13 – Breathing – It’s all in the pause
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Usually, when someone has never actively controlled their breathing before, I have found that their breathing is continuous; in, out, in, out. The next step in breath control and awareness is to add a pause.
12 – Deep Breathing
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So often when asked to take a deep breath, many people simply take a big breath at the same depth as a normal breath. Big and deep are often confused as the same thing when actually, they are very different.
11 – Breathing – The First Meditation
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One of the simplest meditations one can do is to focus all of your attention on your breathing. This is called a ‘focused attention meditation’
10 – The importance of Breathing in Meditation
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Breathing is a big part of meditation and there are good reasons why it is a focal point.