Use this anytime you want to connect to yourself or take yourself out of the current world around you.
You can also use this mindfulness breathing technique to bring your heartrate down, when you feel your anger rising, you’re in a panic or need to immediately calm yourself down.
- Start by sitting in a comfortable position.
- Close your eyes if you can and only doing so if you're in a safe space.
- Place one hand on your chest (heart charka) and one hand on your abdomen (solar plex charka).
- Slowly breath in for a count of 4.
- Hold the breath in for the count of 4.
- Exhale for the count of 4.
- Hold for the count of 4.
- Repeat this 4 times.
- Slowly open your eyes, pause, and reflect on how you feel now from when you started.
- If you feel you need more time, repeat the process for a count of 4 and reflect again.
- You can continue this process as many times as you like.