From the course: Mindful Meditations for Work and Life
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Counting breaths: 1 to 10 technique
From the course: Mindful Meditations for Work and Life
Counting breaths: 1 to 10 technique
- [Instructor] I'd invite you to find a comfortable and alert position. And go ahead and exhale completely. We're going to count our breaths, and the way it works is as you're breathing in, you can say to yourself, breathing in one, and as you exhale, you can say to yourself, breathing out one. And then it continues. Breathing in two. Breathing out two. Or you could simply say in three. Out three. In four. Out four. And just continue at your own pace, counting from one to 10. When you get to 10, you can go nine and back down to one. When you get to one, you can continue back to two, and back up to 10 again. And if you get lost in you're counting it's okay, just return back to one. We want to be free of our thoughts, so we just use our breathing, we use our counting. Maintaining our focus on these two things, on the breath itself, the sensations of the breath, but also on the number. Observing our breath go in. Observing our breath go out. And just continue at your own pace. Just…
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