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I focus on one spot when meditating, right below my nostrils, above my upper lip. I feel the cool inhales flow slowly in, then the warm air exiting a little slower.
I extend my exhales in the beginning.
Know the breath is a continuum of four parts, inhale, pause, exhale, pause.
The pauses are the 🚪 doors to the other side of our brain.
Focus on the pauses, kind of a suspended animation space. Our body expands or contracts while inhaling and exhaling, making noises as the body moves.
The pauses have the body at complete rest, silent, still.
I know if the pauses are free of thought, my meditation will be deep and restorative.
Nothing else exists for me, while inhaling I prepare to intently focus on the coming pause, then move to the exhale while anticipating a pause at total rest.
We improve by practicing things like this, they lead to healing.
We need skills to be able to stay present when triggers fire, an ability to deplete cortisol and adrenaline plus a bulletproof way of letting thoughts go.
All my therapy work and healing are channeled through me meditating.
What my therapists have told me, I executed by applying during meditation.
Meditation was a safe exposure therapy for me.
I healed inside triggers then went and confronted the actual real life triggers.
If you want to heal, change is necessary.
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