15-Minute Breathing Back Into Connection

Welcome,

I'm Jocelyn.

Whether you're feeling a bit disconnected from yourself,

From others,

From nature,

From mother earth or father sky,

Whether you're just feeling like you're alone on this journey or you just need to feel a little bit more connected to everything that's already plugged in,

Take a seat,

Lay down and find yourself in your body.

You might want to wiggle out just for a minute,

Wiggle your body,

Your hands,

Your shoulders,

Your hips,

Roll your head around your shoulders,

Just get the energy moving in your body for a second before we become still.

And as you begin to find that stillness,

Just start to notice where the edge of your body is.

Notice the shape that your body has taken on.

Notice the spaces in your body between your fingers or the spaces between your toes,

The space between your inner arm and your ribs.

Notice the different shapes that your body's taken on.

And just bring a little bit of awareness and invitation to your shoulders,

Just a gentle invitation to rest,

To be supported.

Bring that gentle invitation to your hips,

Just awareness,

Just bringing that slight little point of awareness to each of your hips,

Giving them the invitation to relax and rest for a minute.

Relax and rest for a minute.

Bring that same attention and awareness and invitation to your head.

Invite it to lighten up just a little.

Bring that attention and awareness to your ears,

Folds of your earlobes and ears.

See if you can sense the shape of your ears through your awareness.

Imagine you can bring that awareness to your inner ears,

That space between both of your ears.

Open that up,

Invite that space to open up to any sounds or vibrations around you.

Bring that invitation and awareness to your eyes,

Your right eye,

Your left eye,

That invitation to rest for a minute.

And begin to just feel and witness the breath breathing into your body and out of your body.

You might notice the temperature of air or the flow of air as you inhale and exhale.

And you might notice where your body moves or expands or dances with air and where it comes back in and contracts when the air is released on your exhale.

So don't try to manipulate your breath at all,

Just witness it,

Bring your awareness to it.

Invite yourself to just be with how your body wants to breathe in this moment.

Notice the cadence and the rhythm of your natural breath.

You might even notice when you're paying attention to the breath and your natural rhythm and cadence that you might feel tight or loose or expansive in different areas of your body.

And on your next inhale,

I just want you to take a conscious breath,

Really breathing in through your nose when your body's ready to inhale next.

And when your body is ready to exhale next,

Open your mouth and sigh it out.

And continue in that way with your natural breath,

Inhaling through your nose,

Opening your mouth and sighing it out.

Ah,

Inhaling through your nose and exhaling through your mouth in your body's own natural rhythm.

And imagining that when you inhale,

You are taking in oxygen through your nose from this ocean of life all around you.

And when you open your mouth and you exhale,

You are giving back to that ocean of life.

Inhaling through your nose and feeling all of the molecules,

The cells,

The atoms of the natural world around you coming in and feeding your body,

Organs,

Tissues,

Cells,

Your muscles.

When you open your mouth to exhale,

You're allowing that air and that breath to leave you and go back to the natural.

Inhaling through your nose,

Opening your mouth and exhaling out.

And each time you exhale,

Making yourself aware and conscious of what you're taking into your body in that air.

All of the energy,

The information,

The life coming into your body through your nose.

And as you exhale,

There's just a little bit of information and energy of you that's going back out to the natural world,

To that ocean of life.

Inhaling through your nose and exhaling through your mouth.

And imagining when you inhale that you are inhaling air and oxygen that may have been millions of miles away at one point.

That may have touched,

I don't know how many trees,

Birds,

People,

Grass,

Oceans.

And as you inhale that,

You are inhaling that into yourself.

And it is feeding this body of ours.

And as it does so,

It picks up a little bit of your energy.

And as you exhale,

You give back to this beautiful matrix of life that is all around us.

Inhaling through your nose and exhaling through your mouth.

And remember,

We're not manipulating this.

This is in your own rhythm,

In your own time,

In your own place,

Your own cadence.

When you're breathing in through your nose,

You're taking in all of life into you.

And it is feeding your cells.

And when you open your mouth and you exhale,

You're giving back to this beautiful growth.

Inhaling through your nose,

Opening your mouth and exhaling out.

As we inhale through our nose,

We can be consciously aware of the energy and life force that's entering our body to take care of us,

To feed us,

To give us life.

And as we open our mouth and exhale,

We can consciously exhale and give back to this beautiful life,

This earth,

This planet.

It's this act of giving and receiving.

Giving and receiving.

Every time we inhale through our nose,

Receiving this life,

Exhaling through the mouth and giving back.

It's so natural.

It's the very first thing we do when we are born into this world.

We take our first breath and we receive all of that life force,

All of that information,

All of that energy that feeds us,

That heals us,

That brings us to this beautiful life.

And our first exhale is us giving our imprint to the world for the very first time.

It's so natural.

We don't have to think about it as babies.

But we can become conscious whenever we're feeling disconnected.

To inhale through our nose and take in all of the energy of this world that feeds us,

Heals us.

And when we breathe out and open our mouths and sigh out,

We are giving back to this world.

It is this beautiful dance between give and receive that happens all day long,

Whether we're conscious of it or not.

But when we take a moment to get really conscious breathing in through the nose,

Opening the mouth and sighing it out,

We can begin to feel the connection to people that are across the world,

To the squirrel that's in our driveway,

To the houseplants in our bedrooms,

To the oceans.

We're all connected.

This air travels everywhere into everybody's body to feed them and out and out to give back.

So when we can consciously inhale through our nose,

Open our mouth and exhale,

We are taking part in that beautiful giving and receiving of life.

No matter if we're alone in a room or we're in a conference of people,

We are consciously giving and receiving all day long.

And when we can witness that,

When we can actively intentionally breathe in the life,

The energy,

The healing into our bones,

Our muscles,

Our cells,

Our tissues,

Our molecules,

And then exhale back out.

We're in that beautiful dance.

So continuing inhaling through the nose,

Opening the mouth and exhaling out.

Just a few more times,

Paying attention and being conscious with that inhale through the nose.

Letting that air,

That oxygen feed you,

Opening the mouth and exhaling out.

And one last time,

Inhaling through the nose.

And this time when you open your mouth,

Exhaling out,

Bring a little voice to that sigh.

Massage that vagus nerve.

And slowly just giving a little shake to your body.

Opening your eyes,

Take a nice full body stretch.

Feel the energy and the life force within you.

You are a part of this natural world.

We are connected through every breath we take.

We're connected to each other.

We're connected to the plant world,

Connected to the animal world.

We're connected to the sky and the oceans.

And every time you take a breath and a sip from this ocean of air that's around us,

We pull that into ourselves.

We receive,

We exhale,

And we give.

So I hope you enjoyed that little bit of a break to connect back to our natural self,

Our natural system of breathing.

Take a few moments throughout your day to consciously breathe,

Even if it's for one or two breaths.

Inhale from that natural world all around you.

Take that oxygen in.

Let it feed you.

Exhale and give it back.

Play that game of give and take.

Thank you so much for joining me today.

Namaste.