Hi, Anne Corbin, your Mind Body Spirit Mentor. I'm here with this week's episode of the mind body spirit connection. You are a complex being composed of 3 parts, mind, body, and spirit. Just get those 3 parts working together in harmony Anne upscale your life. I'm here to show you how. Last week, I was speaking about Isms, specifically, scientism, which at the moment is almost a made up word.
You will find it when you look it up online because It's very easy to update the language these days, and it even shows up in some of the bigger comprehensive printed dictionaries of old, but let's be frank. It isn't a word that's in general use. It puts me in mind of another made up sounding word, which is unattached. The opposite of attached is detached right? Well, yes, but unattached also works. Think about it.
We've used it to describe single, unmarried, or unattached people for many years, haven't we? They are definitely unattached, not detached. But it's also used by speak like Michael Beckwith, when they discuss manifesting, for example, and how to focus on Anne intention and work towards a goal. And whilst you have to be confident of the outcome you expect, you have to remain, I'm not attached from it.
In case the result is not exactly what you desired, and doesn't happen the way you intended it would. So this is different to detached which suggests a lack of interest, to be honest. No wonder English is considered so difficult to learn. And then there's the difference between American English and British English I wonder if anyone has ever carried out a study to determine how many everyday words are different yet well understood by the 2 populations.
I set myself a quick challenge to see how long it would take me to come up with 20 of them. So here goes trousers, pants. Anne, wardrobe, closet, sweets, candy, biscuits, cookies, scons, or scones, biscuits, brackets, parentheses, powers, exponents, plus, add minus subtract, math, maths. So that was 10 in quick succession.
And there's a reason for the mathematical bias because when I was a newly qualified teacher, I was teaching math at an international school, sorry, the International School in Hong Kong. Which was an American undertaking. And most of the students were children of US experts. And if I didn't use their vocabulary, they would pretend that they didn't know what I was talking about. There was, honestly, one word swap that I simply wasn't aware of.
Mostly these folks would write in pencil, and they would just scribble over or cross out their mistake and their work was very, very messy, and I kept telling them to use a rubber Anne I noticed that there was much sneggering every time I said so. Then eventually Anne of the girls kindly took me on one side and told me what a so called rubber was. Now this is a long time ago. It was directly before the AIDS scare, and Well, basically that made such things part of everyday conversation.
And I suppose, to be honest, I just haven't been paying enough attention to US TV programs. We had plenty of those, but maybe they never talked about rubbers. Couldn't tell you. I just don't know. Perhaps I just missed out on it. Anyway, here's another 10. Rubber. Condom. Oh, I got those the wrong way around. Condom, rubber, mistake, error, soft drink, cola. Imprison, incarcerated, underpants, shorts, shorts, cutoffs. I think I've been looking into that one for years. I'm not certain.
Nickers, panties. Laurie, truck. Pavement, sidewalk, road, pavement. And there's also pronunciation differences, for example, Same spelling, but in the UK, we would say vase Anne the Americans say vase. We in the UK would say blouse, but the Americans will say blouse. And then often, it's the spelling that's different, and American spelling, quite honestly, is more sensible. And I think it's taking over For example, how would you spell program? With 1m@theendordoubleme.
Oh, just more challenges for students of the English language. There's also differences in expression in the UK we are taken to hospital. In the US, you are taken to the hospital. Here, we would have a blood test done. And in the US, you would have blood work done. And what put me in mind of that Is this expression breath work? Because I teach the importance of breathing in an intentional way to connect mind body and spirit and enhance your energy flow. I was trained in this by an American.
And from her, I learned central channel breathing, burly breathing, and all the related benefits and it's what I teach in my programs. But within the last week or 2, a couple of people have mentioned breath work to me. So I did a little bit of research, of course, to establish if there was an angle that I was missing out on. Anne I was led to a useful summary on Deepak Chopra's website Anne breath work could be considered to include the next level.
I don't think I want to go there personally, at least not yet, but I'll summarize what it's all about. Not surprisingly, Breath work has it roots in ancient Eastern practices. And in addition to pranayama, which is standard breath control, there is holotropic breath work, which is usually carried out in groups with an instruct her, and it's accompanied by what they describe as intense music.
So I can imagine that It can result in a cathartic and psychedelic process similar apparently to the effects of taking LSD, but without the drugs. Oh, there's another one. Drugs, narcotics. And these participants of holotropic breathing may have visions or laughing and crying uncontrollably. Anne there can also be severe muscle cramps, and this is why a trained in structure has to be on hand. There's also a so called rebirthing which is described as very similar, but without the intense music.
And when Hoth has developed his own variation on this, which, of course, as you might expect, involves exposure to stream cold. So these last two kinds of breath work have attracted quite a bit of negative publicity and media attention, but the prana Yama which is what interests me has no dangers at all attached to it. Prana just means Breath Anne YAMA means control. So pranayama, breath control. You can release 70% of toxins from your body simply by breathing properly.
You can use breathing to release tension as well. And when you were afraid or stressed or anxious or nervous or anything like that, Your breathing pattern changes. So notice this next time you feel uptight as I was describing. And you can use breathing simply to elevate your mood, breathe properly, and you can increase those pleasure inducing chemicals that are naturally in your body. Breathing techniques are tools for major transformation and healing.
And when you've corrected and Anne, the energy flow in and around your body, you have then set up the environment in which the body has the ability to heal itself. And when you complete a full breath cycle, you involve the whole body, the chest, the belly, the back, and the mind. And remember, The breath represents your spirit, that huge, powerful part of you that you probably weren't introduced to as a child. But it's your life force. It's the chi in Tai Chi or the Chi spelt QI in Chigong.
And when you learn meditation, the first thing you're told is to concentrate on your breathing. And if you have no idea why you should be doing this, it probably doesn't make much sense. So think of it this way. Your breath is your power. That is It's your potential power. You could compare it with a powerful engine in a car with enormous capacity, Not only does it have the chance to perform only when the ignition is switched on? The power needs to be managed to be controlled.
So just as you wouldn't put a novice driver into a Ferrari to learn the ropes. In fact, I don't think you put a novice driver anywhere near a Ferrari, but it's necessary To learn the basics first, and then you upscale to the full on available power. Anne you don't, of course, learn to drive a car by reading about it. That's as hopeless as Learning to swim without getting into the water. It just doesn't work.
Now you might think, well, I've been breathing automatically all my life up to now, so why do I need to learn how to do it? Will changing my breathing really change my life? And the answer is yes, yes, yes, Just notice, that last in breath that you took, was it through your nose or through your mouth? Most of us breathe through our mouths until we're made aware that that way we're using less than half of our lung capacity.
Breathe through your nose, and you can take in much more air Anne not only that, but you expand the lower lobes of your lungs, which are much better supplied with blood. So therefore, your blood is oxygenated that much faster and better, which gives you more energy. Also, the receptors of the parasympathetic nervous system are down there, and that why deep breathing calms you down.
Notice that If you took a decent deep breath, your belly will have pushed out, and that's because of the dome shaped muscle called the diaphragm at the base of the chest or thoracic cavity, which flattens when you fill the lungs.
And because it flattens, it pushes down on the abdomen or belly back in Victorian times when fashionable ladies were strapped or laced into really, really tight corsets, there was nowhere for the there was no space for the lungs to expand because the the stomach was so restricted and so flattened that they simply couldn't push down on the belly. Therefore, they could only breathe in the top little, fraction of their lungs Anne they were frequently fainting. And that's genuine science.
So I could use big words like diaphragmatic breathing or abdominal breathing, but it's easier to just say belly breathing. So develop the habit of breathing in through your nose. And it doesn't really matter how you breathe out, but if you just keep your mouth closed, it's easier to break the habit of breathing in through it. So here are some easy baby steps to connect, mind, body, and spirit. Standing or sitting up straight Just think about spirit.
Breathe in through your nose slowly and feel your belly expand. Imagine the universe is filling you with air on this inhalation. So experience a life force, that's the prana, flowing through you. Allow yourself to make space for this energy within yourself and feel how it connects you to a deeper part of yourself. And then as you hail, send the energy to all the living things around you. So I will stop there now.
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