Life Force and Vitality
Determine how your brain and nervous system like to connect with breath. This can come in many forms. Explore them until you find the way that works for YOU! Go to the FOCUS page for more ways to work with this practice with increases our brainwaves, generating energy in the system.
Focus on the physical sensations of breathing:
the ribs, chest and belly expanding
the feeling of air across your lips, tongue, throat and into the lungs
See your breath as a color or an illumination
trace the movement of breath with either to aid in ability to hold focus on it
Use your BODY * NOTE: this is especially helpful with people who connect with touch and that tactile sense.
trace your hand up your outer palm and finger with your inhalation
and back down with exhalation
continue all the way across your fingers and thumb
switch to the other side
Once you have determined the best route for you to connect with breath, practice this daily. With each breath weave in the creation of energy and vitality; allowing it to grow stronger with each breath.
Practice Connecting with AWE - this can both calm and lift our system. Entrains to the calm ease of the Ventral Vagal and is a restorative practice
With each breath see yourself like a tree. With each breath roots sinking deeper. With each breath limbs and leaves reaching and stretching for more sunlight. Focus on feeling ROOTED and anchored into the earth. Take time to explore what kind of tree you would be: your bark texture and color, your leaves or needles, your limbs and boughs, your blossoms and fruit, your odors and fragrance.
Remember trees can bend with the wind, but remain firmly rooted. Use this two fold image and analogy for this work.
Breathing with the Tree of Life
Practice the Anchoring Bi-Lateral to strengthen your feelings of being rooted and anchored into your immovable and unshakable center.
Engage with Open Heart practices to connect with feeling woven into life.
Practice the Net of Indra NeuroMeditation
Practice: Increasing Compassion for Self & Others: