So taking some time to,
And attention to purify the posture.
You can become,
Because our daily life can be rather clogged and compressed or strained.
So purifying that,
Really a sense of defining the spine from the ground on up.
Just defining it in your feeling it,
Sensing it as best you can.
Bringing that to the forefront or further into one's attention.
Aligning the rest of what you can sense in your upper body,
Aligning it to that so it creates at least pressure and distortion on that.
Just imagine dropping your shoulder blades down your back.
Draw your face and head,
Not tipping them but gently tucking them back so they're in line with the spine,
The upright axis.
They're not tipping forward or bent over.
Purifying that spinal axis from these places we may not be very conscious of,
Occluded by ignorance and distorted by habits.
The aim of this is so that if we cultivate like this,
And this itself is already,
You know one can spend time and keep checking in every day with that.
It takes time for the body to really reset itself from physiological conditioning,
Physical conditioning.
And the width weighs the lateral spread,
Particularly across the shoulders,
In front of the body.
You can be aware of the centre of your chest,
The sternum,
The breastbone,
And widening your awareness across the chest to include the tops of the arms and even beyond.
And sweeping there to see if one can feel that entire area is in a smooth continuum.
And no breaks in it,
And practicing in a way that will encourage that to be smoothed or softened and similarly across your back.
And when you come round to settling into awareness of breathing,
Mindfulness of breathing,
Mediate between the abdominal region,
Chest region,
And the throat.
So it's as if we have a virtual hand on each of these and they're connecting.
So the flow,
Rhythm of the breathing runs through this rather like a wave,
Slow wave.
The in-breath begins in the base of the abdomen,
It comes rolling up,
The abdomen opening,
And that wave moving through the chest.
So we need to keep these two areas in mind so the diaphragm doesn't cut off or create a division between the two.
Diaphragm should ideally be relaxed,
So it just helps to transfer from the belly to the chest.
And this certainly will be helped if your lower back is not compressed and your attitude is also not compressed.
Breath tired becomes quieter,
Softer as it comes up through the throat,
Keeping the voice box relaxed,
Opening the throat,
Feeling the space around your neck and encouraging that open throat as if one is sighing into the back,
Chain of the chamber,
The mouth chamber.
You can feel it drawing air in through the nostrils.
So keeping the nostrils relaxed so the nostrils don't pinch and pull the breath so you're not sniffing the air in,
Relax the nostrils,
Keep them open as if what arises up the body to come to the throat almost draws the thread of breath in through those open orifices.
You're just drawing in the thread from the body,
The opening of the belly,
Energy in the back of the throat,
Top of the throat,
And then it's generally drawing a thread in,
Releasing it,
Breathing out,
The long breathing.
Sense of emptying that into the space around you and drawing it in from there around you.
The body to feel that sense of being the supportive space.
Using that quality of the movement and the rhythm and the non-pressure of it to encourage all the muscles associated with breathing to relax.
If you've given up breathing,
Let the body just use really what is necessary and nothing more.
Your job is not to breathe but to receive.
Engaging the mind to be sensitive,
Receptive,
Relaxed.
You're just drawing in the thread of breath in through those open orifices.
