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Aligning With Your Future Self Through Breathwork

  • Writer: Brainz Magazine
    Brainz Magazine
  • Jun 18, 2025
  • 3 min read

Monica supports businesses with the three keys to expansion: Strategic structure, energetic alignment, and a powerful mastermind community. Work with Monica by joining her six-month business accelerator or her signature course, The Alignment Activation.

Executive Contributor Monica Krake

What if you didn’t need more vision boards, mantras, strategies, or self-help books to manifest your future? What if manifesting could actually be a simple process of shifting the way we breathe to shift the way we create?


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Guided breathwork may still be an unexpected (and underutilized) tool for making massive life transitions, but the truth is, it’s the most powerful way I, and many others, have found to align with new, future-self realities.


Why? Because the way we breathe mirrors the way we live. Which means, as we learn to deepen and expand our breathing, we also deepen and expand our lives and realities. This may sound like an oversimplification, but it’s not. We are the creators of our lives. Our state of being fuels everything we do. Breathwork is one of the most potent ways we have of shifting our state of being. Connected breathwork helps us align back to our true selves, so that what we create (manifest) in our lives flows from our most creative, clear and powerful state of being. 


The science behind breathwork & manifestation


Manifestation begins with nervous system regulation. When we’re stuck in stress, survival, or overdrive (which we all dip into from time to time) it’s hard to access the clarity, calm, and inner knowing that allows aligned decisions to emerge. Breathwork has been proven to reduce cortisol levels, calm the amygdala, and activate the parasympathetic nervous system, helping the body shift from “fight or flight” into “rest and receive” mode. Studies also show that conscious breathing practices can improve emotional regulation, increase focus, and help release stored emotional energy from the body. This “energetic debris” unprocessed stress, trauma, or tension can cloud our intuition and keep us looping in old patterns. So, as we learn to shift these patterns through breathwork, we allow new future self potentials to emerge in our lives. 


Why breathwork works for future-self creation


Unlike manifestation tools that focus on the outer vision boards, goal lists, or scripting breathwork turns your attention inward. It helps you synch up with your true self: the inner creator who already knows the way. When practiced regularly, breathwork becomes a daily way to re-align with your highest self.


Every time we connect with our breath, especially with an extended circular breathing practice, we come back into coherence energetically, emotionally, and spiritually. We stop forcing and start feeling. We stop chasing and start choosing.


This is the seat of personal power. From this place, aligned action becomes natural. Life begins to flow.


The importance of daily practice


Just like physical training builds muscle, breathwork builds energetic clarity. One session can create a shift. But regular practice creates transformation. Remember, the future you want doesn’t live in the future. It lives in your current frequency. Breathwork is how we change that frequency consistently, consciously, and compassionately.


Want to experience it?


Next week, I’m guiding a live Future Self Breathwork Session, and I’d love to invite you to join. This isn’t about fixing yourself. It’s about remembering who you are and breathing that into being.


Date: June 25Time: 10 am-11:15 am PST Sign up link here.


Whether you’re in a moment of transition, craving clarity, or ready to meet the next version of you, this experience will help you ground, reset, and realign. If you’re brand new to breathwork, I recommend you read this article on How to Start a Breathwork Practice


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Monica supports businesses with the three keys to expansion: Strategic structure, energetic alignment, and a powerful mastermind community. Work with Monica by joining her six-month business accelerator or her signature course, The Alignment Activation, and connect on Instagram.

This article is published in collaboration with Brainz Magazine’s network of global experts, carefully selected to share real, valuable insights.

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