Meditation for The Seed of Potential

Center again in the heart. Breathe with the sound Ya KhaBeer and allow it to sink into your being like rain into dry ground, like the sun warming the earth in the spring. Breathe the initial sound Kha- into the heart, and then breathe the sound -Beer outward, feeling the potential for growth. Find the place inside where a new awareness dawns, and what is waiting to be born again begins to stir. Nurture that feeling by breathing softly from the heart into the inner self.

From: The Sufi Book of Life

Take a Deep Breath

Take a deep breath. Feel it hitting in the middle if the chest. Feel as if the whole existence is pouring vitality and life into you, into your heart. Do it at least five times.

Now exhale deeply, again from the heart, and feel you are pouring all that has been given to you back into existence.

Do this as many times in the day as you remember, but whenever you do it, do five breaths at once.

Benefits:
This technique will help you feel more vibrant and alive, enjoying whatever life brings. It will help you shift from the head to the heart. You will become more sensitive and aware of many things that you have not previously been aware of. You will start  feeling life really throbbing in you.

From Pragito Dove
Discover Meditation Training Inc.
Mandala by Trevor Nichols

The morning wind spreads its fresh smell.
We must get up and take that in,
that wind that lets us live.
Breathe before it's gone.

~Rumi

Breathe

Breath is life and change, a basic connection between the inner and the outer. It is a flowing bridge between life and death. Every breath is rebirth, inspiration, a letting go of the old. Breathing is a constant source of energy, a continuous affirmation.

Change your breathing and you will think differently, and this change can be created by choice because breathing is one of the few bodily functions that can be voluntary or automatic.

Here is an easy breathing exercise:

Fix your concentration in the middle of the forehead. See a radiant jewel there. Watch and observe what happens as you inhale through your nose - pulling your diaphragm in, and exhale through your nose - pushing your diaphragm out.

Repeat this process 6 or 10 times.

What happened?
How do you feel?

Zephyr

"...though unmoving, cold and breathless, I heard the world breathe into her great lung - the breath of all pain taken in, held in love and released to wind as pure as peace...”

~from "The Ravening Wing"
by Grace Gibson