Begin To Know Your Breath
Breathing is a standard focus for meditation, for many reasons. For one thing, breathing is sensuous, rhythmical, and forever with us, as long as we are alive.
Besides, breath is a gift to us from the larger universe; it comes inside our body, into our lungs, into our blood, and then into every cell. Breath is an intimate exchange with the total universe in which we live.
In paying close attention to the breath, we comprehend all this directly. Our breath is intrinsically full of grace. There are hundreds of methods to pay attention to breath. You can be mindful of its rhythm, of how it expands and contracts, of how it weaves from outside of the body to being absorbed inside.
You can visualise your breath, being mindful of the tip of your nostril, the hushed sounds of your breathing, the gentle feeling in your throat, the pause at the end of the inhalation, and so forth.
You can focalise through your sense of touch, movement, hearing, sense of smell, or vision. You can use your breath to back away from the world or to engage with it.
While you meditate with the breath, permit your eyes to be open or closed, and whatever occurs spontaneously you will learn to rest in the presence of breath, and your eyes will tend to close by themselves, but do not force them shut.
If you take this gentle approach, even the elementary act of closing the eyes can feel exquisite. Your thoughts will drift off and then return to your focal point. This is normal.
Just continue coming back to your selected pleasure. Bear in mind that you can sit anywhere and in any posture that you find comfortable. Over time you will develop more and more sensory awareness of what breath is.
And as you do so, it will become increasingly engaging. Eradicate the phrase “trying to centre on my breath” from your vocabulary, and substitute it with “I am developing an interest in breath.”
Employ your senses to welcome each inhalation. As you become more mindful of your breath, remarkable realms of sensation begin to open up.
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