• to introduce breathing exercises to beginners
• to encourage beginners that breathing exercise are as simple as ABC.
• to spread the benefits of breathing exercises to the world
• to inspire others to go for the advance or intermediate breathing exercises.

• You may lie straight on your bed. Make sure the foam of your bed is not that soft. The point is to lie straight on your bed or floor. Straight but relax. Or you may site on a chair with a 90 degrees back support. I recommend sitting straight on a chair with your back straight up but relax.
• Remember, when going for a meditation, it is always to be relax even if you have not started it yet. One of the purpose of breathing exercises is for relaxation. So be relaxed in the entire process.
• Now close your eyes and think of nothing (perhaps the right word is don't think). Just let your mind flow, Please don't entertain whatever comes into your head (into your mind). Just let it flow. Let them come in and let them come out. Relax and let your mind flow.
• Now, inhale normally. Notice that I am not asking you to inhale slowly or rapidly. In this level, let us just inhale normally with our normal pacing.
  
• Then exhale normally. Exhaling gradually and slowly will be mentioned in my other post. But not for this simple breathing exercise for beginners.
• Please take note that all you have to do is to inhale and exhale normally in you own pacing.
• Relax while doing this.
• Continue doing this for 5-20 minutes.
  
• Do this everyday for one week.
• Then you may proceed to Simple Breathing Exercise for Beginners (Week 2) when you will begin to be comfortable with it. I do recommend that you do this Simple Breathing Exercise for Beginner (Week 1) for a week.
  

• to introduce breathing exercises to beginners
• to encourage beginners that breathing exercise are as simple as ABC.
• to spread the benefits of breathing exercises to the world
• to inspire others to go for the advance or intermediate breathing exercises.

• You may lie straight on your bed. Make sure the foam of your bed is not that soft. The point is to lie straight on your bed or floor. Straight but relax. Or you may site on a chair with a 90 degrees back support. I recommend sitting straight on a chair with your back straight up but relax.
• Remember, when going for a meditation, it is always to be relax even if you have not started it yet. One of the purpose of breathing exercises is for relaxation. So be relaxed in the entire process.
• Now close your eyes and think of nothing (perhaps the right word is don't think). Just let your mind flow, Please don't entertain whatever comes into your head (into your mind). Just let it flow. Let them come in and let them come out. Relax and let your mind flow.
• Now, inhale normally. Notice that I am not asking you to inhale slowly or rapidly. In this level, let us just inhale normally with our normal pacing.
  
• Then exhale normally. Exhaling gradually and slowly will be mentioned in my other post. But not for this simple breathing exercise for beginners.
• Please take note that all you have to do is to inhale and exhale normally in you own pacing.
• Relax while doing this.
• Continue doing this for 5-20 minutes.
  
• Do this everyday for one week.
• Then you may proceed to Simple Breathing Exercise for Beginners (Week 2) when you will begin to be comfortable with it. I do recommend that you do this Simple Breathing Exercise for Beginner (Week 1) for a week.
  

1. You may sit with your spines straight and flat on the back of the chair. Or you may lie flat on the bed. Make sure that the foam of your bed is not so soft. Very soft cushions, foams, or beds will tend to bend our spines. We suggest placing a very think blanket or cloth on the floor for you to use.
   
2. Your arms and hands at the side. However, you may place one hand on the area just below the navel to  monitor your breathing. Yet once you get used to this and comfortable with the way you are doinbg the breathing exercise, then you can place your hands and arms at the sides.
3. Inhale as slowly and gradually as possible using your nose. Inhale slowly yet gradually (this you should keep in mind).
4. Bring your breath, the air which you inhale straight down to the stomach passing through the lungs going to the part just below the navel where you hand can be. Feel and notice that your stomach expands as you inhale. Let the expansion of your stomach be the result of your inhaling. The bigger the stomach expands, the better.
5. Exhale slowly yet gradually, exhale the air from your stomach passing through your lungs and going out of your nostrils. Remember to feel the air as it passes through your body.
6. Repeat steps 3 to 5 until you become comfortable with this breathing exercise.
   
7. Once you are comfortable with it, then you can begin holding your breath after each inhale or taking in of air. Hold your breath for some seconds before going for the steps of exhaling.
8. Hold your breath while on your stomach. Do not try to hold your breath when it is in you lungs. I do not recommend this. Remember to hold your breath when it is in your stomach.
9. Repeat the inhaling, then holding of breath, then exhaling for five minutes.
10. You will notice that you will sweat a lot during the process where the holding of breath is executed properly. This is also a way of detoxifying your body early in morning for five minutes only.

I think that a Post about meditation and it’s importance in the Positive Thinking arena can be found in this Blog, but I would like to bring it up again and really try to give some pointers in why, how when and where.

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