Cleansing Breathing Meditation for Morning Bliss + Talk

When we wake up low in vitality, the practice of this morning ritual will restore inner balance, enhance feelings of joy and wellbeing, and remedy our connection to life.

Tony Samara, world-renowned spiritual teacher and author of 16 books, has been sharing deep spiritual work and energy transmission for the evolution of consciousness for over 25 years. Combining meditation, detoxing the body, a plant-based diet and a simple lifestyle, he is best known for how his work touches more deeply than words.

Transcript

A wonderful day to go a little bit deeper into the practice.

Today I thought to actually just focus on the practice.

There are so many interesting little bits of information that can be transmitted during these settings,

During these transmissions,

But actually what is very,

Very important is the practice,

As you know.

And talking about the practice,

One of the things that confuses people a lot is the practice of breathing in a meditational way.

So I would like you just to practice this cleansing breathing,

Which has been practiced for a very,

Very long time.

So it's very safe and very useful if practiced correctly.

And this is one of the things that I advise people to do first thing in the morning,

Especially if you feel a little bit under the weather or if you feel a little bit tired,

Fatigued by just not waking up with this sort of sense of vitality.

This type of breathing is a very simple practice that you can practice for a few moments,

And it really does help to balance things out.

You will see when you practice this.

So just finding a comfortable position that allows you to breathe in an open and receptive way.

So as you find this comfortable position,

It's important that your shoulders and your body is upright and your shoulders are a little bit pulled back so that your chest is open and receptive to breathing.

Then you can place your thumb,

One thumb on top of a nostril.

And you're breathing in through,

It's called in yoga,

It's called the alternate breathing technique or something like that.

But it's actually much older than yoga.

So you're placing your thumb to the nostril,

And you're breathing in through one nostril.

And then as you breathe in,

Make sure that the breath is not just a normal breath,

But you're actually visualizing the breath as if it's flowing up to the top of the head.

And we're again activating the pituitary pineal gland in the brain.

So it's almost as if we visualize,

Imagine,

Sense the breath as we breathe in deep through the nostril,

Up to the top of the head,

And down into the body.

So you're breathing into the chest and of course into the abdomen.

So your breath moves all the way down to the very base of the abdomen.

Then as you breathe out,

You breathe out through the opposite nostril.

You're breathing out,

You're imagining air from the base of the abdomen moving all the way up to the top of the head and out through the nostril.

Of course I've said this a little bit slow,

So you can't do it so slowly,

Most people can't do it so slowly.

You find your own rhythm,

So you're breathing in through one nostril and the thumb helps you to sort of close the other nostril,

So you're breathing in and breathing out through the opposite nostril.

Then you're breathing out through that nostril that you've just breathed out of,

You're breathing in again through that nostril and out through the opposite.

So it's basically in through one nostril,

Out through the other,

In through that same one that you've just breathed out of and out through the opposite nostril.

So we are moving the breath from one side of the brain to another side of the brain.

It's a great way to activate the left and right hemisphere of the brain and to activate the physiology of your body.

It's a great thing to do in the morning,

Even before you start meditating for a few moments,

Just as you wake up and you begin to focus upon slowly coming back to this world from deep sleep or from restful sleep,

Coming back and just looking at the dreams and breathing in this way,

Looking at the dreams that you've had during your sleep,

Just creatively breathing in this way.

So you may wish to practice now as you breathe in,

Deep breath.

Remember to visualize,

To imagine,

To sense this beautiful breath.

Maybe see it or experience it as a luminous light coming into your body through the nostrils.

Deep breath.

We can continue this for a few moments just to be familiar and comfortable with this type of breathing.

Starting to visualize and breathe in,

Deep into the abdomen,

Breathing in first through the nostrils,

All the way to the top of the head and then down into the abdomen.

Basically,

As you breathe in this way,

Connecting to all aspects of yourself,

So the brain has two sides,

The left and right,

The more creative,

Sort of timeless dimension of the brain and the more logical,

Focused on practicals type of scenario that the other part of the brain is more clever at doing.

So you're balancing your sense of connection to both.

So you breathe in and breathe out in this way.

This helps to vitalize just the physiology of your body because your body reacts to your thoughts in different ways.

So the creative aspect of your thinking creates a type of physiology that is different from the more focused work-like aspect of thinking,

Which creates a different type of energy,

Different type of atmosphere in your life and in your physical body,

Of course.

So breathing this way just helps to create a connection to the whole body of energies,

Physical,

Emotional,

Mental,

Energetic,

Subtle bodies of energy all get connected in this way,

Just through the simple breathing.

As you get more comfortable with this type of breathing,

You'll find that you don't need to use the thumb after a few minutes.

You can actually just focus on the breath.

As you focus,

The breathing moves in through one nostril and out through the opposite,

In through that same nostril and out through the opposite.

You can just focus and visualize as if this is what you're doing,

As if the thumb is there helping to create this flow of breathing in through one nostril and out through the opposite.

It's just easier for the hands because otherwise the hands may get a bit tired if you have them up all the time working with the thumb to alternate from one nostril to another.

As you get comfortable with this,

Actually this type of breathing becomes a natural thing that happens in the morning without even you thinking about it.

Once we create this ritual in our lives,

It's just a natural,

Very easy way for the body to remember this is what needs to happen and then the body remembers to do this without your input.

This of course takes more than a few days of practice.

Sometimes it takes a year or so to practice this and then the body gets used to this type of ritual.

You may now feel a little bit more vitalized,

You may feel more vitalized or a little bit more energized.

It's a good question,

You know,

Someone is asking about the nostrils,

You know,

What if they're blocked?

This is a very good indicator.

Sometimes you have a cold,

You know,

Or you have mucus just because the immune system is not working properly or working in a way where it's not really helping the body to get rid of the mucus.

Then of course this type of breathing is not a good thing to put into practice simply because you need to recover.

But very often we will notice that there is mucus just as a general thing that there is mucus perhaps in one nostril and not the other.

So it's easy to breathe through one nostril and not the other and that's interesting because it indicates that you are very much relying on one aspect of your brain and method of thinking,

You know.

So very often those who think too much or are caught in too much work will find that one nostril gets blocked.

And that's okay because it's a reminder that perhaps something needs to happen.

One thing that you can do that's very useful is to change certain things that create mucus.

There are certain foods that create more mucus.

So if you find yourself,

And sometimes you don't know this,

Sometimes it's just a matter of sort of experimenting.

If you find yourself eating say a type of food and then always getting mucus afterwards then that's a clear indicator that that type of food is creating a negative reaction in your body or it's not a very useful reaction in your body.

So some people find this eating cheese,

Not everyone,

But some people find dairy products.

You know,

Dairy products aren't bad of course but for some people at some points of their lives perhaps it creates this sort of reaction.

For other people it can be some simple things,

Sugar or certain grains or certain foods,

Carbohydrates that create this reaction.

For others it hasn't got very much,

It hasn't got so much to do with food,

It has more to do with lifestyle.

A place that you sleep or lack of sleep or sleep at wrong hours.

There is all sorts of,

It's too complex to of course mention all the situations that may lead to such.

But it's always a sign that the body is not really in balance if you are unable to breathe through those nostrils,

That there is something going on.

And that's a good thing to know because then you can have the energy and the strength to work with this before it becomes something worse.

Because of course mucus is only the beginning of an inflammatory type situation in the body that indicates that you need to go and do something a little bit differently than what you've been doing so that this situation changes.

And so very often it also has to do with the way that we breathe.

So when we breathe in a way that is stressful,

So shallow breathing which is stressful in the physical body.

If we are used to shallow breathing then at night the toxins that haven't been released because we haven't breathed in a deep and profound way become released.

So very often people notice that the mucus is most obvious in the morning after waking up,

Especially just after waking up because the body has been detoxing.

If that is the case it's important to recognize that there are types of breathing,

Types of meditational practices and types of foods and types of natural remedies that can help to increase the flow of detox so that it's not blocked in the nose or blocked in the throat or you wake up feeling a little bit sort of,

What's the foggy,

Brain fog I think it's called now.

You know you wake up differently when you use some of these foods and remedies to change the breathing.

So you know it's never a negative,

Everything in nature,

Everything in nature always speaks about remedies rather than problems.

So whenever there is such a situation then the breathing can be imagined.

So you don't need to force the physical aspect of the breath,

You can just imagine you are doing this.

It doesn't mean that the practice stops,

It just means you adapt the practice to the situation.

And sometimes you know if you have fever and you are sick in bed for a day or two you can continue the practice but you don't want to sit up,

You want to lie down and recover but you just imagine this type of breathing and it opens the subtle channels within the body and of course as you are focusing the breath so that it moves up to the top of the head you are stimulating the pituitary and pineal gland in the brain which in itself releases hormones that help to balance and create healing in the body and beyond the physical body.

So this type of breathing is so very interesting once you begin to put it into practice because it is not just a practice it also helps you to recognize and to get back in touch with your physical body as well as after a while you will see and realize that it helps you to get back in touch with your energetic body.

So as you continue breathing in this way you may wish to just enjoy a few more moments of breathing this way and there is,

You can practice this for two minutes or five minutes or fifteen minutes it is not a problem.

And for some people it is such a powerful way of coming back in touch with the physical body that some people give more time,

Fifteen minutes every day for this practice.

I usually just practice for a few minutes just because after you do this for such a long time it is not really needed to practice that long to come back into the reminder for your body to come back to remembering that this is the ritual that happens first thing in the morning.

So as you breathe in and breathe out let go of just the stresses and the worries and begin the day vitalized in this way through the breath,

Through your connection to your body,

Through your connection to the energy,

The subtle energy within your body and just through being connected to life force,

The breath of life.

It is wonderful as you come back to this meditational practice you create very clear intentions so that your day continues in joy and happiness.

Thank you.

Reviews

Connection to life.

Very helpful thank you.

Thank you! 💝🙏🏻💝

Helpful explanation of breathing technique that complements the meditation practice rather than distract from it.

A very practical , useful and informative technique .
Beginning and ending bell

A very informative and interesting helpful learning tool. Thanks

Helpful and energizing-Namaste