Cooling Breath For Sleep & Relaxation

Sit comfortably with your spine long and your shoulders and your belly relaxed.

Take a couple of full deep cleansing and clearing breaths just to prepare yourself for this practice.

And then pursing your lips as though you're drinking through a straw.

Just begin to take smooth regular inhales and exhales through your pursed lips.

Just allow your breath to remain smooth and calm.

No involuntary pauses in the breath.

Inhale and exhale through your pursed lips.

And just notice the difference in temperature of the air when you purse your lips in this way.

Feel the coolness of the air that comes in and the air that goes out.

Feel this coolness of air having a cooling effect on your body and your mind.

Feeling cooler,

More grounded,

More calm.

Just continue breathing in this way,

Keeping your lips gently pursed.

Simply inhale and exhale through your lips.

The body is calm and relaxed.

The mind is cool.

The breath is slow and steady.

Nowhere else to be.

Nothing else to do.

Simply being here,

Right now.

Feeling this cooling,

Soothing effect of this breath on your whole physiology.

Knowing that at any point that you feel overheated,

Hot headed,

Over reactive,

Frustrated,

Irritated,

You can come to this breath to cool,

To soothe,

To ground and to calm.

Just take yourself through five more slow,

Steady breaths,

Keeping your lips gently pursed.

And then when you're done,

Just gently releasing the pursing of your lips and allow your breath to return back to a natural,

Normal rhythm.

And just spend a moment here just observing,

Observing how the body feels,

How the breath feels.

And then when you're ready,

Just simply and gently opening up your eyes and continuing on with your day with coolness and calmness.

Namaste.