Episode 6: Energize & Activate

This week we are going to change things up a little bit. Over these past 5 episodes, we have focused on down-regulating breathing techniques and meditations. These practices can help calm you down and relax your nervous system by deepening and slowing down the breath while lengthening our exhales. This down-regulation has been show to lower heart rate, lower blood pressure, as well as decrease release of stress hormones in the body due to activating the part of our nervous system in charge of “resting and digesting”.Today I want to introduce an activating breathing technique to up-regulate your nervous system. This can be a tool to used to when you are feeling tired, low energy or want to wake your system up and get things moving. This breathing technique is meant to temporarily activate your stress response, triggering a release of adrenaline to help bring alertness, increased energy, and sharper mental focus to the body.As always, make sure you feel safe and secure in any practice before doing so. Please use caution here if you know you have any cardiovascular, respiratory or circulatory health concerns or a history of severe trauma that causes panic attacks.As always, take what works, use what feels good, and leave the rest.I appreciate you being here!!Follow this and my storytelling on Substack:https://substack.com/@katiescogginsIntro Music:Music: Apollo 11 by Wanheda https://soundcloud.com/user-724527508License: Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://audiolibrary.com.co/wanheda/apollo-11Music promoted by Audio Library: https://youtu.be/Ot9187kyNpM?t=273Meditation/Breathwork music:Music: Eclipse by Onycs https://soundcloud.com/onycsmusicLicense: Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://www.audiolibrary.com.co/onycs/eclipseMusic promoted by Audio Library: https://youtu.be/aG5X40oWhag Get full access to A Daily Pause at katiescoggins.substack.com/subscribe