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Changing breath
The Changing Breath is a really useful technique to use to mark a change between one activity and another, or before one mental state and another.
It is steadying (before driving, before an interview) and calming (after an argument, before meditating); it ensures the energy of one activity is not mixed with the other.
It is simple to do.
Close your eyes.
- Breathe in (to a comfortable depth) through your nose.
- Pause a brief moment.
- Let your breath out through your mouth like a sigh, releasing tension, releasing busy thoughts, releasing memories, as you do so.
- Repeat once (or twice) more.