Three Minutes To Slow Down Time

Does anyone else feel that life is racing by at breakneck speed? What if there is a simple thing we can do that seems to slow down time? In just three minutes, we can stretch time, expand our awareness, and settle our nervous system. See what shifts for you in just this sweet and short practice.

Transcript

Hi friends this is Suzanne and welcome to your practice. Today we're going to do a short meditation that I just love so much because it feels like it can slow down time or at least slow down our perception of time. So many of us are moving so quickly through our lives you know with our minds racing and and it just feels like time just flies by you know one week and then another week and then suddenly we look back another year has gone by. And there are practices we can do that feel indeed like we slow down time that we can almost in a sense extend our life it feels like. And so this practice it's so simple and that's part of the beauty and what we're going to do is we're going to breathe for three minutes and we're going to count our breaths as we breathe. But here's the key thing you're going to slow down your breath. So for example you inhale and you exhale and that's one. So for three minutes you're inhaling slowly and exhaling slowly and counting that's one breath yeah and that's it. Three minutes noticing your breath slowing it down and keeping count. Now here's the thing we don't want to get competitive with ourselves or anything but just stay open to the practice. Slow it down make your breath sweet and smooth. We're not trying to suspend the breath in any way but really just make it slow and even. Got that? That's it three minutes. So feel free to sit in a chair if you're at work you might sit at your desk with your feet firmly on the floor maybe turn yourself away from your computer or maybe it's early morning for you and you're still sitting in bed in the darkness before your day starts. Or perhaps it's it's you know you're waiting for the kids to come home from school and you're taking just three minutes to get yourself ready for their energy and you can lie on your couch or you're sitting after your meditation or after a yoga practice and you're on the floor any of these is great. So find yourself in a comfortable position whatever it is for you perhaps close your eyes if that's comfortable relax your jaw relax your eyes and know that I'm gonna keep count for us. Okay so as we start this timer I'll start just for a little bit of time with you and you'll hear my voice but then you'll be silent but know that I'm still with you. All right let's do this. Okay so in your comfortable position take a deep breath in for a moment and a deep breath out. Two more like that take a deep breath in and a deep breath out. All right take another deep breath in and a deep breath out. All right here we go three minutes starting now. Long slow inhale smooth slow exhale breathing in through your nose and you might breathe out of your nose or out of your mouth just keep in count of your in and out breath. Nothing else you need to be doing right now nowhere else you need to be. This three minute this three minutes is for you feel like you're stretching time. All right that was three minutes maybe pause for a moment wherever you are laying on the couch sitting in a chair sitting on your floor and with your eyes still closed just let the residue of the practice linger for a moment and feel if indeed even for those brief three minutes that you were able to slow down time and as you move into the rest of your day or into whatever it is you're doing next just perhaps consider even as you go through your your daily routine and can you still take this perception of time with you not all the time but just find that as a fun practice and see what it doesn't do for you and you can try it over and over a simple three minute timer or maybe you have fun sharing it with your kids for a minute or so all right friends you've got this onward all right namaste

Reviews

Will use this throughout my day - beautiful & simple self love - thank you 🙏

Short and relaxing Meditation to let go and slow down. Thank you so much 🙏