia on 17 August 2010
Breathe and enjoy the blessings of a new life soon to be!
Meditation doesn’t have to be a long, involved process. It’s simply the art of slowing down, sitting quietly and focusing on your breathing for a few moments each day. It allows you to stay connected to your body and mind and lets you learn to listen to your body’s demands. No one else is listening to it, so do yourself a favor and just breathe a few times a day.
How to breathe? Try reverse pattern breathing.
Breathing is both a voluntary and involuntary action. Here, I’m going to teach you to focus your attention on your breath. Breathing in this manner requires focus to do it correctly. When you find your attention wandering, simply bring it back to the pattern.
This is not the style of breathing taught in Voice Coaching, nor will you find it in Yoga, Qi Gong or any other of the soft styles of movement. Each of those techniques has a specific outcome, to increase your lung capacity and to allow you to feel the breath and energy move along your body. Reverse Pattern breathing is only about focus.
Sit up straight for the moment, so you can really feel your body following the movements. The mantra, or phrasing you want to hold in your mind, is “In and up, out and down.” You’re going to breathe in, pulling your navel into your spine. And up, allowing your lungs to expand and fill with air.
- Breathing out, reverse it. Allow your lungs to collapse and your belly to round.
- Slow and steady. Repeat it at least three times to start and work yourself up to using it as part of your relaxation sessions. That’s all there is to it! Yoga and Qi Gong will teach you alternate patterns to focus your attention as well. I find this one works for me no matter where I am. If I focus my attention on breathing in this manner, I can control my blood pressure at the doctor’s office or even calm myself before stepping in front of a large group of people to give a lecture.
PS – You can teach Reverse Pattern Breathing to anyone! It will help a toddler calm down during a temper tantrum, help you control your temper and response in an argument, and even keep you calm at the dentist.
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Written by Stacia on 20 January 2010
My mother went through seven miscarriages to have me. Knowing this, I spent two years preparing myself mentally and my body to even attempt to carry a baby once I’d felt ready to care for one. I read everything I could about healthy eating, learned about working out in the gym, and made slow but steady changes in the household fitness and nutrition processes.
Some women out there are blessed. They get and stay pregnant at the drop of a hat. Others are more challenged and try for years; some with success, some without.
After two years of trying I’d given up. I wasn’t interested in in vitro. It’s a great option for many, but I didn’t want to chance the multiples or the disappointment. I figured, eventually, if I really felt the need to be mom, there was adoption. There are so many children out there in need of a good and loving family.
And, then, found out a week or so later, I was pregnant.
Excitement, yet a certain calmness settled over me. I started reading everything I could. A few books that shall remain nameless scared the hell out of me. I kept up my workouts, slept when I needed to and started playing a nightly meditation CD that I used through out my pregnancy.
Years and years before, I’d seen a show on the Discovery channel that showcased Hypnobirthing® and I thought, if I was ever going to have a baby, that was the way I was going to do it, calmly and without pain. Our society is so focused on pain and timing; we forget that women have been birthing babies forever and then going right back to what they were doing. Read the rest of this entry »
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Written by Stacia on 24 April 2009
Post written by Stacia D. Kelly. Follow me on Twitter. This is an adaptation of a post on Mind-Body-Spirit Works.
I have been listening to a lot of audio books lately, and on a variety of topics. Let’s face it, my listening can range from “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, which everyone should listen to since the author is the one reading and does a GREAT job, to Robert Allen’s “From Idea to Best Seller”. Honestly, the spectrum is a wide one.
But, the topic that struck home for me this week, while commuting was just a side bar in Robert Allen’s presentation. He highlighted Emile Coué. Now, seeing as how I’m a hypnotherapist (among my various titles) I should know this name, and honestly, I probably do and just filed it somewhere in my brain to be triggered later.
Anyway, what struck me the most from the start of my research was this:
Coué maintained that curing some of our troubles requires a change in our unconscious thought, which can only be achieved by using our imagination. Although stressing that he was not primarily a healer but one who taught others to heal themselves, Coué claimed to have effected organic changes through autosuggestion. (My mantra and practice as well.)
This is the perfect explanation of how I have helped myself heal in the past and exactly how I continue to do it each time I start feeling ill or making myself ill. And yes, my mother will freely agree, I used to MAKE myself sick and when I was done with it…I made myself better. I’ve even read documented cases of people using autosuggestion and imagination to heal cancer! He had a 93% success rate!
I applied this to getting pregnant as well. I worked at getting fit and healthy. I started eating better. I started working out. I started listening to meditations and hypnosis sessions to help myself destress and allow my body to prepare for being a mom.
Once I was pregnant (and let me point out…it took us two years to conceive), I used hypnosis birthing techniques to help myself to stay calm and focused. I focused on relaxation, which I also used during birth. Later during pregnancy, I added in affirmations. I think they truly helped.
Some great resources:
If you’d like some more information, keep checking back! I’ll be going through some of the methods in more detail.
Namaste
Stacia
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