How-to – Breathwork for changing your emotional state

Christian Minson is one of the best breathwork facilitators in the world teaching breathwork. I was lucky enough to meet him and experience his work at a well-known centre where he was the director of Breathwork while I was doing my shamanic journeys. His breathwork felt like it took me to another world and got me to experience letting go at a level that I haven’t experienced before. You too can feel it in this breathwork session!!

He also taught at the Chopra Center in La Costa, California, and shared his work alongside the well-known thought leader, Gregg Braden. But what is even cooler about him is that he was a monk for 10 years, in dedication to a lifestyle of service and meditation practices in order to understand the deeper meaning of life.

He’s been spreading the message and experience of how the practical and easy tool of conscious breathwork can profoundly enhance your energy levels, mental acuity, emotional balance, and spiritual connectedness.

Christian was one of my dear guests in the Mini Online Summit that I organized about Emotional Resilience. His session was so powerful that I asked him if we could include part of it in this program for you to just get a taste of the impact. This breathwork was placed right after the powerful ancestral somatic practices to help you change your emotional state and move through the emotions that arise in you. It’s integration time!

I can’t emphasize enough how breathwork is important for your emotional resilience. Here is what Christian had to say when I asked him why it is so important:

“Breathing is important for being in balance with your natural emotional state. Every emotion we have has a corresponding breath pattern. Fear and anxiety, for example, come with a more shallow pattern. If we go into freeze mode – fight, flight, or freeze – we hold our breath altogether. You find yourself holding your breath unconsciously. On the flip side, emotions like joy, peace, and happiness, come with a deeper, more fluid breath pattern. Just as our emotions create our breath pattern, our breath pattern creates our emotions. So a lot of people who experience chronic stress and anxiety have likely habituated themselves to a shallower breath pattern and continued to reinforce the not-so-desired emotions. The good news is that you can reverse engineer it so if you want more happiness, peace, and joy, for example, you can start breathing in this deeper more fluid breath pattern, and that’s going to start stimulating those emotional states for you. The breathwork is the foundation for how you feel, your mindset, etc. By learning how to enhance the way you breathe will help harness the power of the breath to impact your life.”

 – Christian Minson, Breathwork Facilitator

PS – Some members when trying this session got stuck and quit in the middle. When I asked Christian why this was, he explained that breathwork can bring to the surface all these things that need releasing – like garbage. It might feel uncomfortable at times, but just keep going. If you stop halfway, you do not give your body the chance to work through it till the end until it reaches a release. If this is your experience, keep going!