Breathing Sequence

Basic 1

  1. Experience your breath (in-breath and out-breath).
  2. Experience your breath in the whole body.
  3. Experience your breath in the body and mind
  4. Experience your breath as a whole.
  5. Experience your breath to know what it truly is.
  6. Experience your breath to benefit others.
  7. Experience gratitude from your breath.
  8. Experience joy from your breath.

Basic 2

  1. Breathe in with the awareness of breathing in, breathing out with the awareness of breathing out. (e.g. breathing long, short, energizing or anxious)
  2. Breathe in and out with the awareness of the breathing conditions.
  3. Breathe in and out with your whole body.
  4. Breathe to calm your whole body. (Breathing in and out to calm your whole body.)

Note

  • Maintain unbroken continuous awareness of your breath from beginning to end.
  • Breathe naturally- mindful (or conscious) breathing is a mental exercise, not a physical exercise.
  • You can practice the above methods in a sequence.

Basic 3

  1. Breathe with the aware of being alive.
  2. Breathe with gratitude. (I am breathing in with gratitude and breathing out with gratitude.)
  3. Breathe for others. (with motivation to benefit others))
  4. Breathe in and out to concentrate your mind.

Basic 4

  1. Breathe in and out with your mind.
  2. Breathe to calm your mind.
  3. Breathe with joy.1
  4. Breathe in and out as a whole.

Basic 5

  1. Breathe to experience the world.
  2. Breathe with the world.
  3. Breathe to know what it is.
  4. Breathing to just be.

Knowing

  1. Breathe to know breathing.
  2. Breathe to know the world.
  3. Breathe to know yourself.

Learning from Breathing

  1. Learning about body from breathing. Breathing (I am learning about my body from breathing.)
  2. Learning about mind from breathing. Breathing (I am learning about my mind from breathing.)
  3. Learning about self from breathing. Breathing (I am learning about me from breathing.)
  4. Learning about nonself from breathing. (I am learning about nonself from breathing.)
  5. Learning about what I do not know from breathing. (I am learning about what I do not know from breathing.)

Discovering Self

  1. Be aware that you have the capacity to feel. (I know I have the capacity to feel.)
  2. Be aware that you have the capacity to think. (I know I have the capacity to think.)

Intentional Breathing

  • Breathe with gratitude. (I am breathing in with gratitude and breathing out with gratitude.)
  • Breathe with joy. (I am breathing in with joy and breathing out with joy.)
  • Breathe to benefit others. (I am breathing in with intention to benefit others and breathing out with intention to benefit others.)
  • Breathe to notice whole body. (I am breathing in to experience my whole body and breathing out to experience my whole body.)
  • Breathe to notice a part of my body. (I am breathing in to experience a part of my body and breathing out to experience a part of my body.) Note: Each time, you focus your attention on different part of your body starting from your toes and moving up to the top of your head.
  • Breathe with good wishes to others. (I am breathing in with good wishes to others and breathing out with good wishes to others.)
  • Breathe with joy of others. (I am breathing in with joy of others and breathing out with joy of others.)

Body

  1. Be aware of breathing in and out.
  2. Be aware of breathing long.
  3. Be aware of breathing through the whole body experience.
  4. Be aware of breathing with calm body.

Concentration

  1. Be aware of breathing with pleasure.
  2. Be aware of breathing with mental activities (or mental object).
  3. Be aware of breathing with calm mind.
  4. Be aware of breathing with happiness.
  5. Be aware of breathing in concentrated mind.

Relation

  • Be aware of breathing to know relation between your breath and the world.
  • Be aware of breathing to know relation between your breath and your body.
  • Be aware of breathing to know relation between your breath and your mind.
  • Be aware of breathing to know relation between your breath and yourself.

Insight

  • Be aware of your breathing to know your breath. (I am breathing in to know what this truly is. and breathing out to do so.)
  • Be aware of your breathing to know your body.
  • Be aware of your breathing to know your mind.
  • Be aware of your breathing to know yourself.
  • Be aware of your breathing to know cause of your breath.
  • Be aware of your breathing to know the world.

Others

  • Be aware of your breathing in gratitude.
  • Be aware of your breathing to heal.
  • Be aware of your breathing for the world.
  • Be aware of your breathing to just to be.

Active Breathing

  • Breathing to heal.
  • Breathing for the world.
  • Breathing to just be with your breath.

Seeing Breath in Another Angle

  • Experiencing the world in your breath.

Dual Awareness

  • Be aware of your breath and your whole body.
  • Be aware of your breath and your mind.

Breathing for a Result

  • Be aware of your breath to calm your whole body.
  • Be aware of your breath to calm your mind.
  • Be aware of your breath to experience joy.
  • Be aware of your breath to focus mind.

See also

Training Wheels

  1. or breathe with joy of others. ↩︎

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