Breathe Your Day Away

Let go of your day by breathing the stresses away. Using your breath to release built-up stress and anxiety can be a very powerful practice. Don't try and go to bed all wound up with thoughts from your day, let it all go by laying down, listening to this track, and relaxing.

Transcript

Are you ready to meditate with Kari?

To try and be still and quiet.

To focus on your breath,

To lay down if you want to and relax.

You can practice this meditation,

Set up or lay down,

It's up to you.

But if you lay down you'll probably be able to completely relax and let go of your day.

Let go of whatever's going on in your world.

If there's something that's bothering you or something that's upsetting you.

This meditation is a really good one to just feel calm and relaxed and balanced again.

So make sure that you're comfortable,

Close your eyes.

And start by taking a nice big deep breath.

Breathe in through your nose,

Nice big deep breath all the way down to your tummy.

And then breathe out.

When you breathe out you can breathe out through your nose or you can breathe out through your mouth,

It's up to you.

Take a nice big deep breath in through your nose.

And this time you're going to sigh when you breathe out.

So breathe out and make a sigh sound.

Like that.

Once again breathe in through your nose,

Nice big deep breath.

And then a big sigh.

There we go,

Just like that.

And when you sigh,

Make sure that you let your shoulders drop and you let your body start to fall and relax.

Let's do one more,

A nice big deep breath.

And then the best sigh so far.

Big sigh.

Ahhhhh.

There you go.

Now I want you to start to just become aware of your breath.

So breathe normal,

Breathing in and breathing out just like you normally would.

But start to notice with your eyes closed what it feels like to breathe.

Notice when you breathe in that your chest fills out and gets big and full like a balloon.

And that when you breathe out your chest empties and sinks and relaxes into your bed.

Just feel that for the next couple of breaths.

When you breathe in,

Notice how everything fills up and expands and gets big.

And when you breathe out,

Everything shrinks in and gets small and relaxed and empty.

Now as you breathe and you focus on your breath,

Notice that it's really hard to think about anything else because you're paying so much attention to what it feels like breathing in and breathing out.

It's like everything else in your mind has to go away for a minute because your thoughts are just on your breath.

Now try this.

For the next 10 breaths,

We're going to breathe and count together.

So you take a breath in,

Breathing in.

And then when you breathe out in your mind,

Say one.

Breathing in.

Two.

Breathing in.

Three.

Breathe in.

Four.

Breathe in.

Five.

Breathe in.

Six.

Let your body relax.

Breathe in.

Seven.

Breathe in.

Eight.

Breathe in.

Nine.

Breathe in.

Ten.

Did you notice how all you were doing was focusing on your breath?

You weren't thinking about your day or your problems or falling to sleep or what was going to happen tomorrow.

You weren't thinking about anything else.

All you were doing was counting your breath.

Just counting 10 breaths can really help you to stop the thoughts going on in your mind and help you to start to relax,

Right?

Now try this.

Take a breath in with your eyes closed using your imagination.

Imagine this time when you're blowing out,

You're blowing out through your mouth.

So you're going to breathe out through your mouth this time.

And when you blow out,

You're blowing into a balloon.

So keeping your eyes closed,

Use your imagination.

Imagine the color balloon that you want and it's right there in front of your face.

We're going to take a breath in,

Nice big deep breath in,

Breathing in and breathe out.

And imagine you're starting to blow up your balloon.

Nice long deep breath out through your mouth.

Breathing in and then breathe out.

Big long deep breath,

Really blow up that balloon.

Breathe in nice long deep breath,

Breathe,

Breathe,

Breathe,

Breathe.

Biggest breath and then blow into that balloon.

Really,

Really blow it up.

It's getting bigger and bigger every breath.

Breathe in nice big deep breath,

Keeping your eyes closed.

And then breathe out,

Breathing into that big balloon in front of you.

Getting bigger and bigger.

Keep breathing.

We're going to do three more breaths.

Breathe in that breath,

Breathe in all the way down to your tummy.

Breathe,

Breathe,

Breathe,

Breathe,

Breathe.

And then breathe it out,

Blow it into the balloon.

Two more.

Breathe in and then blow it out.

Last one,

Biggest one ever.

Breathe in deep,

Deep,

Deep,

Deep,

Deep,

Deep.

And then biggest blow out.

Blow all the air out of your chest,

All the air out of your tummy until you have this big enormous balloon in front of your mind.

And then imagine that you're tying it up and you're going to let it go and it starts to float up to the sky.

Now feel your body.

Feel how relaxed you feel.

Just by taking big deep breaths,

Your mind starts to get more peaceful and your body starts to feel more calm and relaxed.

Now try this one.

With your eyes still closed,

Imagine you're taking a breath in through your nose and you're going to watch your breath go all the way down through your body and your mind.

So you have to take nice big long deep breaths.

Imagine you're taking your breath in and you can see your breath going down into your chest,

Down into your lungs,

Your tummy,

All the way down your legs,

All the way down to your toes.

And then breathe out.

Again,

A nice big deep breath,

Breathing in,

Down into your chest,

Your tummy,

Your legs,

All the way down to your toes.

And then breathe out.

Once again,

Imagine in your mind you can see your breath going down into your lungs,

Your tummy,

Your legs,

All the way to the ends of your toes.

And then big breath out.

Again,

Breathing in,

Fill your chest,

Your lungs,

Your tummy,

Your legs,

All the way to your toes,

And then breathe out.

Now resume your normal breathing,

Just breathe normal.

I bet you feel really calm and relaxed,

Ready to just kind of curl over onto your side maybe,

Snuggle down,

Close your eyes again if you've opened them,

And start to let your body just fall to sleep,

Not thinking about absolutely anything,

Allowing your mind to stay clear and open.

Try using your breath in those few different ways I've showed you.

You can change your mood or change the way that you're feeling,

Just like that.

You can use your breath to just relax your body and get yourself ready for bed.

Or you can use your breath to calm yourself down if you're in a state or you're upset.

Any of those breathing exercises I just gave you will work really,

Really well.

Now relax.

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Reviews

Great breathing techniques 💜 thank you Cory 🙏🏻

It works! Thank you! 🙏🕉

Oh, what a lovely meditation🌷thank you so much🙏 I loved breathing out into a big pink balloon🎈🎀 good night🌙⭐⭐

Very clever techniques to relax. Thank you!

Absolutely awesome lunchtime meditation. Namaste 🙏