Exploring The Breath With Kind Awareness

Guided breath meditation that brings kind attention to our breathing; regular guidance in coming back to the present moment as it is.

Transcript

Please find a position that is going to allow awareness,

Alertness and compassion to be cultivated for you.

Whether that's sitting,

Standing,

Laying down,

Just finding a position that's going to feel right for you for this meditation.

And from this place just taking a couple of really conscious breaths and just grounding your mind into your body and just the beautiful connection of mind and body as one in this moment.

Just imagining that that grounding of you into this moment with body and mind connected together as one.

Just bringing your attention to how that feels for you.

Gently notice the body,

Any sensations and any feelings that the body is giving you.

Simply noticing it without judgment and just bringing kind attention and kind awareness to those feelings that arise from the body.

If the mind starts to drift off to wander to other parts of your life,

If any feelings begin to arise,

Just simply notice them.

Let them come,

Let them go,

Just gently bringing your attention back into your body.

If you haven't done so,

Place your tongue on the roof of your mouth and make a conscious effort to keep your jaw,

Your shoulders and your eyes soft and supple throughout the meditation.

These three points are just a beautiful grounding for you throughout the meditation just to stay soft,

Stay in the moment,

Stay kind.

Moving your attention now to our nostrils and really bringing a curious attention to the breath entering the nostrils and the breath then leaving the nostrils and that feeling for you and how that feels.

Just bringing your attention to that part of the body right now.

Notice the feeling of the breath entering and leaving.

Noticing any noises and any sensations and just really grounding yourself into that feeling of the breath entering the nostril and then leaving the nostril.

If the mind starts to wander,

Starts to drift again,

That's perfectly normal.

We just bring our attention with kindness back to the moment.

This is the practice,

The practice of bringing ourselves back to the moment,

Back to awareness.

Now moving our attention to the back of the throat and that feeling of the breath passing through and then leaving the back of the throat again.

The breath,

You know,

Is our gateway for life so this is a really great way to ground ourselves into the moment with our attention on our breath and the different aspects of where the breath enters and leaves.

So just bringing your attention now to the back of the throat and how that feels for you.

Exploring any feelings in the back of the throat that are arising for you,

That's perfectly normal.

Now moving to our chest and just noticing the rise and fall of our chest as the breath enters and leaves and just bringing our attention into that rhythm of the chest rising and falling.

The letting come and the letting go of the breath,

The beautiful rhythm the chest rises and falls with.

If any stories or feelings start to arise or bubble to the top of your thought stream,

That's perfectly normal.

Just bring your attention back to the moment,

Back to the rise and fall of the chest.

The practice of mindfulness is the noticing and the bringing back.

So it is completely normal to drift off.

As you breathe,

Breathing your own rhythm at your own depth,

No need to change to try to improve anything.

This is the right way today to breathe for you.

Now bringing our attention down into the belly,

Allowing that breath to fill your belly up as if it was a balloon.

Noticing how it fills up and then allowing that breath to empty out the belly,

Pass back up through the chest,

Back of the throat and then back out the nostrils.

With your kind attention,

Just simply noticing the belly rising and falling,

Filling and emptying.

Noticing the fullness that the belly gets when you allow it to fill.

Notice how it has to leave the body and just granting yourself into that feeling.

Now just let your mind go to whatever aspect of the present moment it desires and just simply as an observer watch where the mind goes with mindfulness and curiosity into this moment.

Almost as a third person watching where the mind wants to wander off to.

Just simply noticing the mind with open awareness,

Just catching it as it heads potentially off track and you doing that from a present place is a really beautiful exercise to do.

From here I'd love you to take just ten really conscious breaths at your pace.

I'll simply guide you through but again your pace is the perfect pace.

So just take a conscious and kind breath in and breath out.

Breath in.

Breath out.

Breath out.

Breath in.

And breath out.

Breath in.

Breath in.

And out.

Breath in.

And out.

And I'll let you do the last five in your time in your rhythm with your consciousness.

In a moment I'll ring a bell to end the meditation.

I'd like to thank you for taking the time to give back to both body and mind and I'd like you just to take a moment to give kindness and compassion to your practice just by saying a thank you to yourself.

Reviews

Thank you for such a peaceful and calming meditation 🙏

A peaceful & wonderful meditation.
Perfect pacing & good instruction on connecting with the breath.🙏🏻

Simple and very kind. U bring such a relaxing start to my day. How grateful I am for this . 🙏💗

Gentle, beautiful, friendly and essential! 🙏

Great and kind meditation! Thank you! Great voice, too!

So supportive, kind and well paced🙏

Very peaceful. Thank you 🙏💕

A lovely breath practice with much kindness. Thank you

Excellent mindfulness meditation, will definitely use again and again!

Wonderful meditation, feel calm, centered, embodied

Used it instead of the timer for guidance. It's excellent, thanks!

Lovely, thank you.

I liked the focus on different areas of breath. Glad he stopped guiding the counted breath - distracting. Lovely voice & quiet presence.

Thank you🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻very gentle guidance, liked that🙏🏻😇💙🌅💫🌟✨

Excellent. Thank you!