Welcome to today's session.
Settle into a comfortable position and if you're sitting,
Try and place both feet flat on the ground and feel it beneath you.
Sit up straight and begin to take some deep breaths.
Try to fully expand your chest with the inhale and fully release with the exhale and if it feels comfortable for you,
Go ahead and place one hand over your chest and then one hand over your belly button and with that breathing,
Really feel your chest and your abdomen expand out as far as it can and then shrink in as far as it'll go and really release all that breath.
Expand as far as you can go and then release as far as you can go.
Feel the movement of your lungs and if you can,
Try and imagine your breath is reaching throughout your whole body with that inhale,
All the way to the tips of your toes and the top of your head.
Try to reach every cell in your body and you can even imagine that your breath is like a balloon that's filling up all the way and then you're letting all the air out.
Just fill up that balloon and then release all that air.
You can visualize that in your head and as you're breathing the inhale and exhale,
Keep your throat nice and open,
Really let all that air pass through without anything in the way and now I'd like you to imagine that your breath is like a swing going back and forth from the inhale to the exhale,
Just nice and smooth like a rhythm,
Swinging back and forth,
Back and forth and now if you'd like,
You can even add a mantra to your inhale and exhale,
Like I breathe in peace and calmness and I breathe out stress,
I breathe in relaxation and I breathe out worry and whatever it is you need to let go of today,
Just release that with your exhale,
You can imagine pushing it out of your body as the air leaves your chest and you can repeat that as long as you'd like and as many times as you need,
Use your breath to calm your body and your mind.
