Breathing To Find Balance & Inner Calm

Use this short breath-practice to break up your busy day. This practice uses the breath ratio of 1:1 to bring about a sense of balance, harmony, and calm to both the body and mind. If your mind is busy and your body is restless, this is the perfect practice for you! Enjoy.

If you want to learn more about your breath, please check out my 10-day breath course 'Heal Your Life from the Inside Out'.

Transcript

So this practice can be done anywhere,

Can be done seated,

Standing,

Walking around,

Lying down,

Can be done by yourself or if you're surrounded by other people.

So just start to pay attention to the fact that you're breathing.

Just notice this vital life force,

The ebbing and flow.

Just very gently start to extend out both your inhale and your exhale.

Make both of them just a little bit longer,

A little bit more expansive.

But without creating any stress or strain to the breath.

Maintain a sense of smoothness,

Of fluidity,

A sense of calm and ease in your breath.

Just note how long are both your inhale and your exhale.

So perhaps they're around the count of two or three or four.

Maybe one is longer than the other.

Notice how many counts are both your inhale and your exhale.

Now if your inhale and your exhale are of even length,

Just maintain that breath.

Just counting in the background,

Your breath in and your breath out.

If your breath is not of even length,

Then extend the shortest one.

So now both your inhale and your exhale are of even length.

For example,

If you were inhaling for three and exhaling for four,

Bring your exhale to four.

So now you're inhaling and exhaling to the count of four.

Just continue on like this.

Inhale and your exhale are even.

Each breath seamlessly flows into the next.

A wave of movement gently ebbing in and ebbing out.

You almost cannot sense the turning point between your inhale and your exhale and your exhale and your inhale.

Find this smoothness and this fluidity.

Feel the breath being buoyant,

Expansive on your inhale and releasing and surrendering on your exhale.

Or perhaps either staying exactly as you are if this feels enough.

Or maybe try to extend out both your inhale and your exhale for another count.

So for example,

If you were inhaling and exhaling to the count of four,

Now take your inhale and your exhale to the count of five.

Then maintaining smoothness and fluidity,

Just keeping that gentle count in your mind.

The breath is smooth and steady.

Keep your focus rested gently on the movement of your breath.

Even breath in.

And breath out.

Just continue like this.

Softly counting the breath in and counting the breath out.

Good,

Calm,

Relaxed.