Meditation Breathing - Crystals Bay

Inhale…exhale…Get the Meditation Breathing Technique Right!

Re-Discover the long lost meditation breathing technique that you already know when you are a baby

Let me ask you a question: Are you breathing correctly?

“Hey, Glen what kind of stupid question is this? If my breathing is keeping me alive, it got to correct, isn’t it?” Not really.

Ever watch how babies breathe? Effortless with apparent upwards and downwards movement of the lower abdominal right? Deep breathing nourishes their bodies and cells with oxygen, suffusing their souls with vitality. Now do you know why infants are always busting with energy and life?

As we grow older, stress, poor diets and body posture hinder our proper breathing. Sure we keep breathing but we no longer maximize our breathing potential.

We developed BAD breathing pattern.

The flow of oxygen gets restricted resulting in anxiety and our inability to react and think well.

Meditation breathing should be deep yet naturally just the way you breathe when you are a baby.

What? Don’t know how anymore?

Shall we re-learn the breathing technique and fill your life with energy and inspiration again?

Lets do it.

2 Tips for Meditation Breathing

All you need are these 3 tips and lot of practices – I promise.

Tip #1: Watch out for this important muscle – The Diaphragm

You must exert a great deal of conscious control of this piece of muscle with your shoulders relaxed and still.

The abdomen and stomach should move first from the expansion of the diaphragm.

Then, the lower lung should fill up before the upper chest.

This is the inhalation step. Go in the reverse sequence for exhalation.

If you have difficulty controlling you diaphragm…

Here’s what you can do:

Lie on your back. Place one hand on your navel and the other on your chest.

Take as deep a breath as you can comfortably managed.

Feel the diaphragm and chest move up as you inhale.

You should feel your abdomen, stomach, lower lung and finally upper chest expanding in this sequence during inhalation.

Slowly begin to release out the air with one long slow exhale. Do it as slowly as you can until every last particle of bad air has been expelled from your lungs.

For the exhalation, you should feel your diaphragm and chest moving down in the opposite sequence - upper chest, lower lung, stomach then abdomen.

Watch your own breathing.

Are you aware how powerful this tip is? Just by following this inhalation-exhalation cycle continuously can help to calm you down and make you relax.

Tip #2: Establishing your breathing tempo

For meditation breathing, you should establish a gentle rhythm of inhalation and exhalation.

You can opt to use the 4-2-4-2 whereby you take 4 counts of inhalation, hold your breath for 2 counts follow by 4 counts of exhalation, hold for 2 counts again before repeating the cycle.

Alternatively, you may want to double the length of your exhalation to your inhalation - 3 counts of in breath and 6 counts of out breath.

The key is to be comfortable and not felt strained.

It will take some time for you to master the mediation breathing technique. Once it becomes your second nature, you can do it in any meditation postures for a wholesome lifestyle.

That’s all for today. Till next time however…

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