3 Deep Breaths

3 Deep Breaths is a micro practice that you can do on your own anywhere, anytime with just a couple minutes to deal with whatever you might need in that moment. Good for beginners but also a great practice for anyone.

It can help to reduce anxiety and stress or tap into being present in your life right before an important conversation. A great way to start your day or begin a very TinyHabits style meditation practice.

Transcript

This is a micro meditation practice you can use anytime throughout your day to get a little bit of mindfulness,

Be more present in the moment.

And it goes like this,

Three deep breaths.

All you have to do is start right now with me taking one long deep breath in and one long deep breath out.

And the challenge now is can you go a little slower for the next breath?

So another deep breath in and another even slower deep breath out.

One last deep breath in and that deep breath out of course at your own pace,

Really slow.

And now you're done.

I consider this a micro practice.

You can use this anytime you want.

I suggest setting up a trigger that will be activating this for you maybe right before I get to work,

Just before I go into a meeting,

Before I talk to someone who I'm nervous about talking to.

Anytime that you think you need a little bit of mindfulness,

A little bit of connection to yourself,

To the moment,

Use this micro practice to create that space for yourself.

You might even feel that physically the world seems to slow down when you do this practice.

Feel free to do this one more time just to practice again after this is finished.

Stop it,

Start it again.

And this is a micro practice that you can make your own.

Anytime you want,

You might find over a little while that you can actually do one deep breath and get the same results.

And that's okay too.

Reviews

Thanks. This is a good reminder that I can use this anytime of the day, not just at a set time devoted to meditation practice.

Great reminder!

So I woke up angry and upset this morning. I feel a little bit better after this though, but still angry with my kids.

So helpful and exactly what I needed to fit in before a big phone call!

perfect👌🏻 thank you🙏 namaste

Nice

Simple and effective. Something you can put in your back pocket.

Lovely way of taking some time to reset.

Lovely, just what I needed. It made me feel a little bit tingly :-)

That’s a great meditation Nathan! Thanks!