About Breathing Meditation

 "With Gratitude, a Better Today"

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This is GAiN, your guide to a better today.

Let's take a quick look at Breathing Meditation.

First of all, GAiN doesn't want to define breathing meditation as "this is what it is.

There are many different ways of breathing meditation that have evolved.

Let's talk about what GAiN thinks breathing meditation is.

Generally speaking, when we talk about breathing meditation, we're talking about observing your breath.

In a way, you can think of it as the foundation of all meditation.

If your breathing isn't steady, it's hard to stay still.

Above all, observing your breath is a great tool for noticing your present moment.

The state of your breath The state of your breath-rough, fast, slow, steady, shallow, or deep-reveals the state of your mind and body.

So watching your breath helps you to be present in the here and now.

Eventually, however, breath meditation, like all meditation, seeks a state of letting go, a state of not holding onto anything, even the breath.

What is the state of not holding onto anything?  

It's a state of seeing things as they are and letting them flow, where there's no judgment, and because there's no judgment, there's no choice.

The absence of choice is another way of saying that the separate concept of "I" has completely disappeared.

But it's hard for us to get to that place of liberation right away.

I think that's all we can do right now, is just keep going in the right direction and keep practicing and practicing and practicing.

How do you get started with Basic Breathing Meditation?

It's easy to let your mind wander when you're too relaxed, so keep your back upright and do full lotus if you can, half lotus if you can't, or Sukhasana if you find it difficult to rest one leg on the other.

Place your hands comfortably on your knees, or clasp your hands together and place them on your legs. 

The Sukhasana pose is shown in the image below.

                                   I got this so long ago I forget where it came from, I'll delete it if it's a problem.

  

Breathing is done with diaphragmatic breathing.

Inhale to inflate the belly, exhale to deflate the belly.

At first, you may find it difficult to do abdominal breathing, let alone observe your breathing.

If that's the case, 

you may want to place your hand on your abdomen and feel your belly expand as you inhale and contract as you exhale. 

Initially, we recommend that you try to equalize the length of your inhalation and exhalation, if possible, and make them at least 3 seconds long.

This is because if you go too fast, it's hard to deepen your breath and you'll end up breathing shallowly.

Doing this daily for at least a minute will help you build the power of awareness (mindfulness) and increase the basic stamina of your mind.

We're also planning video to help even more people.

See you soon.

Build a better today with GAiN.

Thank you.