Breathwork & Thoughts Awareness Meditation: a sample from the 10-Month Immersion Course into Ancient Tribal Medicine Story Pathways To Aid Pain Relief and Healing

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BREATHWORK & THOUGHTS AWARENESS MEDITATION
Intention: To foster a heightened awareness of focused breathwork and mindfulness of thinking, setting a stable foundation for future meditation practises. 

This recording is the first of many guided meditations offered in a 10-Month Immersion Course into Ancient Tribal Medicine Story Pathways To Aid Pain Relief and Healing designed by The Myth To Miracle Academy. For more info on this course, see here: https://mythtomiracle.thinkific.com/products/courses/ancient-medicine-story-pathways

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Chapters

• 0:00 Intro
• 2:16 Get Comfortable
• 2:43 Begin by focusing on the breath.
• 4:29 In through your nose, and out through your nose to help focus breathwork.
• 4:57 Sense the breathing rather than thinking about it.
• 6:14 Acknowledge unrelated thoughts, without attachment
• 8:15 Mindful breathing and thought mastery to heal and manage pain relief
• 12:26 Master the world of your breath and thoughts
• 13:16 Return
• 14:34 Celebrate yourself, the 10-month immersive course awaits!

Transcript

BREATHWORK & THOUGHTS AWARENESS MEDITATION

So, let us begin. We begin by bringing your awareness to the air entering and leaving through your nose. Just allow your breathing to be normal…natural. Not forced. 

You are simply breathing, something you do right throughout your life journey, though usually giving no real thought to it. Focus your mind on the process of breathing, rather than it just happening. Breath in with awareness, and breath out with awareness. How does it feel, the air passing into your body, filling your lungs, then how does it feels as you exhale and your lungs empty? 

Inhaling and exhaling through your nostrils helps to focus breathwork during meditation. Try breathing through your mouth only, then inhale through your nose and out through your mouth... then switch to breathing in through your nose and out through your nose, and stay with this. Focus on how this feels. 

One breath at a time.

Breathing in.

Breathing out.

Try to sense the breathing in the body rather than thinking about the breathing. Sensing it in your body, your chest, your abdomen, your lungs. How does this feel for your body, to be mindfully breathing? Whatever your body feels is how it feels, there is no wrong or right answer. Be gentle on yourself.

As you are sensing your body and how it feels, whilst focusing on your breathing, unrelated thoughts may arise. All sorts of thoughts. With each thought just acknowledge it is there and then wave it off - do not attach, just observe the thought as it enters, its perfectly ok and natural for the mind to be feeding in thoughts. Let the thoughts arise without fighting them, without judgement, but do not let them attach to you and take control. 

Always return to breath awareness instead. Imagine the thoughts are waves on a river, passing you by. Stepping into the stream of thoughts means one thought leads to another and suddenly you have a whole narrative, then soon enough a tsunami. So stay on the riverbank, observing. Breathing. Let any thought pass you by. 

Always return to the breath, focus there, indulge there. Feel breath more deeply than you feel thought. There's the thought, and then there's you. You sit on the riverbank of your thoughts. Just observing. 

Mindful breathing and thought awareness will become an integral tool further into this Course as you learn to master your thought patterns and guide them toward a mindset of healing and/or pain reduction. You will get there. I will help you get there, you and I will get you there together as the Course develops. 

Return to breath.

It may be helpful in this moment now to observe, very briefly, the theme or character of thoughts as they appear – as you might notice the colour of passing cars. For example, thoughts may be judgemental, joyous, playful, angry, mischievous, frustrated, something else. Fantasies or fears. Notice how some thoughts can be quite compelling, even seductive? Pleasant. Others may be unpleasant. Treat them all with same indifference. 

Return to focusing on the breath. Always return to the breath, breathing at the same easy pace, being mindful to feel your lungs fill with air, then empty. Step into the river of your breathing.  Imagine rain falling into the river of your breath, feeding it, swelling it, enriching its vitality. Raindrops fall from the sky, splashing into the river of breath. Raindrops, weightless, fall, they touch you, softer than kisses. 

Return to the breath.

Next time when thoughts arise, try to switch their channel like turning the nob on a radio, observe where you now take them, flashing like sounds on a spinning dial - then switch them off completely. They are your thoughts, in your mind, in your breath cycle. Your breath cycle has been with you since the moment you were born; the thoughts are fleeting and prone to change rapidly. You, and your breath, are the master of the universe they float in. Command that, gently, comfortably, compassionately, with confidence and no judgment. Your breath is master of the world, you are master of the world,  your thoughts float in. 

Now back to the breathing. In... out... in... Just breathing. Feeling the sensations of the breath in your body.

Gradually, now, we are going to return to ourselves and the environment around you. From your focused breathing, when you are ready, allow your awareness to broaden beyond your lungs, your abdomen and your breath, to feel other areas of your body. The sounds around you, and the surfaces and textures around you. Be aware of the feet, legs, trunk, arms and hands. Be mindful of the touch of the air against your skin. Notice its temperature and texture.

And when you are ready, slowly, gently, open your eyes. Be mindful, what do you see? Your 3D reality? Practise this session every day, until you feel yourself glow when the eyes open, glowing and primed to tackle whatever lies ahead in your day. 

Give yourself a pat on the back for getting this far. This is Meditation 1 in your 10-month Immersive. The best is yet to come, by a very large score.