A Simple Breathing Practice To Calm An Anxious Mind

This is an SOS breathing practice that will help you to immediately feel calmer and more in control. It will enable you to dampen down the "freeze, fight or flight" urge from your sympathetic nervous system. As you regulate your breathing, you will find that you are able to move towards the calmer, more relaxed parasympathetic nervous system. This practice can be done anywhere, either standing, seated, or lying down, depending on what is available to you. I wish you well. With love and light.

Transcript

Welcome to this practice,

Let's begin.

It doesn't matter if you're standing,

Sitting or lying,

Just become aware of your breathing.

If it's comfortable for you,

You can close your eyes.

As you breathe in now,

Counting the breath,

One,

Two,

Three,

Four.

And as you breathe outside the breath out through the mouth.

Again,

Breathe in through the nostrils,

One,

Two,

Three,

Four.

And sigh the breath out through the mouth.

Breathing in one,

Two,

Three,

Four.

Sigh the breath out.

Breathing in one,

Two,

Three,

Four.

Sigh the breath.

Breathing in one,

Two,

Three,

Four.

Sigh out.

Breathing in one,

Two,

Three,

Four.

And sigh.

Breathing in one,

Two,

Three,

Four.

Sigh the breath.

Be aware as you breathe in,

I am breathing in.

Breathing out,

I am breathing out.

I am breathing in.

I am breathing out.

I am breathing in.

I am breathing out.

I am breathing in.

I am breathing out.

And you can continue this practice for as long as you wish.

Breathing in,

Out,

Out.

Breathing in,

Out,

Out.

Breathing in,

Out,

Out.

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