Welcome to the short breath break to release tension and hit a quick reset on your energy.
Let's begin with a big breath in and release the breath fully from your mouth.
Now feel your feet on the ground.
If they're not on the ground,
Put them there right now.
It's a great time to get some good grounding energy from the earth as well.
Another big breath in and out of your mouth.
Nice long exhale.
See if you can make your exhale a little longer than your inhale.
And one more time.
Big breath in and big breath out.
Now,
If you'd like,
On the next few breaths,
Bring your hands up to your scalp and massage your scalp with nice firm fingertips right up into the middle of the top of your head,
Into your forehead,
The sides of your head as you're breathing in and out,
The back of your head.
Give those fingertips a nice massage on the back of the head using firm fingertips.
And now as you continue to breathe,
Let your fingers and your hands start to massage the back of the base of the neck if you can get there.
That's great.
Just like release any tension from there as you're breathing in and out.
All right,
Let your hands relax down by your sides or in your lap and take another big breath in.
Now,
As you breathe in and out,
I want you to focus on your breath moving in and out through your throat.
Just noticing the breath coming in through the throat and out through the throat.
Just noticing,
Noticing that breath waking up your throat,
Enlivening that part of your body as you breathe in and out.
Now,
With your next breath,
Bring your shoulders slowly up towards your ears on the inhale.
On the exhale,
Let those shoulders drop slowly down.
As you finish your exhale,
Give them a good press down.
Let's do that again.
Shoulders up towards the ears as you inhale.
And as you exhale,
Breathe and exhale,
Release and let go.
All right,
Noticing your breath as you relax,
Just a nice normal inhale and exhale.
Noticing your body,
Noticing how you feel.
And now,
Big breath into heart space,
Breathing in towards your heart and releasing from your heart,
Letting any tension go from that part of your body with another big breath in heart space and releasing the breath from there.
Great.
Now,
Hands to your belly if you like.
Big breath into your belly.
Exhale from there.
Now,
Let's do it again.
Can you feel your belly expand as you inhale and contract as you exhale?
If you can,
That's a big,
Deep breath.
And if not,
You might want to play with that later.
See if you can get that breath to go way down into the belly on the inhale and release from the belly on the exhale.
It contracts naturally right out of there.
Great.
Nice big breath in and out through your mouth again.
Now,
As you breathe in,
Imagine yourself exhaling down through the body and out through your feet.
So breathing in,
The breath travels down as you exhale and out through your feet.
Great.
And one more time,
Breathing in,
Letting that breath travel down and out through your feet.
Okay.
Just take a moment.
Notice how you feel all over.
Is there any place that still feels a little tight or a little tense?
If so,
Send a breath there.
Imagine yourself releasing that tension as you exhale.
All right.
Bring yourself back to normal breathing.
And if you like,
Cross your arms in front of you.
Hands to your upper arms.
Give yourself a little bit of a squeeze.
Maybe offer a word of encouragement that you might need right now.
All right.
Another breath in and out.
It's time to carry on.
Don't forget to take another breath break as you need it.
