Unlock Holistic Serenity: How Breathwork and HeartMath Relieve Stress

Discover the power of breathwork in this enlightening conversation with Akary Busto, an emotional biohacker and certified HeartMath practitioner. We explore how simple breathing techniques can be your secret weapon for melting away stress and releasing pent-up emotions. Show Notes | Transcript "If we disrupt the pattern, then we're able to hijack that brain. And I am a believer that gentle can get us to the same place than going really hot and heavy with the breath." - Akary Busto If you've been yearning for a natural way to feel lighter, clearer, and more connected to your divine purpose, this episode is exactly what your soul has been searching for. As a spiritual entrepreneur, I understand the importance of finding effective tools to navigate life's challenges while staying true to our highest calling. Discover how to: Use intentional breathing to reset your nervous system and realign with your authentic self Implement HeartMath techniques to create new neural pathways and improve emotional regulation Approach breath work safely and gently, avoiding potential retraumatization Tap into the wisdom of your heart's electromagnetic field for enhanced decision-making and intuition Key insights include: The difference between everyday breathing and intentional breath work practices How the heart's electromagnetic field influences our interactions and energy The importance of consent and trauma-informed approaches in breath work The connection between proper nutrition, movement, and emotional well-being A word of caution: While breath work can be a powerful tool for transformation, Akary emphasizes the importance of approaching it with care and guidance. She dispels common misconceptions about breathwork as a quick fix for trauma, encouraging a more holistic and long-term approach to healing. Whether you're a seasoned practitioner or new to the world of intentional breathing, this conversation offers practical insights and gentle techniques to help you navigate life's challenges with greater ease and authenticity. Tune in to start your journey towards a more balanced, aligned, and empowered version of yourself! Resources: Join the Soulful Women's Network here Receive daily inspirational email messages: bit.ly/LoveLightNotes Need support? Go to engagewithgloria.com to schedule a call. Connect with Akary Website: uhkare.com Connect with Live Love Engage: Send Gloria Grace a message ☕ Support the podcast ❤ Love this episode? Leave us a review and rating LinkedIn: Gloria Grace Rand Facebook: Gloria Grace Rand YouTube: Gloria Grace Rand TRANSCRIPT I am Gloria Grace Rand, founder of the L.O.V.E. Method and author of the number one amazon best seller Live. Love. Engage. - how to stop doubting yourself and start being yourself. In this podcast, we share practical advice from a spiritual perspective on how to live fully, love deeply, and engage authentically so you can create a life and business with more impact, influence and income. Welcome to Live. Love. Engage. Namaste. Get ready to discover how simple breathing techniques can be your secret weapon for melting away stress and finally releasing those emotions you've been carrying around like heavy baggage. So if you have been craving a natural way to feel lighter, clear and more connected to your divine purpose, well then today's conversation with our guest is going to be exactly what your soul has been searching for. But first, I do want to welcome you to Live Love Engage. Especially if this is your first time. I am Gloria Grace, founder of Align to Shine Academy, and I work with spiritually minded women entrepreneurs to help them break free from self doubt so they can really step into their highest purpose with clarity and true confidence. So joining us in just a moment is Akari Busto and she is an emotional biohacker, certified heart math practitioner and human design expert who empowers individuals to unlock their energetic blueprint and transform their lives. And with a unique approach that combines nervous system regulation, trauma transformation and energy alignment, Akari helps clients shift from feeling stuck and overwhelmed to radiant and resilient. And I think we all could use a little bit more of that in our lives. Why not, right? So without further ado, I'm going to bring her up here today and welcome you, Akari, to Live Love Engage. Thank you. I'm so excited to be here. Well, I'm excited to have you on as well because you are going to be talking about a topic that in all of my five years now, so far, we're in our sixth season already of doing the show. I don't think I've had anybody specifically focus in on breath work. I think they've mentioned it maybe in, you know, combination with other things. But, but I know I've, I've dabbled in that a little bit and I know how powerful it can be. But I, I'd love for you to first off, maybe tell our audience how is breath work per se, like, different from just, you know, our normal everyday breathing that we get to do because we're alive? Well, I, I guess it's intentional breathing. Okay. We can really sit and focus on our breath, which is very hard. Yet we do it every day. Right. We do it all day every day. Right. So there's, there's, it is really funny because when we think about the stuff that we're going through every day, we recognize and we realize that we're shallow breathers. Do you ever catch yourself, Gloria? Hell yeah. Yeah. Yeah, sometimes. Yeah. And I do when I'm meditating, I do try to consciously focus in on having that be Be deeper. But yeah, I think probably more often than not, just regular every day during the day. It's not that from a diaphragm thing, right? Yeah. Yeah. So what I typically share with people is that you're recycling old oxygen that's hanging out here. When we're shell and we're all shallow breathers and we all have bad posture and we all have a really hard time, you know, focusing and what we need to. So when we're doing this intentional breathing, there's just a lot of magic that comes with it because you hear it all the time. Why don't you just pause before you respond or why don't you take a breath before you respond? It's so easy to be said, but it really is a little muscle that you have to exercise. So creating intentional breathing is what's going to bring you so many different results that you probably didn't know you could access. Yeah. And following up with that because, because again, I'm thinking of, of because I, I know some. Oh, I know, yes. I, I have a friend of mine who, she's like a certified breath work, I don't know, practitioner or something like that. And she does this really like. And I've, I've, I've done one of the sessions with her where it's like this really, you know, type of, you know, breathing. So is that what you focus in on or do or is tell me a little bit more about like what, what do you do? What do you, what do you teach people? So, yes, I am a breath work facilitator. And what we do is we breathe under the belly, we breathe into the heart space and we exhale. And that is more of a meditation facilitation because what we're trying to do is we're trying to hijack the brain. Right. The brain is the most powerful motor in the body. A lot of us use our brain to make decisions. But what I challenge my people is to realize that the number one job of the brain is to keep you safe. And so when we are connected to our brain, we're constantly working on just keeping ourselves safe and we don't get a chance to explore and experience life. Right. We're in, we're wearing our safety goggles. So when we're doing this breath, we do things a little different. We do it with our mouth open. So it is the only time that I suggest anyone breathing with their mouth open disclaimer. And what we're doing is we're doing things different because the brain is so Powerful. It recognizes patterns. And so if we disrupt the pattern, then we're able to hijack that brain. So when we're doing this breath work technique. Yeah, we're going. And I am a believer that gentle can get us to the same place than going really hot and heavy with the breath. So doing it very methodically works really well for me and my clients because it's a nervous system thing. Sometimes when you're bringing too much oxygen and not exhaling enough CO2, people will get hand cramping. And I don't think anyone has to experience any pain when you're doing this. Yeah. So what is trying to think. There's like a million questions are going through my mind right now, so I'm trying to. Maybe I should. Maybe I should stop and breathe. Right. Take a pause. Yeah. So let me think. Okay. So what would be a good reason why someone wants to. I'm gonna. I'm gonna start there first. What would be a good reason why someone would want to do that type of breathing that you're talking about? That, you know, the gentle. More gentle, but. But still a deeper breathing. So because I work with the nervous system, I really believe that going gracefully and easing into it is going to help you. There's so many people who have different types of experiences. So for me, doing this breath work is a way to reset your nervous system and get you to a place where you feel realigned with yourself. And so the reason I go gentle is because we can always work on that. If we go really hard, it's harder to go down. Right. It's like you already experienced something, and if you have a bad experience, it's only human. We won't want to do it again. And so if we work through it gently, we get to expand and we get to move at the rhythm that your body requires you to move. I believe that there's a lot of re. Traumatization that happens when people are not careful with their practice. Yeah, I know. Because that's part of what they say. It helps you to sort of release some of these stuck emotions and stuck traumas and thing