A warm welcome to you for joining me in this session.
We're gonna do five minutes of sigh of relief or double inhale sigh of relief.
It's a great technique if you want to reach stress relief and a state of beautiful calm that lasts for hours.
So take a few moments to prepare whatever space you're at.
So if you wanna pause the video to go show you have the perfect space right now,
You can do that.
And once you've established that place,
You can just direct your focus inwards for a few moments.
So we're going from exteroception,
Our focus on outside,
And we're shifting towards our inside,
Just noticing whatever is alive within us at this moment.
So we can include our physical body in our awareness perhaps giving ourselves a little check in.
How does our body feel right now?
What is expressing itself?
How is my body communicating right now to me?
And if you want,
If it feels natural to you,
You can place one hand on your navel area,
Another one on your chest just above your heart.
So we will be breathing first into the belly and through the nose,
Filling the whole belly region up in all directions.
Think of it as a cup that fills up from the bottom.
And then when that area is filled,
We add another sip of air on top of that to expand our entire lungs.
And then we exhale simply by relaxing.
We open the mouth and let out a sigh.
And when the next inhale arises within you,
Do that same breath into the belly,
Then into the chest,
And we relax out the out-breath with a sigh of relief.
And you continue now on your own pace with this breath,
Double inhalation and a sigh of relief.
So it's an active inhalation and an exhalation that simply happens when we relax.
And I find it really helpful to add a little sound on my voice as I exhale.
It stimulates the vagus nerve and just makes my entire system melt.
So I'm sure you're relaxed in the small muscles in your face as we breathe.
Shoulders are also relaxed.
And belly,
Filling up the belly all the way up to the collarbones on the next inhale before letting out that beautiful sigh all the way out,
Not holding back on the exhale,
Allowing a little pause in between each breath if that feels good,
Or creating a connected breath,
Which means we never stop in between each new breath.
So by breathing like this,
We connect to our gut.
I would even say our intuition,
Our gut feeling that resides in our belly.
We become grounded.
So we shift from the mind,
Our brain,
Our head,
Down to the heart and to the belly.
We connect with what's real,
What is happening at this moment.
And we ride that unfoldment of the present moment thanks to the breath.
Perhaps we allow a little smile to take shape.
Either visualize that smile within us or forming an actual smile in our face.
Grateful for the magnificent breath keeping us alive.
Taking now the last couple of breaths,
Really feeling that expansion,
That connection happening,
The connection with our essence,
Our core,
Coming back.
As we now let go of all control over our breath,
We allow the body to breathe by itself.
And we simply pay attention,
We notice how it feels right now.
We dwell in this feeling,
This state that we created.
So I invite you to stay here for as long as you're able to,
Or you can slowly open your eyes as well.
Invite the external world back into your awareness.
Thank yourself for doing this short practice,
Giving yourself that time.
It's a beautiful gift.
Thank you for breathing with me.
Have a blessed day.
