03/27/2022
A while back I saw a response to something I posted where Someone seemed surprised that a woman in her 90"s, she had seen on television had said she had lost weight by doing breathing exercises. The simple truth is Oxygen is the key to life. It is also the key to great health and weight loss!
Webster Dictionary –The word aerobic: increasing the efficiency of oxygen intake by the body.
If you always take good, deep breaths as you go about your daily life, your life will be so much improved. Remember, all living things need oxygen. Animals, plants, and certainly you and I need oxygen. You and I need oxygen every moment of every day whether we are sleeping or awake. You can improve the quality of your life dramatically if you improve the way you breathe. Feed every cell in your body the nourishment it needs most, oxygen. Now come on, no matter what else you are doing right now, take a good deep breath.
After you have learned to do the Life Lift breathing technique correctly from the original DVD you may want to progress to the workout DVD’s designed with a complete body workout. It is a really good idea to alternate your workout DVD’s daily to keep a fresh attitude and to keep the body responding better to the new abundance of oxygen. Alternating your workout seems to help the body resist going into a plateau.
Want better abs? Exhale!
Exhaling with pursed lips, just like you're blowing out a candle is the fastest way to engage the transverse abdominis, the deepest abdominal muscle." says PT trainer David Reavy in an article in Prevention magazine.
Sound familiar? Those of you who do the LifeLift breathing know how important this step is while doing your LifeLift workout. This is just one more confirmation of how important it is for you to breathe, exhale for the best workout possible.
The first step in doing your LifeLift breaths is blowing out as if you are blowing through a straw, exact same motion as blowing candles. He goes on to say don't be afraid to make some noise. The more you exhale with force (not like coughing up a lung, but gentle force) the better the contraction.
If you feel for any reason that the exhale breath out is too intense, modify it. I often teach people to think of the pah as a breath going deep into the bottom of the belly. Remember to keep it as a total air sound. Think of a suction, a vacuum pulling your breath down from your mouth to the deepest part of your belly.
The different positions that I show in the DVD are designed to help you sculpt your body. The basic Life Lift breath always works the abdomen. The other positions will help you target your problem areas. Play with the different positions until you feel comfortable with each of them, then pick your favorites. After you get familiar with the different positions it is good to pick 3 or 4 to do daily. Do each position for 3 to 10 complete LifeLift breaths. This way you will focus the oxygen to specific muscles, and you will not get tired of doing the same ones each time. Soon you will be able to graduate to the 15/20 minute workout DVD’s where you will be able to work out with me without having to think about doing the Life Lift breath correctly.
For now, the main thing is to master the Life Lift breath.
At the beginning of the Instructional DVD you will be told it is best to do Life Lift on an empty stomach. Good news! That has changed. A good time is before eating, however new studies show that it is OK and may even be beneficial to do your Life Lift breathing shortly after eating, usually 15 minutes if you have eaten a full meal. Time of day is not important. Do anytime that is convenient for you.
Because you are tightening the abdomen area it is easier to do and more comfortable if your stomach is not too full. In other words, if you have just eaten a three-course meal...wait at least an hour or two, but for the average breakfast, lunch, or snack, you should be fine to just start breathing.
Another reason to do Life Lift without a full stomach is to maximize the effect of Naturally Occurring HGH.
Life Lift is totally natural and safe as well as yours free for the rest of your life once you have learned the breathing technique. You are not introducing anything into your body except oxygen.
To lose weight and inches I suggest that you do at least 40 Life Lift breaths daily until you reach your goal. This is the equivalent of about 20 minutes daily. When you begin following the new workout videos you will be doing your breaths at a slower, more precise tempo, so you will need to do less repetitions. You can get a great workout in 15 minutes. Try to incorporate it into your daily life, doing a few here and there when you are doing other things like sitting at your computer, tighten your hind end and breathe, rather than just sitting there. It is also great to do when you are in your tub or shower, get into the standing pelvic tilt if you are in the shower, if you are in the bathtub, just flex your f***y and breathe. When you are brushing your hair, putting on makeup, driving your car, just standing. Just do a few breaths and watch the stress disappear, and see your inches and pounds leave you too. I have noticed a remarkable increase in amazing testimonials telling me of wonderful results in not only inch and weight loss, but healing from those suffering from illness and disease.
When you reach your goal, or if you are doing it only to build your immune system, get healthier, sleep better, keep your muscles toned, reduce stress, etc. or just for maintenance-then 5 or 10 minutes 3 or 4 days a week is usually sufficient. Doing Life Lift is so simple that you can do it anywhere that it is convenient. Let it become a natural part of your life. I find that if I am feeling stressed, tired, or just thinking about wanting to look better that I will do it several times a day, usually just 5 or 10 breaths, (about 2 to 5 minutes). It makes me feel so much better. I have incorporated it into my life. You can make it a natural part of your life too. Breathing right is the most important and valuable gift you can give yourself. And it is so easy. It is a natural high. When you learn to do it right you will get that famous endorphin high that runner's talk about, without any stress to your skeletal structure, instead you will be nurturing your body to be stronger and healthier.
Because of my years of training in the health and fitness field, I believe strongly that slow, precise movements are much more effective than quick, intense movements. I also know that if you become too intense you may burn yourself out easily. One of the things that is so appealing about the Life Lift program is that it is so easy, manageable and nurturing. I feel certain that the reason I have so many people who have maintained their results for so many years using Life Lift is because it is so easy to do and it feels so good. If you will create a program for yourself using Life Lift as a way to relax and nurture yourself, it will be easy to do Life Lift for your Lifetime.
Life Lift sets off a series of events that results in your body absorbing more oxygen that it normally does. This extra oxygen is what brings so much benefit to your whole being. In addition to the HGH released by Life Lift, which is discussed above.
With each breath throughout the day, we take in oxygen and create carbon dioxide, which we exhale. The carbon dioxide builds up in your body to a certain level and sets off the next inhalation.
Paradoxical as it may seem, carbon dioxide is the key to affecting the level of oxygen in your blood. The Life Lift breathing process, during the time you are holding your breath out, allows the level of carbon dioxide in your bloodstream to build up beyond the point at which you normally would inhale. This puts your body on high alert for oxygen. Your body has many ways to adjust itself to changing priorities, which you can observe throughout the day. A shortage of any vital nutrient, including oxygen, triggers a host of responses. In this situation your body becomes extremely receptive to any incoming oxygen. When you finally inhale, that oxygen is sucked up through your lungs and rushed to the bloodstream., and most of all to where muscles have been flexed or stretched. It rushes to that point to heal, thus toning and firming the muscle.
This cycle of high levels of carbon dioxide and oxygen alternating may be what tells your body you are functioning as a highly physical being, triggering it to release more HGH (human growth hormone) so you can be as physically young as your performance needs indicate you need to be. In contrast, if you sit around all day, your HGH levels will fall off. Your body will give you what you tell it, by your actions, you need. If you need nothing-indicated by no activity and lots of food- it will power down into cruise control at a low level. If you rev up the circulatory systems, your body will say, "Hey, we got a live one here," and put in the high-performance ingredients you need to have a high-performance body and mind. Life Lift is the best way we know to rev up your body and get it to come fully alive.
With Life Lift you are directly adding oxygen, which invigorates your brain (amazingly, your brain uses 20% of the oxygen you breathe.) That same oxygen alters your acid/alkaline balance to where it is supposed to be, thus supporting your immune system, and breaking down accumulated toxic waste and the chemicals released by stress so they can be made harmless and eliminated. Life Lift will generally boost your energy and relax you, depending on what you need.
OK, my loves, remember to breathe today. This is your day. Make the most of it!
Love you all!
Rashelle
www.oxygenlift.net
