Can You Do Daily Breathwork?

Oct 9

Having a daily routine is an important benefit to living a healthy lifestyle, which is why the white supremacist capitalist patriarchy is hell bent on keeping us working for the majority of the time, so we can’t assess our surroundings and demand change. The mind and body tends to function better when you have a set schedule. Working, eating, exercising, and sleeping are a few of the main tasks that we do daily, most of which so we can remain fodder for our overlords. If these tasks are not consistent, your body and mind will notice, and they will start to react differently causing our circadian rhythm to function differently.

According to The National Institute of General Medical Sciences, “Circadian rhythms are physical, mental, and behavioral changes that follow a 24 hour cycle. These natural processes respond primarily to night and dark, and affect most living things including animals, plants, and microbes.” It is very clear that it is impossible to keep every single task consistent, and on point. We are human, and with the oppression of our corporate overlords causing you to either miss meals, rest, and gym days causes your circadian rhythm to become unbalanced.

Lack of routine can potentially lead to increased stress levels, causing fatigue, anxiety, and a wide variety of other health and mental issues. Routine sets structure in your day, and allows you to get tasks done more smoothly and calmly. It is important to stop and take deep breaths throughout your day as it can help regulate our nervous system, thus combatting these issues. There are a variety of breathwork techniques that have been practiced worldwide to help with focus, mood, improve sleep, release tension, and anxiety, and many more. But expecting routines can be ableist as mental health or ability can prevent you from keeping a routine.

So, the real question is, “Can you do daily breathwork?” The answer is, HELL YES. Daily breathwork can be practiced to help improve your physical and mental health, giving you the opportunity to focus and execute your daily routine without drastically setting your circadian rhythm off balance. A few other questions that people ask are:

What is breathwork?
What types of breathwork can you do daily?
How can daily breathwork benefit you?

What is breathwork?

Breathwork is a series of conscious breathing techniques that have been practiced for many years that help with a variety of different physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health issues. These techniques are meant to help with healing of the mind and of the body. It has been known to have drastically lowered stress and anxiety levels due to its consistent practice. The basic premise of breathwork techniques are to regulate your nervous system. Breathwork practices have been designed to help you live life the way you deserve to live it.

What types of breathwork can you do daily?

Breathwork has become such a powerful outlet worldwide. More and more people have been practicing breathwork daily to help keep mental, physical, and emotional complications at bay.

There are many breathwork techniques that can be done daily, just as long as you continue to receive the positive effects of each technique. Many of these you can work on yourself.

Amongst the many techniques, these are a few that you can do daily that can help improve your daily concentration, mood, sleep, lower stress levels, and many other health and mental issues that can help you get through your normal daily routine:

● Ujjayi or Victorious breath

● Kapalabhati or Skull shining breath

● Sama Vritti Pranayama or (box) Equal breathing

● Breath focus technique

Victorious breath

Victorious breath is a type of breathwork technique also known as Ujjayi, that is designed to help you calm and relax your thoughts by helping you concentrate more intently on your breathing.

Skull shining breath

Skull shining breath is a type of breathwork technique also known as Kapalabhati, that is designed to help cleanse and calm the body, while attempting to improve your respiratory system. According to The National Library of Medicine, “Kapalabhati should be discontinued if the practitioner experiences dizziness or syncopal attacks.”

Equal breathing

Equal breathing is a type of breathwork technique also known as Sama Vritti, that is designed to calm the autonomic nervous system and reduce stress levels.

Breath focus technique

Breath focus technique is a type of breathwork technique designed to help enhance happiness, positivity, and pure relaxation. This technique also helps improve lung health.

How can daily breathwork benefit you?

There are many benefits of breathwork. Breathwork has been known to change many lives with its powerful techniques and benefits that have helped improve physical, mental, and emotional health in people after just one session. Breathwork techniques can help heal you physically and mentally allowing you to go back to your normal routines quicker.

The many benefits of breathwork include:

● Reduced anxiety

● Improved sleep

● Reduced stress levels

● Increased happiness

● Improve lung health

● Relax your thoughts

● Improve focus

● Boosts energy

Daily breathwork is highly beneficial, especially if you’re looking to improve your ability to live a happier, healthy, smooth, and more comfortable lifestyle. Reducing anxiety and stress levels gives you the opportunity to focus more as you relax any negative thoughts that may be causing your day to become a bit all over the place. Daily breathwork can put you in a calm state allowing your body to be more relaxed before bed so you can have a good night sleep.

Anything that has to do with increased happiness and health can be highly beneficial to the mind and body. Practicing breathwork daily can truly be an overall health benefit that gives you a huge energy boost allowing you to continue and want more out of life.

That said, please remember that personal self-care cannot be our only focus. We need to take care of ourselves as an act of resistance against the capitalist agenda. More and more self-care is being commodified and sold back to us under neolibral individualism. Fuck that noise. We must build communities and start listening to indigenous elders. To allow them to lead and guide us away from these systems.

In conclusion

It is 100% possible to practice breathwork daily. With having a hectic and busy lifestyle imposed upon us from corporations, we must resist if we can via have a daily routine set in place that can help you survive your days and your nights. According to Health Bound, “Lack of structure can contribute to feelings of anxiety and poor productivity while establishing patterns in your day can help you manage your time, improve focus, and more easily face any challenges that occur.” That being said, not everyone is able to implement a routine as they may not be able, they may work three jobs, or other systemic issues.

Adding breathwork into your daily routine allows its benefits to really work its magic in ensuring that some health or mental issues you are experiencing can be managed or even eliminated. Practicing consistently really gives the technique time to work to best fit your health and mental needs. Breathwork techniques such as Victorious breath, Skull shining breath, Equal breathing, and Breath focus technique are just a few techniques that have a wide variety of benefits that can help change your life entirely.

There are many breathwork techniques out there that can be practiced daily, and the best part about it is that they have been practiced for thousands of years, making it known that they are 100% beneficial. Benefits like reduced anxiety and stress, and increased happiness and focus are the main benefits people search for when trying to improve their physical and mental health. Find what technique works for you, and add it into your daily routine, it is certainly worth the extra breath.