“Life’s mystery lies in the breath.”

Our greatest life-force comes from Breathing. Our energy at any given moment depends upon the way we are breathing. A free, expansive flow of energy opens that which is contracted in the body.  As we feel pain and hurt in our lives, we tighten our muscles and we contract our lungs. In fact, during times of strong emotion, many people literally stop breathing. These contracted energy patterns then cause illness, neurosis, and physical disease.  When we shut down our breathing, we suppress our emotions, thereby failing to truly process them.  This suppressed emotional baggage remains “stuck” in the body and keeps us from being fully alive. In fact, the lack of sufficient oxygen to the brain can turn on the “fight or flight” response and make us irritable, anxious, fearful, and tense.

When we experience pain and trauma in terms of the emotional body, we sometimes begin to suppress our breath until the trauma is over.  If we continue in this suppression, instead of breaking the patterns and facing the pain, then our emotional scars will remain forever as contracted energy and the life-force is no longer free and expansive. Breathing deeply and fully will put us in touch with unresolved issues and feelings.  When we combine EFT with deep breathing, we enhance the technique and clear our system.  Set aside a time each day to breath deeply and fully.  Let the day’s negative patterns, wounds, and frustrations flow away and allow yourself to renew with a magical inhalation of oxygen and rejuvenation.

Hi Karen,

while tapping very often I have feeling like something is pushing on my neck that causes me harder breathing... could your method EFT breathing help me ? thank you