Brief Mindfulness Of Breathing

This is a brief practice of Mindfulness of breathing to incorperate into your daily life. This practice allows you to wake up from the fog of our every day activities and develop an acute awareness of the present, while cultivating deeper focus and ease.

Transcript

Brief mindfulness of breathing.

Here we are cultivating present-centered awareness moment by moment,

Creating a positive habit for our minds.

Let's begin by finding a comfortable posture and begin to reflect on your aspiration.

Why are you meditating?

What is it that you hope to cultivate?

When you're ready,

Draw your attention inwards and rest your awareness on the breath.

Begin to refine and make subtle your awareness,

Feeling the temperature difference as the breath passes in and out of your nostrils.

Can you feel the cool air coming in and the warm air passing out?

Begin to refine your awareness,

Making your whole world the sensations at the nostrils as you experience the breath in the present moment.

Let everything drop away,

All your activities and to-dos.

Let go of the past,

Any regrets,

Any remorses.

Let go of the future,

Any fantasies or anticipations.

Come now to the present moment as you experience the breath passing in and out of your nostrils.

Begin to deepen the breath process.

Rather than breathing shallowly with the top of your lungs,

Allow the breath to naturally come into the diaphragm,

Triggering the relaxation response.

After a few deep,

Slow breaths,

You can allow the breath process to become natural.

In this brief mindfulness of breathing,

Try counting each breath,

One through ten,

Beginning on each inhalation.

By counting the breath,

You further tether the mind to the activity of present-centered awareness.

If you become distracted,

Begin again at one.

Do so with gentleness rather than competitiveness.

The goal isn't to reach ten,

It's to be mindful with each passing breath.

Each time you've noticed yourself being distracted,

Return the awareness to the breath without delay.

Do so with an attitude of discipline and care.

Discipline is necessary to entangle the mind,

Care is necessary to smooth the wrinkles of frustration.

Breathe each breath as if it were your last.

This allows us to wake up to the present moment from the fog and automatic habit of our everyday life.

After several present-centered breaths,

Your body should feel calm and relaxed,

Your mind should be tranquil and peaceful.

And when you're ready,

You can wind down the meditation with a dedication.

Commit any moment of relaxation or insight that you've achieved to your ongoing study,

Reflection,

And practice.

Reviews

Very good, simple instructions with pauses which is nice.

Peaceful, centering. Thank you for this simple practice

Very peaceful mindfulness practice, I really enjoyed this one. Thank you! 😌🤙🏽

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A very calming meditation. This helped me feel less anxious. Thank you!

Great meditation

Nice. Very nice.

Thank you. it was hard for me to focusq0a

This was great. I particularly liked the "breathe each breath as if it were your last" contemplation, very powerful. I personally needed fewer reminders during the counted breath portion, since I am a more experienced meditator, but I think the amount of instruction would be perfect for beginners. I found great merit in this short guided meditation with a focus on the breath. Very centering. Wonderful instruction. Thank you.

I am grateful for this meditation. I am grateful for your guidance. Namaste

Breathing like it was my last breath really brought me into the present moment, thank you Dr 🙏

☀️there is nothing more powerful, beautiful and sacred than the gift of k/now☀️
💕thank you💕

This is a really great breathing meditation, very well led. Thank you for sharing it with us 🙏🏼

Great, thank you 🙏

A useful and effective introduction to the mindfulness of breathing. Try it. Thank you.

Simple but perfect. Thankyou

Just what I needed. Thank you.

Would like to do this one again, right pace and right amount of time