hello i am dondi dahlin welcome to your third day of the better breathing
challenge this challenge is to help you with your lungs with your throat area to help you
breathe better especially in times of flu or cold or if you have asthma or during a pandemic any of
those times but also if you already breathe well let's get more strength in your lungs so you can
hike better swim better run better play with your kids play with your grandkids it's a fantastic
challenge and we are on day three if you are just joining us welcome welcome
if you've been with us for a couple of days how is it feeling it's probably a little bit sore in
here because we've been massaging the chest area and if it's sore that's okay i have been doing
energy medicine my whole life since i was about seven years old i'm often sore because i'm always
poking and prodding my body getting that energy to flow so let's get that energy to flow together
first we are going to start with the thymus thump now just to go over it the thymus is about here
at the top of the breasts in the middle behind the stermin sternum excuse me behind the sternum
now some of you say to us in messages but the thymus shrinks after puberty why do we have to
pay attention to it it turns into a little piece of fat by the time you're old well yes it does
but the energy of the thymus still needs to be activated still is very good for you if you plump
up that area so we thump it we thump the thighness right here on the chest you might be able to hear
me thumping i do it with pressure i like when there is pressure it wakes me up it it gives me
a boost of energy and thumping your thymus is said to boost your immune system so thymus thumping
thump thump bump you can do these techniques any time of the day deep breath shake it off
let's go on to the lung meridian now meridians are energy pathways on the body it's good to help
assist the energy flow on those pathways when i was little my mom would say you don't want your
meridians running backwards so we want to get the meridians really clear it's like a clear stream
of water versus one that's all uh yucky with pollution in it so we're going to do a long
meridian flush this is the first meridian i ever learned which means this is an easy one for your
kids or your grandkids my mom gave me a couple of easy techniques when i was about seven years old
she said just do these whenever you feel like it and i believe they have kept me healthy
so the lung meridian so easy it goes from the chest you can use a full hand
take it over the shoulder down the arm off the thumb and you always want to do the other side
full hand from the chest down the arm off the thumb however we're going to flush it which
means we're going to go backwards from the thumb up the arm i like to use a full hand to make sure
i get the meridian over the shoulder to the chest and i'm kind of on the same side of the chest
as i'm doing the meridian and then we're going to go forwards three times one
and two and three how easy is that let's do the other side from the thumb
up the arm to the chest and back and we and we yay that's it you've just flushed your lung
meridian again it keeps the energy flowing to the lungs which are one of the biggest detoxifiers
in your body they say that the lungs detoxify seventy that's seven zero seventy percent of
the waste in your body when you breathe correctly so now we're going to go to the sternum and the
sternum goes from about here to here we're going to massage it the sternum protects your heart
it protects your lungs it protects major blood vessels if you don't want to
rub like this you can rub like this you can try different techniques and again it opens up the
area of the lungs it gets the lymphatic fluid moving lymph will not move on its own to move
lymph in your body you need to manually stimulate it like i'm doing right now or you need to move
exercising will or dancing or any type of movement swimming will move the lymph in your system
that's the sternum shake it off we like to shake the energy off our hands just because it feels
like it can collect there nice deep breath with me we're going to go to some lung points lung
acupressure points now we do acupressure points with our fingers you've heard of acupuncture i
am sure that is with needles we don't use needles in eden method we just use our fingers and there
are lung points all over your chest two of the really good ones are right about here right there
so how to find these come to my breast your breast and your shoulder it's about halfway in between or
come to your shoulder here's another way and go about four to five inches
down and in it's right here for me i have a little notch so it's really easy to find not everyone has
a little notch and you want to rub this opens up the respiratory track it moves lymph and
all of this is good for your nervous system to calm and to bring a real fluidity to the lungs
and to the breathing those are your lung points remember you can do that any time of the day all
right next we're going to do a very excellent neck stretch and we're going to go from our chin
to under our ear down the neck to about here and then we'll bring our hands to our
heart and i'm doing it with pressure and you know what it can help if you have some cream or lotion
and you put it on your hands it just helps with the flow of your fingers not get stuck on the skin
so i'm going to go deeply i'm doing this with pressure along this bone or slightly underneath
moving along it is tender on me you have all sorts of things under here including the
tonsils the adenoids i'm going right up to under and behind my ear now i'm on an area
called the triple warmer and the triple warmer is an energy system in the body
that governs your fight flight or freeze if you can work with it it can bring calm
and help with anxiety mine is a bit tender which my mom always says my mom is donna eden by the way
my mom always says that means you need it and then i'm pulling down oh it actually it hurts a
little bit but it also feels really good it's like a good pain and i'm bringing it all the way down
and then resting on my heart now we're going to do the other side starting at the chin
i might get a little closer so you can see it
under the ear remember this is the triple warmer area you're also tapping into the vagus nerve
and the vagus nerve helps regulate digestion your heart rate your respiratory rate
and here goes that pull down from the ear this is the one that's tender on me all the way down
and then come back to resting this is just a nice place to come back to ah you can shut your eyes
if you want take a little break there when i was little for whatever reason i i had a lot
of sore throats you know a lot of us get into this work because we're sick or we're ill and i'm sure
most of you know my mom healed herself of multiple sclerosis doing this work well i healed myself of
chronic sore throats by doing that technique ah okay now we're going to do one that looks a
little bit funny it's called digestive breathing because your breath is directly connected to
your good digestion or not so good digestion if you're breathing shallow chest breaths you want to
in your life be mindful if you aren't mindful about anything else be mindful about this slow
long breaths from the belly this is going to help with digestion so i'm going to turn so you can see
this i'm bending my knees i'm going to place my hands on my thighs my rump is sticking out and
i'm going to on an in-breath i'm going to curve my spine up to the air so my back is going to curve
on an in-breath i've pulled my tummy in toward my spine i've curved my shoulders i'm holding it
here on the out breath i'm going to reverse this and let my belly drop toward the floor
i like to open my mouth wide because that also activates the triple warmer and the vagus nerve
let's do it again a couple of times since this one is kind of a funny one we'll do it together
and if it reminds you of cat cow from yoga yes it is a bit similar isn't it here we go
oh it feels really good in the lower back
bringing those shoulders down away from the ears and one more time
stretch that lower back
a lot of women have a an arch in their lower back especially if you are a woman who has worn high
heels most of your life this is a really good one to get the lower back and the spine more fluid so
if your back is often in this position you get to stretch it the other way and it's only going to
help you as you age so we're at the end let's do our last technique we're going to take our
hands and we're going to put them over each lung and we're going to shut our eyes and it may be
a little bit strange for some of you but we're sending love to our lungs i'm shutting my eyes
let's do it together i am visualizing warmth healing good energy fluid energy moving through
the the lungs if you've been a smoker in your life if you've been in polluted cities if you live in a
polluted city if you've been doing shallow chest breathing if you have grief grief in chinese
medicine it is believed that grief gets stuck in the lungs let's send good love to the lungs
i'm taking some deep breaths let's pull that energy out of the lungs and just shake it off
now i want to talk real quickly about the breath before we sign off for today and i know you're
going to join us tomorrow you'll hear people say breathe in through the nose and out through the
mouth in through the nose out through the mouth you'll hear other people say do nose breathing
lots of different type of types of breathing we at eden method like to breathe in through the
nose and out through the mouth when we're doing mindful breathing and that is because there are
two meridians that can hook up at the back of the throat remember we did lung meridian
well there are many meridians on the body again pathways of energy and when you do this breathing
in through the nose out through the mouth it helps two really important meridians called central and
governing but you don't have to remember that hook at the back of the throat why more health
to feel better to feel happier to feel more grounded when you feel grounded you feel like
you have control over life and you can take what life brings you so on that note i wish you a
wonderful day or night wherever you are i will see you tomorrow this challenge goes for seven days
i send you lots of health thank you for being with me today bye bye you