Breathing Break - Find Your Balance

In this short break to focus on your breath, you'll be using a balancing technique (4/4 breath) to bring yourself back to balance. This can either be practiced right in the morning to start off in balance as well as throughout the day to get back to balance or at night to reset.

Transcript

Hello and welcome to a breathing break back to balance. This breathing break you could take whenever you feel you need to get back to balance and you could be doing this in the morning if you just want to set the balance for the day or throughout your day whenever it feels a little bit too much or just something unexpected happened this could be good or bad something where you feel okay I need to get back to a balanced breath as well as of course at the end of the day to either signal the end of work or to go to bed fully balanced. Now as we get ready I invite you to find a comfortable seat or you could as well just lie down when you've decided for your position relax your arms your hands make sure you're comfortable and gently slowly allow your eyes to close and allow your face to fully relax your shoulders release let go of your belly sometimes we hold tension in our abdomen don't notice relax your hips your legs fully and release the feet now as you should be in your comfortable relaxed position bring your awareness to the breath notice the gentle flow of air in and out through your nose and we entirely keep the breath through the nose and before we start now also make sure that your jaws and your tongue is relaxed now we're going to balance inhale and exhale and I will count for you for each inhale up to four and every exhale to the count of four all you need to do is follow let's go of any expectations thoughts allow yourself to fully focus on your breath your inhale on your exhale now inhale one two three four exhale one two three four inhale one two three four exhale one two three four inhale one two three four exhale one two three four inhale one two three four exhale one two three four inhale one two three four exhale one two three four inhale one two three four exhale one two three four inhale one two three four exhale one two three four inhale one two three four exhale one two three four inhale one two three four exhale one two three four inhale and continue coming to your own rhythm now notice any sensations and allow everything to be no wrong no right here feel how you probably are a little more balanced just now smile and maybe you can keep this balance and your breath and or you remind yourself to come back to it to make this balanced breath more and more your habit throughout the day now in your own time whenever you're ready you can slowly open your eyes again and continue your day keep the smile keep the breath thank you namaste