In this session, you will reflect on the power of your thoughts and words. Speaking up and getting a message across is a precious gift. Its power can be both creative and destructive. When you practice a conscious way of speaking, both internally and externally, you take full responsibility for your actions, and release any judgment or blame by speaking from this place of kindness and truth. With Breathwork, you can free your speech and your emotions, and break imposed contracts to come into the power of your truth and your voice.

What can you take responsibility for and what does not really belong to you? Taking things personally refers to the negative self talk that can happen when we over-personalize difficult situations. We all have been negatively affected at one time or another by what others have said or done. When you take things personally, it’s harder to resolve conflict and to see clearly. Our job is not to take on other people’s personal experiences and energies, but rather to give ourselves permission to separate what is mine from what is yours. During this session, you’ll explore where you’ve taken things personally in your life and use the breath to move beyond that in order to create a new conflict narrative and take sole responsibility for your own lives.

Assumptions are things we believe to be true, with little to no proof that they actually are true. They are creations of our thinking and they satisfy our lack of knowledge. Where do you most frequently jump to conclusions? How has making up stories served you, or has it not? During this session we’ll look at your imagination and see just how good it is at dreaming up things that aren’t true. We blame other people, we start gossiping to justify our assumptions and then the message becomes even more distorted. We think too much, and thinking leads to assumptions and brings fear. Using your breath, you’ll learn how to gain confidence so that you can speak up, ask questions and express your true desires. When you learn how to communicate clearly with others, you avoid sadness, misunderstandings and drama.

Doing your best varies according to your mood, your health, your fatigue ... and that's normal. The idea is neither to exhaust yourself nor try to be perfect. The idea is to be honest with yourself and others and to be able to say "I did my best according to the circumstances and my knowledge at that moment". When you do too much, you drain your energy and end up acting against yourself. But if you do less, you expose yourself to frustration, guilt and regret. In this session you’ll explore the idea of what “doing your best” means to you while integrating the previous three agreements so they become deeply rooted habits. As you do your best, the habits of misusing your word, taking things personally and making assumptions will become weaker and less frequent over time.