MIDL 02/12: Mindfulness of Breathing: Relaxing Your Mind.

In this meditation, Stephen Procter will guide you in the second of 12 Steps for successful Mindfulness of Breathing in daily life. Your second step is learning how to use slow gentle belly breathing to develop deep physical relaxation. Daily meditation using gentle relaxing breaths in this way will lower your experience of stress and anxiety, as well as create a foundation for deeper concentration in mindfulness of breathing. Support articles and instructions for this guided meditation can be found in the Free Online MIDL Insight Meditation Course by checking Stephens Procter's teacher profile.

Reviews

Somehow my body temperature went up while doing the breathing exercise

Awesome and effective guided meditation! Thank you 🙏

Grounding, calming, peaceful 🙏🏼 Thank you Teacher 🙇🏼‍♂️

Thank you for this meditation . I am learning so much from you ! Much love and gratitude ❤️🙏

Perfectly relaxing. I appreciated the long stretches of silence that really allowed me to practice. Thank you!

Amazing! I've had a hectic couple of days and couldn't stop the buzzing monkey mind..until I listened to this, I anchored the breath and felt my qi sink 🙏☯️

Good day to you Stephen, l love this meditation, can l ask you about experiencing a lot of visualisations with this one. Your instructions help greatly, achieving a feeling of extreme relaxation, lose the feeling of body and dropping, relaxed breath then relaxed concentration at eye brow centre and experiencing on and off multiple times during this session - visualisations. Can you help me understand why l am getting many clear visuals.. l remember when studying with a satyananda yoga teacher they explained behind the third can show something similar to a movie screen of pictures may appear. I never experienced this at the time as l was drawing them out of my memory like visualise the full moon over the water at night... but it feels now that l may have been trying so hard to see this lead to too much effort of mind. But now its exactly like that now something appears but that it is completely not something l've seen before ? Have l dropped into a different state where its possible with total relaxation of mind to see this, just interested to get insight on the difference ?
Many thanks venerable Teacher
💜 x helen

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Thanks Stephen another beautiful deepening session with you
Much LOVE!
X helen

Very nice thank you. My breathing is definitely getting better. How often should we repeat each meditation before moving onto the next?

Love all of Stephen Procter’s work. Great voice. We’ll thought out guidance. A light hand.

Thank you for helping me go deeper in my practice. Wonderful guidance!

Deeply relaxing 💫 thank you 🙏❤

Such a lovely, peaceful meditation.

thank you for the meditation

Day 1 of week 5. Thank you Stephen for my continuing journey with you... Grateful! 🧘‍♂️

I was going to leave a review from the first week, but I decided I'll wait until I got further. At week 5 now and it's the same as when I started. I'm grateful for this meditation series. Your voice is calm and it never quite seems to interrupt as you give a chance for silence. It is like a great composer that understands the importance of "rest"! I encourage you to keep on letting peace and love emanate from you with all that you have to share! Namaskar 🙏🏿

I can't describe how perfect this is. Thank you again Stephen.

It’s a very good practice. But sometimes I drift away in even during 1st and 2nd stages of softening. And moreover Is there any difference in feeling of being here vs feeling of sitting here.

After having done the full 52 weeks of these meditations in sequence, this is my third year of returning to them. They are very grounding and helpful. Thank you, Stephen.

I love this series so much. Next year, for 2020, I plan on doing each meditation for one week since there are 52 total. Excited to watch my practice deepen!

Really helping me develop my practice. Thanks so much. 5 weeks in, sticking with it so far!!