{"id":29476,"date":"2013-06-04T12:55:12","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T16:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=29476"},"modified":"2013-06-04T12:56:32","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T16:56:32","slug":"how-i-get-in-the-healing-vibe-basking-and-belly-breathing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/how-i-get-in-the-healing-vibe-basking-and-belly-breathing\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Get In The Healing Vibe: Basking and Belly Breathing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend just finished a round of chemo and was feeling better. \u00a0I said, It&#8217;s good to feel good, huh? It was cool last night so windows are open to the nature sounds. That&#8217;s always so healing for me: simply sitting, listening, feeling the air on my face, feeling how comfortable my body feels where I sit, knowing every day is a new possibility. So if I can take moments to just sit and bask in how good it feels in the moment, right now, I can make those moments last. That is what I find puts me in that receptive healing mode. \u00a0I<span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">t helps me to do deep circular breaths as well. I breathe in as deeply and fully as I can. I pooch my tummy out on the inhale and bring my navel to my backbone on the exhale. If I do a slow controlled exhale, the inhale will take care of itself. I raise my shoulders a little as I get to the deepest part of the inhale, to expand the lungs more. More oxygen to the cells= faster healing. It&#8217;s a really good anxiety reliever as well. \u00a0This practice can accelerate your healing, getting more oxygen to your cells and clearing your mind. \u00a0It sounds easy but\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">daily breathing and meditation and appreciation can be a 12 hour a day job. \u00a0If you do it right \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/how-i-get-in-the-healing-vibe-basking-and-belly-breathing\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=How I Get In The Healing Vibe: Basking and Belly Breathing&url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/how-i-get-in-the-healing-vibe-basking-and-belly-breathing\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/how-i-get-in-the-healing-vibe-basking-and-belly-breathing\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/how-i-get-in-the-healing-vibe-basking-and-belly-breathing\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=How%20I%20Get%20In%20The%20Healing%20Vibe:%20Basking%20and%20Belly%20Breathing&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/how-i-get-in-the-healing-vibe-basking-and-belly-breathing\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend just finished a round of chemo and was feeling better. \u00a0I said, It&#8217;s good to feel good, huh? It was cool last night so windows are open to the nature sounds. That&#8217;s always so healing for me: simply sitting, listening, feeling the air on my face, feeling how comfortable my body feels where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29476"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29478,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29476\/revisions\/29478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}