Taking time each day to be still will help you become familiar with the place that lies within you beneath your thoughts.

This exercise will help you find that place.

It will also help you retrain the way that you think

and talk to yourself during stressful and potentially

obsessive thinking situations. Begin by just taking a few deep and full breaths.

Allow each breath as it comes in

to become even more deep and full than the one before it.

As you breathe out and in, keep your shoulders down so that the breathing comes as though from your stomach.

feel the tension that you may have in your body

at this time, begin to release with every exhale. Put your focus fully and completely now on what it feels like inside of your body to be

breathing in and out. Bring your awareness into this very moment.

What is happening for you right now

as you feel the coolness of the air

entering your nose or mouth.

Becoming aware of your breathing and the sensations that it causes

is one of the quickest ways to come into present time.

What is the air feel like as it enters and fills your lungs?

Hold your breath for a moment,

and notice those sensations as well. Slowly let it out.

How does the breath feel as it exits your lungs?

Do you notice a letting go?

Can you also sense other areas within your body letting go with each exhale.

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