CIRCULAR BREATH

This is a technique I use with clients when they are struggling with anxiety, sleep issues, a busy mind, and want something to do in order to focus their mind better.

The technique could be done while seated or lying down, which is better.

Steps:

1) Laying on your back. Make sure your eyes are closed.

2) Inhale, slowly, deeply, and evenly by engaging the diaphragm and as you are inhaling, imagine the breath entering into the nostrils and following it through the front of your body. Visualizing it crossing the chest in a linear fashion, into the groin area, and down the front of the legs, wrapping around the toes and meeting at the heels. (This is all still the inhale.)

3) At the heels, exhale and visualize the breath moving up the hamstrings, through the gluts, along the spine and center of the neck, finally over the top of the head and meeting at the back of the throat. (This is all the exhale)

You’ve completed one full round. Practice this many times. You can give yourself a number and say you’ll do “20 rounds or 50 rounds or more” until you’ve achieved your desired result which is a sense of grounded-ness and centered-ness or even having fallen asleep. This technique is a good way to re-regulate the nervous system. Also note that you can visualize a color, whatever you prefer or the first comes to mind, to make this more focused if needed.