Deep Dive Into Breathing

Let's take a deep dive into our breath. Explore our breathing patterns, and feel the natural joy of life that's in every breath. Returning to our breath is an incredible gift and here we take the time to saturate in that. To really be with different angles and areas of our breathing and its effect on us. Taking time to look closer at the activity that's always happening in the background.

Transcript

Hello,

Thanks for coming today.

Let's do a short little deep dive into breathing.

Exploring and focusing on our breath,

Letting our mind and body calm down as we breathe.

Coming to a place of deep relaxation and rest.

Let's start just by breathing.

Just letting your body relax,

Letting your mind relax,

Getting comfortable in whatever position,

Whatever position you're in.

Whether you're sitting or laying down and just breathing naturally.

Not even focusing on it yet,

Just listening.

Notice how you're already breathing.

Whether you're asked to breathe or not,

You're already breathing.

That's why breathing is so special because it's both subconscious but it can also be conscious.

So with it we have the opportunity to work with our unconscious,

To start healing it,

To start bringing it to rest as well.

So let's just start meeting our breath wherever it is without any manipulations.

Just noticing what the breath is like right now.

When you're just breathing naturally,

Listening,

Sitting.

What is your breath like?

Do you breathe through your nose,

Through your mouth?

Does the breath go all the way to your stomach,

To your diaphragm,

Your belly?

Does it just go to your chest?

Does it just go to your shoulders?

Noticing what it feels like to breathe.

Whether it feels like you're breathing enough,

Whether you still feel like you need a bit more breath.

And of course as you hear these things,

Your breathing will probably change in response to looking at your breath.

And that's okay,

Allowing these things to happen,

Allowing yourself to change how you're breathing.

But just without manipulating it too much,

Just noticing what naturally tends to happen.

Noticing if you are breathing through your nose,

Which nostril it goes through,

The left or is it the right?

There's an association of coming to a place of calmness when we breathe through our left nostril.

It can be useful technique even if you're ever feeling stressed out to plug your right nostril and just breathe through your left.

So just noticing now which one is dominant or is it a mix of both?

Noticing if you can feel the sensations of the air passing through your nose or your mouth.

Do you feel the air on the outsides of your nose,

On the top of your lip?

Do you feel it on the inside of your nose?

Do you feel it on the inside of your nose?

Do you feel it in your throat moving all the way down?

Maybe noticing the temperature as well.

Noticing how the temperature is different on the in-breath than on the out-breath.

Perhaps colder when you breathe in and warmer when you breathe out.

Noticing maybe any irregularities.

Noticing if sometimes there's a deeper breath in between a series of more shallow breaths or if all your breathing is pretty even.

And start noticing how your body moves with the breath.

Noticing if your shoulders are rising,

If your chest is expanding,

If your belly is expanding.

And in what order it happens.

Does your belly move out first and then the air comes?

Or do you breathe and push it out?

Maybe noticing your sense of balance shifting as you breathe.

As the weight of the air influences how your body's sitting or standing or laying.

And again moving your focus to how it feels to breathe.

Does it feel like you're breathing deeply enough or is it shallow?

Does it feel like you're not quite catching your breath and you aren't even aware of it?

And let's slowly just make breathing pleasurable.

You know that feeling after you have a big yawn and it just feels so good to breathe in and so good to just release release that yawn.

Make every breath like that.

It doesn't always have to be a yawn but make every breath just feels good to breathe in and feels good to breathe out.

Enjoying every moment of the breath.

Every moment of the breath in you're breathing in this precious necessary component of your life.

It's filling you with life.

Let there be a gratefulness for that.

But even beyond that just feeling the feeling of just filling yourself with air.

Noticing the satisfaction there is to receive that air.

How good the body feels.

How grateful it is without even needing to be conscious about it.

How grateful your body is to receive that air.

Same thing with the out breath.

Noticing how the body just needs to let go.

It can't just keep holding on.

Noticing how your body just,

I want to say collapses but it's not that quite that it collapses but just it folds inward.

It lets go when you breathe out.

There's a tension that's built up as you breathe in.

It's natural.

It's what happens in life as we live as we go out.

We have experiences.

Attention builds up.

But then it also lets go.

Allowing this to be the moment where you build up and let go.

Letting this be your practice.

It's okay to get stressed.

It's okay to have altercations or conflicts or enjoyments or activities.

Everything is okay.

Just practicing letting go after as well.

Really focusing on how good it feels.

Making each breath a joy.

And slowly start breathing even deeper.

Let that be a way of increasing the enjoyment as well.

Breathing deep into your diaphragm.

Filling your whole body with air and then breathing out slowly.

Dragging that last breath out.

That out breath out.

Breathing in slowly.

Enjoying that space in between the breath and just breathing out.

Letting everything go as you breathe out and just making it long slow and steady.

And meditation aside even,

This is a fantastic way of regulating your nervous system.

This is an amazing way of just bringing your entire body to a state of rest.

As soon as your out breath is out,

You're going to be able to just breathe in and out.

This is a state of rest.

As soon as your out breath is longer than your in breath,

Your body starts returning to a place of calmness.

A place of peace outside of reaction.

Outside of stress.

So breathing in and just letting that out breath drag out slowly,

Enjoyably.

As if it was a sigh of pleasure.

Even adding sound to it if you feel comfortable with that.

Just allowing all that release to happen in your body.

Even without any kind of digging into stresses or subjects or anything.

Just the act of sighing just naturally releases tension that's been stored in our body.

So again,

Taking this time to just breathe in and out.

Let go.

Relax.

Being grateful for the air,

Being grateful for this moment,

Being grateful for being able to let go.

And just enjoying.

Letting that deep breathing become natural.

And quite feel natural,

Allowing your influence on the breath to recede a little bit.

Allowing your breath to return to how it normally is.

Whether that's more shallow or not.

And just noticing what it feels like to breathe the way you normally breathe.

Staying with that for a moment.

This is your special,

Special breathing.

No one else breathes the way you do.

Just taking some time for yourself.

Exploring,

Noticing.

There's no right or wrong here.

My breath is quite shallow right now,

Naturally.

That's okay.

And finding the pleasure even in this breath,

Without any kind of influence,

Any manipulation.

Even in my shallow breath right now,

There's still a seed of that relaxation,

A seed of that blissful taking in and relaxing,

Letting go.

Maybe just giving yourself a mental note throughout the day to take a few breaths.

Maybe even just take three dedicated breaths whenever you remember.

Three pleasurable breaths.

No other rules.

They don't have to be deep.

They don't have to be long.

You don't have to count how long they are.

Just take three pleasurable breaths whenever you remember.

Really enjoying each breath,

Savoring the air,

Savoring the moment.

It doesn't take any time at all.

It doesn't take any training.

You're the judge.

What feels good,

What doesn't.

Bless you for coming today.

For taking this time for yourself.

For growth,

For healing,

For rest.

You have a wonderful rest of your day.

Bye bye.

Reviews

Wonderful simple breathing.
Thank you

Amazing.

A wonderfully reflective practice about breathing. Oftentimes meditations focus on breathing in and out. But seldom does the guidance go much further than that. This practice deeply explores the sensations of breathing in a way that helps to identify new ways to be present. Great work and good quality narration.