Hey,
Good morning.
If it's morning where you are right now,
It's Will.
Let's jump right in and let's get,
Let's work on our breath today.
And I hope you're finding by doing the work with me that your breath is incredibly,
Incredibly powerful.
It has the ability to change your mind,
Change your mood,
Change how you're feeling physically and obviously mentally.
But it really gives us an opportunity to manipulate our energy.
So we're gonna work with finding a nice rhythm in our breath.
Very simple and a very smooth rhythm.
A rhythm is a relationship.
This relationship is going to take place between the inhale and the exhale.
But also there's those two silent elements between the inhale and the exhale.
Those moments of stillness that you've been working with or if you haven't,
You can go back into some other videos.
And let's just see how finding a rhythm,
How it has a natural inclination because of the pattern that the rhythm creates to slow us down mentally and physically.
And our body responds,
It's very first nature for our body and our mind to bring rhythm in and to respond in a very peaceful and harmonious way with rhythm.
So close your eyes,
Sit up nice and tall.
Definitely get your chest open.
If you're sitting in a more traditional yoga posture,
Then sit with your chest open,
Shoulder blades over top of your shoulders,
Over top of your sit bones.
Or if you're sitting on a couch or sitting in a chair,
Bring your back off the chair,
Ground your feet down.
And to begin,
Let's close your eyes and exhale your breath out your mouth.
Take a big inhale,
Pull all the way up and sigh out the mouth again.
Good big inhale.
Sigh out exhale.
Let it go a little more sound if you like.
If that helps you feel a bit better and release from strain,
Stress and anxiety,
Take a big breath in.
Sigh out.
So one more inhale.
Let it go out.
Let's take the breath in and out through the nose.
So there's obviously with rhythm there is a smoothness,
There's a consistency with rhythm.
So see if you can establish a beautiful smooth inhale.
Find that gap in the middle between the inhale and the exhale and then really slowly right from the beginning of the exhalation go really slow all the way out,
All the way to the end.
Find that silence at that bottom of the exhalation and then slowly and smoothly and deliberately start that inhalation really slow.
You could even use your imagination here.
Imagine you're making a circle,
A nice smooth polished circle,
No rough edges,
Nothing jagged,
Nothing sticking out,
No angles and just smoothing out the breath and establishing a beautiful harmonious relationship between the inhalation and the exhalation.
Working with a larger volume of breath so you can find more of those notes that are within that breath instead of having a short breath which doesn't give us a lot to work with.
Can you take bigger breaths?
In and out.
The breath is so smooth and so light that if there's a feather under your nose and this comes from The Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman,
Great book.
There's a feather underneath your nose.
When you're breathing you would barely if at all ruffle that feather.
That's the smoothness and the consistency and the ease that we want to find this rhythmic breath.
This breathing also becomes a meditation.
We're focusing on one thing and persistently and diligently working to craft a beautiful rhythm within the breath.
Just a few more inhale smoothly right from the beginning exhale.
You ready?
Gonna open your eyes.
Just check in how you're feeling from where you started before and again like during this time of challenge and crisis in our lives these breathing techniques are going to help us connect more deeply to ourselves and we can use these techniques and the breath to calm us down and I really suggest sharing this with your friends because we can all use these practices you know during this time of crisis and it's not gonna feel like so much of a panic a craze a crisis if we learn how to connect to ourselves and these breathing that practices are gonna help us do that so thank you so much for checking in share this with your community and I'll be back again very soon peace
