Anchor Breathing to Experience Steadiness

This mindfulness practice
is your “respiration anchor” practice
where you root your awareness
into the current moment,
like an anchor that roots a ship
to at least one place.

This will aid you to
dissolve anxiety,
decrease stress
and permit the body to heal
in a relaxed, peaceful state.

So to start,
adopt as comfortable a position as possible.

It’s often best to be sitting,
but you may do it in any posture,
standing,
lying,
sitting,
and even walking.

My guidance will assume you’re sitting,
but adapt the instructions
to whatever posture you’ve chosen.

Sitting along with your back upright,
get relaxed
along with your spine following its natural curves.

See in the event you can you may establish a position
that feels dignified,
alert,
and yet relaxed,
and permit your body to settle,
to rest down
into gravity,
letting or not it’s supported
by the ground beneath you
and gently close your eyes,
if that’s comfortable.

This will help your awareness settle
by lessening external distractions.

Gradually allow your awareness
to collect across the sensations of the breath
in your body.

Where do you’re feeling the breath most strongly?

Be inquisitive about your actual experience,
letting go of what you think that must be
happening,
and being along with your experience
without judgement.

Now very gently
rest your awareness inside
the entire torso.

Can you’re feeling your belly swelling on the in
breath
and subsiding on the outbreath?

Can you’re feeling any movement and sensations
with the breath
in the perimeters
and the back of the body,
as well?