Euphoric Breathing Day 6 Wk1

Today is a free flow day. Choose the practice from this week that suits your body's needs. If you want to continue, repeat day five. If you need a break, go back to day one, two, three, or four. Use one of the practices we've already done to complete the six days. We have a bonus technique called 4-2-6. It's a breathing technique that activates the rest and relax nervous system. Use it anytime during the day, for as long as you like. It helps reduce stress and anxiety. Proceed with your practice for the day and congratulations on completing the six days. Welcome to day six. Today is a bit of a free flow day. What you're going to do today is you're going to pick the days practice from this week that you feel is most in alignment for what your body needs for this day. So we started the week off at short sequences, short breath holds, and we built to longer sequences and longer breath holds. If you want to continue this momentum, then repeat day five. If you feel your body needs a bit of a break, then go back to either repeat day one, two, three, or four. The most important thing is that you cap this week off with one of the practices that we've already completed. Use that to check the box for the six weeks, so the six days for this program. Think about what you're going to do now. Make that choice. Before you do that, we have a bit of a bonus for you. I'm going to teach you a technique that you can use anytime during the day, not just in the morning. The practices that we learned so far, the euphoric breathing practice is a morning activation practice. It should only be done in the morning, maybe the latest in the noon. However, there are many techniques that can be done throughout the day. This technique is called the 4-2-6, because it's a four-second inhale, two-second hold, and a six-second exhale. Four-second inhale through the nose, two-second hold at the top, and a six-second exhale through the mouth. This particular breathing technique activates the parasympathetic nervous system, which is the rest, digest, and relax nervous system. You can use this technique when you're feeling anxious or stressed, or in the afternoon, or before you go to bed. You can use this technique for as long as you like, one minute, three minutes, or five minutes, or if you're triggered or feel that you need a shift in your mood. We're going to do it right now, so take a moment to get yourself prepared. In the nose for a count of four, in, two, three, four, and hold for two, one, two, and out for six, two, three, four, five, six, and in through the nose, two, three, four, five, six, and hold for two, two, and out for six, two, three, four, five, six. Use this technique this week or weekend at your leisure. The 4-2-6 Method helps the body to relax. It reduces hypertension. It balances the heart rate and blood pressure. It's one of those techniques that you can have in your toolkit to be able to lean into any time throughout the day to bring your body and your mind back into a state of equilibrium. Write it in your journal, keep it in your mental note, and now go ahead and proceed through your practice for the day, which will either be one, two, three, four, or five. That'll cap you off for the six days this week. Congratulations, and we'll see you next week for Hellotropic Breathing. Namaste.