Morning Ease Stress With The Breath

So let's begin this practice now finding yourself a position of comfort and ease closing your eyes and imagine now that you are sitting by the shore you feel the gentle breeze against your skin and you listen to the soothing sounds of the ocean as you inhale imagine the wave rising and as you exhale imagine the wave receding as it recedes it carries away any tension or stress with it I'm beginning now to deepen your breath inhaling through your nose and as you exhale open the mouth and breathe out through an open mouth or sound a little like this you're breathing in through your nose and out through your mouth in and out in and out breath in breath out and continue this rhythmic breath going at a pace that works for you and surrender to this present moment there's nothing to do now just sitting observing the breath deeply inhaling exhaling releasing breath coming and going breath in and breath out by directing your focus to the breath you're diverting attention from the ongoing chatter of thoughts allowing them to gently release dissipate body relaxing letting go breath in and breath out breath in and out body relaxing body letting go relaxing the head or muscles of the face the shoulders and down the arms to the hands fingers and thumbs down the torso relaxing the back and the front of the body legs softening knee lower leg ankles feet and toes if you haven't already breath returning to its usual pace observing how you feel in the mind in the body and gently opening opening the eyes