MIDL: Retrain Your Breathing Patterns: Stress & Anxiety

In this MIDL Mindfulness Training you intentionally retrain any habitual stress chest breathing patterns to lower anxiety and as a basis for the development of MIDL Mindfulness of Breathing. Sensitivity to diaphragmatic breathing is also used as a basis to reflect the mind to decondition habitual patterns. Diaphragm breathing is essential to the development of mindfulness meditation as it effects the arising of the Five Hindrances to Meditation.

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Really loved this one. Very helpful. I also love how his directions were very clear.

I am currently suffering with severe anxiety along with gallstones. Stephen has helped me tonight to calm my mind and my body which is no mean feat considering my current condition. I highly recommend him he’s great! 🙏🏻

So good. Beautifully orchestrated. Love the build up and then the tapering off to the end and the slow pace. Feel very calm and a bit emotional. Some release happened. Definitely coming back. Thank you.🙏🙏

Excellent! That was an amazing and very relaxing practice! So fantastic must repeat for sure! Thank you! 🙏💫

Belly breathing can often be quite painful for me, but after pushing through resistance I was able to find some ease while laying down.
Thank you

Love the slow pace and the feeling of peace that came over me 🙏 😊

Love this one. Total game changer. From high charge with insufferable kriyas to calm relaxed attention just from 2 times of using this practice. I'm sure more difficulties will arise, but it feels amazing to rest with the breath.

Great breathing exercise and very effective way to learn breathing techniques

Great, thank you.

The breathing instruction was a little slow at a few points but I attribute that to the height and depth of the speaker's breathing being different, wider, than mine.

Very calming, just what I needed at this time, had been feeling agitated, feel more grounded now. 🙏 Nice calm voice and pace, I like the spaces in between instructions. A good practice, one I shall return to.

Great start to MIDL. Can’t wait for the next lesson!

Simple, yet profound. Thanks for your exquisite care (yet again!) holding the perfect space for healing and relaxation. The mind clears so effortlessly when the body can rest effectively.

Stephen helps prove the important relationship between body, breath and thinking mind. He teaches empowerment and does so with kindness and compassion. Thank you Stephen. I will see you in one of your live classes soon! Peace. ~Maureen

Thank you so much, Stephen! This diaphragm breathing has brought me to a level of relaxation I’ve never experienced before — where my monkey mind takes a brief vacation and I don’t have to strive or remind myself not to engage in thoughts.

I visited your website and read your story and I am so grateful for your gift of this guidance to the world. I will revisit your site and start this training at the first lesson and make sure to read all of the background and supporting explanations you’ve so kindly written. Finding you and MIDL came at exactly the right time — after I’ve dabbled enough in meditation to realize that a committed systematic practice is what I want to do and the next right step for me. Thank you again, Stephen!

Hello Stephan meditating from very long I m having chronic anxiety n ur like medicine love you ❤️ oh stephan thanku I will try it n let uh know ❤️

Thank you, Stephen. This was the first time in a long time that I felt that deep relaxation. I feel very peaceful now. I look forward to continuing the course and learning how to really be mindful.

Very relaxing, feel wonderful 🙏

Thank you Stephen this has been very helpful with consistent practice

Very relaxing. Thank you Stephen. The part where we are instructed to put one hand on belly/ one on chest, I find this position a bit awkward. It requires keeping the hands positioned while breathing. I find my hands fall off placement each time, it is difficult keeping them placed properly while doing this 3 part breath.

loved this. my mind and body struggled to stay still and then felt feelings of frustration as I couldn't lie still, lots of little aches and pains. I felt a determination to finish and it was really interesting to watch myself struggle as it was happening! I want to practice this one several more times but think I will do some yoga stretches before and see if that helps my body to settle a bit more on the floor. Thank you as always Stephen.