Come into a comfortable seated position,
Aligning the crown of your head directly above the base of your spine.
Relax your body,
Softly close your eyes.
Then taking one hand,
Place it over your belly.
And the other hand over your chest as you begin to observe your breath.
Notice how it feels to breathe.
Observe what moves when you breathe.
Observe the difference in movements beneath the hands that is on top of your belly and the hand that is on top of your chest.
Notice where your breath goes when you breathe.
Are you a chest breather or perhaps a belly breather?
Notice without judgment,
Without resistance,
And without attachment to whatever is coming up.
Notice if your breath is fast and shallow.
Or perhaps it feels slow and deeper.
Contemplate smooth and regular.
Or perhaps choppy and erratic.
No judgment,
No stories.
Just simply observe the nuance of your breath.
Notice if there's any involuntary pauses in your breath.
Maybe you notice these during an inhale or during your exhale.
And maybe the pause occurs somewhere at the end or the beginning of these breaths.
Notice your breath.
Right in presence.
Paying close attention to your breath as you allow it to simply come and go by itself.
Just simply watching and observing the breath.
Become the witness to your breath.
There is no need to breathe in any particular way.
Just allowing your natural breath to flow easily in and out of your body.
This beautiful practice of pure awareness is applied to breathing.
You are not thinking,
Not judging,
Not comparing,
Or needing to figure anything out.
Just remaining in a soft,
Open state of alertness and presence to your breath.
As your mind begins to wander,
Keep resting your attention back on the ebb and the flow of your breath.
Just observing your inhale and observing your exhale.
Observing the space between breaths.
Sensing that you are breathing.
Notice where the sensations and feelings of your breath occur in your body.
Where does the breath go when it flows into you?
What does the breath touch at the beginning,
Middle,
And end of your inhale?
Simply allowing the breath to come and go by itself in exactly the way that it wants.
No resistance,
No doing,
Just the simple act of being and allowing.
Now gently releasing your hands from your chest and your belly.
Allow them to rest back on your thighs and just remain in this alert state,
This space of awareness of your breath for a few more moments.
And then when you feel as if you are ready,
Just very softly and very slowly begin to open up your eyes,
Maintaining the sense of softness and groundedness as you carry on through the rest of your beautiful day.
Wishing you the most love and light in all that you do.
Sending you beams and beams and beams of love.
Namaste.
