Mindfulness Of Breathing For Anxiety Relief

Let's begin by taking a moment to allow your body to settle in a comfortable position.

See if you can soften around any areas of physical tightness or tension,

Maybe that means dropping your shoulders,

Wiggling your fingers,

Loosening your jaw,

Softening the muscles around the eyes and relaxing the belly.

Notice the serenity and calm that surrounds you.

And so today's primary practice will be mindfulness of breathing,

Simply bringing awareness to what it feels like physically to be breathing without judging anything to be good or bad,

Right or wrong,

Simply being curious about what it feels like to be inhaling,

Exhaling and to have that pause between the exhale and the inhale.

So with a soft belly and an open mind,

I invite you to inhale through the nose and exhale through the mouth,

Noticing the pause in between the exhale and then noticing the beginning of the next inhale and exhale,

Just relaxing your body,

Inhaling through the nose and exhaling through the mouth,

Breathing with a sense of ease,

Following its natural rhythm,

You might notice the belly rising and falling with each inhale and each exhale,

Sensing ease and curiosity into each breath,

Feeling the movements,

The temperature,

Staying with the sensations in each moment,

A sense of kindness and ease,

Breathing in and out in each moment,

A sense of kindness and ease,

Breathing in and out.