What is Color Breathing?
Trainers need a relaxed, steady mind to be able to maintain their alpha state of mind. Color Breathing is one of many meditative practice that can help you with this. Color breathing can easily be performed before going to sleep or when waking in the morning, at work or at home. With color breathing, you choose a color to suit your needs. Simply hold the color in your mind's eye. Then, as you inhale a deep, slow breath through your nose, you visualize that color, try to feel the color and see the color. Then you exhale slowly through your mouth, and continue to visualize and experience the color.
A very helpful exercise for color breathing is breathing in the Rainbow.
The purpose of this is to firstly, heighten you awareness of color and secondly, to encourage a balance of all the seven main chakra colors for our well being.
First of all stand with feet slightly apart and arms by your side, relaxed with palms turned to the front. Relax the shoulders, and concentrate on your breathing, consciously relaxing all of your body from the top of your head to the tips of your toes. Breathe in deeply through the nose, hold for a few moments and then breathe out through the mouth. As you breath out, imagine expelling all the stress, negativity and toxins from your body. If you can do this exercise outdoors -when the weather is suitable- while standing on grass with bare feet.
Affirmations, either spoken out loud or as a concentrated thought, can be helpful to help you focus. For example, red is the color of courage and strength - you could say to yourself : "the energy of red fills my body and I have the strength and courage to move forward along my life's path". It doesn't matter how you word your affirmations - because each individual has his own way of expression - but what matters is to remember the positive aspects of the colors and to make sure your statements are positive.
Firstly breathe in red from the earth, imagine it rising up through your whole body giving you strength and courage. Make an affirmation to suit your situation, as you breath in and experience the color filling your body. Allow the color to travel up through the body and out of the top of the head and then back down again to the earth. Repeat with orange and an appropriate affirmation, then yellow. These first three colors are absorbed from the earth. Then green. This color is absorbed from the surface of the ground, let it fill your body, thinking or speaking your affirmation, and let it leave through the back. Then blue which is absorbed from the sky, through the top of the head and out again going back up to the sky, similarly with the indigo and violet, etc. If this exercise is done daily, you will really notice how your color awareness develops and you will be able to visualize the colors much more strongly. This exercise should make you feel a positive difference in balancing and enhancing your body's energies.
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Sources: sharecare.com deborah serani, PsyD; colourtherapyhealing.com
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