I was introduced to the Gentle Breath Meditation™ through a friend. I noticed a clear change in how he looked in his face, and his body was more at ease: I asked him what he had been doing and he said the Gentle Breath Meditation™.
Inspired by the changes I saw in my friend, I decided to go and see what it was all about by attending regular meetings where the Gentle Breath Meditation™ was held. I found this meditation allowed me to re–connect back to myself, to my body, and to feeling again.
In the past I had felt uneasiness in my body and felt uncomfortable but did not know why. The more I made the Gentle Breath Meditation™ a part of my daily life, the more I realised that I was going through life holding onto and not dealing with my unexpressed feelings and emotions.
I did not know how to truly care for and support myself in the world. I followed suit with family and friends, looking to them for guidance, thinking they may know the answers.
I felt there was always something missing in me, and there was… I was missing a connection to myself.
I found the Gentle Breath Meditation™ to be a simple and beautiful technique that held me in my body with a connection to myself, with a moment to stop and breathe and to feel what is going on inside me. When I breathed in gently through my nose, I could feel my body let go, I felt a place in me that felt at ease, an opening of quietness and stillness and I felt a space of freedom from all my woes.
All else did not matter while doing this meditation – nothing to pull me into thinking, going anywhere or doing anything. I have found a loving way to connect back to myself and my body that I can incorporate into my daily life at any time. It can be for a few minutes or more / longer, depending on how I feel.
I have realised through the Gentle Breath Meditation™ I can be another way, where I am more honest, accepting, allowing, and surrendering of what is going on in my life, how I perceive things and want things to be in the world, and that I have a choice to self-care and make self-loving choices – like being gentle with myself instead of being hard and self-critical.
It has given me the time and space to stop and question myself, to reflect on how I have been in my day, what I have been doing, and look at what I need to change. Or let go of behaviours or emotions that no longer support me and hold me back from being more of who I am.
The Gentle Breath Meditation™ has developed a deeper connection to me, where I naturally want to take care of my health and my body with a loving responsibility to address all areas in my life now. It has allowed me to develop deeply caring and loving connections with my husband, my family and the people I meet. It has opened my eyes to see the world with love and an understanding of myself.
Inspired by truthful and loving words of Serge Benhayon
By Karen Cooper, Assistant in Nursing, Aged Care, Home & Community, Gold Coast QLD
Further Reading:
What Is the Gentle Breath Meditation™?
Gentle Breath Meditation: the Warmest Embrace comes from Within
Meditation – And No More Numb Legs!
“this meditation allowed me to re–connect back to myself, to my body, and to feeling again.” The Gentle Breath Meditation reconnects us to Divinity.
What I love reading is about the many people’s experiences of the Gentle Breath Meditation. It is a great reminder that such a simple, yet powerful resource can affect us in similar ways. It helps me to appreciate those different angles or perspectives of how it affects them.
This is an important and powerful statement, ‘The Gentle Breath Meditation’ has developed a deeper connection to me’. To me, this is saying each and everyone one us is capable of connecting to our selves, by stopping to breathe our own breathe, instead of breathing others.
When we are truly settled within from the gentle breath meditation, it can be seen in the face, the eyes, the body and in the way a person breathes. It is unmistakable and we can see how a person is transformed just from a simple connection to self and letting go of all the outside pressures to be something else.
When we get held in connection with ourselves, we get to experience what I call a time-warp – it is like time ceases to exist or that things are slowed down and that there is this immense moment that allows us to just be with what we are feeling and how to just observe all. This allows us to be more calm and settled and makes a huge impact on the rest of our day. A gift and a blessing to experience and to keep developing, all begun just from the gentle breath meditation.
Henrietta, another a ha moment of an offering. It is so true about ‘time-warp’. I was recently sick and during that times I had no choice but to be in my own environment and breathe my own breath, and the days were long, but never drawn out. It felt that time had stood still, it was amazing to feel and observe.
Now to bring this more often in the day and night…
Absolutely gorgeous sharing Karen – thank you! I too can share that the Gentle breath certainly has helped me to step back from things not in a way to avoid them but rather in a way that allows space to observe rather than react and this is super valuable.
With the Gentle Breath Meditation what I have found is it introduces a marker into the body for how I can live everyday, a quality I can access from within myself that feels very loving, warm and still. Because of that its led me to question a lot of my behaviours and how I am daily because these things can take me away from that lovely settled feeling of stillness within me. In that it’s been quite a life changing meditation, in fact it is really more a way of life. Most meditations are tools we give our power to which we use (or depend on) to fix a state we’ve got ourselves into, the Gentle Breath Meditation actually reconnects us to our true state of being, which can then be lived from, so as a meditation it restores our power – it’s a very big difference.
Our breath is supper important and when it is felt as being at-least gentle our life start the most magical journey of return to our essences, and then deepening that connection brings an understanding of how we can appreciate that connection within our selves and then the appreciation of others without any judgement and thus this is enriching our lives evolutionary path.
Introducing gentleness in my daily movements and practising the Gentle Breath Meditation makes a significant change in how I am with myself and with my body. Living now is no longer boring or hard, but an experience where I can feel a space within me that I forgot for so long. Living this way is a choice that makes my life, not necessarily always more easy, but very enriching.
By breathing gently I’m realizing how willing my body is to restore its natural way of being. Once I start to choose this quality there is a loosening, a letting go of a tension that I was holding and I can feel, very clearly so, the aliveness of a gentle pulse within. Experiencing this is very yummy and very confirming about how precious we all are.
Yes, the Gentle Breath Meditation is yummy, and confirms our delicateness, ‘All else did not matter while doing this meditation – nothing to pull me into thinking, going anywhere or doing anything. I have found a loving way to connect back to myself and my body that I can incorporate into my daily life at any time. It can be for a few minutes or more / longer, depending on how I feel.’
I’ve found the Gentle Breath Meditation has supported me to reconnect back to myself, to my inner heart and the stillness and love within. When I first started learning the Gentle Breath Meditation it was actually challenging for me, breathing gently sounds simple but that was the degree of stress and unease in my body and where my breath was, it was a reflection of how far away I was from myself and from living gently. I still use both the Gentle Breath Meditation and the Gentle Breath as part of my day as I go about my daily tasks, it’s been such an amazing support to help me stay connected to the true essence of myself and bring that into my life, instead of letting life take over and getting stressed, etc, by what I have to do. It’s also been a great tool to help me stay connected to my body and note the times I’m getting stressed as my breath really changes.
Using the Gentle Breath Meditation, or consciously breathing gently throughout the day is an amazing support, ‘It has given me the time and space to stop and question myself, to reflect on how I have been in my day, what I have been doing, and look at what I need to change.’
The Gentle Breath Meditation is an incredible tool for anyone and everyone who wants a greater sense of who they are and a greater ability to stay steady in a turbulent ever-moving world.
There is nothing more gorgeous than feeling a depth of stillness in your breath. I have found it to be very soothing and deeply settling whilst at times being extremely confronting as it highlights the quality one has been living with.
Beautifully said Joshua, it is a feeling that is irreplaceable! And at the same time once felt, it is something that highlights all that is not of the same quality.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is one of the best friends you can have as it is always there to support you wherever you are.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is a great support for us whenever you feel to incorporate it into your day.
I love using the Gentle Breath Meditation, I have found that it is a great way of bringing myself to a stop, to feel my body and feel the gentle reconnection.
Me too Elizabeth, the Gentle Breath Meditation has to be experienced to feel how truly powerful and healing it is.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is now made readily available to everyone via this link http://www.unimedliving.com/meditation/free.
To feel how simple and powerful this meditation is try one out for yourself, they are such a supportive tool to have available to us 24/7.
Everything becomes clear and simple once we choose being gentle with ourselves and our body. The Gentle Breath Meditation supports me to let go all what no longer supports me and to express more of who I am in the world. A powerful technique that can be practice everytime we breathe.
Such an honouring and deeply beautiful sharing about how supported The Gentle Breath Meditation™ to feel you and your body again. Your words feels very alive and real Karen as brings me to feel me too. Thank you
The Gentle Breath Meditation supports us to feel ourselves and our body, ‘The Gentle Breath Meditation™ has developed a deeper connection to me, where I naturally want to take care of my health and my body with a loving responsibility to address all areas in my life now. ‘
When we are out of order, that is, when our divine particles are placed in a way that cannot do anything for us, we can really go way off. When this happens, re-ordering ourselves is the only way. In that regard, it is truly amazing what the Gentle Breath Meditation can do for us.
“I naturally want to take care of my health and my body with a loving responsibility…” – if this is what we become through connecting ourselves, it so simply exposes our disregard and loveless, wayward choices come from elsewhere when we are not being ourselves.
The Gentle Breath Meditation made sense to me from the first time I was presented with it by Serge Benhayon. It was so simple but at the same time very profound as I could no longer deny the connection to myself that was possible, a connection I had looked for, for a very long time. And in that connection, or should I say re-connection, life and my place in it has made so much more sense than it has ever done.
Thank you Ingrid for your sharing – and I too can say I experienced a similar thing with re-learning the gentle breath. It is something so truly natural for us all, and yet so powerful indeed to return to.
This wonderfully supportive meditation is so simple, so powerful and very portable. You don’t have to be sitting cross legged on a mat with incense burning for it to make a difference to how you are feeling. A few gentle breaths can be taken anytime, any place and the reconnection back to your body can happen very quickly. Definitely a priceless tool for life.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is such a profound and simple modality that supports us to reconnect back to our body, and from this connection we can bring such a beautiful quality and flow to our day.
I studied most of yesterday and by the end of the day I could really feel how much I had taken my body for granted and had not paid nearly enough attention to my posture. A couple of times I felt particularly stiff and constricted and realised that my breath was also a bit constricted. So today when studying I intend to be more aware of my quality of breath and just observe if it has a correlation to how I am positioning myself and moving to see if it makes a difference.
The Gentle Breath Meditation, is so simple and so gently powerful in bringing us back to who we are in our stillness, whilst allowing us to feel all that is going on in our bodies.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is the key to reconnecting to who we are and letting go of the ‘doing’ drive.
How often do we take a moment through our day to feel our connection to ourselves, to our body, being and breath? Yet is this not the crux of living who we are, of really living? I know that I often craved for this feeling yet never had a tangible way of being able to access it. Enter Universal Medicine into my life and through the Gentle Breath Mediation I began to feel the truth of who I was and the delicious stillness that is always there, ready to connect to and be lived throughout my day, regardless of what I am doing. As a result, my quality of life has been enriched beyond measure.
The gentle breath connects us to the in and out breath of the Universe which is God.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is truly an amazing meditation, it’s not an escape, relief or reprieve from the stresses of life, but a reconnection back to our essence meaning we can then live from that place of stillness within ourselves. This meditation has been an amazing support for me and I can now do the gentle breath as I move through life supporting me to stay connected, or to reconnect back to my essence when I get a bit lost.
The Gentle Breath Meditation does many things at the same time: it orders us, it helps us to re-connect, it helps to let go, it creates space inside us. It also reveals the silent consequences of where are we regarding our way to stand in the world.
That’s true Eduardo, each time I reconnect with the Gentle Breath I find my essence within has a natural harmony which is so supportive for the body, and it shows also how harsh not living connected to my essence is on my body.
It is true that there is nothing to achieve through the Gentle Breath Meditation, it shows you this right from the start.
Beautifully said Shami – the Gentle Breath Mediation shows you in a ‘whole body’ way that we already are everything.
Karen, wow it is amazing the effects that practicing the Gentle Breath Meditation has had on how you feel about yourself and how you are with others – very beautiful, what a powerful modality.
For those that want to give this amazing yet simple mediation a go, here is the link, http://www.unimedliving.com/meditation/free/meditation-for-beginners/introductory-gentle-breath-meditation.html
Disconnection from ourselves is surely the biggest issue we face. It results in not knowing how we truly feel, not knowing who we are, not trusting ourselves or backing ourselves, poor choices in life, our karma, and all our ills and woes personally and collectively. Thanks to the Gentle Breath Meditation, the start of the journey back is but a breath away.
And it is so simple, yet powerful.
This is beautiful Karen, no wonder so many love this meditation, ‘I have realised through the Gentle Breath Meditation™ I can be another way, where I am more honest, accepting, allowing, and surrendering of what is going on in my life, how I perceive things and want things to be in the world, and that I have a choice to self-care and make self-loving choices – like being gentle with myself instead of being hard and self-critical.’
The Gentle Breath Meditation is such a powerful tool to connect us back to the breath of God, reminding us that we are a part of that divine breath.
Without a doubt it is one of the greatest gifts we can share.
Seeing the changes in people from practicing the Gentle Breath Meditation and implementing the many teachings, techniques and practical advice given by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine into one’s daily life is the living example of the life enhancing quality they bring.
This is a very powerfully titled blog. The fact that this modality allowed you the space to accept and feel what you are feeling is HUGE! I can’t help but wonder how the world would be if everyone did 5 minutes of Gentle Breath Meditation each day…
Such a gift, exquisitely simple and yet so deep and nourishing. Its good to see you putting it to such spectacular use Karen.
Isn’t that what most of us spend years searching for; connection with ourselves….. I have tried many new age things in the past, and all of them took me further away from myself, and in fact just buried my stuff deeper, that was until I began the gentle breath meditation which I did every morning for 5 or 10 mins, and was greatly supportive in connecting back to my body.
Beautiful Karen, and so true The Gentle Breath Meditation completely change my life also. I recommend everyone give it a go for you cannot truly realise the power of this simple technique until you feel it for yourself. Here is a link if you want to try it for yourself http://www.unimedliving.com/meditation/free
I have to appreciate the wonderful stop moment the Gentle Breath Meditation provides for me, any time I choose to do it. Its a real gift to myself and has helped me stop lots of the rushing around that used to lead to anxiety and stress.
Actually my body knows the way while my minds thinks it knows the way. You can say ‘so what’, is there any difference? Yes, it actually makes a big difference as I only could start to experience after having chosen for the Gentle breath Meditation®. My body knows as it is connected to the All, the bigger plan that is the Universe. Living in adherence to this plan makes the body relax as it exactly knows how to be in any situation. Compared to live from the mind, that, because it lives disconnected from this All, is always looking outside for how to be in life and in that enforces the body to live in a way that does not correspond to the Universal laws, resulting in tensioning of the body that leads finally to illness and disease we all know so well as being a ‘normal’ part of living a human life. But now I want to ask you, is illness and disease normal if we look to the bigger picture?
Thank you Nico, a great explanation of living from the body versus the mind. The body is universal and the mind is individual.
And it is the mind that is the common ruler in our nowadays lives as we can see in the continuous rise in illness and disease and the more wayward behaviours than we have ever had before. And too we want to come away with that with clarifying from the mind that we are more advanced than ever before because we have tablets, mobile telephones, social media and so on. But with that we just bury the reality we have to face and that is that we are far more lost then ever before, just because we have walked away from that place our body is so strongly connected to and therefore so easily available too. Actually only a few breaths away if we make the choice to connect to it.
The Gentle Breath Meditation gives me a stop moment or two in my day – to be used any time anywhere. As you say Karen “I have realised through the Gentle Breath Meditation™ I can be another way, where I am more honest, accepting, allowing, and surrendering of what is going on in my life, how I perceive things and want things to be in the world, and that I have a choice to self-care and make self-loving choices “
What I love about Gentle Breath meditation is that it is actually all about when we are not meditating. During the meditation, I cannot but feel how I have been living, how racy I have been, how I might have chosen harshness and tightness etc., and the connection I would eventually feel is to be lived after I open my eyes at the end. It is all about living.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is an invaluable tool in supporting us to reconnect to ourselves and live from there. It is available any time, any place and is only a choice away to start breathing our own breath and feel the stillness that we can instantly drop into.
Karen thankyou, this is also how the Gentle Breath Meditation has been for me, supporting me to stay connected to myself, and centred and still so that I can participate in life without feeling so overwhelmed or in reaction to it all. It has had a profound effect on reducing my stress and anxiety levels, and because of its simplicity I can use the gentle breath technique on daily life as I go about my activities.
Karen I can so relate to what you share, I too was missing the connection with myself and was looking for it outside of me, thinking others had the missing ingredient, But when I came to connecting with the Gentle Breath Meditation it all started to change for me, I started to feel more of me and who I am as person. I became more in my body and felt a beautiful joy.
That’s it Amita, the thing about the Gentle Breath Meditation is it’s not about the meditation, it’s actually about you. Once you reconnect to yourself enough with the support of the Gentle Breath Meditation you can then learn to stay connected and live the true essence of you in life, and the meditation is then not needed. Meditations in general are there to help you cope with life and are depended upon, whereas the Gentle Breath Meditation brings you back to you and life can be forever changed. This is very true of all Serge Benhayon’s work, everything is provided to reconnect you back to yourself and to your soul as a true self empowerment.
The beautiful thing about the Gentle Breath meditation is that I can’t fool myself, or check out while doing it. When I choose to practice it, I always come back to myself.
I love how everything about Universal Medicine keeps reminding me that it is about connecting deeply with my own innate divine essence, the love within me, and living that, and that there is nothing more powerful and special outside of me. The Gentle Breath Meditation is brilliant for coming to the truth of this for myself every time.
I once worked out that I had spent over 13,000 hours meditating before I also happened upon the gentle breath meditation… That’s over a year and a half! And it was not until I experienced the gentle breath meditation that I really truly, and for the first time entered the doorway of the connection with the divine that is innate within every human, within all of us, and it is built in.
There are so many beautiful testimonies on the power of the Gentle Breath Meditation – we are so blessed to have been given this amazing and truly healing modality.
How wonderful to have been able to use such a simple technique and find profound consequences. Dedication to re-connecting is so very worth it. “It has opened my eyes to see the world with love and an understanding of myself.”
The technique of it is very simple and straightforward, but the impact it has on my body, feelings, mood and how I relate to others and life situations is huge. I don’t feel I’ve fully appreciated how supportive this technique is but reading this again was great to stop and reflect on how supportive it has been in my life.
In the past I had felt uneasiness in my body and felt uncomfortable but did not know why. The more I made the Gentle Breath Meditation™ a part of my daily life, the more I realised that I was going through life holding onto and not dealing with my unexpressed feelings and emotions. This was my experience too, I got to feel how very small I had made myself and thus how very small my world had become.
“I felt there was always something missing in me, and there was… I was missing a connection to myself.” This was a feeling that I felt most of my life, my sense was that there was something wrong with me. But was only when I started to really connect with myself did I feel that connection and who I truly was in life.
What a great simple meditation that can be done anywhere, anytime. Within seconds of breathing this way you feel more settled and able to view the world with different eyes. I remember doing the meditation for the first time and wanting to fall asleep, again within seconds even though I thought I wasn’t tired. This meditation has been a real support to me over the years and with so many people now turning or using meditation as the answer or a key this is the only one I use. You don’t need to shut yourself off from the world, have a special room or pose to do it. This truly is a meditation for our modern times.
‘I felt there was always something missing in me, and there was… I was missing a connection to myself.’- yes I can relate to this 100%. When I first practiced the Gentle Breath Meditation I realised this feeling, quality, connection was what I had been in search for my entire life. In fact when in connection to my stillness within, I could feel the timelessness of who we are in essence, and so began my journey of discovering the richness of living from who I am within. Not only was this a turning point in my life but it allowed me to develop a deeply self-loving relationship with myself, my essence and my body. Living in this way, to the best of my ability, is what continues to guide me through my living day as my marker of truth, with me wherever I am and whatever I do.
The transformational power of the Gentle Breath Meditation is clearly extraordinary. Who would have thought that something so simple could have such a profound affect on so many areas of our lives. It is amazing how detrimental disconnection from ourselves can be but gorgeous to know how easy it is to reverse it.
Great point – even though we may have lived with a deep level of disconnection to ourselves, the connection is always there and never turns off, no matter how hard we might have tried to bury or extinguish it.
Being the master of our own breath, how it enters and leaves the body, is a great and very important stepping stone to becoming more aware of how we move the body and what affect that has on our overall wellbeing.
In the hustle and bustle of today’s world the gentle breath meditation can feel like it is heaven sent.
I like that Suse, and you are right, the Gentle Breath Meditation® is from heaven, send to us as a tool to free ourselves form the torturing mind that wants to keep hold over the body instead of the other way round the body leading life and in that using the mind in its true way.
And that it is Suse, it comes straight from heaven to be grounded on earth.
The gentle breath meditation supports me to stop and feel the quality that I’ve been living in – everything I’ve been living up to that moment. It’s not like I can switch off how I’ve been living and suddenly get all calm because it’s ‘meditation time’ and I’ve got my eyes closed. With this there’s a greater sense of awareness of how the idea of compartmentalising life just doesn’t work and isn’t true – how we are in one moment affects how we are in the next, and so how we are in one area affects how we are in another.
I’ve been aware of the Gentle Breath Meditation now for many years, and noticed that I make use of it almost unconsciously when I have some time and space, particularly when walking and driving. Every time it brings a deeper awareness to how my body is feeling right now reconnecting me to how I am feeling, and the glory that is always there inside.
I could never grasp meditation however the gentle breath technique felt so much more natural and effective.
I love this Karen, that you can now approach the world and yourself with greater love and understanding- that is a priceless gift and to have it accessible to all of us via the Gentle Breath Meditation, no tools needed just our dedication and our breath; life can be so simple.
We can make life about a thousand things, a million words and a hundred good deeds but ultimately it returns to how we are in our body. I love the way the Gentle Breath brings us back to this simple fact and wipes away all the distractions we put in the way. Thank you Karen for sharing your experience of it’s beauty.
With every breath the Gentle Breath Meditation brings me back into connection to an inner stillness where I can feel the divinity of my essence.
I remember when first doing the Gentle Breath Meditation I was trying to get it right, and when I stopped trying it became a really natural way to breathe and I could feel the change in the quality of my breathing too.
Hello Karen and I agree this is a great meditation, The Gentle Breath Meditation. I looked like I had everything around me I needed in life, friends, supportive family, successful job, a partner, a house, a car etc etc and yet no matter what I did or where I went an empty ache feeling kept following me. Serge Benhayon and the Gentle Breath Meditation were the turning points in that empty ache that had plagued me through life. It’s not that I was cured of the feeling but more this meditation supported me to understand this feeling, it gave me space to see it when nothing else had even touched the sides of what it was. This meditation stands me up in the world and allows me, no matter where I am or what I am faced with to connect to a feeling I know. This is a living meditation and no music or special space is needed, it’s practical and for our living world.
I had tried many meditation techniques before the Gentle Breath Meditation. All the others have an end point or a goal of some description. The Gentle Breath asks nothing of you than to allow your breath to become gentle. It requires no special seating position or fancy breathing technique and you can do it anywhere. Its a great tool to simply bring my awareness back to my body. Another bonus is that it only takes 5-10 minutes.
Accepting the simplicity of the Gentle Breath Meditation has been the most challenging thing for me.It has shown me the true power of simplicity and how complication is often what we seek.
It’s funny that we busily seek connections out there, and yet we are often missing the one connection that is the basis of it all, the one with ourselves. For the truth is we cannot connect out there if we do not first connect with ourselves, and I love the support I’ve received from the Gentle Breath Meditation and how much it’s allowed me to connect back to my body; it gives me a wonderful feeling of spaciousness and allows me to more clearly observe how I am and what is going on, without being knee deep in it, in other words I get a better perspective of myself and what is going on around me. And best of all it’s simple and very accessible, you don’t need any complicated tools or postures, you can do it anywhere and it doesn’t take long, it really is such an amazing and simple way to connect back to you.
The beauty of the gentle breath meditation is it’s close by, can be practised any time and anywhere, and takes us back to a still and quiet place, even when all else around us is in turmoil.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is indeed a solid and reliable tool for re-connection and thus serves well the purpose of true meditation – to come back to oneself. With the then established connection and presence we can get to know ourselves in truth, a never ending process of deepening within oneself well beyond gentleness.
The beauty of the inner-connection that has been reignited in you Karen, is palpable in every word of your blog. Thank-you for sharing this. From my own experience also, it cannot be stressed enough, just how beautiful and self-empowering it is, to be with ourselves through such a simple technique, offering us the capacity to meet life not from outer layers of nervous energy, anxiety and perhaps fatigue, but from a still centre within.
I found practicing the Gentle Breath Meditation difficult to begin with but with regular practice it became a means of support that helped me enormously to connect to my body especially at times when I felt reactive or emotional. It is a great tool to have in my box to check how I am feeling when I wake up in the mornings or at times during my day.
Your blog spells out the truth, that is ALL is known within
Karen I love your last line in particular ‘it has opened my eyes to see the world with love and an understanding of myself.’ – that is such a gorgeous way to approach us and the world, and to know that we can live like this, that it is possible.
Its the accessibility of the Gentle Breath Mediation that I love – its something I can practise when I’m driving, walking or even in a little moment at work or in a meeting. It provides a super easy connection to how I am feeling in that moment, and offers the opportunity of reconnecting to all that I am.
With the fast pace of today’s world there does not seem to be any spare time or space to pause, reflect and learn from our day but what you share is true Karen, by implementing the Gentle Breath Meditation which takes about 5 minutes tops it provides the stopper and allows us to recalibrate and start again.
I used to do lots of meditations, particularly Transcendental Meditation, all which took me further way from my body. The first time I did The Gentle Breath Meditation the experience was quite profound and I new this was the one that would make a difference. With regular practise of this simple breathing technique more and more I came back to my body and to me,which meant I could make decisions, choices, and listening to my own knowing by connecting to me, my stillness, lessening all the time the need to look outward for answers.
Too often we look outside to others for guidance and support for answers that if we stopped, reflected and listened to ourselves we would realise we already have within and practicing the GBM definitely supports you to do this.
I used to find the Gentle Breath Meditation very challenging, such was the momentum in my life to not feel my body and how I had been treating it (or mis-treating it). But over time the more I developed a more loving relationship with my body and with that an acceptance that I can make loving choices I find the Gentle Breath Meditation to be a supportive reminder that I can change the quality within my body. Gentleness is not reactive so when I find myself in an emotional or reactive state, breathing with a focus on the tip of my nose brings a sense of steadiness to address what is before me.
Feeling at ease in my body is absolutely delicious. I didn’t know what that felt like until I started practicing the Gentle Breath Meditation regularly.
Karen, I love your final line ‘It has opened my eyes to see the world with love and an understanding of myself.’, and how amazing is that to have something we can do for ourselves like the Gentle Breath Meditation which allows us to feel how we are and connect with our bodies. I know it’s changed my life and allowed me the space and understanding to feel me and feel the world around me and know I do not have to take that on. I can stay me while being in the world and this has greatly reduced my stress and anxiousness and allowed me to see that even when I do experience them, they are not me, and that I can come back to feeling my body and taking the next step knowing I am and have always have been fine, and that underneath all that is a love that is untarnished, and ready to be shared at any moment.
The Gentle Breath Meditation™ though in all its simplicity is so profound as it brings us to a place where the all is known and a deep care for ourselves and all of life can be felt. Therefore it will be over time impossible to “hold onto and not deal with my unexpressed feelings and emotions” as it will be presented to me in a loving and simple way, such that I cannot deny or ignore it anymore, that that is the way I have to conduct my life in correspondence to my divine origin.
I had given up on meditation before coming across The Gentle Breath Meditation, simply because I felt the feeling that came after an hour or mores mediation (in the traditional understanding society has of meditation) was from relief to finally be able to move from a physically uncomfortable to mind numbing state. Where as The Gentle Breath Meditation(TGBM) was about focusing the mind on the body and breath, not escaping. TGBM was transformative in my life as it was real and had useful applications to everyday living experiences.
Imagine that there is a Tsunami of disinformation travelling through and around the world at the speed of an express train, and all of this disinformation is about how to connect with the inner self, the true you. The fact that this phenomenon is so strong is a witness to humanities deep underlying drive to understand experience and recognized truth. Then imagine that there is something so simple, so sweet, and so gentle that is able to stand up against such a seemingly powerful force, and just say no, with an innate gentleness our body knows so well is all the connection that we need, that lays the foundation on the path to the deep inner knowing that leads us to our true home.
“I found the Gentle Breath Meditation™ to be a simple and beautiful technique that held me in my body with a connection to myself, with a moment to stop and breathe and to feel what is going on inside me.” This too has been my experience of the gentle breath meditation and was the start to the end of searching for the missing link in life. It is a simple simple technique and tool in daily life yet the changes it has brought to my life are far reaching.
Thank you Karen, what a blessing the gentle breath meditation is. It is a tool that can be used at all times with all situations and as a part of our re-connection to ourselves. With profound benefits.
Your blog captures the simplicity and yet the profoundness of the Gentle Breath Meditation. It’s easy and unobstrusive to use. No contorted body positions, no music, no nothing. Just a gentle connection to your breathing. It reassures us that we already have all we need inside us to support ourselves – at no cost except that of taking the responsibility to use it for ourselves.
With the gentle breath meditation I feel like I am filling all the space that my body has as a physical presence on this earth. And it feels more than lovely, more than awesome, it just feels deeply normal, which is very special because it is like coming home.
I have tried meditation in the past where I would sit sometimes with my legs crossed (most uncomfortable!) but mainly on a chair and would what I now realise check out. It was a time when I could escape and seek comfort in something that was outside of my body. The gentle breath meditation is different in that I sit or lie in a comfortable position and I simply focus on my breath. The meditation takes me to my body helping me to connect back to my body and once connected I am left to get on with my day in this connection to my body.
I can remember in the past going to meditation classes where you travel off in your mind to some lovely place. When I look back, the mind may have been busy conjuring up images but there was no true feel and connection with my body and it was not something that would then support me in what I was doing next. Whereas the gentle breath meditation supports my next move brilliantly and with my whole body involved.
Karen I really enjoyed reading your experience of the Gentle Breath Meditation – it redefines meditation completely – it is not about being in your head and imagining yourself somewhere else, but rather being in your body and connecting to your breath. It is absolute presence.
It really does redefine mediation completely, explaining that it isn’t about checking out or clearing the mind, but building a connection with oneself. Being in your body, not making it about your head. Which a lot of meditations these days do.
Your blog is beautiful to read Karen. Over the past few months I have deepened my connection and appreciation to myself due to my reawakening and constant use of The Gentle Breathe Meditation; the shift has been significant. I am eternally grateful for the inspiration, support and constant love of Serge Benhayon.
In separation to the greater Whole that we are a part of, we walk around as lonely fragments forever searching for what we have seemingly lost – our true self. The Gentle Breath Mediation has been one such tool that helps re-establish this lost connection. We are the ‘missing piece’ we so desperately search for and with blind eyes cast outward we will never allow ourselves to see, the beauty that forever burns within.
“I found the Gentle Breath Meditation™ to be a simple and beautiful technique that held me in my body with a connection to myself”, how gorgeous Karen, simple and beautiful. I can so relate to what you have expressed here, thank you Karen.
Thank you Karen for a great blog, I just love how the Gentle Breath Meditation brings me back to me, feeling the warmth and stillness within. Now I know that it was the connection to me, that I had missed all my life.
I have to say that it wasn’t until a long time into attending Universal Medicine presentations, where I had been shown the gentle breath meditation many time, until just recently, that I actually began to use it. On reflection, I can feel that by me not really choosing to use the gentle breath meditation, it was a way of not choosing me. I would always hear of others using it, but I never really got it. When in actual fact, I just didn’t ever want to sit still long enough to try it, practice it. Resisting my own stillness. I have been using it a lot more these days and really loving it and can feel such a difference within myself when I do.
Before I first encountered Universal Medicine (and if I am honest some time since!) I have spent a lot of effort, money and time trying to distract from or bury that background uneasiness or discontent that is always there when I am not connected to my body. Being more in my body rather than living life from my head is the only reliable way I have discovered so far that actually stops that discontent completely rather than just covering it up.
I know for me once I was introduced to the Gentle Breath Meditation and felt the stillness and ease that was there it confirmed what I had always suspected – that there was a general uneasiness or tension in my life that was always there whether I was having a good time or not. This tension was me being disconnected from myself. I was a little surprised to find that it was very simple and easy to actually begin the process of reconnection through this simple breathing technique but it really does work and has been a tremendous support in my life.
It’s crazy isn’t it – we search desperately for something we think we have lost, when really it is just a part of us that is being ignored. Then, when afforded the grace to reconnect to this, we are dumbfounded that it can be as simple as a gentle breath. It is as if some part of us keeps choosing complexity to override the simplicity of the truth we feel but are reluctant to live. It is only a single breath that separates us from God and as such, it only takes a simple breath to return.
“I felt there was always something missing in me, and there was… I was missing a connection to myself.” The gentle breath ceases our ongoing search outside of ourselves and hands us back to the magic of responsibility within.
Great comment lucindag. I like the way you say the ‘magic of the responsibility within’ because it is indeed magical, transformative alchemy when we understand the power we have in every moment to choose which energy we align to which then determines how our life will be. It all starts from within.
How brilliant is that?! : “(by the gentle breath meditation) I have found a loving way to connect back to myself and my body that I can incorporate into my daily life at any time.” We breath anyway, so why not using this simple technique as support in daily life to stay connected?! As I did start with the Gentle Breath Meditation I’ve done it as a ritual every morning and so did build a foundation of connection with me I could come back to in my daily routine. I found that very supportive and still use it to remember me and my body of who I am and how I meant to breath, specially when life becomes busy or challenging – So simple and so gorgeous.
I agree Sandra, we are breathing anyway so why not use the Gentle Breath Meditation as a support in our day to day life, the more we practice the deeper the foundation of connection to return to when things are challenging. It is such a simple method it seems crazy not to try it.
Gentle breath brings such a stop to the momentum of living in our busy lives, with momentums so strong that when we stop physically our minds are still racing, like inertia.
To be able to stop and just be for a moment is priceless and that is what the gentle breath can bring…and then it becomes more than that as we develop living connected.
This is what I am finding also. That once the pause is taken and the lost connection re-established, this breath begins to establish a way of moving that is more in line with who we are, rather than who we are not. That is, this breath becomes the foundation for our every move that will confirm the love that we are and are from.
Karen this is written with such a quality of love and gentleness….the gentle breath is such a simple meditation, but as your sharing shows, it is profound, life changing, as connecting to ourselves is connecting to our qualities within that are loving and supportive. When we are connected we never feel lonely, how can we, as we begin to feel the fullness within.
As you say the gentle breath meditation supports to reconnect with ourselves, if we have lost that. Simple, no complicated poses or mantras, just following the breath and thereby reconnecting to our stillness.
Just in the title alone Karen your words The Gentle Breath Meditation ‘supported me to feel again’. I did not realise just how numbed out I was to life until introducing the Gentle Breath Meditation. The raciness in my body at first would not allow me to even breathe more gently as my heart felt like it would burst forth. Realising now and deeply appreciating that my heart most probably felt like it was having a party of sorts, coming off the adrenalin fix to a more gentle, slower pace and celebrating that I’d made the choice to slow down such ingrained patterns and to actually start ‘feeling the truth’ of how I was living. Supported I was big time and to know I carry this precious gift within and it only takes a stop moment to bring about a choice to breathe gently and connect to my inner essence. Life changing – definitely.
Beautiful and inspiring to read, it is a great thing to give ourself the opportunity to stop and take stock of what is going on for us and what is not supportive of who we are. It is our responsibility to work on coming back to who we truly are.
I stopped doing the Gentle Breath Meditation because whenever I did, I simply fell asleep, which was, in truth, either me escaping what was going on or indicating how exhausted I was. Now, knowing that I still am living in an exhausting way, I am returning to it as a support to help me reconnect with my inner heart and from there I know I can make different choices.
One simple technique, one powerful change that helps us re-connect to us. As you say “I felt there was always something missing in me, and there was… I was missing a connection to myself.”
I can remember that it felt like the doors to another world had been opened, that world was inside of me.
Gorgeous Matthew – it is true the door to the Kingdom of Heaven is within… makes you wonder why we keep opening other doors.
We are here on Earth until we can each master the perfect balance of our in-breath (repose) and our out-breath (motion). This means that when we move, we move from a point of connection with ourselves and the All that we are a part of, so that in movement we leave nothing behind. This is very different to how we have come to live, in movement void of connection (motion without repose) so that when we move, we move as a fragment that has separated from and in ignorance to, the Whole it is a part of. In this way as a humanity, we have lost ourselves, our true self (Soul) who is always waiting and forever residing in the Stillness of our inner heart. The Gentle Breath meditation helps restore this breath in our bodies and in doing so reinstates our true way of living, in deep connection with ourselves, each other and the world/Universe we are held in, the in-breath and out-breath of God.
Thankyou Karen for showing us how very simple this can be.
and thank you Liane for showing the purpose of human life in a few simple sentences.
By your words Liane, I get a feeling of how it is to be a part of the whole and how dangerous and hurtful it is to move in ignorance of this fact. (Also it is a bit crazy because I am longing for ‘being a part of the whole’ so much.)
The Gentle Breath Meditation offers me the feeling of connection – to become aware again here can also be a challenge because it reveals as well our responsibility in life. Till I realize the blessing and love that responsibility is and embrace it once more as a long lost best friend, or better: accept and embrace it again as an important part of me, as my foundation.
Absolutely Sandra – I have sought much outside of myself and in this I have dismissed or given up when this has not fulfilled me; the gentle breath has returned me to myself, to the inescapable responsibility of how i am living – there is no greater learning.
Great explanation Liane. It is great to be reminded of how the Gentle Breath Meditation itself is a microcosm of life and the universe. Our first re-introduction to the breath of God.
I love what you share in this comment Liane, and yes, ‘The Gentle Breath meditation helps restore this breath in our bodies and in doing so reinstates our true way of living, in deep connection with ourselves, each other and the world/Universe we are held in, the in-breath and out-breath of God.’
That is very moving Liane.
When caught in the perpetual hum and drive of life as we live it, it is important to make the space to pause and in that stillness feel that we are so much more than the compressed and speed up version of ourselves that we get so caught up living. In this Stillness, the space where our true self, our Soul resides, all is known for the All that it is and it is this quality that then begins to infuse all that we do. The key is to stop, connect and feel what is always there and waiting to be returned to and expressed – our love.
Gentle breath is a way to support healthy living, that is beyond our physical. The key as you stated Liane ‘make the space to pause’ and it is this space that much can happen from!
How gorgeous Liane. Stillness is very joyful, magical and you can even move very fast when in Stillness so it not what we all think it is. Unimedpedia provides more goodies about Stillness here: http://www.unimedliving.com/unimedpedia/word-index/unimedpedia-stillness.html
If we have not been connecting to our body and have been getting caught up in the exhausting spin of the world, then it is certainly very lovely to feel gentleness in our body. However, gentleness is not an end point but a bridge to love. Once you connect to true love, it is certainly more lovely than gentleness – in fact there is really no end point into how gorgeous and glorious we can feel and the entrance to all this starts with gentleness.
Well said Nicola. Gentleness is the starting point in allowing ourselves to feel a depth that has no end, like the ever expanding Universe and Body of God that we are always and forever held within.
Ooooooooooh love that Liane 🙂
Very true Nicola. Gentleness is a bridge to love. But what an amazing bridge. It is certainly something that has changed my life.
The Gentle Breath Mediation provides us with a marker of re-connection in our body such that after a while our connection becomes a known way of living and it is simple for us to regularly check in throughout the day whilst carrying out our day to day activities. The benefits of checking in are as humongous as the ills of checking out!
Absolutely agree Nicola, since I have made the gentle breath part of my everyday life – there is a soundness to my being that was absent before.
The Gentle Breath Meditation as developed by Serge Benhayon is a very practical and supportive tool and bridge to reconnect to our essence. We can get so caught up in the spin of the world it is exhausting and takes us out of ourselves. It is wonderful how by just taking a few moments of reconnection we can come back to ourselves and feel the almost miraculous and rejuvenating benefits of that.
When I first started to practice the Gentle Breath Meditation, I would feel a panic rise up in my body. It was like suddenly I could feel the tension that I was walking around in and it panicked me because the Gentle Breath was offering me something else that at the time although felt very supportive, also felt unknown. I was scared of taking responsibility for the choices that led me to have such a tense body, I was scared that I would loose everything, and I was scared that I may actually be far more and far greater a person than I had ever imagined. With perseverance though and plenty of mistakes and bumps along the way, everything has actually turned out really well and I am so grateful to myself that I did just keep on returning to the Gentle Breath each day, it has given me a foundation for life that is way more loving and inclusive of everyone, and although I still feel the tension of life, it no longer consumes my entire body and I can handle it.
I was also amazed by how quickly and easily I could feel more connected to myself by just focusing on the quality of my breath. I also noticed how quickly I could start thinking of other things unrelated to the present and I would have to bring my attention back. And slowly I started noticing the impact of the various thoughts in my body as well as how they impacted on my connection. Hence started an ongoing loving working with my body to observe and fine-tune my relationship with and responsibility in life.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is completely life changing. The first time I experienced it It totally supported me to change my priorities in life. I could see that I had been focusing on the wrong things, and that to give energy to these things was not supportive. Coming back to my true gentle nature has been and continues to be the best thing that I ever chose to do.
What is amazing about the gentle breathe meditation is Serge Benhayon’s delivery, for as he presents the mediation he know exactly the tricks that your mind is playing with you in that moment, like the fidgeting or thoughts that rise up – here is a man like you and me who truly understands the games that our spirit likes to create.
I completely agree Lucinda. Serge Benhayon understands the spirit inside out, knows all the games it plays and nominates some basic ones when delivering the Gentle Breath Meditation. His knowing and exposing of the games (not so fun) that our spirits play make some spirits absolutely furious as we see from the cyber abuse and attacks via the press Serge Benhayon receives.
“I did not know how to truly care for and support myself in the world. I followed suit with family and friends, looking to them for guidance, thinking they may know the answers.” And this is where the seeking begins….and stops when we meet a man named Serge Benhayon, who lives and breathes the answers.
Yes Serge Benhayon certainly lives and breathes the answer because he lives and breathes from his essence… and the answer is for each one of us to equally live and breathe and become the answer for we are of the same essence. The more we reconnect to our essence (and tools such as the Gentle Breath support this) the more we can provide a true reflection for each other and heal ourselves and this crazy world!
What I love about the gentle breath meditation is the way it becomes a whole way of living. I used to breathe very hard, a reflection of the general hardness in my body. I breathe gently through my nose most of the time now, and the awareness of my breath helps me to be more gentle in my body.
“What I love about the gentle breath meditation is the way it becomes a whole way of living.” That is an excellent point Carmel. The idea is to reconnect, establish a marker and then move and live that way. It is a quality we take into our daily life.
All that from a simple meditation technique! I am not surprised though as I have found this meditation to be immensely powerful and supportive. It has been a very important part of my life in the process of reconnecting to myself. This reconnection then changed everything and offered a whole new foundation for my life.
Yes Carolien the reconnection one is able to make with The Gentle Breath Meditation offers a whole new foundation and way of seeing/feeling life. It is a simple but truly profound technique available to everyone.
yes Rosemary and I feel it is the simplicity that makes this so powerful. Most meditations keep you in your head, travelling on journeys or creating pictures to escape. The GBM simply restores our natural way of breathing our own breath. Very simple but because of this simplicity not always easy for the busy minded. But so very effective and worth the perseverance.
The distractions can be many and getting the mind to quieten not always easy in the beginning, but as you say Carolien well worth the perseverance as the benefits are life changing.
This Meditation has supported me to truly connect with my whole body and re-awaken the stillness that I feel deep within. Heaven Sent.
Yes Kathryn, it has been a very steady support for me, where over time I now can connect to me so easily and it has actually changed my life from being stressed and chaotic to living in a very steady way and enjoying life more. As I’m not rushing through it but walking with me.
‘I felt there was always something missing in me, and there was… I was missing a connection to myself.’ This was the same for me Karen until I started to practise the Gentle Breath Meditation. It really has been life changing.
Yes it is really funny/ridiculous to discover the thing we were missing and looking for all our lives was ourselves and we were and are always there all the time!!!
So true Nicola, we were there all the time, just a gentle breath away.
Yes Karen, committing to incorporating the Gentle Breath Meditation into our day really gives us the space to check in with how we are, how our body feels and gives us an opportunity to re-connect to who we are beyond any emotions and life stresses. The meditation has supported so many people to change their lives.
The Gentle Breath Meditation was the first port of call on my return journey home.
Matthew that was the Gentle Breath Meditation for me too.
…and mine too!
Well said Mathew, the Gentle Breath Mediation is the lost key to a mighty kingdom within us all.
Well said Matthew it was my first step back to who I truly am as well and choosing to stay aware of the quality of my breath remains an important marker for me in my day to hold a consistent connection with myself and my body.
Yes, I agree Matthew it is a port of call, a tool, a stepping stone. Very valuable in establishing a marker of gentleness in the body which is a great bridge to love.
I really don’t know how I coped with life before the gentle breath meditation…Oh yes I do: drugs and alcohol…hmmm, the choice really is a no brainer.
The Gentle Breath Meditation has brought such profound changes to my life that I often wonder where I would be now without it.
Ha ha kevmchardy, it is a no brainer isn’t it!
I think it is worth pointing out that sometimes this meditation can be hard…I say that because sometimes the head and body are too busy to contemplate breathing. As insane as that sounds questioning and checking in on my breathing is the best way to know if I am actually breathing, the full steady breath kind rather than the shallow, ‘I haven’t got time to breathe’ kind. Sometimes, if I am having trouble settling to do the gentle breath meditation I actually take a walk to settle back into the body focusing on my breath which makes a perfect bridge for me tocome home and do a more focused Gentle Breath Meditation. Just felt it was worth mentioning!
Lucy – I appreciate your honesty as I too have times when simply focusing and connecting with my breath is difficult. My mind wants to go in all directions. But I have to see this as a way to avoid simply feeling how my body is – because I am so used to being in my head. But what I do appreciate is that every single time I do this meditation, my body responds differently, so it allows me to have a marker in my body as to where I am at. Are my thoughts taking over, or is my body speaking up? It’s an ongoing relationship I have with my breathing that I am really enjoying working on, not to be perfect, but just to be honest with myself as to where I am at.
Yes absolutely, there is no doubt that the relationship we have with our breathing is an incredible marker from our bodies about what is going on. I only need to notice what happens when I get anxious, it is my breath and my body that scream. One or the other brings me back so my relationship is built with both whilst I concurrently work on understanding why the anxiety comes in in the first place. What a gift it is.
To read so many people’s contributions about the change in their awareness simply by connecting to their breath shows us that the body is a key to being more aware of how we are living. So much time today is spent consulting people about how we should live; exercise, diet, medicate etc. And yet we have the most powerful marker of all – our own bodies. The gentle breath meditation has been a huge stepping stone to start this connection in so many people.
So true hvmorden, we spend so much
time consulting outside of ourselves. I think we would complain if we were prescribed the Gentle Breath Meditation at the surgery because it takes a choice and commitment to be with ourselves. Much simpler in my experience to be given something that will fix me. Yikes, I really did think that, what a pressure on the professionals I must have been. Now I am very happy to do both, knowing that one rarely works on a grass roots level without the other.
Karen I like the following sentence: “…how I perceive things and want things to be in the world, and that I have a choice to self-care and make self-loving choices – like being gentle with myself instead of being hard and self-critical.” That is for me a very powerful expression as it seems like this way of being with yourself is changing your whole way of living.
Choosing this gentle way to be the way of one’s life is profound on so many levels, because it affects our minds as well as our bodies, relationships, and health. Being able to think loving and supportive thoughts has been one of the greatest life changing experiences that the Gentle Breath has introduced.
Shami that is a beautiful sharing – thank you for not holding back and being an inspiration.
One of the things that has always struck me about the gentle breath meditation is how lovely you feel after you do it. It is a great way to STOP and give yourself a moment to reconnect to your own essence.
Elizabeth, the same here. In a couple of minutes the way I feel and how I feel in my body changes. Often from being caught up and tense, to feeling a simplicity and warmth.
Yes, coming back to our breath is a very powerful technique even when mayhem is all around.
The Gentle Breathe Meditation not only supports me feel again, which I greatly appreciate, but it supports me to deeply feel what is going on in my body.
Learning to still my body is such a divine blessing.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is such a simple technique that offers the opportunity to re-connect back to the love and stillness that resides within and we all innately are. Thank-you Serge Benhayon for bringing this wonderfully profound meditation to humanity.
I have done a lot of things in my life to find out about myself. It turned out the answer was to listen to my body (I would NEVER have thought that would be the answer) and the gentle breath meditation makes that particularly easy.
I agree Christoph, I never would have thought that listening to my body would lead me to connecting to my essence, but the very simple Gentle Breath Meditation allowed me access easily.
Yes, it is such a Duh! moment when you realise. It is also very, very liberating.
Yes, truly liberating in a way that could never be imagined.
Coming to the gentle breath meditation has been the start of coming back to the true me inside , something i had avoided before. This was presented to me by Serge Benhayon and became part of my life and has supported me in the way I live to one of ever increasing love and responsibility.
Many years ago a friend and I experimented with meditation, we listened to an audio where a person talked us through a guided technique. During the audio I began to feel sick to my stomach as I could feel a strange sensation passing up and down my spine that definitely was not my own presence. Years later I came to realise that the audio was actually introducing another energy in to my body and it felt revolting. However, from the first one time with the Gentle Breathe Mediation, I knew I had come across pure gold because here was a technique that completely left me alone and in fact I felt more myself than I had done since I was child, and this has changed my life forever – not because of the technique, but because of the awareness of who I am that I am able to access through it and then bring in to my everyday normal life.
“not because of the technique, but because of the awareness of who I am that I am able to access through it and then bring in to my everyday normal life.” Indeed Shami this is the gold.
That is beautifully put, Shami. It is not the Gentle Breath Meditation that changes anything for anyone, but what we open up in ourselves by way of increasing our awareness of ourselves which then allows for changes to be made by our own choices.
The awareness of who we truly are, accessed through the Gentle Breath Meditation is what we have all been missing, it is the answer to that feeling that ” something is missing”. This simple yet profound method is life changing.
Great that you have introduced here the fact that everything is energy Shami and that includes meditation. Anything we try that is touted as good for our health and wellbeing should be carefully assessed for how it really feels in our body for that is where we can feel the energy of any technique or modality or person, including meditation itself.
This is a great point because there is a widely held belief in the world that all meditation is good for you. However what you are sharing here Shami is that we need to feel the energetic quality of any meditation technique and discern if it actually supports us or not. There are forms of meditation that are actually harming not healing.
Thanks for the reminder of something so simple and amazing, not time consuming and very powerful, that connects us to ourselves; and I still go for periods of time without using it. Am I nuts?
Yes Kev we are all nuts and the Gentle Breath Meditation is a good nut cracker.
Since the introduction of the Gentle Breath Meditation by Serge Benhayon in 1999 this simple yet profound meditation has supported thousands of people to re-connect back to themselves and totally turn their lives around.
Indeed marylouisemyers, a soulful interface.
Isn’t it just amazing how one movement – connecting to the breath, can release so much for people.
This is the first meditation I have ever done where there is no ‘goal’ or ‘invested outcome’ attached – just simply a moment to connect to the body and an opportunity to feel the difference. With this, it gives us the choice, carry this feeling and wisdom with us always, or not. The gentle breath meditation just made me more aware of what I already have – a breath I can feel, a body I can connect too. There is nothing outside of me that makes this experience more or less. It is very powerful and as you say Mary Louise – has inspired thousands to choose differently.
“Isn’t it just amazing how one movement – connecting to the breath, can release so much for people.” – yes and isn’t it also amazing that we all don’t naturally live that way and are often not even aware of how disconnected we are and what a humongously gorgeous difference it makes when we reconnect.
The Benhayon family never fail to amaze me in their dedication to love and serving no matter what.
The dedication to love and service lived by the Benhayon family is truly living and expressing God on earth, they are an absolute gift to inspire us all in our daily living.
I agree, it’s a phenomenal technique to simply reconnect when we feel a bit out of sorts. Sometimes it’s quite revealing how we get used to being in a way even though it’s not really our preferred way so when we get to the point where we feel there is something more to us and we want to reclaim that this is a great way to come back.
A lovely blog, thank you Karen. I remember the first time I practised the Gentle Breath Meditation -almost immediately I went straight to my heart and I felt totally different. I had for many years practised yoga and various meditations but had never felt this connection to my heart, to my self, before – at best the other meditations had helped me to ‘calm’; at worst they took me completely away from myself, into a world of pictures.
Yes Anne, I too practised yoga and many different forms of meditation and breathing but not until I started to practise the Gentle Breath Meditation as taught by Serge Benhayon did I feel a deep and sustained connection with myself. The simplicity and instant availability of this practise means we constantly have a tool with which to support ourselves, whatever the situations that arise to confront us throughout our day.
I remember eight years ago when I started doing the Gentle Breath Meditation how challenging I would find it to connect and feel my body. I would go in my head into thoughts all the time and fought myself to not have to feel how my body actually felt, how tired and depressed I was. The simple technique, of breathing in and out through my nose gently, supported me slowly, slowly come into observation and play with conscious presence (meaning being present with what you do).
Now the meditation is not something I sit down for, breathing tenderly is part of how I breath. I do stop and check how I feel on a very regular basis so I can nurture myself and make loving choices.
I can relate to this Monika, the simplicity of the technique was very challenging for me as I kept going into thoughts. But in persevering the technique became like a personal coach for me showing me where I was in my connection to myself. The GBM may seem simple but what it offers is profound and a much needed foundation from where to build true presence and awareness.
When I first started doing the Gentle Breath Meditation I also observed how busy my mind was and that in itself was very useful. It was through becoming aware of how racy I was, that I was able to start to make choices in my life to change that. I also was able to observe things like how what I ate made a difference to my breath.
I know what you mean Katie; it is great to have a baseline of normality. The world is always in a spin and sometimes we get caught up in it, it is so steadying to reconnect to your breath, it does not stop the world from spinning but you don’t have to get affected by it.
Thank you for sharing this Karen, I am noticing more when I am in challenging situations I lose the gentle rhythm of my breath and am less able to feel and deal with what is before me. In these times I find that I can reclaim my gentle breath and be more engaged and alert.
I sometimes suffer from claustraphobia if I am on a train or bus during rush hour and also when I am flying. And I find the gentle breath meditation an amazing tool to support me during these situations if panic sets in. As a person who has anxiety issues, although a lot less than she used to, it is an amazing thing to practise any time during the day, just to get myself back to a bit of stillness. And theres no need to be sitting down crossed legs in front of a lit candle.
“I did not know how to truly care for and support myself in the world. I followed suit with family and friends, looking to them for guidance, thinking they may know the answers.” I can so relate to this sentence. I was always looking to other people for the answers, albeit friends, family, books etc. And I can still see that I continue doing that a lot of the time, not trusting in my own body, which essentially carries all the information I need in how to take care of myself. Through the gentle breath meditation this relationship between me and my body is growing, and as it does, the more I listen to it as it guides me to how to look after it in the way it deserves.
Great point Eleanor, the gentle breath mediation wakes us up to the possibility that the answers are there within us all along.
I agree Shirley. I think we are conditioned that way since very young and our religions are generally based on the belief that there is some force or figurehead outside of us that knows better.
Who would have thought that gently breathing could have such profound effects yet the testimonies are living proof of the difference this particular technique makes. This gentle breath could be taught in schools across the world, it would be a remarkable thing for young people to feel as it would empower them to feel connected to themselves and not be so affected by the world around them.
I agree Stephen imagine if every day was started with the gentle Breath Meditation, then again, when they returned from morning break and then directly after lunch. Wow what a difference this would make to the kids, teachers and all the staff.
That would be fantastic, a gentle breath meditation in schools, and is so needed.
How amazing would that be Stephen, it would change the whole education system not to mention the knock on effect of our workforce. The Gentle Breath Meditation – something so simple, yet so profound.
I know someone who is teaching the gentle breath in schools and the results have been astounding. The kids comments on how they feel after doing it are so spot on and it makes such a difference in a place where the energy is usually just full on.
It is true Stephen, the Gentle Breath Meditation is very powerful, very simple and has profoundly beneficial effects. It is a tool of enormous benefit to everyone. I look forward to the day that people start to wake up to this – introducing it in schools would be a wonderful start.
Yes, Mary, the Gentle Breath Meditation is so very profound and powerful, it has helped me turn my life around from a person who was always contracted, driving myself physically and mentally to not feel how miserable I actually was. I have become so much more aware of what I was not wanting to face and have dealt with so much, I am so much lighter and freer in all ways, live such a different, very joyful life now.
“I felt there was always something missing in me, and there was… I was missing a connection to myself.” That feels so true for me too, Karen, for so much of my life I felt that I just did not fit in with others in the world. Not that I now want to necessarily ‘fit in’ with everyone else. But after meeting Serge Benhayon and attending Universal Medicine presentations, and especially after experiencing the Gentle Breath Meditation, I have been gradually connecting to myself, still very much a work in progress, and there are many levels to go. This meditation is so very powerful, though very simple, and I have learned so much about myself through using it, it is so needed by humanity nowadays. Since I have been using it, I have come to connect far more deeply with others, I no longer feel I do not fit in, although I don’t necessarily live the way many others do, I live as I feel is right for me.
I too was missing the connection with my self Beverly and had been searching for this every-where out side of myself for 20 years and at the first Heart Chakra Workshop I attended now called Livingness 1 I re-connected back to my essence. It was a profound moment that I will never forget. Since then I have been discarding all the ways I live which keep me away from being in my essence every single moment.
Sounds like an altogether good thing, this ‘not fitting in’. There is certainly much going on in the world and society that is not worth fitting into at all.
Yes Gabriele, it’s kind of comical that we try to fit into a world that is in dire need of change and true love, when we are that love the world needs, yet we still mould and shape it in a way that we think is more acceptable. In doing that, love then is not love at all.
ha ha Gabriele that is so true – there is a lot of disharmony, ill health and abuse going on in the world and much that I would not want to fit in with!
I was also missing the connection with myself, “I felt there was always something missing in me, and there was… I was missing a connection to myself.” The gentle breath meditation helps to re-establish this connection.
I will never forget the first time I tried the gentle breath mediation. I had tried so many different meditation(s) in my time, so I didn’t really expect anything that different. But with that first gentle breath, I instantly felt that this was something different. I could feel I was connecting to something deeper inside of me, and felt a sense of stillness that was very foreign to me at that time as I was in constant anxiety and drive. Since then I haven’t gone back to any of the other types of mediations that I had practised.
I had a very similar experience, Eleanor. Having tried many other techniques, I did not really expect the Gentle Breath to be as different as it is, but right off the bat I could tell that this was very different to other meditation techniques. And once I started practicing it regularly and deepening with it, there opened up in me a way of being that allowed me to start making changes that literally transformed my life.
I never got very far with other meditation techniques, as soon as I tried clearing my mind it flooded with thoughts. The gentle breath meditation is different, it’s very practical and suited to real life. If I feel out of sorts or anxious or stressed, a few moments of gentle breathing melts this. After many years of using this tool my breath is generally very gentle and steady. Very supportive simple tool essential for life.
I found the same Eleanor, in that I never really ‘got’ any other meditation. They felt complicated and long, and I would basically get bored. But the gentle breath meditation changed all that for me. Here was a beautifully simple technique through which I could connect deeply with my body and a stillness that I had not felt before. And the more I did it, the more I was able to bring it into my daily life which then began to change in ways that I would never have believed were possible. A beautiful and transformative technique that is available to all.
I found that there was part of me that wanted the gentle breath meditation to be more complicated – more indulged and extreme (such as i had experienced before) but i soon realised that this was basically a story i put in between myself and my connection to God.
I also had tried many other forms of meditation prior to experiencing the Gentle Breath Meditation but had not continued with them or practiced them much as they did not seem to deliver any lasting stillness in the mind or the body. I also could feel there was a difference with the Gentle Breath Meditation immediately in that it supported me to discover a deeper level of stillness within myself and also the effects carried over into the rest of my daily life and I noticed that I was generally more still for the whole 24 hours not just when I was doing the meditation.
I found the Gentle Breath Meditation supports me to check in with myself whereas other meditations I tried in the past seemed to be more about checking out!
…another great thing about the Gentle Breath Meditation is it only takes a few minutes. I can almost instantly connect or max of 10 to 15 mins and there are no weird body postures – I can stand, lie down or sit comfortably in chair. The check out meditations I mentioned often were very long, numbing and uncomfortable.
This is so true Nicola! I found the exact same thing. Other mediations I tried would encourage an emptying of the mind, and seem to go on forever, whereas the Gentle Breath Meditation supports us to connect to the body by being consciously present with every breath and in every moment, never losing connection with what we are feeling and can be done wherever we are in just a few minutes. it is the only form of meditation that I have ever truly understood and that has supported me in full, to connect to my true self.
For many years I practiced Buddhist meditations but on my first Gentle Breath Meditation I instantly felt a difference. From that day it has become my foundation in life that has supported and enabled me to re-connect to myself, which no other meditation ever did.
You’ve described my introduction to the Gentle Breath Meditation to a tee Eleanor. I’d tried many different meditations over many years and although I tried (!), could not sustain any of them for any length of period, and none of them had any lasting results (i.e. me and how I was in life invariably stayed the same!). However the Gentle Breath Meditation was a totally different experience that didn’t ask me to do anything, empty my mind or think of positive thoughts etc. It simply enabled me in a matter of minutes to connect to me – something I had not felt for a long time when I first started, but which has enabled me to rebuild and return to this connection much more consistently. The Gentle Breath Meditation is a great marker for me whenever I’m feeling a bit off, and quickly connects me to me.
For some reason I stopped doing the gentle breath meditation for a while until recently a practitioner lovingly suggested that I made it part of my daily rhythm again, which is what I have done. And I am amazed at what changes it has made! I certainly have much more awareness of my body and it’s fragility and delicateness, therefore changing the way I treat it in my day to day life. It has also made me feel more real and present in myself. There is more space in my body and my mind.
So true Eleanor, the benefits we can receive from the Gentle Breath Meditation are truly profound, so simple in its approach and yet it can support us greatly to deal with our everyday lives.
This is an awesome moment to identify and then conquer and the Gentle Breath Meditation is worth trying if you feel lost to your own connection…”I felt there was always something missing in me, and there was… I was missing a connection to myself.”
What I realize, how fast I forget to breathe my own breath during the day, because I lose myself in the doing. And when I do the gentle breath, I can’t feel my breath in my body. I can feel the vibration in my hands, but not in the rest of my body. It is an ongoing process for me and I’m curious how it will develop, when I continue exercising gentle breath.
Years ago I was into visualization meditation which I thought was good at the time but there was still no real focus on the body and how it was feeling as you were too busy going somewhere in your mind. The gentle breath meditation is so simple and very effective for bringing you back to a truer more loving rhythm quickly.
It’s it funny how we can spend our entire life looking outside ourselves for someone to give us the answers rather than choose to connect and listen to our own inner wisdom. I have found the gentle breath meditation an extremely powerful and life changing tool that supports to me to surrender to and embrace what lies within.
Beautiful sharing Karen. The gentle breathe mediation is so powerful yet do simple. I too have found it to be as connecting and as profound as you share. Nine years ago it was my introduction to taking the steps towards being more with me. Through the support and reflection of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine and my commitment to bring my deepening into my daily life activities I feel amazing and have a glorious life full of beautiful relationships.
Yes, a great tool to discover who we truly are before the imposition of the outside world.
Yes, I love that there is nothing mystical or spiritual about the gentle breath meditation and that it is not associated with any form of dogma. It is simply about us and provides a tool to reconnect back to the divinity we are.
The best thing about the gentle breath meditation is that it is so simple. It is a time to stop and come back to ourselves which is so needed as almost everything else in this world is designed to take us out.
Yes, Kate, this simple tool brings me back every time, and I can then be guided by the wisdom of my body rather than measuring and calculating life via my mind.
What i have noticed, over time, since being introduced to the Gentle Breath Meditation, is that you can begin to consciously incorporate, a gentle breath during your usual, natural breathing and activity. It is a great way to support and reconnect with yourself, your presence, your body, while you are moving your body in activity. The Gentle Breath when incorporated like this brings a union between the body and awareness, giving you moments during your day, to reconnect, recharge and a stop moment if you are getting too carried away or busy with something you are doing. Taking a gentle breath moment is a superb self-caring tip, for anytime and anywhere.
‘The Gentle Breath Meditation™ has developed a deeper connection to me, where I naturally want to take care of my health and my body with a loving responsibility to address all areas in my life now.’ It is amazing to understand how disconnected we can be from ourselves – choosing to numb and distract to almost deliberately avoid it. It is like ignoring your best friend and it hurts us deeply. Getting to know ourselves is the greatest experience in the world.
”The Gentle Breath Meditation™ has developed a deeper connection to me, where I naturally want to take care of my health and my body with a loving responsibility to address all areas in my life now.” …… the more we connect to our selves, to the love that we are, the more love we bring to everything that we do, the more love we live with the more space we create for even more love.
‘I felt there was always something missing in me, and there was… I was missing a connection to myself.’ …. I feel most of us could put our hands up for this one, Karen, which shows what an absolute gift the Gentle Breath Meditation is. Everyone can do it, you only need 5 – 10 minutes and you can do it anywhere and the reward is truly exquisite.
After 10 years of another type of meditation that took 40 (at times excruciating) minutes a day, I had really no results besides a lot of lost time! Then I tried the Gentle Breath meditation, and within moments I felt an ease and contentment I had never felt before. This meditation is so simple, it has no struggle, and no demands. It truly supports and has without question changed the path of my life.
I have found myself pondering over the words ‘I did not know how to truly care for and support myself in the world.’ I know that this is the case for me too, but interesting there are times when I would have said that I was caring for myself and caring for myself in the world however it now feels like I’ve only just begun this and it’s an ever deepening process.
I too find the gentle breath meditation a simple and effective way to restore my connection with me. When I am connected to me, everything else falls into place.
Well said Lee. It also assists me to be gentler with my movements and have more conscious awareness in all that I do, therefore enhancing the quality of my day. It brings me with me into my day.
When I am connected to me everything else falls into place, absolutely agree Lee, and the beauty of this practise is that it is constantly with us, and we can choose to do it at any moment… so beautifully simple and so deeply supportive.
The simplicity of the gentle breath medicine is amazing and life changing. It has changed mine and so many in the world and brings us to the loveliness of ourselves and thus is magnified everywhere. Thank you for a beautiful sharing for the world to be aware of now too.
When I first did the Gentle Breath Meditation it stopped me in my tracks. I couldn’t believe after many years of meditation that it could be that simple and not hard. The level of connection I felt in my body led me to continue with it and put aside every other meditation practise I had ever done.
“I did not know how to truly care for and support myself in the world”. This line in your blog is great and I can relate to it. For a long time I did look outside of myself for the care and support that I thought I needed. There was always a new super food or ancient berry from a remote jungle claiming vitality, wellbeing or rejuvenating properties. There were also the latest exercise techniques to make you fitter, bigger and stronger than ever before. Whatever it was nothing truly worked until I listened to my body once I learned the way of connecting with the Gentle Breath Meditation.
This simple breath technique allowed me to feel that my body had much more tension than I realised and my mind was racy. Yet it also supported me to feel a quality of gentleness in my body. This was the meditation of all those I had tried, that helped me become honest about what was going on inside me and that there was a distinct impulse to change.
Thank you for sharing this Karen. It is amazing how something that seems so simple is such a powerful tool in reconnecting us to who we are. What really strikes me with the gentle breath meditation is that it shows me all the times that I am not breathing me. That is, all the times I am taking on everything else in the world that is not me.
I love that Lee. I can feel the power in this, choosing to breathe me feels so incredibly powerful – the other feels like giving our power away.
Not sure if its devastating or hilarious but years ago I dedicated ten days to meditating for long hours and at the end of it felt flaky and ungrounded in my body. In comparison, after only five or so minutes of the Gentle Breath Meditation, including the first time I tried it, it felt like the heavens were descending into my body, I felt solid yet light at the same time and a recognition that this was the connection to myself that I had been missing.
It really is incredible how powerful this type of meditation is and that if not done in a way that reconnects us back to the deepest part of ourselves only serves to increase the separation we are already in.
It’s amazing that such a simple tool can make such a difference to how we are with ourselves and others. Yet it absolutely does.
Absolutely Amanda. It brings us back to discovering that putting ourselves first is vital and taking care of ourselves in this way has knock-on benefits to all those around us.
The Gentle Breath Mediation is such a powerful way to get us to stop and bridge us back to true ourselves and body , putting a stop or a halt to just being driven by and mind and the thoughts that come into it constantly trying to keep us in motion .
‘I felt there was always something missing in me, and there was… I was missing a connection to myself.’ Yes Karen spot on. This is an important and awesome awareness to come to.
I agree – amazing just how ofetn we focus our search outside of ourselves in the hope of finding the answer. It does not make any sense.
Karen I couldn’t help but notice that you work in aged care. With what you have so beautifully shared how your life is changing because of the connection you now have with yourself, how the way you care for you and your relationships, this must be happening equally in your work. Working in aged care is no walk in the park, but I can feel that you would be bringing another way of working in aged care because of what you have learnt about yourself through your experience shared here. In fact the exquisiteness we feel when we connect to who we are travels everywhere with us and in what we are doing.
I had done a few meditations before the Gentle Breath Meditation and would try to do them on my own without being in a class and I always found it difficult and after one go, I would stop. It felt like I had to force myself to do these techniques. My experience with the Gentle Breath Meditation was completely different. I was blown away with it’s simplicity and ease of use, that I must have done it everyday for 2 years. What I felt was that I was meeting me and in meeting me I discovered a beauty that in fact had always been there. This I never experienced with any other type of meditation. Connecting to me, knowing me, has and continues to change my life.
The Gentle Breath Meditation resonates with the vibration of the inner heart. Simply beautiful.
Yes, absolutely exquisite. I love how this very simple, short blog about a very simple yet wondrous technique has yielded so many beautiful insights and comments – we could keep going for days unpacking all there is to see and say. There is an absolute majesty and poetry to this. The beauty of the Gentle Breath Meditation is reflected in the blog and its comments, and vice versa, like the endless reflection of a mirror in a mirror.
It is a wonderful support for connecting with our inner being and paying attention to how our bodies are feeling “I felt there was always something missing in me, and there was… I was missing a connection to myself. I found the Gentle Breath Meditation™ to be a simple and beautiful technique that held me in my body with a connection to myself, with a moment to stop and breathe and to feel what is going on inside me.” This is beautifully expressed; how often do we offer ourselves a moment to be still and become aware of our breath? The way we breathe impacts on how we feel and the choices we make. It is hugely empowering to take the time to become familiar with it and chose to breathe gently.
There is something revealing about a person’s quality of breath, be it deep, shallow, ragged, light, noisy, gasping, wheezing, breathless and so on. It feels like there is something fundamental about it too, in terms of indicating one’s state of health, and inner harmony and connection to self – and to the in breath and out breath of God. Are we in harmony with the All or somewhat out of step?
A gorgeous testimonial of the power of one’s breath. We cannot underestimate this simple technique as it delivers us to the All we seek within.
Beautifully said Rachael.
Agreed. When I read Rachael’s comment I could feel how rich ‘the All we seek within’ is and how it holds all we can ever need. The beauty of the Gentle Breath Meditation lies in its simplicity yet there is an untold wealth therein.
That’s gorgeous Victoria, in your comment the depth of wealth could be felt.
Here here! I absolutely agree Rachel. For something that is so simple, the effects are profoundly life changing.
The first time I practised the gentle breath meditation it sent me to sleep. This was not so much however due to the meditation as it was the fact that the gentle breath meditation was giving me pause to stop and feel where my body was at – and at that point it was deeply exhausted.
Yes, Adam, the Gentle Breath Meditation assists us in our return to the truth within our bodies.
I have had a similar experience on many occasions with Gentle Breath Meditation’s close cousin, Esoteric Yoga. There is nothing like stopping and connecting with the body in stillness. If we allow it, the body will tell us exactly what is going on.
In my case it was the same – gentle breath always reminds me on, how exhausted my body really is. It is so easy for me to override the exhaustion with my mind, but when I do the gentle breath, I connect to my body and the body tells me exactly, where I’m at at any given point in time.
“A loving responsibility to address all areas in my life”. I love that sentence as when we start taking responsibility in one area, we have to do it in all areas. We can not leave one area behind.
Well said Mariette. Responsibility doesn’t stop or start at the front door, or the office door or indeed any door. It is something that is lived 24/7 – for us, and all our brothers.
absolutely it is a 24/7 job we have, for ourself and for everybody.
Very true Mariette – everything matters and everything affect everything.
The gentle breath meditation is very effective in connecting yourself to your essence and has helped me reduce anxiety and stress, would recommend it to anybody
Before being introduced to the Gentle Breath Meditation, I had done several different meditation techniques, and at the time I had found them somewhat successful. Sure, I felt relaxed, and I let go of tension that I was holding in my body. The Gentle Breath was something completely different. It allowed me to not only get in touch with my body and let go of tension, but through it I was able to realise my choice in how I was holding myself. This actually started me on a path towards making real changes in my life.
I agree Karen that the Gentle Breath Meditation is very powerful. I had tried many forms of meditation in the past before encountering this one through Universal Medicine and for me it is the only form of meditation I have found that really connects me to that inner stillness you describe.
Appreciate your honesty Mary. I got caught yesterday and was rattled. Re-connecting to the gentle breath brought me back and cleared harmful thoughts. An indication of how easy it is to find ourselves in an energy that is not love. Not only does it destabilise us, but gets passed on to others.
This meditation also teaches us to check in with our breath, which we can do at any moment, and through this simple attention, reconnect with ourselves.
It is incredible to feel the marked difference between one state and the other. It further confirms to me that there are 2 kinds of energy that can run us. When I do the Gentle Breath Meditation this aligns me with a harmonious and still energy as opposed to the energy that brings with it disharmonious thoughts and feelings that can plague my mind and sabotage my day.
‘I felt there was always something missing in me, and there was… I was missing a connection to myself’ My experience too Karen and I know we are not alone here. And it’s not until we re-learn how to breath our own breath again can that connection be made.
“I have realised through the Gentle Breath Meditation™ I can be another way, where I am more honest, accepting, allowing, and surrendering”.
This is very beautiful Karen, the Gentle BreathMeditation is certainly a wonderful way to bring presence and stillness.
“I have realised through the Gentle Breath Meditation™ I can be another way, where I am more honest, accepting, allowing, and surrendering of what is going on in my life, how I perceive things and want things to be in the world…”
We learn what it means to let go and surrender, our behaviours, our control of our selves and those around us…. so that we can see more clearly. This gives us the foundation to feel that it really is ok to accept and allow people and things, including our selves, to be as they are.
Yes, Emma, this deep surrendering and acceptance of things as they are, frees us up to enjoy life.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is non-imposing; it does not introduce anything to our body, a particular style or type of action, which then builds a particular energy in the body, as I was familiar with the yoga world. Rather it brings us back to the quality of who we really are, gentle, loving, kind and still. And as such, makes space for us to see all that we are not: the emotional reactions and habitual behaviours that we come to assume that we are because this is our everyday experience; when in fact these are just sitting on the surface, waiting to be acknowledged and released so we can get on with living the spacious intelligence we really are.
Yes I agree one of the key differences between the Gentle Breath Meditation and many other practices is that it comes from the foundation that we are already divine and everything we need to be. We simply just need to remove things that get in the way of the connection with that divinity, rather than we have to achieve or gain or introduce some kind of super human state.
There is a natural beauty, a divine design, when we commit to re-connecting to ourselves and deepening that connection. Through breathing gently we feel the delicateness we truly are and with this comes a natural tendency to take greater care of ourselves in a more loving and nurturing way, and this way then follows in how we are with others – where-ever we may be…it is gorgeous for everyone.
The Gentle Breath Meditation offers space to re-connect to who we truly are, to have moments of stop amongst all the busyness around us, and to appreciate the connection we have within ourselves. To take a moment to stop and breathe gently can completely change how the rest of our day plays out…it is a game changer.
I couldn’t agree with you more Paula, the Gentle Breath Meditation is a game changer, and yet so simple. Having practised all kinds of meditations for years, none of which helped me in the way the Gentle Breath Meditation has.
When we reconnect to the stillness we innately are, dealing with life becomes more simple. There is a flow to life and when we align to this rather than against it everything changes.
Karen this is such a simple and beautiful article of how the Gentle Breath Meditation has changed how you feel in life … it’s quite profound really how something so simple that doesn’t take very long can have such an impact. Thank you for sharing.
I have to admit, that I still struggle with the gentle breath meditation because due to a nose operation I don’t feel anything in my nose. I can’t feel the cold during in-breath and the warmth during the out-breath, but I won’t give up, it is an ongoing process to develop the quality of my breath.
‘It has opened my eyes to see the world with love and an understanding of myself.’ I relate to what you have written here Karen and it does not get more powerful than that.
The way we breathe is so important, we breathe thousands and thousands of times a day, it must be our most common action or movement that takes place in our body, it’s so funny that we pay so little attention to it. I find the more aware I am of my breathing, whether it’s hard, or disruptive, or tender, not only am I more aware of everything that’s going on in my body, but I’m more tender with myself and my body and the way I move. It’s quite astonishing.
I agree Meg breathing is the first movement we make in our life and the most frequent. If movement magnifies the energy in our body which it does, then it pays to be more aware of the quality of all our movements, especially the way we breathe.
The gentle breath was and has been an incredible re connection for many to a long forgotten stillness within, and as you wrote Karen it gives one a moment to be present, question and reflect. It has been a major tool for many people’s return to love and your blog is written with beautiful appreciation for this.
Here here Kim – loving the appreciation of this simple yet profound tool. I am taking this as a wake up call to allow myself more awareness in the day of my breath, it’s speed and frequency and feeling the loveliness of this activity.
I enjoy this line Karen “It has opened my eyes to see the world with love and an understanding of myself”. What a blessing the Gentle Breath Meditation has offered. Connecting to that essence within changes your perspective of life.
Very well said Rik and so true.
The gentle breath meditation is life changing, as it isn’t just the time in meditation but it can be brought into every moment of the day, it is a support to living more in connection to who we truly are.
Karen the title of your article alone says so much ‘The Gentle Breath Meditation™ – How It has Supported Me to Feel Again’. That such a simple meditation can support a person to start to feel is colossal, especially when so many of us have been shut down for so long.
A few days ago, out of curiosity I heard a meditation that a guy offers in the city where I Iive. The words were reasonable. The overall feeling listening to it (not doing it) was horrible. The Gentle Breath Meditation™ is not just a great technique. It has another advantage. When we listen to the meditation, we listen to the voice of Heaven talking to us. That changes everything.
Through the gentle breath meditation we come back to the simplicity of surrendering to oneself, moving and observing. The outside world loses salience as we concentrate in ourselves and we recover the capacity to breath our own breath and feel the pleasure of doing so.
The gentle breath meditation is an act of will to change the way the body is moving, so to impulse further movements in harmony with it.
The Gentle Breath Meditation has been the single most important tool I have used to support me in life. It’s incredible feeling the body change over time when this is applied as a regular practice and when it is made part and parcel of daily routine and rhythm.
The Gentle Breath Meditation™ is a profound support in enabling one, as you say Karen, to “be another way, where I am more honest, accepting, allowing, and surrendering of what is going on in my life, how I perceive things and want things to be in the world, and that I have a choice to self-care and make self-loving choices – like being gentle with myself instead of being hard and self-critical.”
The Gentle Breath Meditation helped me to understand how much I would be in my head and how busy my mind was, I was always thinking ahead. Slowing my mind down allowed me to know what conscious presence was and showed me how little my mind was working in sync with my body.
‘It has given me the time and space to stop and question myself, to reflect on how I have been in my day, what I have been doing, and look at what I need to change. Or let go of behaviours or emotions that no longer support me and hold me back from being more of who I am.’ …. this is beautiful, Karen.
Gentle Breath Meditation creates a gorgeous stop moment for us to feel how we are in our bodies …. have we become a little racy, is there room for a deeper connection with our selves …..
The gentle breath meditation is the gift we all can have to support us to come home to who we are inside simply beautiful to feel and be. It brings us to a moment of stop and to feel and let go of what is not us and the simplicity of returning to our own breath at one with the Universe , which we all are part of, which is love.
I agree Mary, the Gentle Breath Meditation is a great tool for helping us to recognise when we are caught up in something. About a year ago I was having a very strong anxious moment at work and when I chose to focus on breathing gently everything settled down and the anxiousness subsided.
“I felt there was always something missing in me, and there was… I was missing a connection to myself.” This is a beautiful realisation Karen, and it was one where I realised that the real me, who I truly am, was waiting there all along to be reconnected with – not missing at all, just waiting to be rediscovered.
So many gorgeous results from choosing the Gentle Breath Meditation.
The Gentle Breath Meditation was a turning point in my life. It showed me that the true me is in fact gentle. This was life changing and helped me to see that all the other stuff – the anger, the jealousy, the frustration, the hardness is not who I am at all. Allowing myself this gentleness in my life has transformed the way I live and the way I feel about myself. It has changed my relationship with others and the way I work. It has, in short, been a gorgeous revelation which has continued to unfold.
I agree wholeheartedly with what you have expressed here Karen. With my past experience of all different types of meditations I was never able to sustain meditating for any length of time. Because the Gentle Breath Meditation is so simple and produces great results it was easy to maintain. In fact throughout my day I regularly check in with my breath to ensure it is gentle which supports me to remain calm and focussed with whatever I am doing.
I agree Mary, it is very profound and the Gentle Breath Meditation has been an amazing tool at helping me reconnect to me. It is so easy to get caught up in what is going on in the world, in situations, events, feeling under-pressure because of time, etc.. and losing all sense of reality – the more I take the time to give myself the space to breathe lovingly, even if it is just for a moment, the more I am able to deal with whatever is in front of me without any of the panic or raciness that used to always be with me.
James I can relate to that too. The gentle breath meditation has been a great support for me, to bring me back to my body when I am feeling out of sort. I no longer get myself into the racy anxious feeling like I use too.
That’s great Amita, when I feel my body start to get racy I can bring myself back. It now feels an assault on my body whereas before it was normal. It is amazing when we start to listen to our bodies how much they tell us.
I have to agree James, like yourself, the more I take time to breathe gently and come back to myself the less reactive I am, allowing myself to see more clearly and to deal with whatever is in front of me.
It is one of the magical things about the Gentle Breath Meditation is how it creates a space to allow me to observe life and so understand it more rather than simply reacting to everything coming my way!
One cannot imagine the deep and sustaining changes that can occur from the very simple process that the Gentle Breath Meditation is…….one must try it for themselves to feel the benefits…..as you say James it certainly is magical.
Indeed Rosemary the benefits are massive. It is amazing how often the seemingly simplest things we do in life to support ourselves can have the biggest effect. It goes to show that when we stop trying and simply are then we have everything we could possibly want. Which blows out of the water the need to gain knowledge or find truth outside of ourselves because we already have everything within we just see it!
The Gentle Breath Meditation (GBM) is simple and powerful in that we start to connect and feel the body again and the preciousness that awaits within. I know when I was first introduced to the GBM I found it difficult to breath in and out gently as I was so racy hence my breathing was fast, but with regular practice it became easier to connect to the gentleness of the breath and return to a less stressed, anxious state allowing me to feel the stillness and harmony that naturally lies within the body.
Great refection for us all, thank you Karen. Could it be that in society many people are feeling their lives are missing something hence the rise of mental health conditions and substance abuse? It is very easy to look outside ourselves for the answers or for a quick fix to relieve our hurts yet when we connect to ourselves we can find that inner contentment which nothing can replace. The gentle breath is a fantastic tool for re-igniting who we really are.
“The more I made the Gentle Breath Meditation™ a part of my daily life, the more I realised that I was going through life holding onto and not dealing with my unexpressed feelings and emotions.” By coming back to a consistently still place within – our radar for those aspects or our lives that do not support us become clearer and with this a natural inspiration (breath) to make responsible and loving changes to the way we live.
In the experiences I have had, there are many meditations to choose from. But perhaps the question that needs to be asked is – why do we need to meditate? Could it be that modern living has come to be a way of extremes, and so we need techniques for bringing us back to the simplicity of who we are. Therefore it stands to reason that one should be most careful about the meditation they choose to practise, and ask of it if it is contributing to the intensity of life – even if by providing bliss-full moments – or is it confirming who you are as an equal and fully valid person with a body that requires deep care.
What you have shared here Shami, I experienced myself. I was fond of meditations in the past , but this was taking me away from who I truly are, until there came a time where I learned to know the gentle breath meditation and after some time realized that it is part of me when I am in gentleness with myself in my day to day life. I agree the gentle breath meditation is a reminder to the gentleness we narurally are.
A good reminder of how simple and powerful the gentle breath meditation is and that it really is a life changing technique. Never before had I even tried to be still or connect to myself until being shown how to use this wonderful tool.
Through the gentle breath meditation I first began to understand the words ‘who you truly are’. This is a concept I couldn’t understand but by connecting with my breath, and bringing my awareness to my body I started to feel a very different quality. Yes, was the start of much change in my life and my life continues to change as I re-discover more and more of who I truly am.
Vicky I love the way you express this and can relate to the feeling of finally knowing who I am through the connection I felt with the Gentle Breath Meditation.
So true Vicky, understanding ‘who we truly are’ has to come from a confirmation first and for me the gentle breath meditation is just this, a re-awakening of particles within us, a sound confirmation of our place in the universe.
Beautiful Lucinda. The simplicity of our breath connects us to so much more than we can ever imagine. Just the word universe reveals an expansiveness that can be lost and ignored in the distraction and struggle that our lives can be turned into.
That is so true Vicky, knowing who I am was never really a concept I was thinking about. What a revelation it was when I allowed myself to surrender to me and life through the gentle breath meditation, it was the start of living from a much greater awareness and understanding of myself and the world around me.
When deeply with myself and acting with gentleness, naturally my breath changes and becomes very gentle and clear itself and is a reflection if I am with myself or not. It fills my lungs fully and my body expands gracefully.
Expansion, grace, gentleness, clarity are all qualities we naturally carry within ourselves and are brought to the surface by connecting to our breath.
I love what you are saying Kerstin. When we live lovingly and in rhythm with the universe our breath flows quite naturally, it is then not so much we are breathing our own breath but we are being breathed by the universe. As being part of the whole thus in rhythm with the whole.
I made the same experiences Karen – by doing the Gentle Breath Meditation it is like all what a minute ago seemed so important and is flying all around my mind sits down and I get a free view on what is going on in my life. The most beautiful thing I perceived is the much more alive connection to my body. And so my relationship with my feelings, with myself did deepen.
It seems like a very simple technique – which it is, but also it is so much more than that!
I have listened to the Gentle Breath Meditation many times and every time is like a new awakening, there is nothing quite like it.
The gentle breath meditation was a total game changer for me, I will always remember it as one of the most important moments in my life as I felt something so powerful and simple that nothing had come close to. I really need to support myself more by doing it daily as it really is the most loving of commitments.
‘ I really need to support myself more by doing it daily as it really is the most loving of commitments.’ I agree Vanessa, it is a very loving commitment when we say no to the pull of the demands of daily life, to sit and connect, then interact with daily life from a much deeper place within.
Gentle Breath Meditation is such a beautiful simple technique, the beauty us you can do it anywhere and even just for a few minutes and it really supports us connecting to our body. I find within minutes I can drop into my body with the meditation, by connecting to my gentle breath.
Through the Gentle Breath Meditation I’m letting go of the things I once used to get through the day because now I can feel there is a deep well of support, love and acceptance within me that flows eternally.
I tried meditating once and had no idea what to do, I sat there with incense and all and felt pretty silly, it wasn’t achieving anything. When I tried the gentle breath meditation I felt completely different, I felt as though I was connecting with something inside me, rather than searching for relief in my mind.
Yes Harrison, other meditations I have tried feel a bit ridiculous to me now. The GBM didn’t feel like a meditation, more an awakening and coming home.
Beautifully said, Michelle …. I totally agree, there was a familiarity with the GBM, a feeling of returning to somewhere I’d been before, as opposed to trying to attain something outside of myself, having to trust that what someone else is saying is true. With GBM I knew it was true, I could feel the love and truth throughout my whole body.
Karen, this line really stood out for me “ I realised that I was going through life holding onto and not dealing with my unexpressed feelings and emotions.” Boy, was that perfect timing to read this, I can really relate. For me this is what is currently causing the tension and stress I feel. I’ve noticed that the Gentle Breath Mediation brings such a state of harmony and stillness into my body that any condition that is out of place, like holding onto unexpressed feelings, is clearly shown to me. Then I have an opportunity to address these things with the Gentle Breath Meditation as a support.
Whats more beautiful than gently meditating? Being gentle all the time, which will lead us to feel stillness inside ourselves, this is the gateway to our true form of expression which is the Soul, and THAT makes life a whole lot more fun.
‘this is the gateway to our true form of expression which is the Soul,’ Absolutely beautifully stated harryjwhite!
And THAT harry, is a beautiful piece of truth. The Gentle Breath Meditation™ may allow one to feel what is possible to live, but it is the consistency of living this gentleness every day that allows one to express from soul.
Nailed it kimweston2. Awesome.
Beautifully and simply expressed Harry. To allow the gentleness of breath to support us in every moment as we live out daily lives opens up a more joyful and flowing way of living, and creates space and time to have fun — in everything that we do!
Gentleness is a pathway to the soul, and you are right harryjwhite, that brings fun and lighten to life.
The beauty about the Gentle Breath Meditation is that it is only needed for about 10 minutes! – no more ‘getting lost’ for a couple of hours on a meditation. The Gentle Breath Meditation is so useful because it comes from an understanding that we are energy. There is a lot of life to be lived, so to take the time to stop and be gentle is great, and then we can take it with us wherever we go.
Thankyou Karen for your blog, it’s highlighted for me both the simplicity and the power of the Gentle Breath Meditation, which is so easy to integrate into the day. Unlike most meditations it relies solely on me and my breath and I find that I can continue with the gentle breath throughout my day as I go about tasks. This has a powerful effect on my body and mind settling me down if I feel stressed, and supports me to stay connected to myself. The gently breathing also has a great effect on my vitality levels.
Love this Karen thanks for sharing. What makes the gentle breath so effective is the fact that it is all about the body and not the mind. It is a much needed re-calibration and rest for our body that naturally wants gentleness but is never given the space to breathe in all of daily life. How often do we clock what our body is up to during the day? I know before I started doing the gentle breath meditation I was trying to push away the awareness of my body and not feel what I was feeling all of the time!
What is really amazing is that the Gentle Breath Meditation is just one of the many tools Serge Benhayon has developed that truly provide support for people. Serge has developed many things that have all profoundly changed my life, including the Sacred Esoteric Healing modalities, his books, audio study series, and so on. It’s a moment of true appreciation to just simply take in all that Serge has developed to support humanity, including the Gentle Breath Meditation.
Yes Marika,it is powerful to know we have a choice and in every moment. We are so supported by our bodies. It is inspiring the way you refer to the connection to yourself through the Gentle Breath Meditation as keeping you honest and reminding you to return to a responsible and loving way of being and living. Beautiful.
The gentle breath meditation is such a simple, wonderful tool to use to come back to myself. It makes no imposition on me, just brings me back to me when I lose myself, and get distracted by all that is going on around me, just a few minutes of the gentle breath meditation is all that is needed. What a different world we would live in if we all used this meditation to still us from the constant doing that we indulge in rather than feel what is going on in our lives.
I so appreciate that Serge Benhayon has given me back my body! My developing awareness of my body is the only way that I can connect to the truth and this now is so obvious. When ever my mind kicks in to rationalise I know I am off track and need to first come back to my body. The GBM supports this and I have come to love my breath and how it symbolises my connection with the truth of who I am.
I have come to love my breath too Bernadette. I love the way my gentle breath caresses the tip of my nose ever so sweetly on the in-breath, and supports me to expand and surrender more deeply into my body on the out-breath.
Karen thank you for your beautiful sharing of how powerful it is to have a tool that supports us to re-connect to our essence. The beauty of the Gentle Breath Meditation is that it can be practiced anywhere at any time when needed to connect our bodies and ourselves through our breath. We then are able to breathe and move with our presence at hand, feel the quality of our delicateness and stillness, through which we are able to develop a marker of how it feels to be and move in connection with our essence.
I agree Karen, The Gentle Breath Meditation brought back to me the ability to feel again. Feeling life from my body has a more open fuller understanding of life instead of the thinking and or reacting to life which caught me the vicious cycle of doing the same thing again and again.
So true Rik Connors, the gentle breath wakes up the particles in our bodies, hence bringing greater sensitivity and as you say a fuller, more complete understanding of the effects of our choices.
Yes, Rik me too. The Gentle Breath Meditation is a simple antidote to a busy chaotic mind, bringing us back into our body and in touch with what we are truly feeling.
‘Coming back into our body’, how empowering this is. And I’ll never forget the deliciousness I felt when I first experienced this when I was first introduced to the Gentle Breath Meditation. It has really helped me to develop a much more loving and caring relationship with my body, and continues to inspire me to appreciate and nurture the divine vessel that it is.
I will never forget when I first did the gentle breath meditation. I had never meditated before and the feeling was an instant stillness or settlement in my body to the busyness I was in and had always being in. This tool changed my life from there on. I connected to my essence instead of the numbing, checking out and distracting devices I had only knew before this. This tool is profound.
I agree Rik, this tool is profound. Like a hammer might be an essential tool for a carpenter, the Gentle Breath meditation is for me now one of the essentials in my tool-kit of life.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is profound. It seems impossible that such a simple tool can change your life, but as we can see from this blog, it is not only possible, but proven in the lives of those who use it.
I can relate to that – I was so caught in my victim role and since I started to do the gentle breath, I realized I can breathe my own breath and empower myself. Nobody out there has to give us something, we can empower ourselves through our breath and the way we live.
Through the Gentle Breath Meditation I became aware that I can actually breathe my own breath instead of letting the world dictate me and determining my breath.
I agree Esther, so many things and situations every day can have an effect on my breathing – such as anxiety, nervousness, emotions and so on, so that it is very precious to claim back my natural, unloaded breath. This then has a lovely effect not just on me, but on the world, causing people around me get inspired to settle down as well – connecting as well to their natural breathing. 🙂 So we turn the game around! Instead of ‘the world’ effecting us – we effect the world.
Beautifully said Sandra, by breathing our own breath we bring a steadiness and calmness that lets people feel that there is another way. It is a reflection we very much need, that inspires.
Beautifully said, Esther, ‘ I became aware that I can actually breathe my own breath’ – so much in life tries to tell us how we should be, what we should look like, what’s wrong with us ….. through the gentle breath meditation and feeling my innate gorgeousness, I have learnt to trust in my own wisdom and have the confidence to simply be who I am.
Wonderful expressed Esther – and then the blaming of other people stops. Gentle Breath supports us to take responsibility for all our actions.
Thank you Karen for your blog, I to appreciate the Gentle Breath Meditation in it simplicity and power, a practise, that can at anytime, bring us back to our body and connection with us our inner heart, feeling the stillness that resides within.
The gentle breath meditation is a great tool for bringing you back to your body and feeling the real you again. It works wonderfully for me.
I love how you are not asked to be anything but reconnect to that breath you were born with, I think that is the most tangible image the breath of a new born baby where they are so still and at ease in there bodies beautiful, we all started with that and we can return to it also.
Oh Vanessa, you capture beautifully the essence of the breath and the absolute purity that we know of the newborn and which in truth never leaves us. Thank you.
This is what it is all about, to return to the natural innocence that we once had when we were a baby. Breathing is the most natural part of our existence here on earth, yet there’s little to no understanding that in the way we breath we are actually aligning to the Universe and to it’s consciousnesses. Of course when we’ve chosen 30, 40, 50 years of not being connected to ourselves, it takes some time, a lot of understanding, support and Love to come back. Letting our body guide us.
After having tried many kind of meditations, also one with 3 million people in India, the Gentle Breath meditation feels like coming home. Nowhere to go, no weird kind of breathing, no intense sitting positions but just me, breathing in my natural gentleness and the love that I am, and breathing out, sharing this with the world.
I agree Mariette – the Gentle Breath Meditation feels very natural. I remember the first time I tried the Gentle Breath Meditation it felt like I was truly breathing in full for the first time in a long time. And I could not help but want to develop the exquisiteness I was feeling from the connection to myself.
yes I remember the first time as well, and I was like: huh, is this it? Is it really that simple? Yes, it is, there is no doing or trying with meditation and that is why all the other meditations I tried did not work for me.
Carola the exquisiteness you talk about is a perfect way to sum up the feeling. I too could not but help myself wanting to develop that deeper connection to me. It reminded me of how I would feel as a young toddler.
Makes those posture finding, breathtaking intense experiences of so-called meditation feel and sound like a complete decoy from the truth Mariette! Simplicity is so beautiful and brings things back to truth.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is an amazing technique to re-learn to appreciate the beauty of simplicity and the fact that there is nothing more beautiful than being with ourselves and feeling the movement we are initiating.
Very true bernadetteglass, we have created an illusion that for things to be worthwhile, or ‘good’ they need to be hard and ‘painful’ to achieve …. ‘no pain, no gain’ ….. Gentle Breath Meditation completely exposes this for the ridiculous lie that it is.
Absolutely Mariette, i have tried many meditations though-out my life and always felt like i was trying to achieve something, trying to get somewhere. The gentle breath meditation is a gateway to everything that is already within us – there is no try, simply a confirmation of all that we feel is true.
I agree lucindag. The Gentle Breath Meditation gives us the space to truly reconnect with ourselves, come back to the body and feel and see all that we have lived where we have not been connected. It gives us an opportunity and new marker to choose to live a different and more loving way.
Mariette, i have also tried many different meditations and i always struggled with them; trying to visualise things; say mantras; sit in really uncomfortable positions for a long time – i found the whole experience very painful. The gentle breath meditation is completely different, it actually works, is not painful and feels amazing – I feel calm and deeply surrendered afterwards.
Try meditating for hours, which I did several times. Apart from the fact that it is very uncomfortable, for me it was a great escape from life. In all those hours of meditating, I could have connected with people and be fully in the world.
I remember hearing Serge say once that he likes to lie down to do the gentle breath meditation so that he can feel his body, this was completely revelatory to me after sitting for hours cross legged in an uncomfortable position listening to a guru.
Me too, I remember that as well, as I was like ‘Lying down? Seriously?’. What kind of easy meditation is that? it just showed me how I have made meditation into something complex..
This blog and these comments are all gold.. they are proof of the fact that we can all be living miracles, literally turning our lives around for the better by a simple choice in every moment. It is amazing how simple yet so power-full the Gentle Breath Meditation truly is and I like many have literally changed my whole life and way of being for the better through simply living more connected to who I truly am inside me
Yes Joshua – the Gentle Breath Meditation offers us all a way to experience the essence of who we are, to re-connect to the stillness and space that is innately within us. So power-full in it’s simplicity.
No more sitting in a cave, on our own for years on end ….. gentle breath meditation is just that, a very gentle meditation, focussing our breath to re-connect to the love and truth that lies within us all.
ch1956 your comment was also power-full in it’s simplicity.
I can feel your joy in your expression Joshua and I resonate with it absolutely. We have found our true home and know it because it is the love we are made of! It’s who we are! True celebration 24/7!
Indeed Joshua our in breath and out breath are confirmations of who we are & how we live in the world – humanity has forgotten the power of confirmation and the Gentle Breath meditation is the gateway.
We (humanity) tend to create systems that are made to perform and deliver thinking this is efficiency, all the while forgetting that natural and sustainable systems ebb and flow no different to our breath and the ocean.
Indeed Abby, i was reading about blood pressure the other day and as i read i realised that the way that blood is pumped around the body by the heart is measured by the motion phase (Systolic blood pressure) and the repose phase (Diastolic blood pressure) – the natural flow is there already mirrored by the movements within our body.
Beautifully expressed and the truth, Lucinda; “our in breath and out breath are confirmations of who we are & how we live in the world – humanity has forgotten the power of confirmation and the Gentle Breath meditation is the gateway.” Such a simple technique free available for everyone proving a the first steps on our way home to divinity.
Beautifully expressed Joshua. How simply we can turn our lives around in this way. I feel your celebration, thank you for sharing.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is a profound and very simple technique that anyone can access anywhere at any time. Gold is there within us all and the Gentle Breath offers the opportunity to uncover that which gets in the way of truly feeling our own inner treasure.
I remember the first few times I tried the Gentle Breath Meditation, feeling this beautiful warm glow within and my shock when I realised that I was feeling my own love – I couldn’t believe that I’d had access to so much ‘treasure’ all along without even realising it.
Beautifully said Donna. ‘Gold is there within us all’ and we can only discover this gold buy going within, through which our breath is the passageway that connects us to all gold within that we can then share with all. The Gentle Breath Meditation offers us the opportunity to develop this connection to ourselves through our connection to our breath.
It certainly is accessible for All where we may be and what ever we may be doing. It is such a fantastic tool to stop, connect and feel what is going on and to support us to come back to the body instead of living from the head. The mind, if given an opportunity, will run like wild fire and the body gets left behind along with our connection to our Soul. Soul is stillness and the emanation and expression of God in and through us.
‘Gold is there within us all..’. Very true and the equalness that this awareness gives access to is simply joy-full to feel. A real treasure trove.
Beautiful, Karen, it shows how aware you already were at the beginning when you recognised the changes in your friend and took the chance to ask. I notice this a lot in life: There is a foundation from a former choice and on that I can grow more of the same. Works in both directions – for or against me!
Karen, the change around in your life that you describe is extraordinary, from someone who ‘realised that I was going through life holding onto and not dealing with my unexpressed feelings and emotions’ and now that you have an understanding of yourself and the world ‘It has opened my eyes to see the world with love and an understanding of myself.’, clearly shows the power of this very simple technique, the Gentle Breath Meditation, and shows how much we can support ourselves, how it’s really about taking the time and space to stop, be gentle with ourselves and breathe, to return to breathing our own breathe, to being us in the world, not having the world in us.
“… return to breathing our own breathe, to being us in the world, not having the world in us.” This is so true monicag2. If we are not breathing our own breath, then what are we breathing? The answer: everything but us! This is what I love about the gentle breath, it brings me back to me.
I agree Lee and I really resonate with this….” I have realised through the Gentle Breath Meditation™ I can be another way, where I am more honest, accepting, allowing, and surrendering of what is going on in my life, how I perceive things and want things to be in the world, and that I have a choice to self-care and make self-loving choices – like being gentle with myself instead of being hard and self-critical.” Sometimes in the thick of a difficult situation we feel so powerless. This is not true, we always have a choice and how simple is it to just breathe gently for a few minutes?
Lee, this is super true and something I can feel today, how when I allow myself to breathe another’s rhythm or breathe the world the huge impact I have on my body and I love the timing of this today to remind me once again that it’s about breathing my own breathe and the beauty I can appreciate today is that my body shows very clearly when I don’t do that; and there is nothing wrong in this, it shows cause and effect so clearly and offers us an opportunity to stop once again and reconnect to us and our own breathe.
Anywhere, any time, any timezone, the Gentle Breath Meditation has given me the time and space to stop and connect to myself, to reflect on how I have been in my day.
Nicolesjardin, that’s so true, when we need to take a moment to rest from our busy days we can simply stop and connect to our gentle breath.
Its true Nicole, it is great for travel or work. A few minutes of connection can change everything.
Yes, in a lift or waiting in cues at the supermarket is another excellent way to re-connect with the Gentle Breath Meditation. There’s no excuse. Even just going to the bathroom gives us enough stop time.
And in that instant that we are challenged by something, or someone, and choose to take a moment to stop, breathe and connect, through the very choice to connect, we will know the loving/true way to be.
Thank you for sharing Karen. It really is incredible how powerful just stopping and focusing on our breath can be, and the effectiveness of this technique also goes to show just how much we tend to live in motion and stress! Coming back to ourselves and touching base with how we/our body feels is not as hard as I/a lot of people might first think; sometimes all it really requires is for us to slow down our jumpy thoughts enough to focus on our breath, and from there it’s impossible not to feel what quality we’re sitting/walking/talking/eating/doing things in.
Susie, on reading your comment ‘ we tend to live in motion and stress!’, it really struck me how motion and stress has become a normal way of life for most and because so many people live this way then there are very few reflections for us to see an alternative way to live. That’s why the Benhayon family are so mesmerizing because they are living, breathing moments of continuous stop, in motion.It’s as if time falls back towards them.
That’s a gorgeous description of them Alexis and so true. They are truly mesmerising. I have realised it takes a great big change in life to stop the drive and momentum that I have lived in. The Gentle Breath teaches me to come from the heart and not rely so much on the head to push me into perpetual, stressful motion.
So true Susie. I feel like with a couple of gentle breaths, not matter what the situation is, I can reconnect to me and then the whole situation changes.
Beautiful Susie, I have worked with school students and taught them this gentle breath.
They have loved it and said they greatly benefitted from it, as their lives can get so stressful. I particularly love this …..”All else did not matter while doing this meditation – nothing to pull me into thinking, going anywhere or doing anything. I have found a loving way to connect back to myself and my body that I can incorporate into my daily life at any time. It can be for a few minutes or more / longer, depending on how I feel.”
I agree, Susie, this technique highlights we live in motion, in stress, in disregard of our bodies and not being present with what we do. The quality of everything we do is affected by this and not only impact us, but everyone around us. The ‘stop-connect-feel’ technique you mention is very powerful in changing this run in a threadmill way of living.
So simple and so available is this way of breathing it seems crazy that it is not something that we all know and practise as a natural part of life. The Gentle Breath is a way of breathing that lets us feel the quality we are expressing through our bodies and minds, allowing us to make the necessary adjustments to deepen our connection to ourselves. Choosing to stop, feel, and to breathe gently allows profound and deep understanding and healing to take place.
Although life keeps forever challenging me and pushing the buttons that can have me lose my composure, bringing doubt and self critic, and although at times unhealed issues within me triggers them from within me, what I have learned through the Gentle Breath Meditation never abandons me. I will forever know that marker of connection and awareness within my body, I will forever know the difference in my body when something is true, harmonious and supports my connection and when something is sabotaging that connection and disempowering. This support has been invaluable in my life.
With self-awareness, Golnaz, we connect to disharmony within much more quickly and can do something about it. The beauty of this blog is in the title, ‘The Gentle Breath Meditation – How it supported me to feel again’. This truly is a gift. Before I knew there was a choice to truly feel myself, by connecting to the gentle breath, I was frequently out of sorts and in disharmony. This was how I lived my life. I’m still learning to stop, feel first and connect to the gentle breath that’s always there within us.
Absolutely Golnaz “This support has been invaluable in my life”. With the GB Meditation we access the truth of us and building this feeling in the body into our daily lives brings great changes.
I agree Golnaz. Through the gentle breath meditation I not only have a marker of how it feels to be truly connected, I have a simple way to reestablish this connection.
Yes Lee the Gentle Breath Meditation is so truly simple and totally available, reestablishing connection is just a gentle breath away.
“It has opened my eyes to see the world with love and an understanding of myself.” beautiful Karen.
Emily I love that line too, there’s such a deep beauty in life when we are totally present and feel lovely within ourselves.
“When I breathed in gently through my nose, I could feel my body let go, I felt a place in me that felt at ease, an opening of quietness and stillness and I felt a space of freedom from all my woes. ” Wonderful description. This meditation has so much to offer in all its simplicity. Amazing how it’s often the ridiculously simple actions that enable the greatest changes for a deeper experience of life.
Very beautiful description Irena. Love that line.
Wow Karen, what a testament to the awesome support we can give ourselves through the Gentle Breath Meditation. “It has given me the time and space to stop and question myself, to reflect on how I have been in my day, what I have been doing, and look at what I need to change. Or let go of behaviours or emotions that no longer support me and hold me back from being more of who I am.” – so simple yet so powerful!
Before coming to the Gentle Breath Meditation, I had tried several other ‘styles’ of so- called meditation that, looking back could not ever deliver what I discovered with GBM. The simple difference being the choice to connect to, rather than escape from, me.
It is the simplest of things that can be the key to the most profound changes.
I too have entertained the many spiritual paths of meditations over the years in search of healing myself, and the mental thoughts and emotions that can overtake our lives and rob us of our true vitality and joy. The Gentle Breath Meditation delivers us a true way of healing, leaving you clear and not clouded by the spirits fog of energy polluting your body and mind. The spiritual New Age techniques leave you abandoned and lead astray from your true self – which is the stillness inside of your body, the living, loving inner heart.
Beautifully said, Marika – a simple technique that brings us back in touch with the truth within our bodies and the all-knowingness of the soul.
A wonderful blog Karen, thank you; in this simplicity is gold “I have found a loving way to connect back to myself and my body” – absolutely and beautifully priceless.
We underestimate the value of breathing – not just a one trick pony functioning as a gaseous exchange, it also provides a main life-enhancing role in connecting us to our core state of stillness when we choose to be aware and present in our breathing.
What a thing ! The gentle breath meditation! How awesome your experience with it is Karin. I love it too but don’t do it nearly as much as I should 🙂 or would like .. Hehe
To add also that many people actually use meditation to numb themselves from what they are feeling, in the same way that we also use a glass of wine to numb ourselves but what you, Karen have experienced is the complete opposite to numbing, it really feels like a ‘coming back to life’.
Karen I have never read such an incredibly comprehensive list of benefits of meditation before. What you have shared is extraordinary and testament not for meditation per say but for the Gentle Breath Meditation.
“It has given me the time and space to stop and question myself, to reflect on how I have been in my day, what I have been doing, and look at what I need to change. Or let go of behaviours or emotions that no longer support me and hold me back from being more of who I am.” I agree Karen. The gentle breath meditation was so simple – unlike so many others I had tried that got me nowhere. No complicated positions or hours of sitting – just a simple time to connect back to the real me. It is pure gold.
And it reveals how connecting back to ourselves is in fact so simple and so easy to do – something that in truth just takes a moment to achieve.
There are so many different meditations out there… some so complicated that they even require a course to learn, it is deeply beautiful to find something that is so simple in reconnecting you to yourself that it can be done anywhere in no time at all… a much needed tool in such a busy world where time appears to be a luxury and reconnection is paramount.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is part of the science of simplicity – simple technique, simple application, initiating simply being me.
There are a lot of so-called meditations to practice with different purposes and concepts that are often not explained or defined to such degree that it allows the one practicing it to really know what they are actually doing.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is very scientific in a certain sense; it explicitly does what it offers and can be experienced and practiced with precision and astuteness to its method and effects. Not only does it support reconnecting to one´s body and thus a sense of self, developing awareness and capability of observation and conscious presence, it further delivers the guaranteed quality of gentleness in one´s body when applied accurately.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is an amazing practical tool to start one´s self-development.
It opens up a whole new way of being with oneself from where so much more can be revealed and discovered. It definitely was a game changer for me and I loved to finally have something reliable to help me navigate a consistent way back to a deeper connection with myself.
I love the Gentle Breath Meditation too. It is such a simple yet profound tool to re-connect myself back to my body,and to feel how I have been living. I have been going to a local Gentle Breath Meditation group twice a month for the last 8 years ,which is so supportive in a group setting.I have felt my practise deepen and evolve, and I practise at home too. It has been beneficial in many different circumstances too, for example at the dentist. The Gentle Breath Meditation has been a key to me feeling more in my body, and less up in the head.
Yes Marika, the same is for me too. I can say that the gentle breath meditation is my number one tool for keeping me connected and in the understanding of what my choices have been. This meditation has been revolutionary and more supportive than I could have possibly imagined when I first began to practice it, yet it is so easy and simple to do. My appreciation for it is huge. It has been a real gift.
Taking a moment to feel how we are breathing and how we are feeling in our bodies is the most powerful tool. The gentle breath meditation is something I have learned can be done anywhere, in walking, standing, sitting, every movement, just requiring that the focus is on the body, not the mind and the endless thoughts that make up our days.
This is so true, this meditation can become apart of living life and the breath that takes place while living life, it changes the whole way we ‘do’ life, remarkable experience to be had
Well said Stephen G. Reconnecting to how we are feeling and to feeling generally is very revealing and opens up a wholly different relationship with life.
Until I was shown the gentle breath meditation I had thought, if I am totally honest, that meditation was weird! It didn’t make sense to me and all the ooms and ahs left me feeling very uncomfortable and like “come on, really?” I remember practising hatha yoga and the yoga teacher trying to get us to chant and meditate and it left me feeling totally cold. When I chose not to participate, whilst there was a claiming that it wasn’t for me, there was also a part of me that felt self conscious that I was the only one not doing it and all the doubts and judgments of myself that were in there were bubbling around. With the gentle breath meditation there was nothing like that reaction. It felt true from the very first and in the first few breaths I felt a deep change in my body. This then became a marker in my body to keep coming back to, and slowly over time I realised that much of the time this feeling was becoming my new daily normal.
When I first did the gentle breath meditation I would start to fall asleep and I became aware of the exhaustion in my body that I had been blocking out with coffee, sugar and other stimulants to keep me going.
I love the way the Gentle breath Meditation gives us the space to come back to ourselves so easily, to feel, to reflect an to simply be. It’s all in there for me to choose to return to.
The gentle breath meditation is a game changer! In knowing that this meditation is not about escape or checking out but an opportunity to simply connect, it is supportive in allowing us to feel what is in the body to be felt without judgment but with observation. Whilst it allows us to do that it also supports us to surrender deeply so that we are making those observations from that place inside us that is always love and has never been extinguished by our reactions to life. From this place it is much easier to make those true loving choices – from having felt a fullness not in the constant lack or feeling like you need to use will power to make life changes..
There is a very sweet and deeply touching beauty and simplicity in your writing that touches me deeply and that I appreciate; and you describe the wonderful bridge back to our innermost that is the Gentle Breath Meditation so meticulously and with loving detail, thank you.
The gentle breath meditation is so simple and so profound offering one the connection to oneself so often missing in our lives. It allows us to feel a steadiness , strength and delicacy inside which we can build on with consistency to a way of living that feels beautiful, gentle and spacious.
Wow Karen, this is amazing, ‘ I have realised through the Gentle Breath Meditation™ I can be another way, where I am more honest, accepting, allowing, and surrendering of what is going on in my life, how I perceive things and want things to be in the world’, the few times i have practiced the gentle breath meditation it has felt very beautiful and calming, it is lovely how you practice this consistently and what a wonderful impact it has had on your life, thank you for the inspiration to make this part of daily life.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is indeed life changing. It is wonderful to be reminded of how simple it can be to reconnect to ourselves. It provides us with a central place from where we can live life.
Beautiful Karen you have truly encapsulate the real power of this meditation and the simple way it enables us to connect to that “space of freedom from all my woes” that lies within us all. The Gentle Breath Meditation re-connects us to that ‘port in a storm’ we have been looking for all our lives. A constant and easily accessible tool that has completely transformed my life too. What a grace it is, a true gift from Heaven.
Thank you Karen for expressing so eloquently how the Gentle Breath Meditation has supported you to reconnect to yourself and how ‘It has given me the time and space to stop and question myself, to reflect on how I have been in my day, what I have been doing, and look at what I need to change. Or let go of behaviours or emotions that no longer support me and hold me back from being more of who I am.’ The beauty of coming back to myself and feeling the steadiness that follows from this has been and continues to be life-changing.
Karen I remember when I first was introduced to this technique over 11 years ago, at the time I was super frantic and it was one of the first times I actually felt myself stop and feel me. A super powerful tool to turn to and check in, especially being out in the world and getting caught up in the day-to-day only to be reminded, through the Gentle Breath Mediation, that the quality I feel in my body is first and foremost before I go out and do things. Before this technique I didn’t have a tool that allowed me to truly stop, as the motion and constant thoughts would happen even when I was sitting or lying still.
The Gentle Breath Meditation has supported me to reconnect to the stillness within me as opposed to other meditation techniques I have experienced that seemed to connect to something outside of me or take me on a journey. With the Gentle Breath Meditation, no journeys are required because the stillness is revealed as an innateness within us all. It may not seem like much of a difference but in my experience, it is everything.
The Gentle Breath Meditation also started for me a journey of re-discovery – a journey that helped me to unfold so many unanswered questions that actually became so clear when stillness came into my life. As in your beautifully expressed words Karen “nothing to pull me into thinking, going anywhere or doing anything” just to feel all of me.
Karen thank you for sharing your beautiful experience with this meditation. It really shows how a technique such as this can support us to just feel our bodies and not be in our heads all the time. I found it very easy in the past to carry on without feeling my body until I got an ache or a pain – but in this I was avoiding the responsibility I have to know what is going on with my body first and foremost, before a doctor fixes me. In the state of the world today where everyone is getting sick, there is great healing that comes with choosing to be aware of our bodies.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is different from any other meditation I have done. It offers a moment to stop and feel the body and reflect on my day. Normally when I have done other meditations they have asked me to go somewhere, or look for something, there was a busyness and tension that did not offer the connection to stillness that this meditation offers.
The simplicity of both your blog and of the Gentle Breath Meditation is profound Karen. In particular I love the awareness that through using this meditation, you found another way to be, and to me this is crucial – in a world where we have given so much time and energy to what we do – the choice to be and reconnect to ourselves is so very important.
Karen, this is a wonderful reminder of the power and simplicity of the Gentle Breath Meditation.
Well said Susan, this has also been my experience of the Gentle Breath Meditation. Even though for years I meditated within groups and by myself, none of my past experience with meditation felt like the Gentle Breath Meditation. Like you have written ‘it is a very profound technique’.
It really is that simple! Through the Gentle Breath Meditation I am re-connected to myself throughout the day. Unlike other meditations, it is not one time sit down and practice for hours, its beauty is it only takes a few minutes. We are living breathing beings, yet often forget to connect to our breath. When I do, I feel supported and steadied.
What a beautiful blog and description of the Gentle Breath Meditation Karen, thank you. What I have found with the Gentle Breath Meditation which differs so much from other meditations I used to do is that I not only feel a deeper connection to myself I feel a deeper connection to everything around me. In the past meditation only offered me a moment of relief by allowing me distance myself from everything and everyone for a short while.
It is beautiful to be offered another opportunity to fully appreciate the Gentle Breath Meditation and how something so simple can be life changing. I loved how you described what the meditation brings as we settle into a rhythm that supports us to feel ‘a place in me that felt at ease, an opening of quietness and stillness and I felt a space of freedom from all my woes’. It feels as though we have all been searching for this place of stillness in a world that is absorbed by it’s own busy-ness rather than simply connecting to ourselves and trusting that within we have all the wisdom that is necessary. When we finally connect to this wisdom the world of busy-ness melts away and we are left with a deep inner knowing of who we innately are.
The first time I was introduced to the Gentle Breath Meditation I was able to connect in five minutes to a stillness within myself that had only previously occasionally experienced after a number of weeks of consistent meditation practice. I was amazed. From then on I have practiced it at least once, if not twice, a day: it is my foundation of life.
That is great Karen, The Gentle Breath Meditation, as presented by Universal Medicine, has been a very supportive tool for me as well, to help me say to the world this is now my time and by doing so stop the unending spin of the world in my body which used to constantly rule and affect me.
What I love about the Gentle breath Meditation is its simplicity and the way it is presented – we are not following any clever mind-journey, we are simply focusing on our breath, breathing like a baby – gently and in our own rhythm. There are no expectations, we are simply breathing and feeling. It takes a few minutes of sitting or lying comfortably, with no contortions or awkward positions, just breathing gently through the nose, feeling our breath and then we take that out into our lives and it becomes a 24/7 way of living.
With a daily practise of being aware of your body, how it feels and the thoughts that arise from it, breathing can become the rhythm that all movements stem from.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is the only meditation I have experienced and it is pure gold. I gradually was able to connect deeper and deeper within my inner-heart and feel the flow of love throughout my body as I rediscovered who I am and my Divine connection to God.
Thank you for this blog. The Gentle Breath Meditation supported me to be really still and feel who I am without all the crazy thoughts and worries. It also really showed me how much I was thinking about all kind of things while doing something else instead of being present with what I was doing. I do not do the Gentle Breath Meditation any more but am making it more my everyday way of living, being present with me and what I am doing without those endless thoughts about the past or the future.
I’ve always enjoyed the sentence ‘simple and profound’ as it would make me think that the really deep feelings were perhaps not the hard work that is sometimes put forward… and the gentle breath meditation is one of those things that fits like a glove. Effortless, yet re-introducing us to ourselves in such an amazing way.
The dedication to self is something to be celebrated as this naturally leads to the care and love of others.
Yes, dedication to our true self and not just the emotionally indulged shadow of who we are when we are disconnected and lost in the matters of the world. We need to know who this true self actually is, how it feels and thinks and moves, and get a sense and develop a reliable marker of one-self, so that our dedication brings forth more and more of our truth that then is recognised for being the same truth for everyone, and thus leading to the natural care and love of others.
Thank you for the expansion Alex <3
Very beautiful thank you Karen, the Gentle Breath Meditation was a game-changer for me too. I loved your description of the ‘space created’… that captures it! In that space i can feel more of me, and more clearly the everything else that was previously encroaching, or bothering me.
I have found the same Jenny, the Gentle Breath Meditation has allowed me to see and understand more clearly what is going on around me and for me. It has shown me different things I have taken on in my day and allowed me the space to reconnect to me and to reconfirm myself and everything that I am not simply what I have become as a result of trying to fit into the world.
That’s huge James when you really think about it. When I think how many years (decades actually) I spent trying to change things like that in myself, the number of courses, remedies, time and money spent trying to make even the smallest inroad into changing the experience of my days… and one simple breath technique changed it fundamentally in a very short space of time. And 10 years on, it is now a not-gentle-breath that stands out for me.
The power of being connected with ourselves is so huge Karen; all the awareness and improvements in quality of life that returned to you just by doing that simple meditation are amazing and need to be valued and appreciated as such. The connection to our innermost is the key in our return to love, the source of our existence.
Hi Karen, beautiful post! I have been practicing yoga and meditation for a few years now and it’s effects are overwhelming…I’ve grown up in India and was exposed to both these quite early on and over the years the ease that it has brought into me and the acceptance of self, has really worked wonders. Also there is so much positivity in it that I’m rejuvenated and ready to face the challenges of the day… It’s lovely that you are finding it effective as well…
“I was missing a connection to myself”. The relationship we have with ourselves is the most important relationship we will ever have; developing this connection and living in connection will be a source of much love, light and wisdom.
Absolutely Matthew and developing this connection with myself has been the most supportive thing I have ever done and the GBM was the key that unlocked this development.
I agree Matthew, once we have mastered a truly loving relationship with ourselves we will be able to bring this same level of love and connection to others.
Your words are very true Matthew, the relationship we have with ourselves impacts every other relationship we have.
From the moment we close our eyes, or even before that, the intent of Gentle Breath Meditation is all about connecting to ourselves, so when I open my eyes at the end I have this re-connection to take into the world and live. This is something so different from many other meditation techniques I experimented previously that would give me a moment of bliss or whatever, but in hindsight I was using it to only escape from the life and its reality.
Yes Fumiyo through re-connecting to ourselves we connect back to the world and humanity and this supports us to be of service rather than offering the momentary escape of other meditations and then the devastation of realising that nothing has changed when we come back to reality.
Thank you for sharing your amazing journey in finding connection back to yourself. It is very beautiful to read and appreciate your openess and honesty. One of the deepest sadness we can often feel is the disconnection with our soul. It is a joy to feel when we choose to reconnect to our soul and The Gentle Breath Meditation certainly supports this incredible connection.
This is so true Chan Ly. The Gentle Breath Meditation is an incredible support in reconnection to our soul along with the many amazing teachings by Universal Medicine.
The quality and effectiveness of the Gentle Breath Meditation is clearly evident by the way you have described it, throughout the whole of your blog. A tangible feeling of this stillness and connection it brings comes with every word you write, and confirmed by your sharing…”Gentle Breath Meditation™ … a simple and beautiful technique that held me in my body with a connection to myself”… ” The soul communicates multidimensionally through the words you have written – evident that the GBM totally is the bridge to your soul. Thank you for sharing.
“I felt there was always something missing in me, and there was… I was missing a connection to myself”. Karen, this is so important for once we realize that this is what are missing we stop looking ‘out there’ to find something to fill ur emptiness and bring our focus back to the body. What needs to be appreciated is not only the support that the Gentle Breath Meditation gave you but the fact that you put in a consistent effort to practice it and make it part of your life. It is this that supported you to get the value from the technique and change the way you live. How wonderful for your family and the people at work to have the ‘new you’ reflecting back to them the possibility of a different way of living.
Sandra, this is one gorgeous comment and I absolutely agree with what you’ve shared here:)
“Developing a deeper connection to me”, very special and powerful words Karen; so beautiful that you are feeling the enormous benefit of the Gentle Breath Meditation.
A timely reminder to deepen my connection with myself by reconnecting to and feeling the power of this meditation.
“I have realised through the Gentle Breath Meditation™ I can be another way, where I am more honest, accepting, allowing, and surrendering”, very inspiring.
Hi Karen , thank you for your beautiful sharing with how the Gentle Breathe Meditation supports you in your everyday living.
For me this is the first Meditation I have connected to, because it is about connecting to myself and not checking out. The Gentle Breath Meditation can be a real marker to how I have lived in my day to day life.
What I have learned through the Gentle Breath Meditation, has provided an invaluable foundation for knowing myself, and for recognising and trusting the wisdom within me.
Yes Golnaz, the power of breathing one’s own breath is unmistakable.
Karen this is so beautifull to read. It felt like being washed with Love. As I was reading I felt my body let go and surrender more to the delicateness and Love within. Thank you 💕
Gorgeous Karen – your words remind me of the beauty of this simple technique and the powerful way it shows us we are all jewels underneath.
Its lovely to feel how effective it is, through Karen’s words. As you say Joseph, its not trying to do anything, just allow us to be what we already are.
At moments where I am connected and feeling my posture, movement and so on, I will come back to my breath and notice it is gentle, as opposed to more unsettled or harsh when in a rush and disconnected. So it appears to work the other way around as well. This is interesting and important because in a connected state the breath is naturally gentle and this suggests our quality of breath reflects how we are choosing to live.
I will usually meditate for between 5 and 10 minutes each morning and I can notice a distinct difference in how my day unfolds on those day when I choose not to. I find that I have a feeling of being centred throughout the day when I meditate in the morning and if I drift from the feeling I have a marker and reference to which I can return just by taking my focus back there.
The marker is the key – showing us the potential of where we can be living from, and alerting us to when we start drifting off and allowing what is always going to be happening outside to start changing who we are.
Yes, I use a similar approach Michael Chater. What I find is, that having practiced this for some time now, I can very quickly return to it when I feel the need to and even more so that the Gentle Breath becomes a way of being in my day. It just sits there, in the background of the happenings around me, like a constant foundation.
‘The Gentle Breath Meditation™ has developed a deeper connection to me, where I naturally want to take care of my health and my body with a loving responsibility to address all areas in my life now. It has allowed me to develop deeply caring and loving connections with my husband, my family and the people I meet. It has opened my eyes to see the world with love and an understanding of myself.’ A beautiful and powerful testimonial of the Gentle Breath Meditation. It is an amazing tool to support us in so many ways.
Great blog Karen. How profound the changes you have experienced through breathing with the Gentle Breath Meditation and the deeper connection with others is awesome to read.
“It has allowed me to develop deeply caring and loving connections with my husband, my family and the people I meet. It has opened my eyes to see the world with love and an understanding of myself”.
From the first time I was introduced to the Gentle Breath Meditation I knew that within its seeming simplicity it had the power to change my life. I had done a myriad of meditations over many years previously but except for a temporary relief from the current stress I was in I always felt that something was lacking, and what had been lacking became crystal clear from the first Gentle Breath Meditation, and that was a true re-connection to me and to my body. I was amazed at how, not only did the energy change within me, but that it also changed around me, and often in a room full of people in their gentle breath the feeling of space, stillness and clarity was almost unbelievable; it was a feeling that could not be denied.
Absolutely Ingrid, once felt, once connected to stillness, anything less simply does not measure up.
The Gentle Breath Meditation was my first foray into meditation and I find it a simple tool that allows me to stop, connect and feel my body. One of the best tools in my life’s tool kit today and it’s free and easily accessible to take with us everywhere.
This was my first foray into mediation too and I am appreciative that it was, because I was taught from the start that meditation is purely about connecting to oneself and not about being in one’s head or feeling bliss, enlightenment, or escaping in any way. This made it feel real, accessible and true and I was therefore very open to trying it and making it part of my daily practice.
Yes Michelle I felt that too. It was something tangible and real because it was an opportunity to be with oneself. It wasn’t asking me to follow the light or imagine you were on a hill in a mystical forest somewhere. It’s accessible for everyone, that’s what makes it so awesome.
Yes – it made so much sense to me. When I was asked to chant once and meditate during a yoga class it honestly freaked me out and I could literally feel myself recoil! It felt so alien to be reaching for something outside of myself. When I was asked by Universal Medicine to simply connect to myself by shutting my eyes and feeling my body it didn’t freak me out. No sound necessary and no imposition. I was simply appreciative of the fact I was given the space to be quietly with myself and to feel what was there already to be felt.
When I heard the words “Breath your own breath.” the first time I only had a vague idea of what that meant. With the Gentle Breath Meditation I developed a deeper understanding through direct experience and self-exploration as I have got to know myself so much more and now know the relationship of breath, energy and one´s state of being to be essential.The GBM is indeed a very valuable tool in one´s life-tool-kit.
Just hearing those words ‘breathe your own breath’ inspires me to breath more fully. When we get caught up in the rush of life, and or take on and are effected by that which is outside of us, our breath reflects this becoming shorter or more laboured. The Gentle Breath Meditation is a great tool for checking in throughout the day what quality we are breathing in. If we are not breathing our own breath we are being breathed by everything that is not.
The Gentle Breath Meditation feels amazing to do because it allows me to reconnect to who I am underneath the doing and motion that I am in, a beautiful stop moment to pause and feel my delicateness.
Karen I love all you’ve shared here of your experience with the Gentle Breath Meditation. It comes as loving reminder of the support it offers in enabling a halt to the myriad of outgoing attention, making available the opportunity to turn within and connect to stillness.
Giving ourselves the opportunity to regather and reconnect back with ourselves is priceless. This connection we can then take back into our life and develop our expression of it in everyday living.
Yes, it is priceless Fiona… nothing is more precious than feeling and living with our connection to our body and being.
So very true Fiona and Victoria. As the connection to ourselves is everything, from which everything that is lived reflects the quality of that connection.
The Gentle Breath Meditation has been the starting point of another way of living, the Way of the Livingness. I do not miss me nowadays and if I do I know how to reconnect by feeling my body and my breath.
A beautiful blog Karen. Thank you for sharing your experience. There are so many meditations out there, but none in my fifteen + years of experience with meditations, enable us to connect with ourselves so deeply. .
I have that same experience Shevon, and I dare to say that there are no meditations like the gentle breath meditation as to my experience these other meditations only brought me bliss and actually took me even further away from myself instead.
Hear hear Shevon and Nico, and I dare to say all others that call themselves meditation are in the true sense of the word, not at all!
Me too Shevonsimon – all meditations in the past which I had tried didn’t work at all. Gentle Breath Meditation is an amazing tool – simple and profound.
My life has changed enormously, esentially in the same ways Karen describes, since I first tried The Gentle Breath Meditation and began investigating the work of Serge Benhayon. It is quite simply, lovely to feel connected to my body and my being and others in an ever deepening way.
Amazing Karen that your life has changed so irrevocably, yes, i agree, consciously learning to breathe your own breath and not the breath of a situation, panic, or stress for example, is the most basic and yet for many also the most unconnected-to essential focus i’d say for Life and Living truly. This was most definitely the case with me prior to coming across The Gentle Breath Meditation, where I had no real connection to my breathing and its quality. Once there is the deliberate focus to one’s breath, it changes you forever.
And these days I not only notice when I’m not connected – be that being a bit clumsy, not expressing naturally, tensions inside that I am now aware of…. but also have such a simple tool to re-connect when I do become aware of it.
Yes, that is the beauty of building a connection with our bodies, I agree Simon, as with awareness we can bring ourselves back. The Gentle Breath meditation truly supports us to just this.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is a useful tool to help bring me back when I go off into my head and begin to push myself and it is such a good marker to show me how far off I go. Thankyou Serge Benhayon for introducing this wonderful and simple technique.
Thank you Karen for putting into words just what the Gentle Breath Meditation does for us, or should I say what we do for ourselves as we practise it! A truly gentle and supportive meditation with no frills but very beautiful.
When I first did the Gentle Breath Meditation I thought it was too simplistic to do anything much. Such is the arrogance of the mind that can often revel in complication and take us further from ourselves. I love the practicality of this meditation where we can pause, spend a few minutes and truly re-connect to ourselves and our bodies. Thank you Karen.
It is the trick of the mind to give us the idea that it is too simplistic, as it knows that this meditation will expose it as the controlling force in our lives and because it does not want to loose its control it therefore tries to ridicule and diminish the gentle breath meditation by calling it too simplistic in order for us to not choose for it.
That the Gentle Breath Meditation is so simple is its true strength and beauty.
Thank you Karen for such a gentle offering on how lovely it feels to offer ourselves the moments to stop and feel how we actually are with-in ourselves during each day.
We ask others how are you often during a day, it makes perfect sense to sit down with ourselves and lovingly check-in with the same question. Then we have to be willing to be honest about the response and respond to that with complete love and gentleness for ourselves.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is so simple but the effect this has on our lives can be profound. Simply connecting to the body via the breath is powerful. It allows us to feel the tensions we may be carrying and brings us back to ourselves.
It has given me the time and space to stop and question myself, to reflect on how I have been in my day, what I have been doing, and look at what I need to change. Or let go of behaviours or emotions that no longer support me and hold me back from being more of who I am. So much can come from choosing to do the gentle breath as you have so beautifully shared here Karen. A very simple but very supportive and powerful choice to make for ourselves.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is simple – it is so simple it is not viewed with the power it contains. My first experience of the Gentle Breath Meditation happened about 7 or 8 years ago. I was not aware of what it facilitated in my life at that time but only that i looked forward to the weekly and then monthly gathering. My awareness of my physical body grew and my awareness of the constant distractions of my thoughts grew, very gently as the name of the meditation implies, over the years this has become my awareness in my everyday life. I am now re-connected to the essence of stillness that is me and it is as you have shared Karen, a beautiful and life changing thing.
This is gorgeous Karen and so reflective of my own experience with the Gentle Breath Meditation, where I have felt a true connection to self through the simplicity of connecting to my breath and dropping into my body. It is a wonderful support to allow us to connect back to ourselves and as you shared, connect with others as we develop a true and solid foundation within our self.
The Gentle Breath Meditation has been profound in me making changes to my life. An incredible yet very simple tool that is available to us all.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is such a simple technique yet has such profound affects.
My mind tells me all sorts of complicated thoughts and worries but reconnecting to my breath allows me to reconnect with love and simplicity.
Karen, thank you for sharing your personal experience of how your life has been transformed by such a simple and profound heavenly therapy as is the Gentle Breath Meditation, bringing more understanding and appreciation of who you are.
It is very inspiring to read and a technique so simple yet so profound, supportive and can be applied anywhere and anytime.
Hello Karen, with life seemingly moving faster, faster and faster it’s great to have a meditation that brings you to a stop. As you say, “It has given me the time and space to stop and question myself, to reflect on how I have been in my day, what I have been doing, and look at what I need to change.” Otherwise the days seem to blend into each other, the weeks become a year, another year roles on and all of a sudden it would seem we are at the end. Time to stop and have a look around us and breathe and this is a great meditation that truly supports.
Gorgeously expressed Ray, a meditation that truly brings us to a stop and allows us to connect with presence to ourselves and those around us.
Yes definitely a “meditation that truly brings us to a stop and allows us to connect with presence to ourselves and those around us.” The simplicity of this meditations is so profound, it is very easy to practice for oneself and very beneficial for ones health.
Yes Ray, and there is so much to appreciate when we take moments to stop and look in and around us.
Hello Victoria and totally agree, what glasses do we see the world through. Is it a world that impacts on you, where people are always seeming to do the wrong things, never enough time to do anything, always someone complaining etc. This may reflect that it’s time to change how you are in the world. Truly appreciate the little things you see in yourself and others. Allow that to build over time and soon you will see the world differently. It’s not that the other things won’t happen it will be just you will see and handle them differently.
I agree Ray Karam – the Gentle Breath makes it possible to have a STOP moment anytime during the day and the rushing or pushing through the day is rendered to nought.
A simple and profound self-healing occurs through using the Gentle Breath Meditation.
Yes Ray and Karen, I totally agree. This meditation offers the opportunity to stop, reflect and question, “How I have been in my day, what I have been doing, and look at what I need to change.” It is so easy to just continue living our lives without a moment to stop and ponder on the fact that if we considered doing something differently then perhaps we could change soemthing in our lives for the better. To have a tool like this meditation is a true gift, and it supports us in unmeasureable ways.
Yes, that’s exactly as it is Ray ‘the days seem to blend into each other, the weeks become a year, another year roles on’ and nothing changes. I find doing the gentle breath meditation first thing in the morning really supports me to set the tone for the day.
Hello Fiona and this is a deep connection to how you are feeling, a true check in. Once you trust this then at any point you don’t feel that level of connection or quality you question it. You don’t just let Monday to go to Friday you see it change from moment to moment and so Friday is no surprise.
Well said Ray, without taking for ourselves these stop moments, without being aware we have the choice to pause at any moment and deeply check in with our body, we’ll keep going and going until one day the body says, ‘ENOUGH!’ and stops us for us. To have the gift this tool is that we can pick up when ever we feel to, means we don’t have to wait to be stopped by the choices that make up the momentum we’re in.
Hello Giselle a very handy ‘tool’ indeed. We can go on for lifetimes and never get a handle on just what is going on around us and through us. Life seems like life, you wake up then you go to sleep and hey presto its Tuesday and not Monday any longer. The name of the day changes but really has anything changed? It’s important how we move, the quality and the way you breathe is a big part of that.
Gentle Breath gives us so much more conscious presence, that is really amazing. To focus on our breath keeps the mind with our body.
Hello Alexander, The Gentle Breath Meditation settles me, gives me a stop, a pause and then allows me to be more present in what ever I am doing next. It gives space for the next choice.
I have struggled at times with the Gentle Breath meditation and I think because it is so simple and offers you to be with your body – which when you have lived in your head for a while it can be hard. But I have felt its effects and it is a life changer in the way that it makes you stop and bring some gentleness in which is a great antidote to the raciness and busyness of life.
Yes, my mind used to resist the Gentle Breath Meditation too – the mind chatter being around “how can something so simple be of any use”. Ha! I now know this is a clever ruse and a trick to keep me away from the inner stillness. Simplicity is the key, as soon as something gets complicated this shows me my mental energy is at play.
I can relate Sarah and Stephanie, this is also my experience– when there is any resistance to something and overuse of mental energy life gets complicated. Simplicity and coming back to the body is key.
A lot of people have experienced that when they connect to their body as through the Gentle Breath Meditation, they effortlessly make changes in their life that support and help their body. A simple, cost-free way to improve our health.
That’s so true, Christoph. Gentle Breath Meditation has supported me to feel and observe myself and my choices with more honesty yet with less judgment.
Absolutely Christophe.. making the changes on the inside first is a revolution in making outward changes. They happen naturally and effortlessly as the body is already reconfigured, rather than trying to enforce something that you think might work, but stays precisely that: a theory that is difficult to implement.
Yes, I agree Christoph, The benefits to my health and well being have been profound as I now have far more awareness of what is going on in my body.
Well said Christoph. Paying attention to your body certainly leads to better health.
Well said Christoph. Another great reflection that highlights that we are born with all that we need to support ourselves to live with well-being and vitality. We simply need to be willing to pay more attention to our bodies and accept this responsibility. We were not born with a health fund account in our back pockets to help us when we are become ill or sick from existing in dis-harmony.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is life changing. Reading this article has reminded me of all the ways that it can support us. It’s amazing that it offers us this from the first time that we do it, and each time thereafter.
True Simone, With each time going deeper :).
Thank you Karen, you’ve reminded me that this is something I’ve forgotten to do lately. It’s a massive work in progress for me as I tend to go to it for ‘relief’, rather than to connect to myself. At the moment I live with a constant tension in my body from anxiety that I’m finding difficult to shift and can sometimes expect that the Gentle Breath Meditation will just sort it out – without my actually being present when I’m doing it. Which is the key here – being present.
I am appreciating your comment, it is so honest Elodie, I feel this is an awesome way to helps us evolve.
Thank you for sharing this Karen, the gentle breath meditation is a beautiful introduction to opening up and reconnecting to ourselves. A simple but profound, powerfully effective tool that brings us back to who we innately are.
Thank you Karen, you are right, this Gentle Breath Meditation is from absolute value. It is incredible how much simply one exercise movement (breathing) can change how we are with ourselves in life. Since coming to the works of Universal Medicine I have seen an incredible lot of people change, not by outer appearances but actually the vitality, joy and truth you could feel in their eyes! I mean to me that is rare.. And so not only did I see this within hundreds of people, but they all confirmed they truly felt joyful, vital and more truth within their own way of living; with themselves, family, friends, colleagues at work etc. It all makes sense to when we come back to ourselves (for example through the Gentle Breath Meditation) – we become instantly in connection with all others. And so this is palpable by all if truly observed.
So beautifully expressed, Karen. The Gentle Breath Meditation is a vital part of my foundation in how I live and assists me in expressing more of me to the world.
The gentle breath meditation like all the truly esoteric modalities have blown away everything I have ever known healing and progress and development to be. The simplicity in the movements and the life changing affects they have is amazing by this worlds standards but very normal when in comes to living life knowing it is about energy before anything else (as everything is energy as Einstein explained). Thank you Karen for the reminder that even the ‘smallest’ and simple choices make huge waves.
Leigh it’s true that “even the ‘smallest’ and simple choices make huge waves”. If we are consistently choosing the energy that we know will support us to be gentle and loving then it can have life-changing affects, not only in us but in all those who receive our reflection.
This simple technique has supported and is supporting me hugely. I never knew or felt the importance of our breath. And that through our breath we are actually (re)connecting back to our bodies. Simple, yet very profound! My appreciation goes beyond words. So simple, yet so powerful!
I love what you say Karen about meditation allowing you to let go of behaviours and emotions that don’t support who you truly are – that in fact, obscure the real you! I’ve found stopping and just being still and breathing to be amazingly supportive in letting go of all the trying and striving, allowing whatever feelings I have – good or bad – to be felt, so I can acknowledge them. Just being aware of whatever I’m feeling – acknowledging it to myself, instead of burying or numbing it, actually lets those feelings go. Such a simple technique- breathing! – but pretty amazing results.
So true Bryony. The gentle breath meditation allows you too fully stop and arrest all that you get caught up in during the day and within life. Connecting back in to who you are and allowing you to feel what is at the crux of that.
The Gentle breath meditation is indeed an amazing tool, one that has made a significant difference in my life.
The simplicity of the Gentle Breath Meditation is wonderful and I love the fact that there are no long sittings, arduous disciplines or twisted body postures involved – it is a technique I can do and take anywhere and its scope is unlimited.
It is definitely portable and practical…
The simplicity is what I LOVE…and it just makes sense. Twisted postures and complicated breathing processes are a distraction from the simplicity of what is in fact our natural way.
Yes Gabriele, the Gentle Breath Meditation is simple and it goes where you go, and how committed you are to connecting if you are way out. It teaches you honestly if you are willing to take that gentle breath.
Yes Gabriele – the simplicity of Gentle Breath is really amazing. A tool which we can use any time and anywhere.
So true Gabriele I avoided the whole thing so much because I couldn’t face posturing! Little did I know my body was very wise!
Thank you Karen and Joel, the Gentle Breath Meditation is a game changer.
I experienced the same Joel. When I first tried the Gentle Breath Meditation, I realised how far away I was from living in connection to what I was feeling – ME.
I can echo what you have shared here Karen. The ripple effects of the gentle breath meditation have been truly healing and unexpected. It is very simple and so I first questioned its value and what good it could do, but love is simple, connection is simple, and when we allow ourselves to simply feel our breath everything can change.
I had to laugh reading your comment Debra, because I too questioned it because it is so simple. But really, it is the simple things in life that have the biggest impact on us.
Very well said Rosie. I totally agree, ‘it is the simple things in life that have the biggest impact on us.’ Our minds tend to want to complicate things so it is not surprising our thoughts would want to dismiss the stillness, connection and simplicity.
So true Rosie. It’s the simple things that seem to get completely overlooked and dismissed.
We do love complication and our intellect so it makes sense we would dismiss something simple and easy to do, removes the struggle and who are we if we are not caught up in some sort of drama? Who indeed – divine in every way that’s who! Gotta love simplicity and value it over everything else.
Me too! There has to be a catch when something is so simple doesn’t there??? Just shows how we have all been sucked in to the philosophy that love and being ourselves is ‘hard work’!!
Well said Debra. The simplicity of it is amazing, and the effects are a miracle in their own rights.
Absolutely Debra, simple and yet amazing, as is all what Serge Benhayon presents!
It is extraordinary how something so simple can have such profound effects. I have been doing the Gentle Breath Meditation for a few years now. It was the only meditation I had found where I stayed totally connected to my body, I didn’t check out or take myself to a ‘happy’ place, this one was about being in my body in the moment. I have loved the support it has offered me over the years.
I also tried many different meditation and agree with you here Lucy, it is the only meditation that really truly brought me back to my body. In retrospect, everything else felt like an escape
I agree, I have tried heaps of different type of meditations, and for all lengths of time, in different parts of the world but none come close to the Gentle Breath Meditation. Instead of being uncomfortable, you can sit or even move however you like. Instead of trying to keep your mind empty, which is really quite impossible, you focus your mind on your breath so that it doesn’t have to wander off about what you are going to eat later or who is picking up the kids. Its short, simple, effective and any one can do it. What I love about it, is it allows me to come back and feel my body, to stop whatever rush or busy-ness I have got myself into.
I agree Sara, I have done many different forms of meditation over 10 years and it was only when I was introduced to the gentle breath meditation by Serge Benhayon that I truly reconnected to the real me and could feel my body. In the other forms of meditation I would leave my body and it felt like an escape.
That’s true Sara, some meditations I dabbled in take you on a dreamy out of body experience, or get you involved in a lot of rituals which make you think you are getting somewhere, and though I did have many realisations and blissful experiences I see now that these techniques were mainly just a mental distraction which took me further away from the body. The Gentle Meditation does not take long and with consistent practice it is a great tool to support us to reconnect deeply to the body.
Oh Yes, I have travelled this road too – various meditations for up to an hour or more, sitting to have an empty mind and bliss! The results were always excruciating pain from sitting cross legged, a very stiff body with a mind being far from still, leapfrogging around all over the place and worse still was coming away with a sense of failure and being useless at it!
The Gentle Breath Meditation requires only a few minutes during the day and has supported me to re-build an inner connection with my body which has become a firm foundation for living my life with more awareness and presence. Simplicity is key.
I hadn’t really tried othe techniques of meditation, but the gentle breath meditation as presented by Universal Medicine has hugely supported me to deepen the relationship I have with my body, which has and continues to lead to a more enjoyable life.
Thank you Karen, Lucy and Sara, a deeper connection by “being in my body” is what the Gentle Breath Meditation brings for me!
Ditto, same same, tried quite a few things, not loads I wasn’t on a big quest or anything but when I did this mediation at a work shop it was profound in how much I loved how I felt in my body when I did it.
Me too, having tried quite a number of meditations, the gentle breath is so simple and easy to practice on the go and take into daily like as Karen has shared. Yet it is profound in its effect to bring me back to feeling and dropping into my body as a gentle and supportive place to be.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is a true support for the body, no imposition, just a returning to what is natural.
Yes, I have tried so many forms of meditation over the years, but the Gentle Breath Meditation stopped me in my tracks. It was the first meditation that I had done that I could feel was asking me to be responsible in that it wasn’t taking me away from me or asking me to go somewhere, but it was offering me the opportunity to stop and feel the momentum in which I had been living. This stopped me in my tracks as I then questioned – how did I get here? And by asking that question, I took the liberty of making some changes as I could see that how I got there was not a supportive or truly loving way of living.
I agree Lucy. I tried different meditations too, but to be honest never really understood them, whereas the gentle breath meditation made such sense to me, and really allowed me to connect deeply with my body. There is a true purpose to it, which is what I felt was always missing with other forms of meditation that I tried. It has been a huge support to me over the last 9 years.
I can add my name to the list of those who have tried a multitude of different mediations. With all of them though I had an underlying impatience of wanting to know when I had got there. Some would give me some relief and some I would find really tedious and hard to stick to and do. The gentle breath meditation is the only meditation that I have done which I LOVE as it brings me back to yumminess in my body which I know is ever evolving. There is no end goal and I can bring it into my daily life without sitting crossed legged for hours in uncomfortable positions. There is no contrast between them. The gentle breath meditation has become part of my life, what I do without it being a chore whatsoever.
I have found the more I have done it the more I can remember the feeling in my body when I am not meditating. That remembering means it is available to me whenever I am in a situation where sitting down in a quiet space is not practical. Clearly you have found this too. That is gold don’t you think?
Agree Lucy. After Gentle Breath Meditation, I realised all the others were a sham.
I too, Lucy, have found the Gentle Breath Meditation so very simple, yet so profoundly effective. I have tried others in the past, but they have not brought me back to myself, but have all taken me ‘up the garden path’ somewhere far away from me. Coming back to myself has made such an enormous change to my life, and this meditation supports me greatly in this.
Very inspiring Lucy. After reading your comment I commit myself to do the Gentle Breath more often.
The Gentle Breath Meditation connects me to my body aswell and also brings healing and balance my body, as I settle into gentle breathing parts of my body that I might not have realised were tense start to expand and re-balance. When tired I have also found the Gentle Breath Meditation to replenish and rejuvenate, I love that I can do it lying down or sitting up and that at times it can give deeper restoration than sleep. How could anyone possibly read this blog and not want to stop and do this meditation then and there?
I agree Deanne, again, the practical aspect is what I love most, it is an absolute gift and a must in the life tool box
Karen, it is truly beautiful what you have shared here. The Gentle Breath Mediatation is literally a life changer. As you share, the steadiness felt when we choose to be present in our bodies allows us to be more caring and loving of ourselves and others. We begin to become the beauty a human being can be.