Meditative Relaxation - Breath Focus

Transcript

I want to take you through just a quick guided meditation to focus on your breath and being in your body. This can be used in the middle of a goon session, before a goon or edging session to deepen and quicken the experience. This can be used before bed to help you get out of your head and back into that grounded state.

This can also be used anytime in which you feel anxiety to bring you back to the present moment focusing on your breath. So I'd like for you to close your eyes right now to remove any other sensations, any stimulation. You're going to be able to hear things in the background still but that's okay.

I'd like for you to actually use these sounds as deepeners if you can, knowing that they are enveloping you, thinking of these sounds as aura waves, a cocoon swirling around you, holding space for you, keeping you grounded and safe. I want you to take a few deep breaths just to set the tone, just to regulate your central nervous system. Deep breaths have been shown to tone the vagus nerve, to quiet neural oscillations and to bring a state of peace.

It is quite literally impossible for some of your neural structures to be stressed, anxious or distracted when you are breathing deeply and slowly and this is a tool you can use at any time. If you feel the need to make a noise upon those releases, feel free. There is no right or wrong way to do this.

Whatever you feel called to do is exactly what you need right now but there are a few ways in which you can make the most of this experience and that is to really try and focus on turning your attention inward to that breath. Now by that I mean pay attention to each and every sensation that comes with that breath. As you breathe in your nose, do you feel the cool air become a little warmer? Can you feel the passage of that air as it travels through your nostrils, almost seems to float up into your mind and hits the back of your throat?

Now think about the sound that breath makes as it enters your body. Good boy, so relaxed for me. I want you to think about the physical sensations of taking this breath now.

Your diaphragm rises, your chest and your belly expand as you allow all of that air into your system. Your diaphragm sinks down pushing out all of that pressure and your chest gets smaller as you exhale. Good boy, that's right.

I want you to think about whether or not you can smell anything right now. Perhaps your own cologne, perhaps what you last ate, perhaps the smell of a candle in the room or the detergent on your bedding, any hair products you might have in, the smell of your clothing. Good boy, deeper and deeper, more and more relaxed.

Now as you're taking your breaths now, I just want you to focus on the in and the out, in and the out, in and the out, that rhythm, that flow like waves lapping at a shoreline. I would like for you to try and envision with every breath now breathing in life force energy, cleansing, cellular, oxygen, all of the fuel that your cells need, all of the goodness, all of the rightness, all of the purity as being breathed in and anything toxic, anything impure, anything distracting breathed out. Replacing filter cycles through which you're slowly emptying yourself of dirt, of darkness, of mud, of toxicity and slowly bringing in more and more clean, pure intention.

Good boy, that's right, yeah. You see this is a beautiful activity because your breath focus really helps you to be in your body which is wonderful because this is the only place you ever truly are. Your mind might take you other places, back to difficult situations, upsetting conversations, stressful tasks but that's not where you live, that's not where you exist, that's not where you need to be.

Where you need to be is right here, living your human existence, breathing for me. Good boy, keep breathing for me and realize this is really all we have. Anything that's in your head is either something that has existed in the past or a possibility for the future that may or may not come to fruition.

It is quite literally pointless beyond an imagination exercise to be thinking of the what-ifs, the hows, the whens, the whos, the I should have said that. No, all of that is fantasy and this is reality. This breath, this moment, this being in body is all that is actually true right now.

It's all that is actually present and happening right now. So I'm going to leave you now but you can continue this practice of breathing in and out, really focusing on turning your attention inward, focusing on that breath and being in body for as long as you desire. When you're ready, you may fall asleep.

When you're ready, you may go back to gooning. When you're ready, you may start edging. When you're ready, you may simply go about your day and find yourself in a deeper state of relaxation, slowed down, responsive, not reactionary, able to focus.