Sit with a straight spine,
On a chair or in a cross-legged position.
Let your hands rest on your knees,
Connect the thumb and the index finger tip to tip,
Keep the other finger straight but relaxed,
With light pressure between the thumb and the index finger.
With your eyes closed,
Focus on the point between the eyebrows.
Let your body feel in perfect balance.
You can sit in this position without effort.
Let all your attention gather on your breath.
Sense the breath as a quality of motion.
Inhale deep.
Exhale deep.
Inhale deep.
Exhale deep.
Inhale deep.
Exhale deep.
Inhale deep.
Exhale deep.
Continue breathing like that.
What is moving in the different parts of your body as you breathe in a steady and meditative rhythm?
What seems to dominate the quality of your breath as you begin the exercise?
Observe the change as you continue to meditate.
Bring your attention through the one inch square area above the root of the nose,
Where the eyebrows meet.
Then focus the attention through the brow point to the navel point area.
Concentrate just below the inside of the belly button.
Feel the motion and life energy of the breath.
Visualize the body as luminous and pure love.
As you breathe long and deep,
The light and love increases in brightness,
Extent and penetration.
Let that breath and light merge with the entire cosmos.
Let the breath breathe you.
Experience yourself as a small part and the cosmos as unlimited.
Feel that you are a part of that vastness.
Feel that you are a part of that vastness.
The breath is a wave on a much greater ocean of energy of which you are a part.
Notice the motions and changes in the subtle breath and your life energy.
Just observe,
Do not try to alter it.
Notice the motions and changes in the subtle breath and your life energy.
Observe it and learn to notice your baseline of life energy.
Calibrate to this baseline to notice and appreciate the effect of this breathing practice.