Financial Breath Work

You can, and many do, do a Yoga Teacher Training course not to become a teacher of others, but to improve how you teach yourself. One of the ways I cope with a lot of the waves of life is by seeing it all as a game. A thin slice of distance between what is going on, and who I am. Enough space between what is going on and me, to breathe. Detaching allows you to be your own teacher. 

With time to reflect. I did return to reality after my course, but I also started adjusting the direction I wanted to head in my career. I decided I wanted to focus more on investment analysis and pull back from client work. I like talking to clients. I like explaining things. At that stage, I wanted to be involved in the actual investments, so I started shifting in that direction. 

The Yoga course gave me a point to constantly return to. A focus on the basics. One of those points is proper breathing. Breathing is so key, but it is not something we think about even though it is the base of everything. Yoga describes prana as energy, and pranayama is breathing exercises. You are managing your energy flow. 

You can learn to breathe properly, in the same way as you can train to swim or run more efficiently. Most people when asked to take a deep breath will take a big suck of air in, rather than being able to control their breath and draw oxygen in slowly. Developing the ability to inhale, slowly, and exhale, slowly and with control, changes your levels of energy completely. Learning to breathe with your abdomen, so that your tummy comes out when you breathe in and that creates capacity to take in more oxygen. 

One approach to meditation is simply to regularly come back to focusing on your breathing every time your thoughts w(a/o)nder. When you feel yourself going, you come back. 

That is analogous to stilling the waves of money anxiety. Constantly returning to the ins and the outs. Relieving Financial Anxiety is not a question of more, it is about the ins and outs and the relationship between the two. The speed and control in both directions. The feeling that you have the waves covered. You can do this.

Diaphragmatic Breathing