Breath- The Life Changing Mantra-4

breath - the life changing mantra-4

Welcome again. In the last two articles we learnt how to use breath in handling emotions and thoughts. We know that breathing in and out is very important to work on these issues. We will learn more about breathing IN and OUT in this article.

Let us observe how we feel and how the breath moves inside our body. There is a science for understanding how oxygen is absorbed by the the cells and how it exactly circulates inside. Let us not go deep into the science part, but observe and enjoy breath. The understanding automatically happens!

In the first article I mentioned about the right way of breathing, now we will elaborate on that. Just observe how the chest and abdomen move when you are breathing in and out. As mentioned before, right way of breathing happens when the chest and abdomen expand simultaneously when you breathe in and fall down or flatten when you breathe out, in a very synchronized way. But because of different traumatic patterns we have gone through in our life this has become erratic.

Let us go step by step to understand and correct the breathing itself. During inhalation let us divide the body parts that expand into three spaces, three breathing spaces- upper, middle and lower.

The upper breathing space is from the collarbone to nipple line. The middle breathing space is from nipple line to naval. And the lower breathing space is from naval to perineum.

Let's start with observing each breathing space at a time.

LOWER BREATHING SPACE:

First we start with the third breathing space. Lay down on your back. While breathing in allow the abdomen to move up, arch your lower back. And as you breath out press your lower back to the floor. Keep doing this with a little force in the beginning. And as you get used to this and as the breath starts flowing naturally reduce the pressure and now observe the abdomen raise and fall flat as you breathe in and out. Once you start feeling the natural flow of breath, slowly relax and now move to the middle space.

MIDDLE BREATHING SPACE:

As you breathe in allow the chest to rise up, the lungs to expand and expand to the sides towards both arms. And as you breathe out allow the chest to fall. During the first few breathing cycles you have to apply little force but slowly allow this to happen naturally and in a more rhythmic way. Slowly relax and now shift your awareness to the upper breathing space.

UPPER BREATHING SPACE:

As the chest rises up while breathing in, observe the collar bone move up towards the chin. Do not use shoulders while observing the upper/first breathing space.

First try and concentrate on one breathing space at a time. Then try to fill all the three breathing spaces at a time. As you do this in a more rhythmic way, feel the bliss you experience! There is no hurry in achieving this state. Take your own time, spend at least a week, master each breathing space and then finally go for all of them together.

Happy breathing

-Nagavalli Cherukuri

Rebirther
Also practices past life regression therapy and inner child healing.