The Power Of Breath: Training Mind- Labeling Inhale & Exhale

So today's breathing method is a way to train your mind,

You know,

So it's a way of how what we're going to do is we're going to label the breath.

We're going to say,

As we're breathing in,

We're going to mentally label inhale,

As we're breathing out,

We're going to mentally label exhale.

What this does is like a way you can use this as an entryway into a meditation practice and it's what it does is it trains your mind to pay attention to something very simple.

So when it wants to go,

You know,

To the past,

To the future,

To everywhere,

So you use this.

Yeah,

So you can use it at the beginning or when you notice during a meditation practice,

You are distracted.

You can come back to this,

You know,

So let's try this.

Closing our eyes.

And with this technique,

It doesn't matter if you breathe through the nose or through the mouth,

Whatever's comfortable.

You want to have your body in a comfortable posture.

And then just notice your breath.

And then gently labeling the in-breath,

In-breath,

And the out-breath,

Out-breath.

Or you could just say in and out.

And you'll notice after a while your mind is going somewhere else and then you just gently bring it back.

In and out.

And just keep coming back,

Just a simple,

Just give that mind the simple job to label in and out.

So you can go like this for a while and then when you get a sense that,

You know,

Your mind has stabilized a little bit and your whole system has calmed a little bit,

Then you can let go of that and just go into your meditation.

You can turn the video off now and just keep going for however long you decide you want to do this.

And then when you're ready you come back and opening your eyes.

We're taking one more conscious breath in and out.

And you're ready for the day or for the evening or whatever comes next.