Welcome to the Breath Awareness session.
Breath Awareness is a powerful tool in helping you to manage your focus and concentration.
Our society has now made your attention a commodity,
Meaning that there is a bunch of external sources trying to steal your focus and attention on a daily basis,
Making it very difficult for you to sit down and focus on one thing.
Anyone who has done anything difficult or creative knows that you must dedicate your complete focus and attention to it in order to succeed.
This has become increasingly difficult in our modern day society.
If we live in a distracted society then learning how to guide and shift your attention and focus can be a superpower.
This is where the practice of Breath Awareness comes into play.
In this session we will use our breath as your primary focus.
This is one of the most simplest yet challenging techniques when it comes to breath work.
Over time and with practice we can learn how to focus on demand,
Making us less distracted and more focused.
So let's begin by finding a comfortable position.
You may choose to sit or lie down,
Whatever feels right for you.
And then just taking that moment to find that position and once you have found it just allow your body to come into a sense of stillness.
And we're going to begin by just noticing the breath.
Notice the sensation of air passing through the nostrils.
The rise and fall of your chest and belly.
Noticing the difference in sensation between the inhale and the exhale.
And remembering not to control your breath,
Simply just observe it.
From a silent witness to your own breathing.
And really begin to see if you can find any extra or hidden details about your breathing that you may have not experienced before.
And if your mind starts to wander that's okay.
Just gently bring your attention back to the breath.
This process of becoming distracted and then bringing your focus back is a powerful way in increasing your capability to understand when you're getting lost in distraction.
And just remembering that there is no right way or wrong way to do this.
Your only task is to observe.
Just silently noticing all the sensations surrounded by your breathing.
Bringing your focus and attention completely on the breath.
Bringing your consciousness,
Bringing your heart,
Bringing your body,
Bringing your whole entire being into the present moment.
And just surrendering to all the things that you may have to do after this session or all the things that you have to do on your to-do list today,
None of them matter right now.
None of them exist right now.
The only thing that you have to do is concentrate completely one breath at a time.
Noticing the expansion of the inhale and the softening of each exhale.
And just noticing each time that the mind comes back into play or that you feel you're getting drawn back into distraction and just with gentle compassion,
With gentle kindness we just bring our focus back to the breath.
And now just continuing for a couple of minutes in silence.
You're doing so well,
Keep going.
Anchoring your full concentration,
Your complete focus onto the subtle gentle ebb and flow of your breathing.
Remembering that we're not changing,
We're not altering,
We're not fixing the breath,
We're simply just becoming the observer.
Learning how to observe the breath can directly translate into learning how to observe life rather than react.
It is the reaction to the events and the stimuli of a life that causes pain.
And we can learn to observe the breath with this complete focus and concentration.
We can learn to observe the events and we can choose how we react.
We can choose how we respond.
This is the power of breath awareness.
This is the power of learning how to completely anchor your mind,
Your body,
Your heart into this present moment right here,
Right now.
Feeling the expansion of each inhale and the deep softening that comes with the exhale.
Noticing the length of your breathing,
Noticing the temperature of your breath,
Noticing where in the body moves as you breathe.
Really becoming like a detective here and just noticing as much as you possibly can,
Feeling as much as you possibly can and just opening up yourself,
Your breath to the beauty,
To the peace,
To the clarity that lies in the present moment.
No worries about tomorrow,
No anxiety about the things that you may or may have not done yet.
Simply observing each breath,
Each inhale,
Each exhale.
Completely present,
Completely here,
Completely focused and aware.
And now we're going to drop the awareness,
So we're just going to step out of control and just allow the mind to come back in,
Allow the sensations of the body to come back in.
And I want you just to open your awareness now.
So I want you to open your awareness completely to everything that you can see,
Everything that you can feel,
Everything that you can sense within your body and within the context of the environment that you're in.
And I want you to begin to notice the difference here.
Notice the difference in this open awareness versus this controlled awareness.
Taking one big breath in and then a slow exhale.
And when you're ready,
You can just gently open up the eyes,
Allow the colour of the room to come back in,
The smells of the room to come back in,
The textures of the room to come back in.
And before you move off to the next thing that you need to do,
Just take a moment here.
Take a moment to really allow that session to soak in.
Take a moment really to just reflect on how you felt before you did this session versus how you feel now.
What has changed?
What has shifted?
What has moved?
I hope you enjoyed this session.
Please consider leaving a review at the end of this track.
Or equally,
If you've enjoyed this track,
Please come over and check out the functional breathwork course that I have here on Insight Timer,
Where we use other practices similar to this one.
And I think you'd really,
Really love it.
