Simple Breath Awareness

This meditation will provide you with an opportunity to reconnect with your breath. Breath awareness is a simple technique you can use almost anywhere. All you need to do is just notice how the breath feels in the moment. There's no need to change a thing. Just be.

Soothing musical sounds are provided by Liborio Conti.

Transcript

This meditation can be done in any position.

If you're able to,

You could sit down in a chair or cross-legged.

Perhaps lie down on the back.

Or perhaps you even do this meditation standing.

Wherever you are in this moment,

Begin to connect with your breath.

Just feel the breath moving in the body.

Typically there's some place in the body where we notice the breath the most.

Maybe you feel the abdomen expanding and contracting with each inhale and exhale.

Perhaps you feel the chest rising and falling or the ribcage expanding front and back and side to side.

Perhaps you feel the breath the most at the nose.

Feel the sensations of the inhales and the exhales at the nostrils.

Maybe you feel the breath the most somewhere entirely different in the body.

Wherever that may be,

Just feel the motion,

This wave moving in and out of the body.

Notice the characteristics of your wave and rhythm of the breath.

Perhaps the breath is rapid and shallow,

Like a turbulent stream.

Maybe the breath is long and deep,

Like the depths of the ocean.

The breath can be fast or slow,

Deep or shallow,

Even or uneven.

Whatever it is,

Just notice it.

There's no need to attempt any change.

Just feel the natural inhales,

The natural exhales.

Just watch as the breath breathes you.

See if you can even step outside of yourself and imagine that you are watching someone else breathing,

Just observing,

Moving into the body and leaving the body,

Feeling the gentle rise and expansion of the body with the inhale and feeling the release,

The letting go of the exhale.

Perhaps you notice now that your breath has changed since when you first started.

Maybe the inhales and exhales are a bit longer.

Maybe there is more of an evenness to the rhythm of the breath.

Maybe the breath is just the same.

Whatever your breath is like,

It doesn't matter.

All that matters is that you took time to tune into it.

All that matters is that you took a moment to reconnect with you.

I wish you a beautiful day ahead.

Namaste.

Reviews

This was super! I felt like I was really
doing it! Thank you