Be the breath.
From a Monkey I know:
"Breath is life! Exchange of electrons. Flow of energy. Air is the primary nutrient. Survival without it is measured in minutes. It is so important that you do it without thinking. Your breathing is the voice of your spirit. Its depth, smoothness, sound, and rate reflect your mood. If you become aware of your breath and breathe the way you do when you are calm, then you will become calm...
"Focusing on the breath is one of the most common and fundamental techniques for accessing the meditative state. Breath is a deep rhythm of the body that connects us intimately with the world around us.
"Close your eyes, breathe deeply and regularly, and observe your breath as it flows in and out of your body. Give your full attention to the breath as it comes in, and full attention to the breath as it goes out. Whenever you find your attention wandering away from your breath, gently pull it back to the rising and falling of the breath.
"Inhale through your nose slowly and deeply, feeling the lower chest and abdomen inflate like a balloon.* Hold... then exhale deeply, deflating the lower chest and then the abdomen. Do this three or four times, then allow your breathing to return to a normal rhythm. You will begin to feel a change come over your entire body. Gradually you will become less aware of your breathing, but you will also not be swept away by a stream of thoughts. You will become more inwardly centered. You will just 'be there.'"
* You can see "balloon breathing" in action if you watch a resting animal or a baby breathe. A voice coach (though that's an oversimplification of what that woman's work was) instructed us to think of our abdomens and chests as a paper grocery bag being filled with air. One has to putting things in the bottom of the bag, fill toward the top, and then empty it from the top down.
If you regularly breathe into the top of your chest and then exhale, then you're cutting yourself from relaxation and proper circulation.
I recall sitting in on a children's yoga class a few years ago as the instructor helped the kids to settle into corpse pose. "Can you believe they've already forgotten how to breathe?" she said of some those six- and seven-year-olds.
"Breath is life! Exchange of electrons. Flow of energy. Air is the primary nutrient. Survival without it is measured in minutes. It is so important that you do it without thinking. Your breathing is the voice of your spirit. Its depth, smoothness, sound, and rate reflect your mood. If you become aware of your breath and breathe the way you do when you are calm, then you will become calm...
"Focusing on the breath is one of the most common and fundamental techniques for accessing the meditative state. Breath is a deep rhythm of the body that connects us intimately with the world around us.
"Close your eyes, breathe deeply and regularly, and observe your breath as it flows in and out of your body. Give your full attention to the breath as it comes in, and full attention to the breath as it goes out. Whenever you find your attention wandering away from your breath, gently pull it back to the rising and falling of the breath.
"Inhale through your nose slowly and deeply, feeling the lower chest and abdomen inflate like a balloon.* Hold... then exhale deeply, deflating the lower chest and then the abdomen. Do this three or four times, then allow your breathing to return to a normal rhythm. You will begin to feel a change come over your entire body. Gradually you will become less aware of your breathing, but you will also not be swept away by a stream of thoughts. You will become more inwardly centered. You will just 'be there.'"
* You can see "balloon breathing" in action if you watch a resting animal or a baby breathe. A voice coach (though that's an oversimplification of what that woman's work was) instructed us to think of our abdomens and chests as a paper grocery bag being filled with air. One has to putting things in the bottom of the bag, fill toward the top, and then empty it from the top down.
If you regularly breathe into the top of your chest and then exhale, then you're cutting yourself from relaxation and proper circulation.
I recall sitting in on a children's yoga class a few years ago as the instructor helped the kids to settle into corpse pose. "Can you believe they've already forgotten how to breathe?" she said of some those six- and seven-year-olds.
Be the breath.
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