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Befriending ourselves with the breath.

When we learn to simply come back to the breath.

Moment to moment we are training our mind to come back,

to be with the breath, to see whether it's shallow or rapid,

or if the touch of the breath can only be felt at the nostril level,

or the throat level.

We observe without judgment,

kindly, and gradually we learn to identify

when our breathing is stressed.

When we breathe in a very shallow way,

we know we are under stress.

We learned to be with that, placing our hands on our chest, on our belly,

and we just breathe.

Be with the breath, be with the body,

and come back to the life that is flowing in the breath and the body.

To be with the breath and the body can be very threatening, scary,

alienating for many of us because we have deserted ourselves for so long.

Slowly and patiently, we befriend our body

to recognize that the body is the mind.

The mind is the body.

They inter-are.

What about our sadness?

Where do we find it?

It is in the heaviness of our chest,

in the fatigue of our body.

Where do we find anger?

In the trembling of our hands?

In our quicken heartbeat?

Every emotion manifests in our body.

Our body is a manifestation of our mind.

So to take care of our body and our breathing

is to take care of our mind,

and our emotions, such as sadness, despair or confusion.

Is that of habitually feeling alienated and frightened by the body?

We gradually feel that it is comforting and empowering

to be in the body through the practice of mindful breathing,

scanning the body, relaxing the body and sending it love.

You may like to practice breathing,

befriending your breathing and sending yourself extra love.

Breathing in.

I befriend my inbreath.

Breathing out.

I befriend my outbreath.

Befriending inbreath and outbreath.

Hello my inbreath.

Hello my outbreath.

Breathing in.

I observe my inbreath as it is.

Breathing out.

I observe my outbreath as it is.

Observing inbreath.

Observing outbreath.

[BELL]

I see.

I hear you.

Breathing in.

I follow my inbreath from beginning to end.

Breathing out.

I follow my outbreath from the beginning to the end.

Following inbreath.

Following outbreath.

[BELL]

I'm here for my breathing.

I'm here with you.