Counting Your Breaths

A ten minute guided meditation using a counting technique to focus attention. Please note the guidance is limited, there is not a lot of talking.

Transcript

I would like to invite you to arrive in this moment,

To be here now,

Let everything else just fall away.

This meditation is going to cover the counting breath technique and the way it works is simple.

You simply count your breath as you sit and so you're going to count one on the in breath,

Two on the out breath,

Three in,

Four out and so on.

You're going to keep counting until you realize that you've been distracted.

Maybe you've stopped counting or maybe your mind is elsewhere even while you're counting.

This can happen.

Once you notice that,

Go back to one.

If you find yourself reaching ten,

Go ahead and come back to one.

Keep counting up until you're either distracted,

You've lost your focus or you've reached ten and then simply start over.

This will be a ten minute meditation.

I will ring the bell three times to start and twice to end.

Now as you're counting your breath,

Make sure your breath continues to remain natural and unhurried.

You don't need to breathe any particular way.

Just let it fall naturally and begin counting.

All right.

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Reviews

It's harder than you realize. Thank you!

Loved this! I chose it specifically because it had less talking. I’ll definitely come back to this. Thank you.

Perfect for me - introduces the counting technique then long periods of silence, but I felt really held by it.

Clear and straightforward. A simple, but powerful technique.

Just what I needed! Thank you.

Simple but not easy. Will use this often.

I liked the minimal instructions that gave plenty of time to practice. Namaste

Love the simplicity!

Simple but powerful.

Simple breath counting with lots of empty space. Very effective!

I really like this simple, effective practice. Thank you!