Deep Breathing Exercises
Deep breathing exercises are an important part of meditation, without proper
breathing you can not achieve a full trance. The first method is the most
important because it teaches us to breathe with our diaphram along with our
chest.
Method One
When you begin to first work with this exercise it will feel uncomfortable for
most. I suggest finding a quiet time to do it without interruptions. Once you
become more used to it you will be able to do it anywhere.
Find a quiet relaxing place and get comfortable.
Keep your spine straight.
Now relax and close your eyes.
Breathe in through your nose slowly feeling the upper half of your stomach
expand as the air goes in.
Hold it in for a count of three to start, once you get used to it you can hold
it in longer until you reach the count of 10.
Make sure that you still feel comfortable if a count of three is too much lower
it to 2 until you can do it comfortably.
After holding it in for the count slowly breathe out through your mouth until
you feel all the air is gone from your lungs and then repeat the process for
a total of ten times.
Visualize the air soaking into your body and when you exhale visualize all the
tension and stress leaving your body.
Method Two
This method is a bit harder than the first but similar. It follows the basic
guidelines of method one but with one varying difference.
Instead of just breathing in until you have taken in as much as you can start
with breathing in through your nose to a count of three.
Hold it for three, and then exhale out of the mouth for a count of three.
Do a count of three until you feel comfortable with it and then move on until
you can get to a count of 10 on the breathing in holding and exhaling.
Make sure to keep your spine straight so it does not impede the air flow.
Sometimes during deep breathing your body may want to change the speed or way
you are breathing, when first starting allow it to do this for a minute or two
as the body is not used to being controlled and you need to stay relaxed.
As you become more adept at deep breathing decrease how long you change the
breathing pattern until your body no longer tries to change it at all.
You will find that when that happens your breathing pattern in normal everyday
life has changed also and it will feel just as natural as before you learned to
breathe fully.
