Five years ago, if you were to tell me how much more I’d be able to accomplish simply by breathing, I would’ve smiled and acted super interested, then walked away thinking you were crazy, too *woo woo*, or simply out of touch with reality.
Five years ago I was also stuck in a corporate ‘dream’ job I hated, suffering from uncontrollable panic attacks at work, running 5 – 10 miles a day to manage my anxiety, and chasing after a man who blatantly told me (multiple times) we’d never be together. Not my finest time.
Thankfully somewhere in between then and now, I allowed my mind to open up to other possible realities for myself. I healed my eating disorder, learned about mindset work, quit my job, and started a business teaching other people to heal their mindsets.
It was in 2022 when I found myself stuck at an income ceiling in this business. At the time I had just started making consistent $10k cash months, but I knew I was capable of more. I saw people going from $0 to $100k within months and I wanted that to be me but it felt impossible… so I did what I knew worked – mindset work.
I journaled, said my affirmations, walked around pretending like I was already there, but there was something in my body that felt off… almost like no amount of repetition would let me believe I could do that.
It was around this time I booked myself in to a business retreat. It was both a gift to myself for all that I accomplished and a prayer that something in the retreat would show me the magic pill I had been missing.
On the second night ‘breathwork’ was listed on the schedule and I showed up to the jungle rooftop thinking THANK GOD. I needed a break from socializing and I was hoping to relax. Boy was I wrong.
As I laid down, the calming yoga music turned to jungle beats, the breathing pattern started to hit, my hands clawed up, my body started tingling, tears poured out of my eyes, and visions started flooding in.
It took me over 24 hours to recover from that session. I had no idea what just happened, but I knew it had changed me.
The coming months that proved true as I consecutively hit my first $20k and $30k months, landed a TEDx talk, hired my first team member, grew my audience to over 100k followers, and crossed $200k for the year in revenue. A weight had lifted off me in that session and now I was hooked.
Breathwork then became the tool that sped up all my manifestations and results.
What I didn’t realize during that first session is that certain breathing patterns done for a long enough time allow us to temporarily change the levels of carbon dioxide and oxygen in our blood allowing us to bypass the conscious mind and enter into dream like states.
In these states our logical mind quiets down allowing us to heal traumas, access repressed memories, release stuck emotions, and clear out any emotional or energetic blockages we don’t realize we are holding onto.
When it comes to manifestation, our energy is everything and oftentimes the more we try to shift negative, stuck energy the more stuck we find ourself which is why breathwork is so powerful.
Furthermore, these patterns of breath give us the ability to tap more deeply into our intuition and creativity allowing us to obtain a level of clarity on what we need to do next that most conscious thought would miss.
At the time, I had no idea all this was happening and it makes sense. Once I started breathing, my breath just took me and my body did the rest. The only work I had to put in was focusing on my breath.
Today, I’ve used these same practices to not only speed up my manifestations, but to boost my creativity, my energy levels, and my clarity in my business and life.
Realizing that the tool you need to fast track the change you are craving is inside you is one of the most empowering feelings.
Want to learn more? Send me an email at andie@andiecolleen.com and I’ll help you learn how to get started for yourself.
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