Hey guys,
It's Antonio Poulder back again.
I just wanted to take time to say thank you and I'm making this short audio to discuss a little bit about the vacuum breath.
My next meditation will utilize this breath so I wanted to discuss this.
So hopefully if you've never heard of it or been aware of it before,
Then try to take a listen to this video before going into my next practice which will be the love and kindness practice.
But essentially the vacuum breath explained,
It's taken from the origin of the idea of a vacuum cleaner sucking in things out of the atmosphere,
Typically the dirt or the air that you're trying to get at your disposal.
Specifically the vacuum breath just begins to utilize your breath but also utilizes your body.
And so with the vacuum breath what you do is you inhale deeply but also as you inhale you begin to clench your entire body or even just your upper body.
So as you inhale fully you begin to kind of clench your fists and provide tension and tightness up your arms and in your shoulders and in your body.
And then on the exhale you just kind of drop,
Letting go of all the air and all of the tension immediately.
So not like a normal exhale but a drop as if you're just dropping a book bag,
A heavy bag off of your back and onto the floor.
And so we're just going to do this for maybe three times just kind of get the motion of it and I believe this will be a great preparation for the next practice.
So first we'll just start with the initial vacuum breath and so we're going to inhale deeply and slowly allowing tension in the arms and the hands and even the shoulders.
And then once we fully inhale we're going to drop,
Allow the tension to just let go,
Allow the shoulders to drop and even the gas of air releasing from your body.
The next two I'm just going to illustrate so this can help give a further idea of what it will look like.
So on the inhale we're going to slowly inhale.
On the inhale we're going to really tight and then drop just kind of like that.
And inhale one more time for the last one.
Tension and drop for the exhale.
So that is the vacuum breath explained.
This should better help understand what it is in future practices when I bring it up.
Thank you for your time and listening.
