5-Minute Breathing Practice For Stressful Situations

This very simple and relaxing 5-minute breath focussed practice will help you feel calmer, after moments of stress and anxiety. This straightforward breathing practice will help you to slow down your breath and help you feel more balanced and centered.

Transcript

Sometimes we can find ourselves in situations that can create a lot of stress and anxiety in the body. And the first thing we might notice is our breath and how we are breathing. So perhaps our breath has become shallow and labored. And perhaps we are noticing the racing of our heart, All those signs of stress and anxiety are all part of a natural response to a situation we might find ourselves in. So a really quick way to come back to a calmer state of being is to focus on our breathing. So this exercise is for if you find yourself in a situation where you feel stress and anxiety. This exercise is a great tool to help you come back to feeling calmer. So we are just going to do some simple breathing and this is going to help reset our nervous systems. So sat down or standing, Doesn't matter, Just find a space where you feel comfortable and perhaps close your eyes if you like. So the first thing we are going to do is just breathe in and breathe out through our mouth. And again breathing in, Perhaps breathing in deeply through your nose. And then breathing out, Exhaling all of that air out through your mouth. Okay, We have arrived. So the inhalation is very energizing and the fresh air, The fresh oxygen, The prana that we bring into our bodies, It's very energizing and cleansing. And the exhalation is all about releasing anything in the tank we don't want. So we are going to focus on the exhalation in this practice. So the first thing we are going to do is breathe in for two and breathe out for three. So I will count you. Breathing in, One, Two, Breathing out, One, Two, Three. So as you breathe out really feel the kind of sinking feeling of that letting go, That relaxing into that exhalation. So and again breathing in, One, Two, Breathing out, One, Two, Three. And again breathing in, One, Two, Breathing out, One, Two, Three. Moving on, We are going to breathe in for slightly longer and out for longer also. So breathing in for one, Two, Three, Four. Breathing out for one, Two, Three, Four, Five. Breathing in for one, Two, Three, Four. Breathing out for one, Two, Three, Four five. And again, One, Two, Three, Four. Breathing out for one, Two, Three, Four, Five. Now if you want, You could carry on with this, Breathing in and out for as many counts as you feel comfortable with. But focusing on making that exhalation a breath longer or a count longer than the inhalation. Using your breath to come back to a calmer state of being. I understand how stressful our lives can be. We always have the breath to come back to and within a few moments we can begin to feel a little calmer. Thank you for your practice today.

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Thank you Emma, namaste 🙏🏾☀️