Hi everyone,
My name is Helton.
I hope you're having an amazing day for today's practice,
We'll just be focusing on our breath and ensuring that we're consciously sending the air all the way down to the belly and This is important to do because a lot of the time throughout the day we can hold our breath right in the chest area And we're not taking these full breaths and then we question why we're so anxious why we're so worried We hold so much tension in our shoulders in our upper back in our chest And for the next few moments,
We're just gonna Encourage ourselves to rest to relax to just chill by noticing how the breath flows down to the belly and how the belly inflates as you inhale and Falls as you exhale That can bring a sensation of calm over the body and just by bringing awareness to it So for the next few moments,
That's what we'll be doing if you're ready Please find a mindful posture If you're sitting in a chair making sure that your feet are firmly placed on the ground If you're sitting on the ground Making sure that your hips are slightly elevated above your knees that your sit bones Connected to the surface beneath you And if you're lying down just making sure that your back is nice and comfortable It's long And that's supported by the earth beneath you.
You can place your hands on your knees or in your lap Again,
Make sure the spine is long Dignified Allow the shoulders to move down and back away from the ears If you haven't done so already you can begin to Close the eyelids or bring your gaze down in front of you crown of the head shining up towards the sky Bring an awareness to your breath The deep inhales in through the nose out through the nose Just checking in with the quality of your breath.
Is it long?
Is it short?
Is it jagged?
Just seeing if you can invite a natural smoothness to your breath for the next few moments All you're gonna do is Direct that breath all the way down to the belly and just notice how the belly Rises as you inhale How it falls as you exhale and as this happened what's going on in your body is You're allowing for your diaphragm to be engaged the expansion and contraction of The diaphragm really begins to activate the parasympathetic nervous system and just allow for a sense of vivid relaxation to come of the body Begins to activate that rest and digest that a lot of the time we're not conscious of because 99.
9% of our day Our breath is automatically taking place Without our conscious effort But I feel that for a few moments a day If you allow yourself to bring that conscious awareness to the breath,
You'll begin to Notice that things that you hold on to may be a little easier to let go that that worry Stress anxiety Rumination can all be let go by consciously connecting to the breath By putting effort into allowing the diaphragm to do exactly what it needs to do There's taking a few more breaths again deeply in through the nose and deeply out through the nose and as we slowly Transition out of our practice today.
Let's take a few deep cleansing breaths together Inhaling in through the nose and exhaling out through the mouth deep inhale exhale deep inhale and exhale one last deep inhale and exhale As you close our practice today We thank ourselves for being here for showing up and we take this newly cultivated Awareness into the rest of our day and we share it with those that we come into contact with We show gratitude for the earth below us the sky above us and the fire within us and I wish you all more joy love and abundance You can slowly begin to open your eyelids Take a look around Notice how you feel and I would say just a suggestion for the rest of the week Take a few moments throughout your day just to consciously breathe bring awareness to your breath direct it all the way down to the belly and take note of that and see after a week if you're someone that holds on to a lot of stress holds on to a lot of worry or anxiety if that minimizes even 1% 1% may not be easily Noticeable,
But I'm sure that it will help in some regard So happy that you made time for yourself today I'll see you at the next one
