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How Your Breath Shapes the Way You Experience Pain

Breathwork can transform your relationship with pain. Justin Ternes shares how conscious breathing, awareness, and education empower the mind, body, and heart, helping you navigate pain with resilience, calm, and presence rather than simply masking discomfort.

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Mastering Breath Control Through Key Variables

Breathing is more than “taking deep breaths.” Justin Ternes breaks down the key variables of breath amplitude, frequency, rhythm, intensity, and location to help you master breath control, optimize physiological effects, and harness breath as a tool for calm, focus, and resilience.

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Many Emotions, Many Interpretations

Emotional health comes from awareness and the ability to feel and interpret the energies of our emotions in the body. In this post, Justin Ternes explores how reading and accepting emotions, rather than creating or labeling them, builds emotional intelligence, intuition, and mind-body connection.

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Breath is Encouragement

Every conscious breath can be an act of self-encouragement. In this post, Justin Ternes explores how breathwork fosters self-efficacy, health, and connection, sharing insights from a client session and practical ways to breathe life, love, and encouragement into yourself.

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My Fasting Journey

I first tried intermittent fasting in 2018 and it changed how I felt, cleaner energy, weight loss, greater emotional control, and deeper clarity. In this personal account I share my progression from skipping breakfast to multi-day and 7-day water-only fasts, plus lessons and motivation to start or deepen your own fasting practice.

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