Candle Breathing For Stress Relief

A short but powerful breathwork practice, where we'll use the visual of a candle to channel a deep exhale. This type of breathing is great in moments of stress and anxiety. This focused breath is an effective way to help the body remember how to breathe fully and gently.

Use this at moments of stress throughout your day.

Transcript

A simple breathwork practice to de-escalate anxiety and stress throughout your day. Use this in the middle of your day or use this at the end of the day especially when tension has been building. So find a comfy position we won't be here too long just somewhere where you can be undisturbed for a few minutes. This is going to be you just re-anchoring coming back to a place of feeling steady and centered in your body. We're going to use the breath in this practice to anchor so if you feel comfortable to you can close your eyes and if not keep them open and all we're going to do is we're simply going to take a deep breath in through the nose. Take a deep breath out through the mouth so breathing everything out as you exhale. Again slow deep breath in through your nose and deep breath out through your mouth. Just beginning already to feel your body slowing down. Continuing to breathe and just following my guidance for a moment so as you breathe again what we're going to start to do is we're going to start to visualize a candle just in front of us maybe even it's got your favorite smell to it or just imagining a beautiful candle that's right in front of you. Even just that visual may feel quite calming imagining the scent might feel calming and this time as we begin to breathe what we're going to do together is we're going to imagine simply blowing that flame out so breathing with me breathing in through the nose and as you exhale imagine blowing that candle out so you're going to visibly hear that out through your mouth. Again deep breath in through your nose blowing that candle out as you exhale deep breath in through your nose blow that candle out on the exhale one more time deep breath in through your nose and finally allowing your exhale to come blowing that candle out and just allowing yourself to rest again in the body and just notice how the body feels. Perhaps you can already just feel that shift by taking a full deep breath and using that candle visual we're able to really control the breath and although control's not quite the right word we're able to at least focus the breath we're able to anchor the body by anchoring into the breath so we're going to draw the practice to a close opening your eyes if they were closed and maybe just taking a moment to wiggle your fingers and toes coming back into the body and you might like now to go into another meditation come and check out my meditations on here or any of the amazing meditations in this library or that might be enough to simply go back out into your day and to feel more grounded thank you so much for joining me i'm scarlet come back to this anytime you need