Slow your breathing.
The best you can in this moment.
Slow your breathing.
You can find a rhythm.
And notice how your body is positioned.
And if it's possible,
Open up.
Lay down on your back.
Spread out your arms.
Spread out your legs.
Take up space.
Slow your breathing.
Anxiety would have you contract.
Pant.
Slow your breathing.
All right,
Ready?
Take a breath in.
Exhale.
Catch your breath.
Slow your breathing.
And on cue again.
Take a breath.
Inhale.
Exhale.
Unclench.
Allow your body to open.
If you can invite the openness in your body,
It will respond in kind.
Slow your breath.
That's all there is to do.
Take a breath in.
And exhale.
Allow these words to wash over you.
As you keep breathing.
Keep opening.
And whenever you find something clenching and constricting,
Send your breath right to that spot.
And invite it to open.
If you've tried everything and nothing's working,
You can find a patch of grass or earth.
And lay down in that with your heart to the ground.
Face first.
Chest to ground.
Turn your head to one side or the other.
And turn your feet out so that the heels of each foot touch one another.
And the toes are pointing out.
In this position with your belly on the earth,
Your heels touching,
Your toes pointed out,
It will help you breathe.
It will help you push air all the way down and let it come all the way back up.
Slow your breathing.
All there is to do is breathe.
If you can't get outside,
Imagine that you're outside.
If it feels better to lay on your back,
Do that.
If you're curled in a ball,
Open up your body.
Stretch out your legs.
Open up your arms.
Let yourself breathe.
Just breathe.
There is very little we can control in the external world.
What you can control in your internal world are the things you're thinking,
The way you're breathing,
And every choice you make.
Exercising freedom of choice every day is a practice that will build a foundation for a life that looks and feels the way that you want it to.
How's your breathing check in?
Can you relax your shoulders?
Soften around your heart.
Allow,
Relax,
Release,
Opening,
Softening throughout every muscle grouping of your body.
Slow your breath.
Know your breath.
Be with the breath.
Take a breath in.
Exhale.
Relax your eyes.
Relax your body.
What choice will you make in this moment?
The choice to breathe.
The choice to slow the breath.
The choice to feel connected to this body that you inhabit.
Keep breathing.
Keep allowing.
Remember,
You're not your body.
You have a body.
It's not what you are.
It's something you have.
And you and this body get to work together,
Get to be on the same team,
Get to advocate for one another.
And sometimes when the body goes into panic,
The anxiety rises as a response of thoughts of the mind,
Suffering of the mind.
You exercise choice to move through a series of steps to get yourself back to neutral.
Breathing and opening on repeat.
Releasing any constriction.
Telling yourself that it's safe to feel what you're feeling.
As long as you let the emotions move,
Emotion,
Energy,
And motion,
Let the emotions move.
There is relief on the other side.
Notice your breath.
Inhale.
You're doing it exactly right.
You're doing great.
What choice will you make?
The choice to breathe.
The choice to relax your body.
The choice to be with your body,
To say,
I won't leave you.
Stay in your body.
Stay in your heart.
And just count your breaths.
I inhale.
I exhale.
I inhale.
I exhale.
Repeating that to yourself.
I inhale.
It doesn't matter how long it takes.
It only matters that you are able to breathe,
To open,
To recenter,
And to find yourself in a neutral state again where you can say,
What choice will I make?
May breath always bring you home.
To yourself.
To your relaxed and grounded center.
Inhale.
Exhale.
Stay here as long as you'd like.
And when you're ready,
Asking yourself,
What choice will I make?
And just breathe.
