Alternate nostril breathing
With my scans and MDX-1106 infusion less than a week away, I have been actively breathing, meditating, and focusing on all the good that can and will happen next week. My morning breathing meditation has been life-altering as I have written about below. As I mentioned, before I settle in for my full 45 minute breathing meditation, I do alternate nostril breathing for a few moments before beginning a fuller exercise. The steps are simple enough and I grabbed them from the Rejuvenation Lounge . Have a look:
Step one: Use right thumb to close off right nostril.
Step two: Inhale slowly through left nostril
Step three: Pause for a second
Step four: Now close left nostril with ring finger and release thumb off right nostril
Step five: Exhale through your right nostril
Step six: Now, inhale through right nostril
Step seven: Pause
Step eight: Use thumb to close of right nostril
Step nine: Breathe out through left nostril
Step ten: This is one round. Start slowly with 1 or 2 rounds and gradually increase.Never force.Sit quietly for a few moments after you have finished.
There are many, many different techniques of pranayama such as inhaling for 4, holding for 4 and exhaling for 4.
I then unroll my yoga mat, face east (saw a huge wild turkey on the property as I looked out the window this morning) and begin.
Guided Meditations
After a few minutes of single nostril breathing, I begin with my iPod on and I listen to
Guided Meditations: For Calmness, Awareness, and Love written and narrated by
Bodhipaksa who has a calm, soothing voice as he tells the listener how to learn to breathe. I needed this type of recording badly because I never learned how to breathe properly while sitting in pose. I always thought I was doing something incorrectly, or I could never focus well enough.
Well, through his teachings, and his techniques on counting breaths, and a four-step approach to Yogic breathing, I am enjoying the exercise so much more, I feel exhilarated afterward, and I am getting ready for my Buddhist mini (or semi) retreat that starts in June . I now know how to brush away thoughts that roll in during breathing, which is totally natural, by the way, and I am able to focus on my breath, my body, my calmness, and how loose I feel with every exhalation that leaves my lungs. A couple of more weeks of listening to his voice and then I will be ready to graduate and do this correctly on my own. This has been a fantastic download if you are interested.
If I sound too excited, it’s because I am. I feel like I have discovered a whole new world that has been a tremendous life-changing force for me, no matter what happens next week.
Alternate nostril breathing
With my scans and MDX-1106 infusion less than a week away, I have been actively breathing, meditating, and focusing on all the good that can and will happen next week. My morning breathing meditation has been life-altering as I have written about below. As I mentioned, before I settle in for my full 45 minute breathing meditation, I do alternate nostril breathing for a few moments before beginning a fuller exercise. The steps are simple enough and I grabbed them from the Rejuvenation Lounge . Have a look:
Step one: Use right thumb to close off right nostril.
Step two: Inhale slowly through left nostril
Step three: Pause for a second
Step four: Now close left nostril with ring finger and release thumb off right nostril
Step five: Exhale through your right nostril
Step six: Now, inhale through right nostril
Step seven: Pause
Step eight: Use thumb to close of right nostril
Step nine: Breathe out through left nostril
Step ten: This is one round. Start slowly with 1 or 2 rounds and gradually increase.Never force.Sit quietly for a few moments after you have finished.
There are many, many different techniques of pranayama such as inhaling for 4, holding for 4 and exhaling for 4.
I then unroll my yoga mat, face east (saw a huge wild turkey on the property as I looked out the window this morning) and begin.
Guided Meditations
Well, through his teachings, and his techniques on counting breaths, and a four-step approach to Yogic breathing, I am enjoying the exercise so much more, I feel exhilarated afterward, and I am getting ready for my Buddhist mini (or semi) retreat that starts in June . I now know how to brush away thoughts that roll in during breathing, which is totally natural, by the way, and I am able to focus on my breath, my body, my calmness, and how loose I feel with every exhalation that leaves my lungs. A couple of more weeks of listening to his voice and then I will be ready to graduate and do this correctly on my own. This has been a fantastic download if you are interested.
If I sound too excited, it’s because I am. I feel like I have discovered a whole new world that has been a tremendous life-changing force for me, no matter what happens next week.