Meditation To Support Your Breath

Why is our breath important?

Our breath plays an essential role in mind and body connection. Every system in our body relies on oxygen. Effective breathing helps to reduce anxiety and stress levels, improves our immune system, and supports our overall well-being. Breath-work, mindfulness and meditation help us to learn how to breathe effectively.

Everyday functions of the body like digesting your food, moving your muscles or even just thinking, need oxygen.

Transcript

Welcome to today's meditation.

Today we are going to focus on the breath.

Please close your eyes when you are ready and make sure that you're in a comfortable position.

This meditation will focus on diaphragmatic or deep belly breathing.

Breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth during this meditation.

We live most of our day on autopilot and our sympathetic nervous system is often activated.

Through a mindful meditative practice we can focus on relaxing the mind and body and activating our parasympathetic nervous system.

This exercise is effective when panic or anxiety arises.

Now please bring your attention to your breath.

As you breathe in you may notice your heart rate increasing and as you breathe out you may notice a decrease in your heart rate.

We are going to focus on the breath coming from our belly.

We often experience shallow breathing from our chest area.

So it will take time and practice to focus on a deeper belly breath.

It is natural for your mind to wander.

Just bring your attention back to your breath each time.

Sometimes we may feel like we are not in control of our external circumstances.

However we can always come back to our breath.

Breathe in through your nose,

Noticing as your belly expands and breathe out through your mouth.

Begin to pay attention to your shoulders and allow yourself to relax into this meditation.

Begin to notice the pause between the inhale and the exhale.

Place one hand on your stomach and one hand on your chest so that you can navigate where the inhale and the exhale meet.

Breathe in slowly and deeply through your nose.

Exhale slowly and deeply through your mouth.

Repeat this another three to five times.

Pay attention to your breathing and have a think about what the word relaxation means to you.

Can you remember the last time you did something just for you to help you to relax?

Take one last deep inhale and one long deep exhale.

Bring your attention back to your body and when you are ready please open your eyes and come back into the room.

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