So this is the gratitude breathing exercise and it helps you move from depletion to renewal by activating the heart as when you apply heart focus plus heart breathing and heart feeling you experience kindness,
Care,
Appreciation,
Love,
Compassion,
All of the higher aspects of consciousness,
The higher mood states and by developing heart coherence you make an emotional shift and I think something like 1,
400 different chemicals are released from your heart that you don't get if you just stay in your mind.
So these chemicals last for hours and they begin to restore and repair the body.
So remember when you're in this heart coherence space you're not reacting,
You're not living in stress,
You're not living in emergency mode,
You're not living in survival mode,
The left and right side of your brain are combined,
You're in a state of homeostasis,
The coherent brain reacts to a coherent heart,
Everything is aligned,
It's congruent and the heart amplifies that energy in the brain.
So what happens is your human operating system is then in harmony in homeostasis you've discovered already and you can tap into unlimited potential and creativity and you can create that place of future for yourself with intention,
Clarity and purity.
So that's the purpose of doing this.
So how do we go about it?
Okay,
So you find yourself a nice comfortable place,
You're familiar with the eight breaths exercise,
You sit in the chair like I am now,
You can be sitting on the floor,
You can be sitting on a bed,
You can sit cross-legged,
You can be in your meditation pose,
You can have a pillow underneath you but you're in a comfortable place.
Your shoulders are above your hips,
You're relaxed,
You take that first breath in and out.
You can do this with your eyes open or your eyes closed.
We're trying not to fall to sleep,
The idea is to stay awake or at least conscious,
Okay,
And with practice this will come much more naturally to you.
So let your mind relax,
Soften your mind,
Try and pull the energy out of your mind,
Into your body,
Release the tension,
Imagine all that flesh just dropping off your shoulders,
Notice if there's any tension anywhere in your body.
It might be in your head if you're very active and you're just breathing.
At this stage just a slightly forced breath,
So it's eight deep breaths to get yourself into that place of calm and it might take you a couple of minutes just to get yourself to a place and when you're feeling that you have a degree of calmness in your body and the energy is moving out of your head and into your body.
What I mean by that is that you're feeling lighter in your head and you're feeling more relaxed,
You're not feeling tension and then what we're going to do is we're going to focus on something or someone that you're grateful for.
It can be as simple as having a roof over your head,
Having food in front of you,
For the job that you have,
For the business that you have,
For your wife,
Your children,
The love of a friend,
Something that you're incredibly grateful for.
This is a technique which is used by practitioners all over the world,
It's used in Eastern medicine,
It's used in Western medicine as well,
It's used a lot with a lot of the veterans that I deal with.
So I want you to imagine that person,
Imagine them with a smile on their face.
So you imagine that person with a smile on their face,
Always with a smile on their face,
You can imagine you're hugging them or talking to them but they're smiling,
They're excited and you imagine how that makes you feel and you breathe that positive energy into your heart,
You feel where your heart is in your body,
Slightly to the left of center in your chest and you're breathing into that space in your body,
Breathing into that space around your heart.
With practice you'll begin to feel your heart,
Feel the pulse of your heart,
Feel the flesh,
The muscle itself,
That energy around that space but at this stage you're just breathing into that space,
Breathing in all of that positivity,
That smile,
That radiance,
That light,
Breathing in so that you can feel that in every single cell of your body.
All of that beautiful light,
All of that positivity,
That happiness,
That enjoyment.
So you're still imagining this person but you imagine all of that stillness and happiness just entering every single cell of your body and you're grateful for this experience,
You're grateful for them.
You can feel it all the way down into the tips of your fingers,
You can feel this white light just emanating out from your heart,
All the way up to the follicles of the hair on your head,
The very tips of your fingers,
The tips of your shoulders,
Through every cell in your body,
All of your skin,
Down through your legs,
Through your arms,
Through all of your organs,
Your hips,
Your thighs,
Your knees,
Your calves,
Into your feet and the very ends of your toes.
Just keep doing that beautiful feeling,
That radiant light,
That feeling of happiness and joy and it's going to be putting a smile on your face.
Do that for another few minutes and then when it's full,
Your body is full of this beautiful white light,
This radiant energy,
This happiness,
I want you to send that out into the universe,
The furthest reach of the universe you can possibly find.
You're sending all of that love out there and of course you're sending it back to that person you're thinking of as well and they will feel it.
I'm grateful for them,
I'm grateful to have this in my life and you can sit and do that for as long as you need to,
As long as you feel comfortable.
I know that at the beginning,
Some of you that may just be a couple of seconds to feel that overwhelming sense of happiness and joy and gratitude.
It's fleeting and you go,
It's alright,
Let it go,
Come back and do it again next time and it'll start for longer,
It'll stay for longer,
But the more you do this,
You're tapping into this abundance,
You're tapping into your creativity and you're coming into a place from a higher mood state.
If you struggle with focus,
Just bring the attention back to the air coming into the very tip of your nose,
Just focus on that,
It's all you have to do and now we're not forcing that breath,
We're just breathing normally.
When you're finished,
Start bringing yourself back into awareness,
Moving your fingers,
Your toes,
Your face,
Okay,
Just imagine the consciousness coming back that the outside world is beginning to come back into your environment.
You can open your eyes if they were closed,
You can look around.
I always finish each practice with thank you.
Thank you from here in between my eyes three times,
Thank you,
Thank you,
Thank you and thank you from my heart,
Thank you,
Thank you,
Thank you.
Okay,
I hope you enjoy that,
Keep practicing it.
Speak to you again soon.
