Dance Your Way To The Top! by Susie Heath

Author:Susie Heath
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781784521813
Publisher: Panoma Press

Exercise with suggested accompanying music

Breathing Dance – Athair ar Neamh – Enya

This is taken from my book The Essence of Womanhood, and is probably one of the most important and beautiful exercises to do to calm yourself down, to bring oxygen to your body at all levels, and to bring the rejuvenating and harmonising parasympathetic system into play. Do this before any meeting or if you’re giving a presentation or before you go to work – it will be far more effective than anything else. It takes three-and-a-half minutes of joy, gets you out of the noise in your head and turns on a positive emotional state, as you open your chest and open your heart.

Ideally do this exercise standing with your feet firmly planted on the ground, about hip distance apart, with your knees and shoulders slightly relaxed. If standing with your eyes closed creates a problem for you, then sit down for this exercise.

Allow the sounds to seep into your body and with your eyes gently closed and your mouth half-open, accompanying the rise and fall of the music, slowly lifting your arms in the air like the soft curved wings of a dove as she starts out on her journey, taking your arms no higher than shoulder level, allowing your lungs to fill with air naturally, not in a forced way … then slowly lower your arms as you effortlessly exhale.

Focus your attention on your heart and breathe in and out as if from there, allowing your arms and hands to stroke the air as they float down, soft and relaxed. Keep breathing in this way, surrendering all of your body and movements both to the rhythm and melody of the music, feeling the breath of life nurturing and nourishing your body as you breathe in pure healing energy. Breathe in joy, peace, light, love and all your heart desires. As you breathe out, release any stress or tension, worries, fears, phobias, negative thoughts and feelings, all sorrow, pain and anger, allowing yourself to be clear and refreshed for the day ahead or calm and relaxed for the night.

As the music comes to a close, rest your hands on your chest and your belly to connect with your heartbeat for a moment or two. Now slowly open your eyes and come back into the room.

‘Dancing’ in this way will take you under the radar of your thinking, rational brain which tries so desperately to work things out from its limited experience, to connect with your unconscious mind, inviting it to work with you at your highest level – you might even want to call this your spirit or inner wisdom or the God/Goddess part of you.

Your physiology provides streams of data in your body: for example, your stomach sends messages to your brain when it’s hungry, but also is known as your second brain, as this is the focal point of what we call ‘gut instinct’. As we’ve travelled further and further away from relating well to

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