Thriver: The Mental Fitness Gym
Deep Breathing Mindfulness For Beginners | Breathing Exercises For Anxiety (2022)
Learn to breathe deeply and calm your body and mind with this short mindfulness meditation to release stress and anxiety and feel calm. *This is a Mindful Moment taken from The Pocket Mentor app: https://www.pocketmentorapp.com/
Mindfulness is paying attention and in a world of distractions competing for our attention, focus is one of our greatest tools.
Mindfulness is focusing our attention and when we notice our mind has wandered or got distracted we bring our attention back to an anchor, our breathing. The more we do this action of bring our attention back, the easier it becomes, like doing physical reps with weights at the gym.
A brain that is better at paying attention and is ‘in the moment' allows us to be:
– less distracted, to get tasks done quicker and more effectively,
– less likely to get drawn into destructive negative thoughts, enabling us to lead a happier more confident life.
– more self aware of our thinking mind and are able to respond to challenges calmly rather than an emotional knee jerk reaction we may later regret.
These benefits are felt through regular (daily) use to build and maintain our mindfulness muscle. Just one Mindful Moment exercise each day is enough.
Here's some tips from our Pocket Mentor members on how to use Mindful Moments like this:
– “I like to use the daily Mindful Moment tool first thing in the morning to kick start the day”
– I use the Mindful moment exercises for myself in between tasks during a busy day and to calm in an anxious moment”
– “After the school pick up to reset for the evening”
– “I put it on for the kids in car on the way home from swimming class”
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welcome to today's mindful moments you can do this exercise wherever you like walking from A to B sitting standing or lying down so take a moment to get comfortable and close your eyes unless you're walking of course start by breathing in through your nose for three counts hold at the top for three and exhale through your mouth for four counts and again in for three hold for three and breathe out for four and repeat this to yourself a couple of times in for three hold for three and breathe out for four on your next inhale breathe in through your nose for four pause for three and breathe out through your mouth for five again in for four hold for three and out for five repeat this to yourself a couple of times for this last round breathe in for five counts pause for four and breathe out for six in for five fours for four and breathe out for six repeat this to yourself a couple of times at the end of your next breath open your eyes if they were shut bring your shoulders up to your ears and hold them there for three counts and then let them go letting go of any tension and allowing them to hang free this exercise strengthens our ability to lengthen our breath which like anything is a skill we can build it's a good work with today's mindful moments and I'll see you back here tomorrow
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