CFHD.org | Integrative Medicine

An integrative approach to our health is beneficial to promote good health, optimize energy and decreases the risk of energy depletion, stress and many major diseases of the neural, visual, cardiovascular, digestive and immune systems. An optimum integrative regimen includes regular mental and physical exercise, proper nutrition, including fiber such as fruits and vegetables, natural supplements, and drinking at least 8 glasses of water daily.

In today's society many can identify with the following symptoms at some time in their life: Feeling stressed, worried, anxious, restless, depressed, angry, irritable, insecure, withdrawn, grief ridden, resentful, guilty, confused, forgetful, and/or experiencing panic attacks, chronic fatigue, inability to sleep, fibromyalgia, shortness of breath, eating disorders, alcohol or drug addiction or a 'shopaholic' addiction. They may be facing a mid-life crisis of aging. Integrative medicine such as breath therapy as offered by Life Cycles can help achieve natural homeostasis in the body, promoting vitality and an inner serenity.

Research shows that we actually stop breathing at times of fright and high stress! By 7 years of age, children have forgotten how to breathe 'properly'. The process of breathing can become shallow and irregular, leaving a murkiness and congestion in the base of the lungs. This can become chronic. We lose the ability to experience and express emotions. This repression saps vitality, promotes disease, creates physical tension, and robs us of the ability to experience life in a wholesome and positive way with feelings of love, joy, and pleasure. We may think we are on automatic pilot when it comes to breathing, as when we learned how to ride a bike, or drive a car, (it became automatic); however, "normal" breathing patterns have been damaged, inhibited, due to trauma beginning at birth, including family and cultural influences, as well as every physical and emotional trauma we have survived.

Breath Therapy, as applied by Life Cycles, is an ancient personal development tool, unifying and integrating body, mind and spirit. Breath is our life force; our energy and vitality. By utilizing various breathing patterns, one allows the breath to assist the release of stress and the renewal of body, mind and spirit, and to promote wholeness and balance.

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