Hello friends,
Today we'll be practicing breath work focused on processing grief.
I'll be leading us through a breath work meditation focused on helping us process our feelings.
Give yourself some gentleness as you practice this.
Give yourself time.
It should take about 10 minutes or so.
This technique can help move dense emotions through our bodies and the heaviness can seem lighter after this breath work.
Typically our shallow chest breathing inhibits us to process our feelings.
We can intensify our brain fog and lack of focus when we aren't using deep breathing.
During this practice we'll use shallow,
Slow,
Deep breaths to gain clarity and process.
Find yourself in a comfortable seat or laying down whatever position feels good for your body.
Eyes can be closed or soft.
Taking any stretches you might need to settle in.
You can even lay down and put your legs up the wall if that feels good to you.
When you find yourself settled in,
Soften your shoulders.
Open the space between your brows.
If available to you,
Place one hand on your heart,
One hand on your stomach.
Take a few deep breaths in and out of your nose to settle in,
Focusing on belly breathing.
Continue to breathe in and out,
Settling into the space,
Grounding yourself here.
Setting your intention and you might have an intention in mind,
But if you don't,
Let's set our intention towards clarity.
Focusing on your intention as we go through this practice together.
Taking one hand on your heart,
One hand on your stomach if it's not there already.
Begin to breathe into the belly and out the mouth.
Filling up the body,
Focusing on your heart space.
The heart chakra is where we hold a lot of our grief.
This space may feel heavy or dense.
Let's practice moving some of those emotions out with our breath.
Breathing in,
Feeling the heart space fill up and exhaling it all out.
Imagining as you're inhaling in,
You're inhaling clarity and as you exhale,
You're releasing density,
Heavy emotion to bring lightness to the body and your energy.
This is only one part of the grieving process to help us process our emotions so it may be challenging,
Things may come up and that's okay.
Just sit with it for a few moments,
Breathing in,
Filling up with that clarity and exhaling out.
Taking a few more here.
Really filling the body up with the breath and allowing the breath to push out that heaviness.
Learning it leaving the body,
Energetically clearing yourself out with the breath.
Being fully present with yourself through this process and being gentle with yourself as the breath moves these emotions and things come up.
Acknowledging them,
Naming them,
It's all part of this process of healing.
We feel to heal.
Feeling to breathe,
Feeling the wave of your breath nourishing the body,
Creating clarity and balance,
Your emotions in the physical body.
Working with yourself,
Connecting with your emotions.
And you can stay here as long as you'd like and continue your breath work or you can do some journaling or reflect mentally.
If you're journaling,
Write about how you were feeling before this meditation practice.
Where did you feel tension in the body,
Emotionally,
Any words or thoughts that come up for you?
And throughout this process,
What came up for you?
What felt heavy?
Was it easy?
Was it challenging?
Was it uncomfortable to feel and to dive in?
Or did it feel good to clear it out?
And finally,
How are you feeling now?
Maybe you're feeling lighter,
Maybe with everything coming up,
Feel a little heavier and that's okay too,
Let it out on the page or reflect or continue to breathe through these emotions.
Focusing on your heart space,
Remembering that we feel to heal.
And again,
Stay here as long as you'd like,
Continue reflecting or breathing.
But if you're ready to be guided out,
Give yourself one last deep breath in,
Deep breath out.
Give yourself what you need today.
