Heart-Breath Meditation

This method of meditative heart-breathing is simple yet powerful in its results. You're likely to experience relaxation and calm. This practice opens and softens your heart. It oxygenates your blood and brings fresh energy into your body and mind. Doing this practice will help you get into a more positive emotional state. Your mind will become quieter. Relaxation will occur and your concentration will improve.

This practice has the intention to keep you grounded, in your body and heart practices connect you emotionally and spiritually as well.

Music: Ethereal Relaxation Kevin MacLeod, Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Transcript

Allow yourself to get comfortable finding a seated or reclined laying down position.

As you make your way into this position,

Allow yourself to close your eyes if it feels good for you.

Take a deep breath in through your nose,

And as you exhale,

Allowing any tension to release.

Another inhale in through your nose,

And exhaling through your mouth this time,

Releasing any tension your body is holding.

One more inhale,

And as you exhale,

Releasing any remaining tension.

Today's practice will focus on the breath as well as the heart.

To start,

I'll ask you bring your conscious awareness to your breathing.

No need to change the way you're breathing,

Just taking notice of your breath in this moment.

And now I'll invite you to shift your awareness or your attention to your heart area,

Allowing yourself to explore the sensations and anything that might be present right in the middle of your chest.

As you connect with this area and allow for any sensations that are present,

I want you to start imagining that you are breathing through your heart,

Allowing the breath to come in through your chest and back out through your chest,

Focusing your attention on your heart as you breathe,

Imagining your breath flowing in and out of your heart area.

And once you start feeling your breath within this area,

I invite you to breathe a little more deeply than normal,

Making your breath a little slower than usual,

And bringing a smooth rhythm to the waves of the in and out breath through your heart.

If it helps,

You can imagine your breath as a circle,

Rhythmically flowing in and out of your heart space.

You may feel the center of your chest and your heart start to warm up.

You might feel some extra energy in your heart space.

Continue with your deep,

Slow,

Rhythmic breaths in and out of your heart space,

And as you're breathing in this way,

Allow yourself to feel the gratitude that your heart has for giving it your attention and your breath.

You can think of your breath and your heart as two old friends coming back together after some time,

And as you're acknowledging this gratitude from your heart,

I also invite you to begin thinking of something or somebody that you appreciate as you continue breathing in and out through your heart.

Try to hold the feeling of appreciation or gratitude,

Slow,

Deep breaths through your heart while marinating in that feeling of gratitude,

Appreciation,

And love.

You're welcome to stay in this heart breath for as long as you would like.

When you're ready to come out of this meditation,

Allow your awareness to expand to your full body.

You may want to wiggle your fingers and toes,

Getting a sense of your full being,

And then gently opening your eyes and coming back into the room that you're in.

Reviews

Beautiful and expansive. Thank you for sharing! 🙏✨💕