Your breath is one of the most powerful regulatory tools you have at your disposal.
So let's just take a few minutes here to pause and reset using our breath.
So from whatever position you are in,
Maybe you're sitting at a desk,
Maybe you're standing,
Maybe you're even on a walk,
Go ahead and place your hands on your ribcage.
I like to have my thumbs kind of wrapping around the back and then all of my fingers wrapping around the front.
And as you inhale,
Feel your ribcage expand underneath your hands.
And then as you exhale,
Feel it deflate back down.
Do a couple more breaths here,
Really feeling that ribcage expansion.
Noticing if your shoulders want to float up as you breathe,
Give them permission to just relax back down.
And allowing your breath to get deeper and slower and even more expansive with every repetition.
And then place your hands,
Maybe one hand on your belly,
One hand on your lower back,
And see if you can expand front to back.
So breathing in,
Forward into your belly,
Back into your back,
And breathing out,
Coming back to neutral.
Breathing in,
Expanding,
Breathing out,
Deflating.
And then maybe one hand goes on your chest and one hand wherever else you want it,
Maybe back on your ribcage,
On your belly.
Breathing in,
Feeling the expansion through the chest all the way up to the collarbones.
Breathing out.
And then allowing your hands to go wherever you want,
And just feeling that three-dimensional ribcage torso expansion as you breathe in.
Three-dimensional slight contraction,
Deflation,
As you breathe out.
And just really feeling into the sensation of breath.
Feeling into that spaciousness that you're creating with your breath.
And finding that sense of gratitude for this breath that is your life.
And one last intentional breath here.
Remember that your breath is always available to you.
You can always pause whenever you need to throughout your day.
Thank you so much for joining me,
And I'll see you next time.
