Easy Meditation and Breathing Exercises
July 22, 2009 by admin
Filed under Meditation
The primary purpose of breathing exercises is to calm you down, and release the stress that has built within you. Meditation, on the other hand has also similar purpose, that is to de-stress your body and relax it. Since Meditation does not mean sitting in a particular posture alone, to get relaxed and reach a higher plane of conscience.
It also refers to be in higher planes of conscience even while attending to your normal chores. Breathing exercises also relax the mind and body with very fast release from stress, and calming your body and mind. These can work for anyone from 8 to 98 years. Here are some ways of breathing and breathing exercises to calm you.
1. Try to feel the tender coolness in your nose, as you breath-in. Focus your mind on this coolness, you will find a calming sensation as air enters your nose
2. As you breathe-out, count silently and slowly: When you breath out, – First out-breath: Count ‘one, one… Second out-breath: ‘two, two..’ Third out-breath: ‘three, three..’ and so on.
3. You are now engaging your mind methodically. First breath-in: You feel the coolness of the insides of nose, as air enters; First breath-out: You count, one, one…’ so on till it ends. Second breath-in: Feel the coolness. Second breath-out: Count two, two… You should go on practicing the felling of coolness and counting upwards.
4. When your mind starts wandering after some time, without counting the breaths, start again immediately, from one, one and repeat step 3, above.
Breathing exercises for meditation doesn’t require you to sit any kind of posture. If you sit in a posture it is okay, otherwise, even as you lie on your bed, every night, trying to sleep, you would have experienced how your mind wavers, without allowing you to sleep. It is then you can practice this breathing exercise and watch how you sleep in a very short time. Also these exercises assure better sleep and you get up fresh in the morning.
Shortly you would be practicing it daily. You can also choose to do only one step feel the coolness, when you are active, and only when you are relaxing you can do both the steps. You can adopt these methods anytime, anywhere, especially when you are angry, depressed, bothered, etc. These kind of breathing exercises are also part of meditation!
These breathing exercises put you into a higher plane though the highest plane of consciousness, but you will feel relaxed, you will have clarity of doing things, and there is a clam approach in your. Therefore how long you should go on practicing this exercise is immaterial. Do it as of tern and continue it for years. You will sure be benefited.
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