Welcome to todays POD an exploration into breath and it’s powerful effects on our mental and physical states. Today we will learn how it is possible to change the way you feel mentally and physically in an instant by changing how you breathe.
In POD 1 we learned about the relationship between our breath and our central nervous system. Today’s POD helps you to explore in more detail the control you possess over your breath. And in so doing the direct connection you have to being able to instantly improve your mental well-being and performance.
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Mindfulness Meditation with Breath.
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So today’s practice we are going to get a little bit
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more into the observation. So the last couple of days
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we’ve been working under strict mechanics – How do I breathe? Where do I breathe?
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When do I breathe? Today we’re going to do a little more observation
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of that breath. So for today’s daily practice
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what I need you to do, just pick a spot, any spot, go find that
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posture. So you need to go, take a minute
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put this on pause and going lie down. Great.
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Go ahead and do that. Get into a kneeling position, find the comfortable seated position,
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maybe if you’re out walking, that’s fine.
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So go ahead and hit pause and I’m going to give you a minute to go get set, alright, ready, set, pause.
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Alright. welcome back. So you’re in your posture,
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you’re where you want to be. So we’re just going to take the next few minutes and we’re going to begin
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to observe kind of what’s going on with our body and
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with our breath while we’re doing our breath. Alright. So settle in,
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get nice and relaxed and here we go.
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Take a nice deep breath in through your nose,
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feel that diaphragm rising up,
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give a little hold at the top.
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Then exhale, and let your diaphragm
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and your belly settle down.
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Take a deep breath in,
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give a little hold,
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let it settle down.
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So just let your mind
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travel down to that breath into the rib cage area.
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When you take that nice next deep breath in,
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I just want you to observe where the restrictions are?
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Do you feel the restrictions down toward your pelvis?
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If you feel them up
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in your rib area?
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Do you feel it more on the left side than the right side?
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Where’s your just a general sense of tightness?
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Maybe you don’t feel any tightness at all,
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maybe it just feels loosey goosey and you feel
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your diaphragm floating up and coming down with no problems.
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That’s okay.
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You’re not looking for a right or wrong here,
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we’re just simply observing what our breath is doing.
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We’re simply observing where we feel the freedom
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and where we feel the restriction.
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Now I want you to take a nice deep breath through the nose
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and then when you exhale,
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come through the mouth. You just notice what that breath feels like.
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In through the nose
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and then out through the mouth.
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And now let’s reverse it up.
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In through the mouth
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and out through the nose.
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In through the mouth
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and out through the nose.
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Now, what did you observe there?
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All we did is make one slight little change, instead of coming in through the nose,
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we came in through the mouth. How did that affect your breath?
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Did it affect in a positive or a negative way? Which felt more comfortable?
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Which felt more natural?
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Did one stimulate you and get you kind of excited
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or it did one relax you.
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Again I’m not looking, you are not looking, for a right or wrong answer.
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We’re not in class, we’re not trying to get and “A”.
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We’re observing where our body is doing at this moment.
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We’re observing that when we
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bring attention and focus, sometimes things change, just by simply observing them.
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We’re observing, when we do things differently,
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Surprise! Surprise! We get a different result.
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So if we know that we’re going to be getting different
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results based on what we do
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and we have the results, we have the ability to choose
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what we’re going to do, does that help us determine that
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maybe we have the ability there I say control
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to get the results that we’re looking for.
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That’s a key observation
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that I want you to think about as we close our today’s practice
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is with your breath, with how you
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feel mentally, physically, emotionally? How much control
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do you have over that?
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And what role just taking control
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of your breath have?
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I hope you enjoyed today’s practice.
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Hope you found it useful.
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Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow.
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