What is a gentle breathing practice?
A gentle breathing practice is a simple way to reconnect with your breath, your body, and a sense of calm presence.
Sometimes, we need a moment to pause.
We might reconnect with ourselves and gently anchor a sense of safety.
Watching the video below can allow space to settle.
Introduction to the gentle breathing practice
This practice begins by inviting you to notice the natural rhythm of your breath.
As you breathe in, you may notice your body gently expanding. As you breathe out, you may imagine releasing anything you no longer need.
You are then invited to bring awareness to the support beneath you—the chair, the floor, or the earth itself—and to anchor a sense of safety within the body.
As the practice continues, you may visualize breathing in light, allowing it to flow through every part of your being…
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When we do it consciously, we may notice something new.
When to Use This Practice
You can return to this practice whenever you would like a moment to pause and reconnect with yourself.
Some people find it helpful when:
- Life feels busy and they want a few quiet minutes.
- Thoughts keep circling and it becomes difficult to slow down.
- They feel overwhelmed by what is happening around them.
- They would like to anchor a sense of safety and presence.
- They are exploring new perspectives and want time for those experiences to settle.
- They simply wish to begin or end the day with a moment of awareness.
There is no ideal way to use this practice.
Sometimes a single conscious breath is enough.
At other times, you may want to sit with the full practice and allow yourself a little more space.
Either way, the experience unfolds naturally.
You are always welcome to return whenever it feels supportive.
In the rhythm of Expanding, Breathing, and Expressing, breathing creates a natural pause. It offers a moment for experience to settle before moving on to the next step.
Transcription of the breathing meditation
A warm welcome to this conscious breathing practice.
You can do this whenever you feel you want to anchor a sense of safety, you just want a quiet peaceful moment, or you simply want to bring in more light. Let's breathe in and out.
And as you breathe in, you might simply feel parts of your body expand as the air flows in. And as you breathe out you might give anything back that you no longer need. Simply in and out in a calm rhythm.
As you breathe in you might imagine how that calm breath just flows through all of your body, and each time you imagine it you're also bringing in that feeling of calmth - of peace.
Simply allowing the breath to flow in and out. And you might also feel within your body how the air flows in and out and just feeling something can only bring in a sense of safety.
Perhaps you also feel the point of contact between your body and the seat you're sitting on, or the surface you're lying on, or your feet and the floor.
if you're standing up. And just feeling how the earth carries you might also bring in a sense of safety, something that you can anchor into - even if you explore other states of consciousness.
Some people do. You can just go back to that anchor, that sense of safety within the body - allowing that on each breath, allowing yourself to feel safe.
And for a moment I'd like to to invite you to gently close your eyes and with your eyes closed you might feel even more. You might tune to the feeling of the air flowing in and out of your body on each breath and how it feels to simply be.
We've tuned to anchoring a sense of safety, feeling a sense of peace and now you might also feel that on each breath. Just breathing in light. And you breathe in - you can visualize it to bring in the feeling.
You're breathing light.
And you're feeling how that light flows into every cell of your body.
And it flows through all your channels - arteries flows through your nervous system flows through all there subtle channels of energy. Breathing in light, breathing out what you no longer need.
And this breathing practice was inspired by my spiritual guides by Archangel Michael. And if you resonate with that you might also tune to that energy to that sense of safety and natural protection. On each breath breathing in light, and sometimes you might just breathe more deeply take an extra deep breath just to bring in those feelings of safety, peace, and light even more.
You can attune to this whenever you feel you need a quiet moment a moment of peace, you'd like to anchor into sense of safety, or simply bring in more light.
Let's take one more deep breath and you might just take that energy with you as you move through your day.
Thank you for tuning in together, and sending love and blessings