I practised (and subsequently taught) Yoga for many, many years before finding my true inner self – my inner heart – the part of me that is connected to, and one with, God. I did not find this inner self by looking to something or someone outside of me, which I had been doing to no avail for many years. No, the answer was inside me all the time!
I discovered my inner self, this Divine essence inside of me, the first time I practised the Gentle Breath Meditation™. By simply breathing very gently in and out of my nose, I came to a place that I knew was home – my real self.
So now when I lose my self, such as when I am rushing around making myself late by trying to do one more thing, or when I get frustrated with someone or with myself, or when I think too much or talk from my head (mind) – which is still quite often, as I am far from perfect – I simply stop, connect and breathe very gently through my nose.
Sometimes all it takes is two or three breaths and I am back. Sometimes, if I have been rushing around in ‘drive’ mode, or if I am caught up in everything going around and around in my head, it takes a lot longer. And that is OK too as there is always a lesson there for me to learn.
There are times when I find I can’t connect back to myself using the Gentle Breath Meditation™ … so then I might go for a very gentle walk, appreciating nature all around me, until I am walking again with my self. And if I still can’t connect, I will read a story or a book that inspires me, such as Serge Benhayon’s “Open Letter to Humanity”.
Developing my inner self has not always been a gentle unfolding for me – it is a work in progress, lovingly so – but if I hold myself absolute in my knowing that my essence is Divine, as a son of God, it is like the breeze upon still water… forever expanding…
I am continually inspired by Serge Benhayon and the students of Universal Medicine.
By Anne Scott, Accredited Yoga Teacher, Exercise Instructor, Mediator and Facilitator and Esoteric Healing Practitioner, Auckland, New Zealand
Further Reading:
Using the Gentle Breath Meditation To Develop Conscious Presence
Supporting the Elderly… and The Ripple Effect
Meditation – And No More Numb Legs!
Blogs About the Gentle Breath Meditation
The Truth about Serge Benhayon 
The Gentle Breath Meditation reconnects us to the in-breath and the out-breath of the Universe, the communication of Love.
Anne I love the fact that we have so many resources we can refer to when we’re out of source. Once upon a time I had none of these and the head would take over, trying to analyse things and the body from time to time, would signal loudly, so I would automatically get my stop moment.
To add to the list of resources, is seeing a practitioner. We are so blessed to have tools/resources that Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have bought through.
Life is very different to how it used to be many years ago. I am more me then I’ve ever been and there is more to go. We are far from perfect in the physical world, but energetically we are spot on…
Sometimes I use the ‘gentle breath’ to check in on myself – if I can breath gently within 1-2 breaths I know I am doing quite well, and then if it takes me a few more extra breaths I know I have forgotten to be gentle with myself and my breath and so it takes me a little more to come back, and of course then there are times when 10 breaths later I still can’t feel the natural and innate gentleness – which for me then is the sign that I have ventured too far from what I know to be my haven and it is time to return home.
Wow Henrietta, love your check in moment. You have a barometer that signals, which we all have within ourselves, if we choose to check in with it.
When we venture too far away from ourselves, then we are moved to do things that is definitely out of source and exhausting. When we stay within, then we are absolutely about service and energised.
Thank you for your gorgeous sharing Anne – and I too have found the gentle breath super supportive and when I have just got too much buzz or head noise happening the walk and connection with nature is a sure fire way to begin the process of settling myself and finding ‘myself’ again.
What the Gentle Breath Meditation offers is the gift of reconnecting to our essence, our innermost heart where our soul and God are. From this our connection to ourselves, to our true selves, becomes very precious, as can bringing our connected selves to others feel very precious. Once you’re back to living you connection becomes something very sacred to be taken care of, as life can become quite joyful simply from being ourselves. In this we can see that the Gentle Breath Meditation is much more than relief from the pressures of life, it’s a completely different yet natural way to be in life, and in this quite life changing.
Committing to life through the way we can breath, so we can find our feet in the way to move through life then we can walk and feel our inner presence. This starts with the deep understanding that we can breath gently and then take that gentleness at-least into our day.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is the go-to when we are completely lost, http://www.unimedliving.com/meditation/gentle-breath-meditation.
Your great blog reminds us that it is important to come back to ourselves – to chose to stopp the drive most of us are usually in.
“Sometimes all it takes is two or three breaths and I am back” So great to have this support that we carry around with us all the time – to return to who we truly are.
Sueq2012 – this is a great point you have made: that the gentle breath is something that we carry with us no matter where we go. It is simply dependent on the choice to breath in gently.
A great reminder in coming back to us when we rush or when the mind gets chatty. The Gentle Breath Meditation is a true, beautifull and really simple way we can do this.
Serge Benhayon has reminded us all of the absolute power in gentleness.
Power in gentleness? Who would have thought but yes there is great power with true gentleness.
Yes, power in gentleness, ‘I discovered my inner self, this Divine essence inside of me, the first time I practised the Gentle Breath Meditation™. By simply breathing very gently in and out of my nose, I came to a place that I knew was home – my real self.’
My goodness – I used to think that the delicacy and sensitivity in me were weaknesses! Knowing Serge Benhayon has completely turned that on its head for me.
Yes – me too Michelle. I was often told I was ‘oversensitive’ – as if that were a ‘bad’ thing to be, so I hardened up in order to combat that. Undoing that hardening has been a ‘work in progress’ as they say.
Absolutely LE – the power of gentleness cannot be denied.
I feel I don’t use the gentle breath meditation as much as I could … for it is an absolute gem of a tool to use to come back to ourselves when we are off track. So simple and so easy to do.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is a great tool if we need support in re-connecting with ourselves,
https://www.unimedliving.com/meditation/gentle-breath-meditation
Having practiced Tibetan Buddhism and the associated meditations for many years, my first experience of the Gentle Breath Meditation™ was an extraordinary and profound one – in that first session I experienced a deeper connection to myself, to the Divine, than I had ever done in the years of Buddhist practice.
These are gorgeous words Anne and so very inspiring … “…if I hold myself absolute in my knowing that my essence is Divine, as a son of God, it is like the breeze upon still water… forever expanding…”
What inspires me most about The Gentle Breath Meditation is that you don’t have to breathe in a certain way, nor achieving any level of enlightenment, just allowing your natural rhythm and to be there, with you. Just this is already huge and very life-changing. http://www.unimedliving.com/meditation/free/free-gentle-breath-meditations-an-introduction.html
Very true, Inma, for by allowing the natural rhythm of your breath you do not impose upon your body, upon yourself, how to be, instead you are ‘lead’ by your breath to truth, to your essence which is love.
I agree Inma. Just watch a young baby breathing – their natural breath – this is the gentle breath.
Anne I love how genuine is your way of living, in which you experience and observe step by step your movements, your thoughts, moods and so on…this feels to me the ultimate way of caring ourselves in our daily life.
Thank you Anne, I have found the same, sometimes it’s a few gentle breaths to bring me back to the connection to my inner heart and soul, sometimes it’s many, or I’m so unsettled I need to walk and move or do some Sacred Movement, or receive a session of the Universal Medicine therapies. It’s great to have so many tools in our toolbox to reach to for support, and the Gentle Breath Meditation is a great one because it’s not just about sitting in meditation but it’s a way of breathing our true selves within daily life. To be ourselves….. what a gift!
Agree Melinda, having access to the Universal Medicine therapies and tools is a blessing available for all. For me is being a huge support to come back to a deeper space inside me that I didn’t know before but at the same time feels like home. It’s very beautiful to live the wonders of coming back to this place everyday.
And the Gentle Breath Meditation is such a simple tool, ‘ I simply stop, connect and breathe very gently through my nose.
Sometimes all it takes is two or three breaths and I am back.’
There is always more to do but if we are not connected to ourselves when we do it then it can be like splashing and thrashing around in the water creating chaotic waves. If we stay steady with ourselves and present in our body the impact and approach to what there is to do has a quality that is not thrashing and splashing yet it is also no less efficient. The ripples from both are very different.
Our breath is such an incredible portal to who we naturally and undoubtable are.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is such a simple quick way to reconnect to our body, and is very effective. It is a beautiful reminder that when we are connected with our body’s flow, we know exactly what to do.
“the answer was inside me all the time!” The Gentle Breath Meditation invites the flow of love to breathe through our body.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is a great stop moment tool that supports us to go inwards and discover the treasure that lies within each and every one of us.
Knowing we are divine, ‘but if I hold myself absolute in my knowing that my essence is Divine, as a son of God, it is like the breeze upon still water… forever expanding…’
Being willing to learn and allow ourselves the space to explore and feeling how we have been living what is great is this Gentle Breath Mediation to use as a marker. From one point to the next and being honest about how we feel and what is there to be rejected on.
After trying many forms of meditation over the years, I was amazed that the Gentle Breath Meditation was so simple, practical yet incredibly powerful. In just a few minutes I felt any anxiety or stress melt away, this meditation practice is such a supportive tool that you can do anywhere, anytime without having to sit in any uncomfortable positions.
Yes, I have found the Gentle Breath Meditation to be the most powerful yet simple tool to be used in any situation and in fact, become part and parcel of my everyday living.
Breathing our own breath: simple, easy, free and something we can do anywhere and all of the time. Just noticing our breath can have a profound effect of slowing it down and bringing us back into our bodies, ie more in tune with what we can feel.
I have often used the Gentle Breath Meditation to reconnect back to myself whenever I start to feel the tension at work, and this has helped me bring myself to a stop before any stress starts to take hold.
I’ve found the Gentle Breath style of breathing key to supporting me to halt stress before it gets out of control, and using it through the day sets a new marker for the level of stillness and love I can feel in my body.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is a great way to come back to ourselves and to support who we are. It has been a foundation for many to just allow presence in the body.
I agree, the Gentle Breath Meditation is a brilliant foundation for increasing our awareness of what is happening at any particular moment in our body, and how to actually live with this awareness.
When I first practiced the Gentle Breath Meditation I was amazing by how such a simple technique could have such a profound affect but it does.
Love seeing the changes in the face from people who have practiced the Gentle Breath meditation. There is a light, an ease, a beautiful surrender that makes me realize what our natural state of being is about. There is nothing more precious than this.
How many monuments are there to our ‘achievements’ in this world? How many places support us to breathe our true breath – the very fabric of life? Here we can see how we have put the cart before the horse consistently.
The essence inside all of us is complete and whole and needs nothing from outside of it to make it better but to re-connect with it we can for sure support one another by the lived way and inspiration we can offer.
Even the Gentle Breath Meditation™ is always the same, I experience something different every time. This simple technique makes me realize how breathing gently benefits every part of me and how the smallest details has an effect in the whole of my body, which is very sensitive and very all knowing about what’s going on, inside and out.
Anne love what you shared about your experience with the Gentle Breath Meditation™ because it feels very real, very alive and full of new learnings everyday. True is living in connection with our real self is far from perfect but accepting that with honesty brings the authority to change and refine what’s not really working in our life, which definitely is here to be lived in full.
I have always found the Gentle Breath Meditation to be beautifully supportive and unlike any other meditation that is available today.
We can wallow in sadness and misery all we like, but the simple fact is it only takes a couple of moments to reconnect to our light. If this is the case, what then is our true responsibility in every moment of life?
Coming back to your breath. There is nothing more settling or steady in feeling the ease in which your body moves.
There is an industry that sells Yoga (Union) that does not deliver it. It is important to state it clearly, to explain why it does not and to also account for why people keep buying into it. When we do all of that, we only conclude that there is an industry that offer a vibration to those that are within that vibrational range that uses words that fulfills the users and the sellers but there is no truth behind it. Truth is always the highest possible vibration.
I agree for sure that to reconnect with our innermost we don’t need to seek outside of ourselves, but it can also be hugely supportive when we meet the reflection of another who has reconnected with their innermost and with that gives us a living reflection and inspiration of what is truly possible.
True Fiona. Seeing in another that is possible living in connection with our Soul is a revelation, for not so many people is walking in life with true joy and harmony. That’s why the very first that I saw Serge Benhayon I noticed instantly about how different his movements felt than others that I’ve seen before in other people, nothing in his body is compromised, nothing in him is trying to change anything but just his presence transforms and inspires deeply. With his Livingness he presents a way of being and living that we all can have access by a simple choice to live the love in us.
If we all learned that we can determine how we breathe and thus what quality we are moving in we would be well equipped to go through life.
Beautiful Anne, how much care and attention you pay to taking responsibility to reconnect to your inner-self. It is amazing to have these tools in life and it is great that the Gentle Breath Meditation can be applied anywhere, and going for a gentle walk is also something we can very easily do anytime. What you’ve shared are all very easy, simple and accessible steps we can take to reconnect with our inner-self. Thank you for sharing them.
“but if I hold myself absolute in my knowing that my essence is Divine, as a son of God, it is like the breeze upon still water… forever expanding…” This is acceptance — many people don’t simply accept this, and when you do life is forever expanding and not the normal one day repeating itself.
That which we seek is found within and only ever reflected in the outer realm.
I agree – being gentle in our movement is a great way to come back into connecting with ourselves, which is actually much grander than gentleness.
Having spent many years looking outside of myself for the connection to my inner-being it was an internal gentle earthquake within myself to experience the Gentle Breath Meditation for the first time, with the after shocks continuing to resound as the foundations of false ideals and beliefs continue to shatter.
The gentle breath medication can support us to snap out of any drama playing out in our minds and connect to our body, this is absolutely profound in a world where we are constantly walking in disconnection.
I too practiced yoga and meditation for many years before discovering the esoteric breath experienced through the Gentle Breath Meditation. What I can say from these experiences is that the ‘yogic breath’ took me out of myself in the guise of being deeply connected to myself and this was felt as a blissful high with seemingly heightened awareness and elation that afforded me relief from having to feel the true state I was in. That is, until I plummeted back down to Earth with a rudely awakening thump when the blissful state wore off. Whereas the ‘esoteric breath’ reconnected me to a part of me that lives beyond the tension but does not ever shy away from alerting my attention to it so I can make the necessary adjustments to not live in a way that constantly feeds this tension or the seeming escape from it. Such a stark contrast and all this in a single breath.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is powerful to work with and there is a stillness felt within my body as this has integrated into my daily way of living.
Practicing the Gentle Breath Meditation when I am feeling stressed or ‘out-of-sorts’ is like taking the pulse of where my whole body is at in that very moment. When I drop into that gentle breathing sometimes it surprises me just how racy or buzzy my body feels, so it is so helpful to get an instant indication by checking in with our body in this way and then adjust our daily activities to stay more gentle and centered.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is such a powerful tool, so simple it can be done anytime,anywhere and brings us back to our true essence.
It is such a helpful and tangible way to take our breath as a marker where we are at.
I agree Esther and you have reminded me to check in with myself regularly and use my breath as a marker for where I am at. I can sometimes go into reactions with my family because I have disconnected from myself and my gentle breath. This can happen very quickly and I find the key is to be more aware of when I have changed my quality of breath and movements. I also know, to reconnect back to myself is also a quick and easy process.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is such a great tool in life. If offers a space that we know so well, a space of truth that we may not have felt for a very long time, a space where we know love resides. It offers a simple tool to start the walk back to truth.
Yes, beautifully said, the Gentle Breath Meditation is a great tool to come back to ourselves and with every gentle breath the more we come back to a truer way of being.
Great blog Anne for when we allow too much talk from our mind it cannot but compromise the expression of love from our heart. And if we are all honest what the world needs today is more love and wisdom, not more knowledge.
The development of our connection with our breath and body is so important. What you have shared Anne is very profound.. Quoting you back, as it shows us that it is our stillness we need to come back to:
”Developing my inner self has not always been a gentle unfolding for me – it is a work in progress, lovingly so – but if I hold myself absolute in my knowing that my essence is Divine, as a son of God, it is like the breeze upon still water… forever expanding…”
The Gentle Breath Meditation is so very simple in bringing us back to that place of stillness that lays within all of us, who would have thought that something so simple could be so powerful in connecting us to who we naturally are.
Absolutely Jill and the Gentle Breath Meditation reveals how easy and simple it is to reconnect to ourselves and to stillness. It makes me wonder why our world makes it out to be so complicated and almost impossible when in fact it is very simple?
It is a remarkable and no big shakes at the same time when we reconnect as it is so simple and so profound. Always deepening.
The true miracle is that something so profound and so beautiful is there innately within us all
The Gentle Breath Meditation brings us back to a place of stillness within so that we come back to who we truly are.
I started practicing the Gentle Breath Meditation regularly about 7 years ago. I found it useful to have a regular rhythm and place to do my practice and having done so after about 3 months I really started to feel the benefits. This practice helped me to reconnect to an innate space of stillness within, one that feels beholding and truly supportive. Having continued to use this method since, it has become apparent to me that I naturally breathe more gently during my day and hence, the ‘meditation’ has become something that is present with me most, if not all of the time.
The beauty of the Gentle Breath Meditation is that it is simply a tool, a tool to re-connect us back to our truth, our connection to ourselves, our essential being (love), out of the all oh so opposite fragrance of who we are. It is time for a change.
The Gentle Breath Meditation, whilst simple has offered the strongest difference to my life. Through it, I have got to feel and know my true self in a way that nothing else has. It is the most profound technique to still anxiousness and un-ease and bring a settlement back into the body.
Yes, the Gentle Breath Meditation is super simple and yet offers a deep connection to the true self innate in us all equally. And I agree that walking in nature is another way to ‘come back to ourselves’ if we are lost in busyness or thoughts. I find when I am connected I feel and sense life more rather than think about it, removing the ‘mental filters’ that separate me from my true self. It is a very different way of being from my past experience of constantly being in pursuit of something or other.
I’ve come back to this blog and been super inspired by the power of the Gentle Breath Meditation, the power of stopping the crazy whirlwind that can take over and to appreciate and connect with the quality, delicacy and fiery warmth that is ultimately inside all of us.
Thank you for reminding us of connection, the importance of this key point – one that we often have lost touch with in this world. Let us come back and feel this connection and build further from the values that we feel that are important to live.
Imagine having a car for years but never knowing it needed a key. You sit there thinking ‘it looks all very nice, has great windows and tires, but if you think I’m going to push this around you are insane’. Imagine then finding out that by placing the small key on the backseat, in the ignition that you could start it up and drive forward with ease. This is little like discovering the power of your inner heart. All you needed for years has been with you all along. As you show though Anne, there’s no point on dwelling on the past when you can embrace what you have refound today.
The gentle breath meditation was like a life saver for me, I was running on high nervous tension and anxiety, not knowing who I was and feeling disconnected from everything, I had one way of living – numb out on food, drink, and drugs. When I started to practice the gentle breath medication it was the first time is such a long time that I actually felt ‘me’.
We pursue a million books and supplements to change our life, yet choosing to be present and breathe our own breath, transmutes energy cuts through lies and brings light like nothing else. We have such incredible power right at the tip of our nose, that would make a wizard blush. Yet we ignore our alchemical powers. Thank you Anne.
It is deeply beautiful to feel and come to know that wherever we are and whatever we are doing, our connection to all that we are is only ever one breath away. Such is the great embrace of Gods love, always present and forever holding us.
Yoga means union. There is no union without order. And there is no order without intention and a movement that sets us in a motion that will confirm ourselves deeply.
That is beautiful Anne. When we are loosing ourselves it often seems impossible to get back and than it is great to know that we can come back and that there are things we can go to we know re-connect us to ourselves like the Gentle Breath Meditation, going for a walk or anything we have found supports us back to feeling ourselves.
This is great testimony to the fact that meditation can be a tool for re-connection, not giving to anyone what is not already there – waiting to be expressed.
Funny that I should read this blog twice in just a few days. The dedication and responsibility you share are clearly something I need to heed!
Beautifully practical and divine as is love and truth, there are no short cuts through changing our direction from love-lessness to love, much like a big container ship it takes time to turn around but steady and committed you will change course.
There are so many things like Yoga that can keep us immersed for a long time before we notice their limitations. The more involving they are, the harder it may become to extricate ourselves as we have invested a lot and can resist writing off all that time and work.
That is very true Christoph. That is when we can get really caught, humility is the great teacher then.
A life lived outside of who we are is full of twists and turns and dramas every day. Like a TV soap opera it takes some dedication to turn off the channel and move to another way. Life without these hurts and pains, self-projected paranoia and fear is simple, purposeful and clear. Have we really got time left for this complication to carry on? Or are we ready as you present Anne to live from our body instead.
“but if I hold myself absolute in my knowing that my essence is Divine, as a son of God, it is like the breeze upon still water… forever expanding…” the journey of unfoldment becomes easier.
and quite joyful and lets us move on when we make a mis-step.
That absolute knowing is quite contrary to how most of us are brought up and letting go of false ideas about our origins is half the battle.
I have many times given this link to people, there are a choice of free meditations, all are amazing, http://www.unimedliving.com/meditation/free, worth a moment in your day.
It’s super supportive to know resources that we can go to if we’re feeling off or not quite right – things that we know help us to re-connect back with a quality that we can say is true to who we really are. I know for me going for a walk can be really helpful, as can just being aware of the way I’m doing things (how my whole body feels), the posture that I’m sitting or standing with, tidying things up or reading one of Serge Benhayon’s books…
Inspirational indeed Anne, The Gentle Breath Meditation has been life changing as you have shared by reconnecting to our stillness we learn so much about the Truth of who we are.
It is great to have a variety of tools to help us come back to ourself, if we have dis-connected, The Gentle Breath Meditation being one of those tools, http://www.unimedliving.com/meditation/gentle-breath-meditation.
The Gentle Breath Meditation showed me that enlightenment is not something to attain, an end-goal in life, it is simply to be accepted and recognised as just the beginning.
So true that enlightenment isn’t about getting anywhere, and in fact there is no end goal, as we are constantly deepening, refining, becoming more of who we really are, the more we connect to ourselves through our breathing and our bodies. It’s a process of unfoldment, allowing and accepting.
Coming home to yourself is such a lovely and true way to describe the impact of the Gentle Breath Meditation and for me was the start of re-connecting to my body and introducing stillness to my racy mind and exhausted body. This led to the gradual restoration of a level of health and wellness that I had been struggling to achieve without success for many years and a clarity about the purpose of my life which has transformed the quality of my life and relationships. A simple technique that provides so many answers to the challenges of life because with an inner steadiness decisions are clear.
The breath is our living commitment to life and the world. When this is, out everything has the potential to not be lived in its truth. A simple technique that bring simplicity and responsibility to us all.
We are only ever a breath away from re-connection to ourselves. And, if that is not enough to bring us back, Anne has given us some beautiful suggestions for extra steps. I’d like to add another: appreciation. I’m discovering it too is another tool for bringing me back, particularly if unwanted thoughts, or thoughts unnatural to me, creep in.
While reading your blog I found myself focusing on my breathing. I still do the Gentle Breath Meditation, but use my breath throughout the day to check in with how my body is feeling and bring awareness to what I am doing. What I love is that it is so practical and portable.
Breathing with the Gentle Breath Meditation is such a simple way to reconnect with who we truly are – our innermost, our essence. No need for hours and awkward positions, just sitting comfortably in a chair, or lying down. Five or ten minutes is enough too.
Beautifully shared Anne, in a world where we are exploring outer space travel, nuclear physics and genetic modification, what a wake call it us to read the great changes that can occur simply through the way we choose to breathe. It contradicts everything we believe about being ‘advanced’ but the Gentle Breath Meditation reminds you of the connection we all need. Living without it just leads to disease.
If life is lacking consistency, the breath is very supportive to come back to. Much like the clock – we can use it as a marker of something that is constant in our lives and a checking point for how we are or have been living.
You just reminded me that it is all simply about connecting with my true essence, and there is no need for me to ‘correct’ what I perceive as unfavourable and be ‘good’. Thank you, Anne.
Thanks Anne, I am incorporating the gentle breath more and more into my day and it is so very nurturing for the body. Achieving a constant gentle breath every day would be amazing.
That was my feeling on doing the gentle breath I felt a quality in my body that I dare say I hadn’t felt since I was a baby. That’s the coming home feeling it’s simply the breath we breathed when we were born.
Our movement before we breath dictate our breath so could it be we are simply allow our body to move with a focus on being connected and the breathing takes us to a deeper connection to the living stillness within?
The first time that I practiced the Gentle Breath meditatioin I experienced a stillness that reminded me who I truly am, but it is the consistency in this practice what offers to me the possibility of living in my true essence most of the time.
‘If I hold myself absolute in my knowing that my essence is Divine, as a son of God, it is like the breeze upon still water… forever expanding…’ that is just gorgeous Anne and I feel the space, acceptance and willingness to be a forever student of yourself in it.
The Gentle Breath Meditation has saved me from leg cramps and a numb bum! and has also reintroduced me to my beautiful self and Soul.
Thank you Anne, and as many of us have found the gentle breath reconnection is so simple and so powerful that it is revealed as the doorway that all of humanity, deep down, wants to walk through.
A beautiful sharing Anne of the simplicity and beauty of being connected to your soul. I love the very practical and real experience of being out and ways to come back.
Reading through the comments, looks like you are not alone in how the Gentle Breath Meditation has supported you to stop some of the momentum’s in which you are living your life. I can add my testimony to that as well, it has supported me to simply stop and connect back to me, with a few short simple breaths.
Awesome Anne well said : ‘..but if I hold myself absolute in my knowing that my essence is Divine, as a son of God, it is like the breeze upon still water… forever expanding…”
The Gentle Breath Meditation is amazing beautiful, I love its simplicity and ease it can be used, no faff or complexity. It brings our awareness back to our body and I have been practicing it for many years to support every day life.
More and more I am discovering that the answers are within me and have always been there, and that no amount of searching outside of me can bring me anything.
What you share here is so important Anne as it reminds us that when we get into the rush of life and lose ourselves we can very easily come back by choosing the Gentle Breath Meditation, it is such a simple technique yet beautifully supportive in so many ways.
“if I hold myself absolute in my knowing that my essence is Divine, as a son of God, it is like the breeze upon still water… forever expanding…” This part stood out for me Anne, in reading your blog today. I do understand too that it is so important to recognise that I am Divine, part of and connected to that grander whole we can call the universe or God. In this connection there is no room for lies, fraud, betrayal,slavery, greed to name a few ill behaviours that mankind has fallen into but only room for truth, the truth that will serve us all in our way back to Soul which actually is the expansion you are talking about.
This is the beauty of The Gentle Breath Meditation “Sometimes all it takes is two or three breaths and I am back”, there is no complication or a trying, it is an allowing to just connect to our own breath, a very simple technique and can be done anywhere and anytime.
I love the acceptance of your imperfections that shines through in this blog. This acceptance of yourself gives space for another to also not get caught up in the illusion for being perfect, something which women in particular carry. In this way the blog shows us that there is another way to live.
Sure Elizabeth, there is another way to live to and this blog is definitely referring to that and in that other way there is the knowing that in this realm of life there cannot be perfection because we have stepped down from that by choice for this self created way of living and therefore the perfection we originally came from is impossible.
The gentle breath is so simple and a huge supportive thing to do for yourself. On occasions when I feel anxious about something, just bringing myself back to how I am breathing totally calms everything down, and then there is a feeling of not being owned by the anxiety.
Simply sitting here reading what you share supports me to check in with my gentle breath at the tip of my nose, and observe the things that seem to want to stream through my mind and push my body along with this momentum.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is a wonderful way to bring myself back to myself; it is so simple, gentle, tender and nurturing. Thank you Anne for your gorgeous appreciation of the Gentle Breath Meditation, I agree wholeheartedly.
For me what is very powerful and when I feel out I seek to move in a way with the intent to get focused and with myself again and that usually does the trick.
Feeling my breath and it’s quality is so simple and mega powerful when it comes to coming back to my body that when present with I feel very centred and steady. Recently it’s been a hugely exposing marker of how racy and anxious I have been living. That doesn’t feel great but I rather be aware of it and have the support of my ability to define the quality of my breath and movements than not and be forced to stop and feel it later.
The Gentle Breath Meditation started me on an on-going journey to live and be more myself, it’s been a simple and very amazing tool which allows me to connect to myself and shows me if I am in fact with myself or not. And sometimes when I cannot connect easily to my breath, it’s been a great wake up call to show how far from myself I’ve been. It’s an amazing and easily accessible resource for all of us. And it’s so simple to bring into your life and provide often much needed stop moments for us to come back and feel where we are, are we breathing us or is life breathing us? It’s a mirror into how we are and how we’re living.
At first it can seem like quite a subtle thing, the difference between being caught up, and being free. But gradually, over time you get the sense that the difference between you being driven or divine is the size of the Grand Canyon. Your words beautifully illustrate here Anne, that the latter, simple and accepting way is our God given state.
Yesterday I was feeling unsettled with the thoughts I was allowing through. So I went for my walk out in nature and felt all the space around me which supported me to get out of the narrow confined space of my head and back into my body.
Anne what you write is so simple yet so powerful we all have a choice to connect and there are things we can do that help us to connect such as the gentle breath meditation and there are things that we can do that take us away like eating sugar or indulging in emotions. ultimately it is our choice, the state of our health will always be reflecting that back to us.
I am sitting at my computer feeling tense and under a certain amount of pressure and I have just read your blog Anne just at the perfect moment. The Gentle Breath Meditation is just what I need to re-connect me back to me, just feeling the warmth and rhythm of my breath is very powerful and offered a welcome break from the computer. We can never underestimate the power of the breath when done in rhythm with the body.
Accepting that we are students of the way to live a soulful life on earth is a great thing. It gets rid of any need for perfectionism and allows us to learn in a much more open and loving way. These days I consider myself a forever student.
Being aware of the quality of my breath (from using the Gentle Breath Meditation) has brought more awareness to the quality of energy I am in with everything I do. Work in progress, and forever deepening.
The Gentle Breath Meditation® has been my friend for many years. It always brought me back me that natural state of stillness within which is now for me, after some years, a normal way to be and is for me a great marker in my body to signal when I loose it and get involved in the agitation the world is in.
The quality of our breath determines how we are in life, with ourselves and everyone, everything around us.
The Gentle Breath Mediation is a simple and powerful tool for re-connection within, that can be used anywhere and anytime, not only when feeling rushed or racy, but consistently as a solid foundation to begin our day with.
Thank you Anne for sharing how the Gentle Breath Meditation offers us the opportunity to connect to a quality of stillness resides within us all, and powerful marker to always return to, through which we can explore the depth of who truly we are and bring this real quality to the lives we live.
Choosing a quality of breath was something I had never considered until I came across teh Gentle Breath meditation. There are many things in life that tell us how to do and what to do, but quality is often left out. It’s so simple yet overlooked. I so love how our body is the marker in this development.
The message here is clear – we are divine and we connect to this divinity by going within via our breath and gentle movement of the body. Everything about our lives is designed to take us out, to separate us from this way. Beautifully claimed and shared Anne.
There are many kinds of meditations that focus in going somewhere, escaping, blissing out, emptying the mind and so on and with that they negate the fact that within us we can find connection with our soul and the all. And once we have re-ignited that connection we can begin to make our whole life a kind of meditation – unity in movement.
This is interesting, The world is full of yoga teachers who teach it without really being at union with themselves. This explains why previous to esoteric yoga, I have never ever felt anything even near to union while practicing yoga.
People have a tendency to be quite hard on themselves so it is truly beautiful for you to see yourself as a work in progress, gently and lovingly unfolding the divine essence within. Stunning.
Connecting back to our true selves through the Gentle Breathe Meditation is such a divine gift we can bestow on ourselves; how simple, to stop and gently breathe. Thank you Anne for presenting this gorgeous message to us.
.’..I simply stop, connect and breathe very gently through my nose.’ I love this Anne ‘I simply stop’. I know for myself that yes it is simple but it is not always easy, sometimes I can be very stubborn and keep going although I feel it is time to stop. I listen more often now as i know it is not in lign with who I am to continue in whatever I am doing and that the quality how i am doing it is actually not the quality I know I can bring. There is a responsibility coming in here to breath in gently and choose the divine.
In a breath we can return to All that we are, in a single breath we can also withdraw from it. This is the power that lays in our hands (nostrils?), the simple choice of the breath we breathe in each and every moment. Is it love or is it not?
Giving ourselves the space to simply be and not in the ‘doing’ of life allows one to feel the innate stillness that is always being offered from within. The more chances we give ourselves to feel this, the more we can live it and bring it out into our daily lives.
I had not realise the power of our breath until I started to connect to it through the support of The Gentle Breath Meditation. What I found as we breath our true breath, we are able to connect to a true stillness within our body, with this stillness I am able to make true and loving choices in my life.
Our breath is a powerful tool to connect to that what is in close connection of who we are. It is a way that is unimposing and getting ourselves back to the love that we are.
In fact what you share in this blog Anne, is that the are many ways to reconnect with the essence we are, and these ways cannot be found through our mind, but by connecting to our body, for instance through the Gentle Breath Meditation®, bringing our mind to rest and back to the presence of our body.
When we get lost in our thoughts and become driven by them the trick is to simply realise this fact and come back to ourselves. The gentle breath meditation is an awesome tool for this.
How often do we hear the phrase ‘she hasn’t been herself lately’ or ‘that’s not him’ or ‘he was beside himself” or ‘he just wasn’t with it’. Sometimes others acknowledge it in us by saying ‘you don’t seem quite yourself this morning’ or something like that. We tend to ignore when we have lost ourselves and just go on getting further away from the internal harmony that we hold. How awesome then to have a technique like the Gentle Breath Meditation which is a way we can clock into ourselves at any time and check whether we are with ourselves and then take a few minutes to reconnect, if we feel ourselves out. This technique has begun to enter schools and what a great support it offers. It allows us to connect to our own place of home within ourselves and all the freedom and strength that comes with this.
There are quite a few great little tools that you have in your kit bag there Anna, simple things you have identified through your Universal Medicine studies that reconnect you back to yourself. It sounds so simple and yet in my experience the effects are deeply profound.
Amazing Anna, the feeling of surrendering to myself during a gentle breath meditation cannot be matched by anything out there!
Connecting with my breath and feeling it with the Gentle Breath Meditation allows me to stop the world running in me, (and to see where I have allowed that), and provides me the bridge back to me, and then I can connect to myself, it’s the first step to allowing the space for my own inner essence to be lived and felt.
This is ground breaking, all you need is with you simply in your breath. If you loose your breath simply connect back to it and hence connect back to yourself and everything. Watch when you are in the rush of life or the need to do, how are you breathing or are you breathing at all. Our breath and the awareness of it can be read for many things. The Gentle Breath Meditation from Serge Benhayon is a settler for all that is around you, it brings you to stop and then be able to see what is happening in place of being swept away by the to do and need to do of the world. It can be anywhere and doesn’t take long to connect to and what’s more it’s your breath and so it can be with you anywhere, anytime.
We are so blessed to have Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine which are providing us with these simple tools and techniques that help us to stay with ourselves and in that make us accelerate our evolving back to that state of being we all belong to and that is to live in connection with our Soul.
The beauty of the techniques that can help us re connect are that they are easy and easily obtainable.
Thank you Anne, this is a very supportive blog for me to read as it reminds me to stop and connect to my gentle breath whenever I feel disconnected to myself and others. Being aware of when I am rushing and pushing to get things done, how this affects me and how I relate to people is great because with more awareness I can then choose to drop what is not supportive and reconnect to back to myself. The quality of what I do and how I relate to people then changes to be more loving and gentle.
“the answer was inside me all the time!” So true Anne, all that searching, seeking and wanting something more and it is there within us waiting for us to breathe who we truly are.
Stop, connect and breathe, what simple advice, and although when caught in a maelstrom I sometimes find this doesn’t pull me out of it, it does slow me down. The more we do this the less we get caught in drama or emotional reactions, and that has to be a good thing I feel.
We all know the experience of being with ourselves and not with ourselves yet we rarely talk about it or acknowledge that this is the case. If we got more honest about the times we are not with ourselves we would start to feel how harming it is not only to ourselves but also others. This would support us to bring the change needed in order to align again with our own truth.
So true Elizabeth, and by being open, honest and willing to see what is not supportive without any self-judgement is key to learning how to not repeat the same unloving choices. With understanding and acceptance of who we are, we are more able to learn from all our choices.
What you have offered here is so valuable because you have highlighted that, depending on how racy we have allowed ourselves to get, there is a step by step process to get back that is entirely personalised to us!! It may be walking, it may be sitting it may be reading, we are never far away and clearly haven’t physically gone anywhere, but to get out of the head rush sometimes takes a concerted effort and choice.
I love the way the Gentle Breath Meditation reconnects me back to me, it has been a great support and tool to use, whenever I feel I have lost my connection it only takes a few minutes to bring my awareness back.
The way we breathe is the perfect marker of how our day is going, it’s so simple yet so profound, an ease with our breath demonstrates an ease with the world.
To be clear, gentle breath meditation on its own cannot offer connection to the true fire of God, but it does work very well to offer an unimposing state of being that in itself creates a platform for that connection. This in itself is important, for their is no gentleness in our true state divine state of being. It is however a form of being that does not impose and therefore stops us from carrying on in the momentum of our ill ways. As such, it can offer a feeling of respite from the ways of the world, which can be quite beautiful to feel, and certainly not one to criticise, for it is a way of being that is very needed, and one that is a far cry from the state of being the world currently finds itself in. But that in itself is only the door, and needs to be recognised as such if we are truly to learn to recognise what true fire and the nature of God’s light running through our veins feels like.
Spot on Adam, we must never lose sight of the true glory we come from and use the stepping-stones on our return to God in the true way.
I had tears reading of the love you hold yourself in as you explore, experiment and learn lessons this life Anne, what I enjoyed feeling the most was how you do not hold yourself in judgment or hardness for where you are (or have gone) when you bring yourself back to your breath in all its simplicity and Divinity.
Yes Anne, after 15 years working with the teachings offered through Universal Medicine I still find myself coming back to the Gentle Breath Meditation… such a simple and powerful tool to restore connection. Why complicate this with something fancy when it is as simple as choosing to breathe in, and then out… gently!
Anne it is beautiful how we have so many tools to use that we can use to come back to our inner self and our stillness, whether it is the Gentle Breath Meditation, or Gentle Walk or even Serge Benhayons book, they all support in bringing us back to our inner self and stillness.
For many years I was deeply involved in Tibetan Buddhism, which involved daily meditation. However, eventually I lost confidence in it as I did not seem to be developing and I did not feel, thankfully, that the next level of commitment of being a monk was the answer. Through those years the search for ‘enlightenment’ was through gaining something external, like the meditation, which was a technique to learn. When I first experienced the Gentle Breath Meditation I achieved a level of stillness in my body and mind that would have taken previously many weeks of consistent daily meditation to achieve. Through the Gentle Meditation there is no technique to learn, just a re-learning to be oneself – the fulfillment that I had been searching all my life.
The simplicity of always being able to go back to my breath, as a focus has become a glorious part of my Livingness!
It seems so obvious to breathe our own breathe that is totally over looked. Our gentle breath awareness is an essential truth to knowing we are divine. Getting caught up in everything outside of us is the biggest ploy to keeping us out of our gloriousness, but it is as simple as breathing our own gentle breath to be back with ourselves in a few moments and feeling fresh and vital – even better than a long vacation.
“By simply breathing very gently in and out of my nose, I came to a place that I knew was home – my real self.” Who would have thought that the whole search to find ourselves was only a gentle breathe away?
Anne, after trying many other forms of meditation and relaxation, the gentle breath is a technique that really brings me back to feeling me again.
As human beings we seem to be really good at complicating things unnecessarily, when we all know deep down it does not have to be like that. The gentle breath is a fantastic way to bring back to the simplicity we all know at heart is true.
Beautifully said Samantha. Reading this blog about the Gentle Breath Meditation can make you go ‘a basic breath? is that it?’ But the simple fact is this exercise in connecting back to your body sends ripples through your body and life. Why not try it regularly for yourself and find out?
Beautifully said Samantha. Yes it does bring simplicity back to us which can often feel very uncomfortable because it exposes us in our choices to have complicated that which is so simple.
It sure does expose our choice of complication, but its great as it brings us back to the simplicity.
Life is so simple when we allow it to be. The gentle breath meditation is absolutely a life changer; a technique of the amazingness of something as powerful as our natural breath needs to be taught to children going through the education system and a part of our daily lives.
Anne – it is amazing how instantly our breath can bring us back. I too have experienced this through the gentle breath meditation. Meditation in the past was an escape – but this one is the real deal as it asks me to connect with my breath and my body. Nothing else. A gift to be in the moment.
Thankyou Anne, the steps back to our inner self are simple and practical, they can easily become part of our everyday as we walk, do the dishes, or work.
The Gentle breath is a way of bringing one back to a connection with their body, I use this all the time as a way to reconnect, feel where I am at, if I have reacted to a situation or person. It helps with ensuring that I am feeling me and not absorbing all that is around.
We are all work in progress Anne but by being aware that whenever we lose it we can gently breath or gently walk to bring ourselves back to ourselves anytime anyplace – knowing this can really take the crazy out of life.
“Developing my inner self has not always been a gentle unfolding for me – it is a work in progress, lovingly so – but if I hold myself absolute in my knowing that my essence is Divine, as a son of God, it is like the breeze upon still water… forever expanding…” I can completely relate to what you are sharing Anne, it has not been so easy for me, but yes i agree when i too hold myself in the knowing of my true Divine essence as a son of God, everything is a breeze and my whole body has that beautiful stillness.
“if I hold myself absolute in my knowing that my essence is Divine, as a son of God, it is like the breeze upon still water… forever expanding”…
Such a beautiful reminder Anne that we are the forever student, forever expanding, thank you for sharing.
Thank you Anne for a lovely sharing about the simple power of connecting to our essence by the Gentle Breath Meditation. When i get into a ‘rush’ mode I feel my breath up in my chest or sometimes being held -a marker for me to stop and connect to my gentle breath, so simple.
I have not used any other technique to return to me since discovering the Gentle Breath meditation through Universal Medicine 10 years ago when at this time I had many many tools and techniques I indulged in but only ever felt momentarily ‘better’. The Gentle Breath Meidtation is simple and carries on into my next moments and day if this is the quality I continue to choose.
I love your sharing here Anne, exploring a very simple yet very powerful tool like the gentle breath. I love how easily and simply it pulls me up and asks me, okay, so where are you, come back to you now, your love is needed here.
Hello Anne and yes the power of the Gentle Breath Meditation is clear. It’s not that I use it that much anymore in it’s practical application but more use it as a marker for how I breath. So if my breath goes away from how I know it to be then I stop for a moment and ask why. Usually there has been something go on and then from that moment I take a look back to see what lead to that moment. This brings my breath back and away I go again. I always knew my breath was important but there was no focus on the quality, now it’s equally important and the quality is the marker.
Hear! Hear! Ray, I concur with what you have shared that breath brings one back and it has become my go-to when I feel out. The importance of gentle breath as presented by serge Benhayon, should be taught schools!
Absolutely agree with you both, it also is my go to if I am feeling out, or not balance. It is such a simple and quick technique that fills the body with vitality. I agree it should be taught in schools, would really support the kids suffering from anxiety and bullying.
As a baby the first thing it has to do is breath as the doctor provides the opening in the throat. The next step is that a baby naturally breathes with gentleness, maybe this is where the lessons should start and the adults could be the recipient of this gentle breathing lesson?
The beauty of the Gentle Breath Meditation is that it can be practised anywhere anytime.
It sure can Deborah. For in that moment that we realise we are not present with ourselves if we just take the next moment to be gentle with ourselves we are back in connection to not only ourselves, but the world around us.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is a profound yet simple tool to help us reconnect and for me applying this has been life changing.
One thing that is present in all situations in our life is our breath so it should be a necessity in our upbringing to know the power of our breath and the marker it offers us.
The quality of the way we breathe is such a massive marker and reflection for us throughout the day, it shows us straight away if we are racy or settled, and from there we can change the course of our day.
I love your honesty Anne and the tools you use to re-connect you back to you. I find these invaluable as well.
The Gentle Breath meditation is such a simple yet profound tool that supports us to re-connect to our divine essence. Practicing it changed my life.
Thank you Anne for sharing simple valuable tools of how you find your connection. It was the gentle breath meditation that cut through my anxiety and arrested the ill momentum of my thought patterns. It was a welcomed release of the pressure I was in.
I find that the gentle breath meditation helps me to enhouse my body again. This means that with this certain quality of breath I am present within the physical space that my body takes up, not absent and taken away by mental conversations with images and desires.
Even though in my very first Universal Medicine practitioner session, I was given a cd on the gentle breath meditation, I never really did stop and listen to it properly. It took some years later before I was able to ‘actually’ listen to it. On reflection it has just shown me how much of a momentum I was living in, that I actually couldn’t even stop to feel my own breath properly. This is still a work in progress, one that I am still drawn back to each and every day.
The what Serge Benhayon is presenting to us is so valuable Anne. To me the gentle breath was the first tool that truly brought me back to my true essence I was never been before as far as I can remember in my life. I had used many other techniques before, which never had brought me this same connection but left me in a state of bliss that was not really me but more an illusion as of how I can asses it now.
Connection with ourself is fundamental, I love how you have shared some of the tools that help you to re-connect with yourself if you temporarily loose this connection Anne. ‘There are times when I find I can’t connect back to myself using the Gentle Breath Meditation™ … so then I might go for a very gentle walk, appreciating nature all around me, until I am walking again with my self. And if I still can’t connect, I will read a story or a book that inspires me, such as Serge Benhayon’s “Open Letter to Humanity”.’
Knowing that my essence is divine, having experienced markers of this divinity within my body, makes it easier while I go about my day to feel when I am not connected to my essence. Practicing the Gentle Breath Meditation has certainly been one way that has supported me to connect to myself but has Anne points out there are other ways to reconnect; it is about commitment to myself in finding the ‘what is needed’ in order to truly support me to ‘come back’ in that moment.
A beautiful and simple reminder Anne of the power of the Gentle Breath Meditation to re-connect us back to our inner heart. This simple technique is an amazing tool we have available to us 24/7.
What could be better than discovering that we already are everything we have always wanted or searched for 🙂
Having a way to re-connect with the inner-heart that lives in us all is the birthright of each and every person. There is no exclusive club that you have to belong to, there is no special pose or chant that you have to preform to be accepted by it. The inner-heart is simply there for you all of the time and you can re-connect to it whenever you like. It is a practical exercise that eventually becomes so natural and easy it becomes a part of your everyday, a part of your every moment, movement and more.
This is a hugely significant point you’ve made Naren. It’s well worth asking ourselves how we actually feel within? What is our relationship to the being we are… do we feel we know ourselves? Is it possible to cultivate and foster an experience of connection and stillness within ourselves, that actually changes our relationship to all that is ‘without’?
The teachings of Serge Benhayon, brought into practical application, have brought no end in developing such a relationship, and the ‘world without’ – my view of it and participation in it – has changed immensely.
I remember doing the Gentle Breath Meditation with blocked sinus and was intrigued at how I could still manage to breath with that tiny thread of breath. It showed me how when not in gentleness I was needing more breath than was actually necessary, it felt quite symbolic of how living life out of this gentle rhythm was using so much more energy than was necessary – I was exhausting myself by not connecting in this way. The gentle Breath meditation is such a simple technique but has such a huge effect on how we experience life, ie the quality of life.
This is so true rosannabianchini, how the gentle breath meditation, simple as it is, can automatically change the quality that we are in.
Reading through all the comments and feeling the last 8 years of using the gentle breath meditation I’ve come to realise that we reach a point where the gentle breath meditation is no longer needed, if we have been taking responsibility and truly using the meditation in the way it is designed. This is to not use it as a relief from the chaotic life we are living, but instead to use it as a point to go deeper, and start to choose different, to not be in chaos. Bit by bit over time we become more settled in our way of living, to the point where we are living a connection and a tenderness that is beyond the gentle breath meditation, so that the gentle breath meditation feels yuck and no longer supportive. It all then becomes about our movements, making them tender and in a quality equal to that we have dropped to with our breath.
Who would have imagined, in this day and age, that gentleness was a key to the riches and beauty that mankind ALL strive for, and yet there it is, within the gentleness of our breath, how wonderful is this apparent dichotomy, that once we know our true nature, becomes simply obvious.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is the most amazing tool to reconnect with oneself that I have ever known.
The power of the Gentle Breath Meditation taught by Serge Benhayon was for me the only true tool that helped me reconnect to the divine essence that resides within us all. So simple to learn and do. It has transformed my life.
Absolutely Loretta, the Gentle Breath Meditation is the first “tool” of reconnection that the Students of The Livingness use.
It is worth noting that the discovery of who you are is a journey more than it is a development, because who you are is innate and it never goes away or changes, there can just be many layers piled on top of you that create an otherwise image of who you have made yourself to be. So the discovery is in the discarding of what is not you. If it were a development, then you would be reaching for somewhere that you are not already. When in fact you already are all that you need to be, you are already there.
Our ability to ‘stay with ourselves’, no matter what, is something that simply cannot be underestimated. I agree with you wholeheartedly Anne, that the Gentle Breath meditation has been an absolute godsend in terms of changing the way I respond to life, and how today, I can predominantly remain in a steady and joyful consistency with myself, every day. Working with this and exploring the simplicity of the technique, has supported me to let go of enormous amounts of nervous energy, anxiousness, stress, tension, lack of self-worth… the list goes on… For the Gentle Breath has been, and is, an integral step to being present with myself – connected with my body in what I am doing, and feeling the quality of that connection. Having been introduced to this several years ago now, if I ever lose the steady and light quality in my breath, I am now immediately drawn to ‘bringing myself back’ – how truly beautiful to have such an intimate relationship with one’s own body, one’s own breath and one’s own being, where we are constantly returned to the deep inner knowing that we simply do not need to be dominated by the ‘way of the world’, or let ourselves be pushed and pulled by its ebbs and flows. We can remain the still centre, from which all is experienced.
Thank you, Victoria, this is a beautiful summary of the priceless gift we have been given, in being able to return to our essence at any given moment through the Gentle Breath Meditation.
Yes, ‘priceless’ beyond measure Janet.
What you have so openly shared here Anne, is how simple it can be, to build a relationship with oneself, where the commitment and focus is upon connection – connection to the essence of who we truly are, as you’ve so beautifully described. Through the power and depth of the teachings that Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have shared, we have a plethora of ways to explore and play with in our lives, that support us to remain connected and with ourselves, or to ‘come back’ if we have lost our way, or been thrown by something going on in our lives. This is the key to true mastery in life.
Victoria I love how you bring in the playfullness to all the tools and support that Universal Medicine has shared. As you say it’s great to “come back” to oneself if we’ve lost our way.
Playfulness is key David, that’s for sure! If we are intent and or even curious about what it may mean to deepen in our quality of lived presence with ourselves and our bodies in our daily living, it’s so worth ‘trying things out’ and seeing how we feel as a result.
For me, the tools and modalities offered by Universal Medicine have been absolutely golden in assisting me to form a solid foundational sense of who I am, and my sense of confidence, presence and vitality in my day – like nothing else I ever ‘played with’ before.
Connection with my soul is now a tangible thing – no ‘far off concept’ whatsoever… and the attendant and consistent joy and love I feel stands testament to the fact.
And I do continue to ‘play’ and experiment, especially when feeling to make changes in my daily routine 🙂
Thank you Anne, the Gentle Breath Meditation is the greatest foundation. It is what I start and end my day with, and what supports me to stay in touch with the quality of deep love that lives within my body.
Continuing to re-discover ourselves deepens as we continue to connect and unfold our own relationship with ourselves. It’s a relationship I had neglected for many years, but the gentle breath meditation re-opened the door and once we choose it regularly, we get a natural return to the most important relationship we can have.
Thank you Anne, you have presented so much wisdom in this blog and by reconnecting to our essence through walking, gentle breath meditation and reading life can be that simple as we are reconnecting to be the Son of God again.
For more on gentle breath meditation and Serge Benhayon go to;
http://www.unimedliving.com/search?keyword=gentle+breath+meditation
Previously I felt lost when I was running in nervous energy due to overdrive and had no way I knew of to calm myself down, except maybe a ‘reward’ such as a glass of wine, or to sit and watch something on TV or eat something that was normally considered a treat. I now have a much greater awareness of what is going on when I find my body is disturbed by the way I have been living. Taking a few gentle breaths is certainly one method I use. It’s impact varies depending on how far I have let myself go, but I know that it does help me to stop the momentum I have been in and to reset my movements.
I love the simplicity of this blog and also the humbleness. It’s written in such a practical and real way that it makes me want to go and meditate and also stop being hard on myself if I can’t come back on the first go, as this article so clearly spells out, there are other options to slow me down to a stop.
Yes, there is a real beauty in this blog and it does make me also want to go and practise the Gentle Breath Meditation.
Yes lorrainewellman I agree – there is great beauty and power in simplicity.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is a simple but extraordinarily powerful technique that has supported me immensely to connect back to myself – in a way no other technique has ever delivered. We cannot think our way out of our troubles, as the thinking is of the same kind of energetic quality as the troubles we are experiencing. If instead we learn to connect back to ourselves fully and move in that quality, there will be a greater space to see and understand what is being shown to us, and what our next step is to be.
Our breath is a great indicator of where we are at and so simple to check. Allowing a few moments to connect to ourselves on a deeper level by becoming gentle, not soft, and feeling what a difference this then makes to our movements and our regard of ourselves is amazing. The coolness at the tip of the nose, the warmth of the out breath in the lower nostrils and the stillness within. The Gentle Breath Meditation is literally a life changer.
Thank you Anne for a beautiful sharing, just reading your blog now, feels like a meditation in itself .
What supports me most to stay with this connection you speak of Anne, our connection to God and to our innermost or Soul, is when I feel the bigger picture, humanity. When I use ‘Humanity’ as my motivation or inspiration, unifying and bringing us all together, I seamlessly sink into this connection through my body, and it feels so natural, tender, graceful and all loving. SO, I love that you bring up using the book ‘An Open Letter to Humanity’ as one of the tools to support you to come back when you lose your way, as I too still lose my way often, and this is a great support you have offered.
I feel so blessed to have the tools we have to come back to ourselves when we are away from ourselves and living life from external impulses rather than from our internal knowing.
I agree Anna, that feeling into the larger picture of life is a great way to bring us back, with the connection to humanity and knowing we are so much more than the small space we physically occupy.
……’we are so much more than the small space we physically occupy’. Beautiful Anne, your testament to the Gentle Breath Meditation has so much to offer others. Our breath is a great marker for us in feeling connected to our essence.
Your words were very stilling Anne, feeling the love you are holding yourself in is very inspiring as you learn, grow, expand and return to living more from your inner heart. A perfect reflection for me today, thank you.
Thank you for this sharing. I too have found the gentle breath meditation to be something that brings me back into the moment and it feels so solid in my body. Whilst it is such a simple technique, it sets up the quality of every single movement that follows, and what an amazing opportunity to lead with a quality that is honouring of my body.
To know that we are divine first and that everything else is a choice to step away from that inner self has made a huge difference to the way that i live.
I agree Nicole, it turns the life on its head and puts the responsibility for our part in it firmly back in our court.
“Developing my inner self has not always been a gentle unfolding for me – it is a work in progress, lovingly so” – mine also. I have made it a struggle that need not be, and am learning to get used to the ease and simplicity that surrender offers.
Me too. I have also made it much harder than it needed to be. Keeping it simple and always returning to a connection rather than trying to work something out in my head.
What a lovely sharing Anne about a simple yet profound technique, I am another person who loves the Gentle Breath Meditation.
I’m with you Lorrainewellman, I love the Gentle Breath Meditation, it’s so simple, can be done anywhere and really helps to re-connect me back to me.
Just the other day I learnt that the cool breath felt at the tip of the nose during the gentle breath meditation represents conscious present, the more present we are, the less thoughts come through our mind and body. Then more In control of our movements we are, as during conscious presence we have more clarity. A work in progress to build into my every movement, conscious presence.
Sometimes we do not value simplicity in our life and tend to seek more complex and expensive solutions to help our daily stressors. The gentle breath is a gift for us all and its’ simplicity needs to be appreciated.
I feel the power of the Gentle Breath Meditation™ everyday, I specially appreciate its benefits with my patients in psycho-therapy sessions. It is not possible to stay in a heavy emotion once your breath is gentle. For me to have such a powerful tool as a therapist is like winning in the lottery! Just it doesn’t take luck to win, it’s simply a matter of choice!
I love reading what you have shared here, Anne. It is supportive to take the gentle breath meditation into my day.
The gentle breath meditation is so simple to do yet so profound. Sometimes we think that if something is that simple it could not possibly work but the truth is it works extremely well.
“I simply stop, connect and breathe very gently through my nose.” This is the key to breaking all the patterns that we can so easily fall into. It is easy sometimes though to forget that this is an option, and if we do remember we then need to be willing to actually stop and do it.
The simplicity of this technique has changed my life and that of so many others. As you say Rebecca though it can be easy to forget we have this option. But the choice is always there.
I agree Rebecca, it is simple but returns to us the power to arrest the energies that may be keeping us in a spin of emotions or stress, as we can connect to that deeper part of us that remains unaffected by anything playing out in this world.
What I can just feel from reading this blog is I don’t actually need to do anything – I just need to be. By that I don’t mean sticking my feet up, retiring and having a cup of tea – I simply mean turning up each day, fully present in my body.
It’s incredible, something so simple and so profound – the Gentle Breath Meditation. Imagine if everyone did this, there would be far less involvement, imposing and fighting – we would all live from Soul. So much of what happens in life, including illness and disease, is because we absorb and get involved in whats going on a round us. Wheres the observation offered by breathing our own breath gently, and not breathing in the dilemmas or chaos of others is huge! It makes life immensely more simple, joyful and much more ease-y.
Isn’t it amazing how the simplicity of our breath brings us back to our whole body, and with that our heart.
You know what I love, ” it takes a lot longer. And that is OK too as there is always a lesson there for me to learn.” that everything is simply a learning – thats all it is. There’s no need to bash ourselves up, or make it into a big deal, just a simple ‘okay what can I learn from this?” It reminds me of school where I observe many young kids give themselves a hard time for something they have supposedly not done right – it’s massive. I have seen children in floods of tears, stress out or give up before they have started, their whole body goes really tense or anxious. I have seen kids say I’m going to fail, before they have even started. They’ve already set themselves up. On the other hand there have been children who have simply said ‘oopsie’ and walked away, with absolutely no attachment or affect on their body. This is very lovely to see and a beautiful learning for everybody.
The breath is a great marker for me and how I am going during the day. Whilst my days at work are usually very fast paced and at times stressful, the marker in the body when practicing the Gentle Breath Meditation never leaves and therefore I can always return to this place with my breath to care for myself and re-establish the rhythm and therefore connection.
Same here, Matt, I have also found that the one thing, I can count on to change before anything else is my breath…once that rhythm changes, I know something is not right.
I know when I have lost that gentleness in my breath, I have been taken over by something, an emotional situation or reaction – then I know I am being ill-affected and focussing back to breathing allows me to come back and to stop taking on what is happening around me – and allows the space for observation and therefore greater understanding.
Absolutely Matthew, so simple but true it is as easy as reconnecting to our breath as presented by Serge Benhayon.
For more about Serge Benhayon go to;
http://www.unimedliving.com/search?keyword=SERGE+BENHAYON
That looks like the Gentle Breath Meditation is like a rock in your life. Something you can come back to when needed and what is helpful tool to connect again with the true you. What I find very sweet with the Gentle Breath Meditation is, that you can do it everywhere and any time. We have to breath anyway and so I can re-connect to ME while I am working, on the toilette, on public transport – wherever. This is love in practice.
“but if I hold myself absolute in my knowing that my essence is Divine, as a son of God”
It is so supportive to be able to come back to this truth especially if we have temporarily lost the connection. Although we never truly lose it we are just choosing to not feel it.
The Gentle Breathe Meditation is such a wonderful way to connect to our inner self, and therefore to God. Thank you Anne for bringing to our focus the importance of building and developing our self awareness and presence through the Gentle Breathe Meditation.
Love that you have shared that developing your inner self has not always been a gentle unfolding. This has been the case for me also. It is not always easy but definitely worth it.
Anne, even just the statement that the gentle breath brings you back to yourself, is a huge awareness which is not commonly understood. We can drive somewhere and end up not remembering how we got there. We can walk into a room and not remember why we chose to go there. We can forget the simplest things like where we put our keys over and over. Or we can get caught up in activity or conversation and lose sense of time and end up late and rushing. There is an endless stream of ways we can not be with ourselves, or in your terminology I would guess, ‘leave ourselves’ and yet this doesn’t appear strange or abnormal to people.
“Developing my inner self has not always been a gentle unfolding for me – it is a work in progress, lovingly so – but if I hold myself absolute in my knowing that my essence is Divine, as a son of God, it is like the breeze upon still water… forever expanding…” I can relate to this. When I first started with my developing my inner self, it too was challenging, so I allowed myself to gently unfold, putting no demands on myself and trusting and knowing that my essence is divine.
I love the words in the title of your blog Anne. Reading ‘discovering my inner self’ made me reflect on how much we can focus on the outer, and totally neglect the inner. It’s a real gift when we rediscover that wonderful feeling of connecting to our inner selves. The Gentle Breath Meditation has certainly helped me to do that.
I agree Debra, it is an absolute gift that sit’s there waiting for us to stop for a moment and just consider the possibility of what is on the inside. If we make the step to truly stop and feel the rest is actually really easy, it’s there in full power the moment we let go of focusing on the self that is found in the outer world, which is a totally different self.
“… if I hold myself absolute in my knowing that my essence is Divine, as a son of God, it is like the breeze upon still water… forever expanding…”
This is a beautiful description. Building my relationship to my inner self – no this has not always been a gentle unfolding! But then I can really see looking back how much I dug my heels in and resisted, feeling fearful of letting go of the familiar, no matter how uncomfortable it was. And so circumstances had to worsen before they could improve, so that I could feel their impact through the numbness I was holding myself in, the stasis.
Gladly, this is rapidly washing away now as I choose to say YES consistently to what is next and what is needed. My body holds me in such tender love, it is always with me and the stillness and sacredness within me is becoming who I am in the world. As you say Anne, forever expanding.
I use those techniques to reconnect Anne. I find that I am living more and more with the gentle breath now 5 years after being introduced to it, but there are always times where I go out and I need to bring myself back in. Walking through my day in my rhythm is an exquisite feeling where the need for stimulation in all of its guises is no longer enticing. I feel joy from attending to what is needed rather than rushing through the ‘mundane’ so I can get to the ‘good bits’ which is what my life used to be like.
It is amazing but true, that in all the years of yoga and meditation practice I dedicated myself to, I did not connect deeply and simply to me. There was always a particular type of breath that was often quite forced and not gentle. Looking back, it was an imposition on me, asking me to ‘try’ and connect, rather than simply connect to me.
As were the postures… I thoroughly enjoyed them because I love to move my body and to stretch and exercise, especially with care and presence….. but there was usually a drive, to do a certain number in a timeframe, not a true settling into my own rhythm. But most importantly, it was deceptively close to connecting to me but actually missing the deep surrender into my essence and in that, it kept me separate from myself.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is so simple that at first the mind wants to go ‘yeah yeah what’s all this about?’ … But that’s the point. It needs to be simple, to drop away the complication and mystery around deeply connecting to who we are; to show us that connection is WITH us and WITHIN us all of the time.
The part of me that is connected and at one with God – this is such a lovely description of a feeling that I felt like a deep awakening.
“.. if I hold myself absolute in my knowing that my essence is Divine, as a son of God, it is like the breeze upon still water… forever expanding…”. I used to have an issue with God my father. I still do with the authority figure of he is absolute in his knowing. This then ripples to all who I know who ‘I think’ who know more than myself. It is very silly and all about me when I do, I then disconnect from God, my all-knowing, and then, blame him or another for my actions. Responsibility is catching this as soon as possible before it goes too far hence The Gentle Breathe Meditation and a stop is the best choice.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is a beautiful technique, and like you Anne I also use the walk as a way of bringing myself back into my body. I find it especially useful in challenging situations at work to focus on the gentleness of my movements, and the stillness holds me at such times.
Peter I too find the walking very supportive in challenging situations, I find the movement allows flow and bringing me back into my body. The gentle walking allows me to connect back to my stillness.
Like you mentioned Anne that developing your inner self has not been easy yet very much worth it. To me, it is like building a bridge and every day this bridge becomes just that little more secure and fortified, but this bridge isn’t from one side to connect to another, it is a bridge to living in connection (like a bridge connects) to the soul.
Gentleness is purely a bridging way of being that gives us a sense of somethign much more profound. It is in itself not truly part of our underlying Soufull nature. It is, however, a way of being that is free of the momentums of life that we so easily get caught up in, and as such gives us a platform from which connection with our true divine state of being is all the more possible.
This is deeply true, and as I’ve experienced it also Adam. When I was first introduced to the notion of being truly gentle – in my breath and in my movements and ‘way’ in life – it was an adjustment that took some time… and one that was, and still is at any given moment when felt needed, most welcomed… For there are greater depths to experience, in union with our own soul, should we offer ourselves this platform of true gentleness to ‘go deeper’ from.
The Gentle Breath meditation is God’s gift to humanity. Am I truly appreciating this?
This is a great question Anne, and one that I can honestly answer no to at the moment. This has inspired me to do so.
So beautiful Anne to read and feel your sharing of the Gentle Breath Meditation. How our minds love to complicate and overrule simplicity at times – then the introduction of the Gentle Breath Meditation brings about a realisation that life is so much different in the slower lane, we actually get to feel that connection to our divine essence.
That is what I experience as well. Any form of complication is a moment to stop and connect to my breath again and feel. I know that simplicity is the way. And yes walking life with the gentle breath in the slower lane is a different experience. As if life shows herself to us.
Beautiful Anne such a lovely sharing the gentle breath really is life changing and all shown to us by one man and his livingness inspiring everyone to connect to ourselves with this simple technique.
This is a simply beautiful blog, Anne Scott. Truly and awesomely expressed from your Inner Self. Thank you.
Anne, this is gorgeous! So honest, delivered with such acceptance and claiming of where you are at and the choices that you are making to choose the true ‘you’ in your day.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is the only meditation that I have done, and there are a few that honestly and truly brings me in connection with my Soul. The practical nature of the technique supports me to stay in my body and to be able to connect the stillness that I am. I am forever thankful to Serge Benhayon and the Ageless Wisdom for bringing through such a powerful yet simple technique.
Thank you for sharing the pure beauty, power & simplicity of the Gentle Breath Meditation.
It’s so good to be reminded of what you are offering here Anne, It’s beautiful.
Thank you for your lovely blog Anne. I love the Gentle Breath Meditation too, and I agree, when I feel out of myself I take a few gentle breaths, and if that doesn’t work there are always more tools in my tool bag to call upon. The Gentle Breath Meditation is great because it is very hard to think whilst focusing on the end of your nose!
The Gentle Breath Meditation is such a power-full tool in reconnection to our divine essence within. Prior to learning this I used to meditate on a guru’s photo within a group- this disconnected me further from my true essence. I wasn’t grounded in my body. Only when I started doing the gentle breath meditation by Serge Benhayon did I feel how harming it was on my body meditating outside of myself.
Wow this is an amazing observation Loretta. I also think of praying to an outside God or idolising anything or anyone outside of our own body. It disconnects us from who we are.
There’s no doubt that stopping and bringing awareness to how you are breathing has enormous benefits. It sounds so obvious, yet so often we avoid this by distracting ourselves – not wanting to feel and deal with whatever we can feel- instead of allowing ourselves just to stop and be with whatever we’re feeling.
I’ve tried loads of meditation techniques over the years, from yoga poses and chanting, but none of them really changed anything- except this one.
The simple act of focusing on breathing gently, consistently though a daily practice, has had a surprisingly big impact: my body feels much more relaxed, I’m less anxious and there’s space between me and what’s going on around me, which helps to observe it instead of take it all on.
The gentle breath can become a natural way in living our life, it can be our focus every moment as we move around in our day thus keeping us always connected to the body. Its powerful place in supporting us to claim all of who we truly are is profound.
Yes I agree Christine. The breath in its gentle state can be felt in our movements, speech and in all that we do. It provides us with a quality of ‘being’ that is in flow with nature and the rhythm of the day. And this doesn’t necessarily mean slow… it means gentle.
The Gentle Breath Meditation™ has been my guardian light for some years now. I know whenever my life messes up this meditation will definitely bring me back on track.
Felix I agree Gentle breath meditation is a great way to bring us back into our body, when we go of track or feel out if balance. A very simple but profound technique that can be done anywhere and anytime. Within minutes you can feel the connection back into your body. Just by a simple gentle breathing technique.
The profoundness of this can’t be stated enough, can it Amita… There is a seriously needed key here – in supporting mental health, physical health and wellbeing, and every aspect of our lives and living. The enormity of changes that many, many people have experienced through the Gentle Breath Meditation needs to be known globally. I can’t recommend the many free downloads now available via the Unimed Living website enough: http://www.unimedliving.com/meditation/free
I love this Felix ‘Back On Track’.It’s true. The GBM realigns the ‘carriage.’ 🙂
Thank you Katie for your lovely examples of reconnecting to ourselves. Being conscious in our every day is a process of learning not to be with the active mind all the time, but feeling what the body is doing in a static posture or with a movement. An example I have is I wash my hands very regularly at work, and lovingly put hand cream on afterwards, so return to feeling my hands when I do this, to bring myself back to the physical body and how I am feeling. It hardly takes 30 seconds, but is a powerful return to the body.
There are so many ways that we can reconnect with ourselves by drawing attention back to our body. It is a simple yet extremely powerful practice to bring into our lives.
How true Naren, there have been times when I felt quite disconnected from myself, but then after persistent and loving focus on my breath, brings me back every time.
Yes Naren I love the simplicity. The key is re-connection. So the breath is a great beginning and once we align our bodies and minds even a gentle walk is a great practice.
Using our breath as a point of foundation to establish the quality with which we live is incredibly powerful, and yet so simple. It is something that is always with us and always there for us to re-connect to whenever we need to.
Absolutely Naren, connecting to any movement will reconnect us to our divine essence.
With you wholeheartedly Naren and Katie. A practice that offers us the ability to be ‘us’ and not get exhausted or depleted in the fray, but rather, be vitalised in our life. For me, exploring and developing my connection with my body and breath has been nothing short of profoundly transformational.
Profound indeed, Victoria! There is a never ending depth to that connection, a world within that is completely and utterly entwined with the one we experience on the outside. As we come to know that world within and continue to develop and share our connection with it, the world outside begins to reflect the within.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is one that would be so beneficial if it was taught at every school and work place. On a functional level we would all be a lot more productive and on a personal level we would all feel a lot more content with who we are and what we are doing in life. This technique that Serge Benhayon presents has changed so many lives and it all comes back to being who were really are. How amazing is that and so very simple. We would save a lot of money as well if this were the case.
I agree Natalie. The amount of stress and tension there is in schools and workplaces worldwide is crazy, so a technique like this would be beneficial in so many ways.
Yes Natalie, how amazing would it be to go into our workplace and start the day together with a collective 5 minutes of the Gentle Breath Meditation. Everyone would benefit, ourselves, the quality in which we work, our outcome and so the customers that we work for… The ripple effect of your idea is so simple, yet so Joyfully profound. I’m in:-).
What I love about The Gentle Breath Meditation is that I always get the opportunity to connect deeper to who I really am. Then embracing this and living this in all that I do whilst not letting go of or forgetting the gentle breath at the tip of my nose – keep feeling this no matter where I am and what I am doing. It is a technique that stays with you for life day in and day out. I’m so deeply grateful to have been introduced to this by Serge Benhayon, it has changed my life. I now breathe my own breath.
It was surprising to me what occurred, when I first tried the gentle breath. I have tried many meditation techniques over the years and yet none have held me in such a loving stillness as the gentle breath. Many other meditations practice pushing any thought out of the mind which in itself became constant movement. The gentle breath seemed to find a stillness which was me and just being with the beauty of it.
Kim, I have experienced many meditation practices and always found them complicated – trying to hold an image of a deity whilst chanting a mantra and not allowing any thoughts in, whilst sitting uncomfortably. This was always painful and only ever made me feel like I had failed because I couldn’t do it, while the gentle breath meditation is simple, natural and feels amazing unlike any other type of mediation I have tried before.
Short and sweet Anne, it’s our choice in any moment to connect to ourselves, and we have many ways in which to do so.
I have found myself pondering over your comment Kim as I consider just how many ways there are to connect to ourselves.
The gentle breath has been an incredible tool that gave me a marker of what true connection is. I find it still comes into play within my life as well Anne. It’s so simple direct pathway back to the Devine.
Beautifully expressed Anne – thank you.
‘if I hold myself absolute in my knowing that my essence is Divine, as a son of God, it is like the breeze upon still water… ‘ Anne I love this, the Gentle Breath Meditation is a great tool to reconnect back to our essence.
Reading this quote from Anne’s blog again is so deeply beautiful Sally… with the realisation that our essence, the exquisite knowing of being at one with our soul, is something that needn’t ever leave us.
The simplicity and profundity of the Gentle Breath Meditation is breathtaking! Literally!
How about ‘breath-empowering’ 🙂
That we are offered the opportunity and welcome reminder, to breathe our own breath in all of life, and that nought ever need take us away from this, and the depth of union with ourselves, God and the all represented through the breath…
Beautiful comment Victoria – ‘breath-empowering.’ So true.
The gentle breath technique is called a meditation but it is like no other I have tried. So simple and after a while the quality of breath feels natural, like breathing my own breath. It supports the physiology to slow down and then the body feels quite different. It feels as if I am simply returning to me and as if gentleness is a natural quality to embrace in that return, both in the breath and the feeling of the body. So you could call it a technique but you also could call it a reconnection to feeling at home with oneself.
“….simply returning to me and as if gentleness is a natural quality to embrace…”
Beautiful Simon, yes it is who we are, feeling at home with our self. No trying, just surrendering to who we are. There is an enormous healing available to us from the simplicity of this foundational technique.
Is it as simple as breathing our own breath?! Returning to at least the gentleness we can all be is profoundly simple yet so, so powerful in it’s scope – it affects everything knowing we have the power to truly change the way we are in all we do, think and say and it has to be felt to be understood and appreciated. It’s impact in my life knows no bounds. Thank you for sharing your story, Anne.
It really is just a choice. Even if we can’t immediately connect to the full depth of who we are we can at the very least choose a quality of gentleness what takes us away from that which we allowed to take us away from ourselves in the first place and closer to our essence.
“Developing my inner self has not always been a gentle unfolding for me – it is a work in progress, lovingly so – but if I hold myself absolute in my knowing that my essence is Divine, as a son of God, it is like the breeze upon still water… forever expanding…” This is my experience to share also, beautiful and revealing and after many years looking back on my life the changes are amazing all thanks to starting bringing the Gentle breath meditation into my life too. Thank you
This morning I woke up and put on the Gentle Breath Meditation, and I felt so much going on in my body, it constantly blows me away how sensitive my body is and how easily that is to connect too if I allow this. And I simply accepted everything I felt and let my body drop even more so. This meditation is one of a kind and as so many people have confirmed here, is a way to connect back to ourselves.
It certainly does Katie – which to me shows that it is possible for us all to have a deep level of sensitivity and respond to our bodies before our heads. Serge Benhayon has always talked about the importance of the mind working with the body rather than being separate to it and that has really resonated with me as so often we are caught up in the thinking rather than the feeling.
Yes and the amazing thing is that after all the searching and seeking and ‘trying’ to get somewhere, it is so simple. The real is is right there waiting for us to connect to it and we can take this out into our day.
Yes Katie – our body responds to the honour and regard that we afford it and live it in full respect of our divinity and preciousness. This is not different to bringing this same level of regard and honour to all others for all we all respond to Love and being honoured for the Love we are.
I love what you say about the body dropping hvmorden, what I love most about taking time to stop and drop that there is never an end point and it’s a constant dropping from one foundation to the next and the more we claim and live this the easier it is to do in our every day life with our the gentle breath meditation.
Absolutely Danielle – as you say there is never an end point to how much we can deepen our foundations. There is always more for us to look at, it is a constant relationship that we have with our bodies, honouring where we are at and confirming every step.
Yes I’ve also recently come to feel that it’s also about our relationship with divinity, as if we make it just about our body we can only drop so far.
Our bodies have so very much to say, don’t they hvmorden… And as you’ve shared, it needn’t be scary to actually ‘go there’. It can take time, but the experience of acceptance and surrender you’ve shared can indeed occur – for us all.
Why walk around constantly building up tension, nervous energy and all sorts of stuff within us, when we can dedicate moments of our day to truly connecting with ourselves and our bodies – that this in time, can become our ‘norm’…. 🙂
It is so telling that we can practice modalities for many years and actually not be connected to ourselves. What does this say about what we are offering? I was a bodywork practitioner for many years before coming across Universal Medicine, and when I discovered the Gentle Breath Meditation it totally changed my life and the way I practiced. It just shows us we need to be discerning when we go seeking help.
Rebecca I completely agree with you that we each need to be discerning with whatever it is that we enter into, however the problem for me was that my body was so polluted that it was impossible for me to discern anything. I was chockers with so much that was not true that it scrambled my ability to feel the truth of anything. I therefore clutched at things that offered me respite from the tension and irritation that I lived with on a daily basis, not realising that they were all mascarading as the truth.
This is a good point Alexis. Often people cannot feel the truth because they are so full of other stuff that they have taken on.
Yes, it is very revealing when experienced practitioners or teachers do not have a fundamental connection to themselves and their bodies. What I love about Serge Benhayon is that he only teaches the truth of what he has lived and embodied.
It is beautifully humble to be open that which is being lived is not it, being humble enables us to be open and let go of issues and ultimately heal ourselves. It is telling that something can be chosen that says it has that connection, for such a long time without actually feeling that inner connection. I know I still with my relationship with God, the healing and Love I have felt, still hold on to ideas and beliefs that are not IT. And why do I do that…it is comfortable, it is what I have built around me. I am however steadily breaking down these walls around me and allowing more Love in and more Love out. It is a work in progress and will continue to be. This article really highlights, how amazing committing to coming back to the inner connection, being humble and being open to what we truly feel can be.
There is so much for us to break down, isn’t there Katie. How strongly we can hold onto what we are doing as ‘it’, until we reach a point of actually being willing to be so truthful as to let go all of that which hasn’t been true at all – including such yoga practices as you are seeing exposed through your clients, which are not offering true ‘yoga’ (union) at all.
I like it very much that you share your favorite re-connection tools – Thanks.
I agree here Esteraltmiks, it is simple and yet profound to feel and read.
So powerful Anne, “Developing my inner self has not always been a gentle unfolding for me – it is a work in progress, lovingly so – but if I hold myself absolute in my knowing that my essence is Divine, as a son of God, it is like the breeze upon still water… forever expanding…” I can so relate to this and love that you have called it out to dispel ideals and beliefs that it is all about feeling loved up, connected and with yourself at all times and if you can achieve that you will be ‘happy’. But unfolding all the things we have build up around us to not feel and not connect with ourselves and others, can be a challenging process and one that takes courage, resilience and time. And yes it is forever expanding.
Yes and Anne has also dispelled the myth that it is a ‘struggle,’ or something that needs to be ‘achieved’ through the expending of great effort. The gentle breath is simply a tool to help strip away the layers that are keeping us from feeling the truth of who we are – a truth that never leaves us for it is the very essence of who we are.
This has been my experience also Kate. If anything, the Gentle Breath has helped to expose the amount of ‘struggle’ and ‘effort’ I had thought I needed to put into pretty much anything that needed to be done. Aaarrrghhhh… how exhausting life was.
And what a re-education in one’s own body, to return to a flow and ease and steadiness in life, founded in the connection to my own breath. This has been the greatest gift…
Great points to note Raegan and Anne. Through the Gentle Breath Meditation and the teachings of Serge Benhayon, I’ve discovered that life needn’t be about ‘highs and lows’, ‘ups and downs’, but can be very consistent indeed – a consistency of joy and love lived that is very real and tangible. Yes, challenges may present, and these are not shirked from – yet they are met from this consistency that I’ve been able to develop within.
There is most certainly no ‘false of fluffy love’ that is masking the realities of life here – but rather, all of life can be embraced in a deeper way than I ever used to previously think was possible.
Lovely “There is most certainly no ‘false of fluffy love’ that is masking the realities of life here – but rather, all of life can be embraced in a deeper way than I ever used to previously think was possible.” I had a deep appreciation of how this is lived within you through this comment and also how I have committed to live this more fully, I am more willing to go there and experience it, face it, see more of the All and with this I always know that I Love in essence and part of God. I can observe the evil of life (that which is not love) more than I ever have before through connecting with the fact that I and we are divine in essence. To develop true wisdom I feel it is essential to be open to see and feel All that is placed in life for us to learn this is includes the Amazing Love and Divinity that is within and around us but also that which is not Love.
I very much appreciate what you’ve shared here Samantha. In offering ourselves a deeper foundation of steadiness in our own lives, we are far more equipped to see the depths and indeed horrors of disconnection from a true life, that are being enacted by humanity, every second of every single day.
A deeply wise man I know, Serge Benhayon, said to me once, “embrace every last drop of prana” (prana being that which is not of true, fiery and loving origin in expression). The depth of foundation we hold is what enables us to embrace ‘it all’ with our love – no closing off to it, no judgement, no blame…
Most definitely, there is much I know I am yet ‘to see’, but the lived inspiration of Serge Benhayon shows that we can be here, live joy, consistency and love in full, with no holding back – ‘despite’ what may happen around us, or indeed that which may be directed towards us and/or those we love.
The world is in the deepest need of such reflections of love, and a lived way that says we needn’t give up on any facet of life, ever.
Taking a few breaths to come back to ourselves means a big change: Instead of making ourselves worse and worse we interrupt the process and come back to a more harmonious or caring equilibrium. Over time this has big implications for our physical and mental health.
Very true Christoph – I can feel the ceasing of old momentums which have had us all tied up in the past and can actually now be lovingly seen for what they are – a once automatic response interrupted and diverted to truth.
Very true Christope, I can reflect on how I felt before I began to consider my breath, and how I feel now, they are completely different. I was racy, busy, moving through life with my head in front. I now have an standard ‘equilibrium’ that I can come back to if I begin to feel out of it, rather than my standard feeling being out of it. This is so beneficial of my health and well-being.
Anne I love how you describe finding your divine essence inside of you and that all it took was the gentle breath meditation to give you the space to connect with this. I spent much time and energy looking outside of myself for the thing that would make me feel whole, or make everything make sense somehow when all along what I was looking for was within me. Feeling this deep connection with me creates amazing clarity and space.
There really is nothing like it is there Lee, choosing to deeply connect, absolutely creates amazing clarity and space. The total opposite of choosing to follow your mind.
It’s true Katie, so many clients have never before experienced this connection to their inner essence, and of the layers of hardness and tension the they carry on top of that. When we reconnect we are able to discern what is not truly us that we burden ourselves with and are then in a position to let it go. Often yoga practitioners and teachers have a strong sense of their body, but after an esoteric healing session they have a whole different kind of connection and a true marker of that which is true and that which they hold in their body that is not true, and this can begin a whole new relationship with themselves and their bodies.
Lee, you raise an interesting point, by the fact that having an inner-connection with yourself has given you clarity and space, whereas looking outside of yourself for connection has come to almost feel like a waste of time and energy. It raises the question about why do even start to look outside of who we are to find who we are, when who we are is and had always been right there on the inside.
Great question Shami… and why so much of our world is set up to take us away from our true selves…
It has been, and continues to be, empowering beyond measure to so simply rediscover such a tangible inner reference point of my ‘true self’ – through the Gentle Breath Meditation, and the profound yet deeply accessible teachings of Serge Benhayon. That the intensity of the world needn’t be spinning around ‘within’, and yet I can very much be a part of this world, my community and many, many relationships today, founded in a still centre within, that the Gentle Breath has assisted me to establish and maintain no end.
Before I was introduced to The Gentle Breath Meditation I had no real sense of what my inner-self was or what it felt like. Without this introduction I would still be searching outside of myself for something more. The Gentle breath was the first step on the way back towards myself, and it is a path that is continuously unfolding.
For me too. It was my first step to living that quality everyday and forever deepening it. A true blessing. So simple yet so profoundly powerful.
I’m with you johanna08smith, the beauty is in the simplicity of the Gentle Breath Meditation and keeping it super simple is what its all about. Your focus is on your breath, and your body says, now we’re talking, this is a body I can work with.
Same, same Rosanna, up until the point of doing the Gentle Breath Meditation, I really had no idea of what my inner-self was or what it felt like. Building a relationship with my breath in this way has been the most tangibly proactive meditation I have ever encountered. It has enabled me to get through some fairly impenetrable defences and discover the real joy of my essence and amazing love. And one can do it anywhere, any time, no need for special postures, rituals, shrines or the like, all one needs is one nose and a pair of lungs and you’re away.
That is the absolute blessing of this technique Rowena, I agree. We are empowered by making the choices in our own bodies to connect, and deepen the connection with the beauty of our own essential being – anywhere, at any time.
I had trialled and practised many meditation techniques prior to this, and not one so simply delivered me to a true sense of connection with myself.
Rosanna it’s somewhat sad to consider so much of my life where I had no sense of “my inner-self”, yet at the same time it shows the power of a simple 2min technique and the fact that the depth of love that I am has and is always there waiting for me to re-connect. I didn’t have the tools before being introduced to The Gentle Breath Meditation.
That’s it David, thank you for naming it ” the depth of love that I ” this is what we are searching for before finding the Gentle Breath Meditation.
One to remember the depth of love that I am has and is always there waiting for me to re-connect – now that truly is love, no push, no imposition, just waiting for us to choose it.
I am totally the same Rosanna, the amount of things I tried then getting to a point where nothing seemed to be true. So when I attended my first workshop with Serge Benhayon I was pleasantly surprised that there was a simple technique that I could participate in which supported me to connect to a very deep and still part of me that I had never felt before. Super life changing and a practical tool that I have not ever let go of because it feels so true.
I can remember one of the first times I had a go at the Gentle Breath Mediation, I could hardly breath through my nose due to a virus and morning sickness was preventing me from getting out of bed. Every slight movement and even no movement resulted in consuming nausea. I felt like a prisoner in my body and became upset and low, I was not accepting it… And so someone suggested I have a go at the Gentle Breath Meditation, I was lying down, had no where I could go, my busy way that I had been in could not be physically achieved and so I said Yes. I remember snuffling a small gentle breath in and out of my blocked nose, I concentrated deeply on this small thin breath, I felt it come in to my body and then leave, I listened to Serge Benhayon, he had a quality in his voice that to me spoke of living what he shared, I connected with that. The sickness brought a stop, a stillness, and the Gentle Breath Meditation brought me right back to my body, and I began to feel a surrender and reconnection reawaken. Glorious.
Samantha, I also remember doing the Gentle Breath Meditation with blocked sinus and was intrigued at how I could still manage to breath with that tiny thread of breath. It showed me how when not in gentleness I was needing more breath than was actually necessary, it felt quite symbolic of how living life out of this gentle rhythm was using so much more energy than was necessary, ie I was exhausting myself by not connecting in this way.
I love the reality you share Anne of all the many ways we can lose ourselves in our day. You have also raised an important point that its not about being perfect. It is holding yourself in the knowing that you are divine and continuing to make the choice to come back to that as your norm. When we have that as a marker we cannot stray too far. The gentle breath is something that can be done anywhere and at any time. This activates several things. It makes you connect with your body as you feel the breath moving. It brings you out of your head and stops any mental rush you have been in. It allows you to make the choice to be gentle in your breath and body, thus changing the way you feel to be at least gentle.
This is true Fiona and appreciating these steps and how profound they are is an enormous part of these exercises as they support in really understanding what true change is actually about and how coming back to oneself is everything.
Yes Fiona, I find that the discovery through The Gentle Breath Meditation was I who could choose to be gentle in my breath and my body, this was a very powerful discovery – that I did not need to get caught up in what was going on around me OR that I need not let things escalate to a point I left myself feeling overwhelmed.
I agree Rosanna, it’s actually a very empowering exercise, to realise we have the power to change every situation by the way we are in it.
It is a powerful exercise that brings us back to our body, with very little effort. I find it supports me in my everyday and has been a true blessing.
Well said Kim – we indeed hold the power to change our lives and offer true change to all by virtue of living a True Life in connection with God.
Well said Fiona. Making ‘perfection’ our focus is actually a way to avoid appreciation, as it plants a seed of doubt in every moment that whatever we are doing is not enough, and therefore not ‘good’ or ‘useful’. As you’ve shared it isn’t about perfectionism, but building an individual foundation and rhythm that we can come back to and build on. It may take time to work on making our relationships with others and our own bodies loving, but it does not have to be a struggle. It only becomes a struggle if we compare with others and fight appreciation.
Super revelation Susie: “Making ‘perfection’ our focus is actually a way to avoid appreciation”
This is so true Susie, ‘Making ‘perfection’ our focus is actually a way to avoid appreciation’, actually reading that has me realising that I have clocked that myself in the past, as in knowing that I had done a great job and then after dismissing it by adding a ‘I could have done this or that better’ – it is just totally a way to avoid appreciation.
I love what you’ve shared here Susie how focusing on perfection avoids appreciation – the building blocks of life.
A great call and reminder Susie, ‘Making ‘perfection’ our focus is actually a way to avoid appreciation, as it plants a seed of doubt in every moment that whatever we are doing is not enough’.
Great point Susie. I’ve found that the Gentle Breath Meditation has supported me immensely in letting go the constraints of perfectionism – to foster a deep relationship within myself, a foundation I can come back to, if ever perfectionist tendencies start to creep in. In perfectionism, I am most definitely not ‘breathing my own breath’, as the Gentle Breath supports us to return to knowing in our own bodies, but rather, I am caught in trying to measure up and compare (as you say) with some ridiculous standard I’ve taken on from the world around me.
Yes, Fiona, who would not want to reap the incredible benefits you describe with regards to this simple technique?
These are the things that I love about the Gentle Breath Meditation too Fiona. I find that it gives me space. It gives a pause for me to stop and connect and I can then take this spaciousness with me in all that I do.
So much of what we worry and concern ourselves about can be brought at least to a ‘halt’ from running roughshod within us, via the Gentle Breath Meditation, can’t it Lee.
Just take some very simple steps, and we are on the way back to ourselves, no matter what is going on…
And it has no gimiks attached. Very simple, only a few minutes and just about stopping, feeling and choosing to breathe gently. Like you say, it can be done anywhere!
That’s the beauty it only takes a few minutes to just connect and breath gently, no posture or anything specific required. True simplicity .
Yes exactly Johanna. A few simple minutes to stop, connect and breathe our truth. An awesome way to be.
I agree and well said Fiona, the gentle breath is like a marker so that you can feel where you go in your day and relate it back to a state of being present and connected with yourself. Catching myself like this, I used to be surprised how ‘far out’ my breath was and how it corresponded with rush or drive in my body. This was a great support for choosing different movement and a different energy to work with in my daily life, while just getting on with what I needed to do. Gentle breath showed me how we do have a choice in any moment.
I was the same Simon. And I am continually amazed today, after several years of practising the Gentle Breath Meditation, how quickly I do notice if the true sense of ease, flow and connection becomes lost in my breathing. From which point, I can simply take the simple steps to bring my breath back to me, and from there look at what may have impacted upon me that my breath had lost its flow.
Such awareness is absolute gold in living with a consistency of vitality in our world today – and just a part of the depth of wisdom shared by Serge Benhayon in relation to restoring a lived connection of the beings that we are, with our own bodies. This is true psychology.
Simply expressed Kim and Rosanna ‘we do have the power to change every situation by the way we are in it’ and the gentle breath makes this possible.
‘Breathe your own breath’ as I have heard Serge Benhayon say words to this effect, when I heard them I felt the power of it. The power to choose and the power to stop and feel. A pause, feeling the quality I am in and so choosing what my next step will be thorough using the gentle breath meditation, it has been life changing.
Yes Fiona, and I find the Gentle Breath allows me to come back to myself when I find myself caught up in emotions or a reaction to a situation. It really is an incredibly simple and powerful tool.
Super simple and profoundly supportive is the Gentle Breath Meditation – Connect anywhere, anytime and stay Connected could well be it’s slogan.
Absolutely, something which I find so supportive in my life, when I feel out of balance, or caught in emotions or reactions, all I need to do is bring my focus back to my breath, within minutes I am able to connect back to my body and see the situation for what is.
Yes Amita, it’s so simple, so supportive and so very powerful.
Beautifully shared ,Fiona.
I too loved the fact that Anne shared about us not being perfect and that we may need to go for a walk to come back to ourselves if we are too racy. And then we need to ask the question about how we got to be that racy as this increases our understanding of how we have been living our day.
This is the beauty of developing such a rich relationship with ourselves via the use of such simple tools, isn’t it Anne… In coming back to a steadiness of connection with our own bodies first and foremost, we can then reflect on what may have impacted us, and/or the drive or choices that have contributed to us getting racy or uncentered, etc, from a true place – where we can feel deeply the truth of the matter, rather than try to ‘over-process’ from a mind and body that is not yet steady, nor still. For many, I’d say that this can throw years of psychotherapy out the window…
The Gentle Breath…… such a simple but profound tool for bringing ourselves back to being at least gentle, is always with us and can be done anywhere at any time.
Exactly rosemarydunstan, it’s a portable take everywhere with us, handy tool.
Yes Julie, I am sometimes blown away by the simplicity and complexity of it all…. we have been given everything we need to support and assist us on our return to who we truly are, and the Gentle Breath Mediation is no exception, we have the simplest, gentlest technique to bring us back to ourself and our inner connection, and it is just to breath gently, breathing, something we are already doing anyway, something we cannot be without….. just a simple matter of being aware of how we are breathing. Wow. What a gift.
Absolutely Fiona, what you describe are some of the benefits we can experience from the Gentle Breath Meditation, which is a lovely way to come back to our true self.
Anne, the power of Serge Benhayon is that he speaks from the authority of his body, you do exactly the same.
Yes Alexis and Katie, how powerful is it that thousands of people have turned their lives around just by observing one man consistently over a period of more than a decade embody and live the love he speaks of?
Yes Alexis and Katie, there is a tangible quality you can immediately connect to when someone expresses their lived experience, rather than theory.
And that is what makes the real difference Alexis, well said. This authority can only arise because someone puts the effort into embodying it, living it day in, day out, no let, no private “it doesn’t matter no-one’s watching” moments, just a consistent dedication to coming back to our connection again and again, until we have mastered it.
I like the sweet notion in your comment, Rowena, “coming back to our connection again and again” – it’s not about finding the connection and then getting stressed about holding it steady. It’s about finding it again. Finding it again. And finding it again… One can feel the playfulness you have embodied, beautiful.
Absolutely Rowena, this is key, ‘just a consistent dedication to coming back to our connection again and again’.
Yes and as you write Rowena it takes out the hardness when you lose it because you just keep coming back again and again and again. No giving yourself a hard time because that keeps you disconnected – just realise you are out and then keep coming back to the connection. I think I am writing that as much for myself right now 😉
It is the dedication to continually developing and evolving that connection which I find so very inspiring about Serge Benhayon. In the seven or eight years I have been listening to his presentations and attending Universal Medicine courses, he has been presenting the same themes but in an ever deepening and embodied way. This is clearly someone who is living what he speaks about, and is sharing the way for us all to do the same.
I had not previously been consciously aware of the tangible difference between someone speaking from their body and someone speaking from their head (or from theory), but can look back now and say I definitely felt it regardless. Serge Benhayon is an amazing role model as someone who consistently speaks from the authority of his body, and has inspired many to do the same.
That’s such a beautiful point that you raise, Angela. I can say exactly the same thing, I too wouldn’t have understood what it means to talk from your body, but from the very first time I heard Serge Benhayon speak, I was riveted and wanted to hear absolutely every word he said, despite not liking what I heard on numerous occasions. There is a quality, a resonance to the voice, that comes when we talk from the authority of the body, it’s magical.
True, lived experience forever touches us deeply and without this, a concept or idea simply fills our minds with a little more knowledge, theory and mental construct.
This is so true, when one speaks from a lived and practiced experience, the quality that is felt is beautiful, you cannot deny it. When Serge Benhayon speaks, his words just touch you and are felt deep, as his every sharing is lived.
It’s true, presence can be felt.
Thank you for sharing yourself here Anne. Reading your blog reminds me that it is those moments, no matter how small, where we notice change; we are able to stay connected to ourselves and feel that inner-stillness that needs to be deeply appreciated. As only then can those moments grow.
I love the gentle breath meditation too Anne. It is so powerful in its simplicity and ease of being able to bring me to a stillness and connection with myself.
I have learned that doing the Gentle Breath Meditation is an exercise in commitment and self love.
Michelle, I found this morning my body was feeling sick from some choices I made the day before, I allowed myself the space to do the gentle breath and felt far more connection to me. Deeply supportive when needed.
Thank you Anne, I find walking also a great way to reconnect back to my divine essence.
To see more on walking go to;
http://www.unimedliving.com/search?keyword=WALKING
Love the line, ‘developing my inner self has not always been a gentle unfolding for me’, I can say that for me would be a grand understatement, yet what I realise is since having access to this master tool it’s allowed for a more observational approach to when life feels clunky, bumpy and loud, and when it simply does not.
‘… if I hold myself absolute in my knowing that my essence is Divine … that I am a Son of God’, as you say, then to live as such is to work backwards to that point. To work towards claiming myself as Son of God I have started asking myself, ‘What would a Son of God do or say in this situation?’ and the answers come to me like magic. And they come in a way that is outside my usual box of tricks.
I agree Anne, the Gentle Breath Meditation (GBM) has been for me a truly remarkable tool. From first being introduced to several other versions of meditation in my early 20s, although there was a certain appeal to the ‘silence’, it never really stuck for me, as it was usually uncomfortable for my body. What I discovered after coming to GBM, is nothing I had connected to previously. I learnt it was stillness that had been missing from all the rest, as it’s not found repeating a mantra or holding weird body positions from assigned periods of time. Like you say, now in a single breath or two can be all that is required to come back to that solid foundation stillness connects me to.
I really love coming back to this blog, Anne, as it is such a pertinent reminder for me to come back to my breath frequently during the day. What a gift this is.
We can all do with this reminder, Anne. So often in our day we get tense and focussed on our work and our breath becomes shallow or held. Coming back to a gentle breath instantly creates more space in my body and puts whatever is going on out there into perspective.
It took a while for me to feel confident with the Gentle Breath Meditation, and I am so very glad I stuck it through as it has had a profound impact on the quality of my life. While I was building my familiarity with using the meditation I found great support from audios that can talk you through the steps (they can be downloaded from the links in the article). I copied a few that I liked and each time I would pick one to support me. This also made it fun and enjoyable.
I also loved how I did not have to try to switch my mind off or change anything. It provided a chance to simply observe and deepen my understanding of what is happening in my body (including my mind) and how that can be related to everything I had engaged in leading up to that point. A powerful tool to feel and build understanding about the energetic impact of our choices and true responsibility.
Yes the gentle breath gives me an instant marker of my energetic state of being (created by my preceding choices). I may have ‘thought’ I was doing well but when I check in with my breath, if I have trouble focussing my mind on my breath or my body feels tense and tight I get an honest account of how my body actually feels!
Yes the Gentle Breath Meditation reveals how we having being living up until that moment we sit to breathe which is very revealing and a great reference point. I was discussing this with a friend the other day that was new to this meditation, how when we have been pushing through the day and we then come to sit we will initially feel all the ‘rush’ we have been in, and how the effect of this can be felt in our breath and our bodies. Very powerful as you say Golnaz to build an understanding about the energetic impact of our daily choices and how this effects us and others.
I loved finding that the Gentle Breath Meditation did not have me chasing after something that I had to do or achieve, but kept inviting me back to connecting deeper with me. Not so easy for me after a lifetime of chasing, but profoundly stilling and empowering.
So true Golnaz. It reminds you of the power of just being, reconnecting to the stillness and the depth of your being that is there waiting inside.
The Gentle Breath Meditation gives us chance to stop or pause and evaluate how I am, have I been rushing, or not present, and then invites me back to connecting deeper with myself.
What was incredibly timing and beautiful about reading this blog, Anne, was how I actually began to do the Gentle Breath Meditation after reading the first paragraph, since I had been in the midst of making some big decisions and how after about 20 seconds of doing the meditation, the anxiousness I felt in my body lessened dramatically. Sometimes I almost take it for granted just how powerful the Gentle Breath Meditation is, and this shows me how I tend to not appreciate the how something so simple can be so profound in it’s effects on the body and mind.
The Gentle Breath Meditation provides an understanding that connection to ourselves and God is but a simple choice.
To feel our relationship with God is the most intimate, deeply personal and exquisite relationship which exists for us. And The Gentle Breath Meditation is our ticket to this beautiful space.
Your blog is so beautiful, simply and powerful Anne – just like the gentle breath.
‘I did not find this inner self by looking to something or someone outside of me, which I had been doing to no avail for many years. No, the answer was inside me all the time!’
Love your re-discovery Anne – It’s all here, on earth, in this body for us to evolve and be the Love we are made of. In my experience, so much of the mediations I’ve practiced in the new age movements have denied the fact of life on earth and our day to day living and rendered it less important. A lot of it was to get ‘blissed out’ on some higher power, so how does that support daily life. I love The Gentle Breath Meditation because it brings our focus back to life, back to our day and everything around us – but living in this from the steadiness of what is already within. There is no agenda for escape.
Thank you Anne for sharing your very practical steps and experience with the Gentle Breath Meditation, such a simple method to bring one back to connecting with their essence, facilitating deep changes in ones’ life.
The power of The Gentle Breath Meditation is absolute. From wherever you are, be that the ‘rush’ of your day, the calm of your bedroom, the hustle of the underground train, there is ALWAYS the opportunity to connect to the true you once more, in an instant. It is something I wish I’d learnt at an early age, for it truly supports me, and in turn those around me too.
I love, Anne, how you have made this simple but profound technique accessible to all. The benefits really are incredible and support us throughout the day to come back into our bodies and feel what is really going on inside.
This is beautiful Anne, “Developing my inner self has not always been a gentle unfolding for me – it is a work in progress, lovingly so – but if I hold myself absolute in my knowing that my essence is Divine, as a son of God, it is like the breeze upon still water… forever expanding…”
After years of trying loads of different meditation techniques, and reading lots of books, it was the Gentle Breath Meditation which brought me back home to myself to truly feel what I had been missing all along: the connection to my body, and the choice I always have in what energy I choose to run myself with. The choice of gentleness just in my breath was a first step onto a path of growth and development that I cherish.
This is a beautiful blog reminding us of the simplicity of connection to be with ourselves in the moment and the gentle breath as our gift to this . It really is something to treasure as is the beauty joy and contentment felt with this inner place to come home to and live from.
“I did not find this inner self by looking to something or someone outside of me, which I had been doing to no avail for many years. No, the answer was inside me all the time!”
How beautiful Anne once we start to realize that we have everything we have ever longed for inside of us and it is about to reconnecting to ourselves and heal what stands in the way to feel and live who we truly are.
Anne, I love the simplicity of this, ‘when I think too much or talk from my head (mind) – which is still quite often, as I am far from perfect – I simply stop, connect and breathe very gently through my nose.’ the gentle breath is such a simple, powerful tool.
What I love about the Gentle Breath Meditation is that it is very practical. It is not just about going off somewhere on my own to connect to me (although that is important) but it is also about how I move my body in every moment. Bringing more of a quality of gentleness to my breathing and all my movements becomes a meditation in itself and can support me to stay connected to my body and my inner heart during the day.
I agree Anne as I had also tried many forms of meditation before coming across the Gentle Breath Meditation and straight away I knew it offered me something very powerful that I had not experienced before (in this life). A sense of connection both with myself and with everything around me.
‘I practiced (and subsequently taught) Yoga for many, many years before finding my true inner self – my inner heart – the part of me that is connected to, and one with, God’, Anne as a yoga teacher, I too taught yoga before truly connecting to my inner heart and so what I taught was dis-connection. As someone who was grossly disconnected it was impossible for me to teach anything else.There are no similarities whatsoever to how I now teach and I am understanding the depth of my responsibility more and more.
Gorgeous blog Anne, that shows how simple it can be to come back to ourselves. I too had not truly known my essence in this way for a long time til I came to the work of Serge Benhayon and the Gentle Breath meditation. For something so simple to have such an immense and connecting impact was amazing. I have recently been making more time to practise my gentle breath meditation and it has supported me so much to stay more connected to self and solid in who I am. I too am forever appreciative of the fact that I have come to know this technique and now know that connecting to myself is as simple as stopping and gently breathing me.
Anne, you offer a series of examples of how to bring yourself back to feeling that connection to a true sense and feeling of yourself, that are very supportive, thank you for sharing.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is truly life changing. And only a breath away. 🙂
Great point that it is only a breath away, a simple choice to connect to what is already there.
Absolutely no more huffing and puffing, I simply choose to connect to my breath!
What a breath of fresh air you bring with this blog Anne!…. stunningly pure and simple, with tangible understanding…”my essence is Divine, … like the breeze upon still water… forever expanding…”
Short, sweet and simple is your blog and leaves me feeling lovely as it reminds me to stop and breathe gently once again and not to beat myself up when I get all caught up in the morning rush.
I agree Rosie just to focus our attention on gentleness and our breath is a beautiful reminder to stay present and to choose the quality which is supporting us to bring us through our day. Rushing is exactly the opposite of gentle presence and throws us out of our rhythm.
I practised this today in the way I walked. I was in a busy airport and everyone was rushing so I just decided to not get caught up in the rush and the whirlwind of it all, but to walk my own walk and breathe my own breath. It is just a choice and makes such a difference when we choose our own quality.
This is beautiful “I discovered my inner self, this Divine essence inside of me, the first time I practised the Gentle Breath Meditation™. By simply breathing very gently in and out of my nose, I came to a place that I knew was home – my real self.”
Anne, what stands out for me in this blog is your acceptance of yourself even if you are ‘out’ and this understanding would be felt by the people in your classes. Not heaping judgment on ourselves makes it easier to come back. No-one is perfect and any pressure we put on ourselves to achieve any kind of standard takes us further away from our love.
The gentle breath meditation was also a turning point for me in my life. After 25 yrs of yoga and meditation, and still not truly connected to me, my divine essence, I felt the difference in that I could breath in gently, connect and feel the true stillness that is me and then go into motion from that place. Meditation beginning at the end of the meditation…the exact opposite to what I had previously been taught. This was GOLD for me.
I feel meditation is used for so many things but most of the meditations that are on offer are not about discovering your true self and to connect with your body. We use meditation to actually check out and not be present, while true meditation only needs 10 minutes max and we can go on with what needs to be done. Simple.
Walking, moving my body back to connection has also been a huge support, I walk pretty much every day, even for just a few minutes, it is a part of life where I know I am saying yes to me, yes to supporting myself and yes to divinity, I feel my body respond and connect more deeply through choosing it.
Yep, me too Samantha – I have been amazed at the depth this can go to in walking. No striving for anything, just allowing to feel the connection which is there through my body.
I agree walking is very supportive and have really felt the benefit of taking the time out every day to walk with no other purpose but to connect with my body, with my divinity.
This is beautiful Andrew and Samantha, ‘to walk with no other purpose but to connect with my body, with my divinity.’ I feel the joy, ease and simplicity of this! Thank you, I take this with me now.
Walking for me too, has become a staple to my early mornings of the day that I am much better off not to do without. Supporting me in keeping with my natural rhythm, that can so often be overrun if I don’t offer myself that time.
I also use this tool to support reconnection “I simply stop, connect and breathe very gently through my nose.” It has changed my life and supported me through what I have considered tricky challenges life.
To have an understanding that there is and inner self and to know the movement of stillness that resides within gave me a really clear marker in my body of when I was connected to that place and when I wasn’t. It wasn’t guesswork, imagination , knowledge of fantasy or even a wish – it is a very real unmistakable clear feeling in my body.
Yes Nicole, our body is very clear in its communication. I was never taught this fact and therefore was not used to having this warm relationship I now have with my body and lived a life in which I relied more on my mind instead. I have found that my mind can live completely disconnected from my body in which I was able to ignore completely the signals my body was messaging to me and through that was able to live in disregard with it.
“..rushing around making myself late by trying to do one more thing” – I caught myself doing this very thing this morning Anne – and it took a little while as I drove to stop looking at the clock and concentrate on my breath and releasing the tension that I was holding in my body – a minute or 2 and I was back. A reminder of both the simple power of the Gentle Breath Meditation and the importance of not pushing it and giving myself the space I need – spending that extra couple of minutes too long on something is simply not worth the unnecessary stress it brings into your day.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is by far the most accessible meditation with our breath (and I have explored a range breathing techniques). I can 100,000% say that nothing brought me close to discovering my innate gentleness than did this powerful, yet supremely simple, entirely natural breath.
Over the last few decades meditation has almost developed a bad name, with so many about that pretty much do nothing except consume a lot of time. Enter Universal Medicine and the Gentle Breath Meditation and everything changes. Here we have a meditation worth practising, and incorporating into your life. It will literally transform everything.
Yes, I agree with what you have said here Heather.
The Gentle Breath Mediation was the first true meditation that got me to feel what it is to stop and feel my body and have a semblance of what stillness is. When I am at work it is a great tool to check how my day is going and if I am going into any sort of drive, if I am my breathing will become shallow and irregular, so just by being aware of this is really supportive.
Learning the Gentle Breath has been journey of reconnection for me too Anne, although like you, it has taken me some time. But that’s ok, it is a work in progress, and I love your confirming comment ‘ ..if I hold myself absolute in my knowing that my essence is Divine’ .. we can only forever grow and evolve.
Thank you Anne – for this light and beautiful sharing of how to simply connect back. I can read here how open you are to continually working on where you are at, without judgement or criticism. As you say – everything is a lesson, lovingly so, and if we are open to this, then we are constantly shown how to deepen our connection.
Anne, I love your honesty. “Developing my inner self has not always been a gentle unfolding for me – it is a work in progress, lovingly so”. And this is all part of learning how to live with love. It is a forever deepening process.
“Developing my inner self has not always been a gentle unfolding for me – it is a work in progress, lovingly so – but if I hold myself absolute in my knowing that my essence is Divine, as a son of God, it is like the breeze upon still water… forever expanding…” Anne, the lack of perfection and understanding that you offer is hugely appreciated.
Anne, this morning I was very in my head, being critical of myself, after reading your blog I stopped, closed my eyes and breathed through my nose gently, this is really lovely and I can feel it takes me out of my head and stops the critical thoughts, it is great to have the reminder of how powerful and simple the gentle breath is.
Rebecca this is an excellent example of how powerful the GBM is… thank you for sharing this… it seems to connect me back with my body when I am in my head and the critical thoughts seem to melt away.
I agree Rebecca it really does cut those demanding, negative, critical, imposing thoughts from our minds and brings me back to my body which allows me to have a completely different quality of thought.
“By simply breathing very gently in and out of my nose, I came to a place that I knew was home – my real self.” Any meditation i have attended before has always asked me to push and bend my breath to come in line with the technique – however with the Gentle Breath it is as simple as finding your own natural rhythm and connecting to the stillness that follows.
This is such a great point Lucinda – ‘Any meditation I have attended before has always asked me to push and bend my breath to come in line with the technique…’ I hadn’t thought of the damage these techniques actually have on the mind and body when we allow our breath to be molded and fit in to some structure or teaching. To do this we sacrifice our own innate rhythm and connection! Thank God for The Gentle Breath Meditation that invites all to feel and enjoy their own and very unique rhythm.
“Sometimes all it takes is two or three breaths and I am back. Sometimes, if I have been rushing around in ‘drive’ mode, or if I am caught up in everything going around and around in my head, it takes a lot longer. And that is OK too as there is always a lesson there for me to learn.” Anne, I find it is these moments when i choose to stop and breathe that the momentum of my rush really gets exposed – for although i maybe physically seated my body is still chasing my mind, resisting this call to be still.
Over the years I have indulged in many different types of meditation from breathing techniques to guided visualisations. In each case we were taken through a process directed by someone else that had nothing to do with our own body’s rhythm. The Gentle Breath Meditation is about us breathing our own breath, gently, delicately, in harmony with our body and our own rhythm, it is a beautiful way to reconnect to our innermost selves.
A beautiful summary of a very simple yet profoundly connecting technique Carmel. We do not need to go anywhere in order to get somewhere, it’s all in us. What I mean by that is that a lot of guided meditations I’ve done is about going places, like you’ve said Carmel, and not about the body. But if we want to connect to ourselves then why go outside or try to transcend the physical world to find inner peace or enlightenment? The Gentle Breath Meditation is so clear and simple, with no rah rah or promises of success, just an honesty to allow oneself to come back to a way of living that is supported by the rhythm we breath.
The breath and breathing is such a great tool to take the stress out of our systems and to become more at one (more aware) of our bodies. I have experienced many different types of breath work but the gentle breath meditation taught through Universal Medicine is the most powerful and effective technique I have come across.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is so simple and almost instantly it settles one back into connection and calmness within. Thank you Anne.
We can spend life times just ‘being a breath away’ from a platitude of things we feel are important. But at all times we are just a gentle breath from who we truly are.
This is the perfect pocket size reminder of the simplicity of, and responsibility to, keeping ourselves ‘checked in’ as we go about our daily lives. Every day is rich with moments to feel the quality of our breathing and build an aware relationship with our bodies.
Your description of ‘checked in’ is fab, this is such a great way of expressing what it is to be in conscious presence, rather than not being aware of what we are choosing and why.
When we breathe in with conscious presence, our connection to The All is felt. When we breathe out, we take this connection with us, in all that we then will do.
Gorgeously expressed, being aware of what is chosen through breathing our own breathe opens up our experience to the universe and to understanding what life means for us.
Yes Liane so true.
It is the in-breath that is the quality of stillness and the out -breath that is the motion and expression… wow what a duo 🙂
Now that’s a quote for the wall – thank you Liane for your ever expanding and multidimensional expression. This knowing is indeed in and around us all.
Our breath is the bridge back to our true and divine self, for we are each forever held in love, by the in-breath and out breath of Thy Father, who lives and breathes within us all. A beautiful blog Anne, thankyou.
This is so true Anne – that we do not find our inner (true) self, by looking to someone or something outside ourselves. If we were taught that as a child, we could arrest the ill momentum that we as a humanity have let ourselves to get caught up in, forever yearning and searching outward for the ‘missing piece’ that lays within us all along.
Yes Liane, we are taught from young to do our best by performing in such a way that takes us away from our true source, our inner-heart in which we do find all that there is to know about life and that we do not have to perform but just be and live that what impulses us from this divine place within.
And nature is a reflection of the beauty we are from and is there for us to remind and teach us our true nature “like the breeze upon still water”.
As you say Anne, the answer for all our searching is just within us. There is no need to look outside of us for the answers as that will only take us further away from the true source of our existence that lives in in our inner-hearts.
All we require to reconnect with who we truly are, is within, a blessing that was shared with me and has changed my life, a lot less looking outside for answers now occurs, life is now richer, deeper and more understood by reclaiming this connection.
It is a blessing indeed to discover that there was no need to look outside myself anymore as I had done for the whole of my life before. I am now rediscovering the rich and purposeful life I was always in search of and which was all that time available to me in my inner-heart.
That line is beautiful Susan. Thank you for highlighting it again.
Gorgeous Anne. “And that is OK too as there is always a lesson there for me to learn.” learning how to be yourself again. The gentle breath meditation brings such clarity and much needed stillness 🙂
I am so with you on all you have shared here, Anne. I love the way that it is not about being perfect and when we cannot instantly reconnect to our innermost there are other ways to gently bring us back.
The gentle breath meditation was the first time, probably since being a young girl that I could actually breathe gently without taking anxious breaths. It also showed up when I was anxious because I couldn’t breathe gently, it has been an amazing support in allowing all the busyness to slip away and bring my inner essence back into focus.
I appreciate the simplicity and ease of what you are sharing about the connection to your true self and the fact that it is available to all regardless of age, culture, nationality, wealth or status. Being deeply connected to who we are is the ultimate leveller and exposes all those lies about our fabricated and perpetuated apparent differences.
Thank you Anne for your Gentle Breath blog. It is a wonderful tool and stop moment for reconnecting with the absolute divinity we are. And it only takes two minutes. Thank heavens for Serge Benhayon.
The profoundness of the gentle breath meditation is that it assists us to arrest the momentums of the day that we otherwise get caught in. It helps us to develop a marker of a state of being – that whilst is far short of our true inner fire – is at least a starting point to discovering what true fire feels like. Whilst we are caught in anxiety, anger, or even “happiness’ or elation, we cannot feel anything else but that, and so that becomes our chosen reality. The gentle breath meditation cannot connect us to our essence, but it can bring us to a state of being where connection to our essence is actually possible. Thus why it is such a powerful technique.
It’s incredible to feel how easy this is, to come back to who we truly are simply by doing the gentle breath meditation. Our amazingness is never far away..
Since reading your blog Anne I have become more aware of when I rush, to be conscious and acknowledge that is what I am choosing and therefore know I can stop and choose a more gentle way.
This is such a beautifully simple reminder Anne “So now when I lose my self, such as when I am rushing around making myself late by trying to do one more thing, or when I get frustrated with someone or with myself, or when I think too much or talk from my head (mind) – which is still quite often, as I am far from perfect – I simply stop, connect and breathe very gently through my nose.” Thank you.
Absolutely timely for me to read your blog this morning Anne as I can feel I have gone into a bit of rush mode trying to fit everything I normally do into the same time frame despite having had to allow for an extra hour for an early morning meeting. What I can clearly see now is that I should have been more prepared beforehand which I did clock at some point but allowed my mind to over-ride it in that very Ozzie fashion of – “she’ll be right mate”. I now get to feel the impact of my choice which is a great learning.
Your ‘inner heart’ might seem to some people to be a hard to imagine place – a fantastical mythical destination that is nigh-impossible to get to. Yet what your words here Anne and the teachings of Serge Benhayon have helped me uncover is that this precious warmth has been here all along, just waiting for me to tenderly stop and realise I have great beauty inside of me.
Yes, Joseph, the beauty of the inner heart is but a breath away.
Thank-you Anne for this wonderful sharing of all the tools that you use to connect back to feeling and being the real you.
Our breath is such a wonderful way to bring focus back to ourselves, The Gentle Breath Meditation shows us that we have a simple choice to be with ourselves and that we have complete power to choose to be so. It is a life changing practice, as so many here have shared.
So true Rosanna. A simple way of breathing to connect oneself is life changing. Life can be so simple if we but allow it.
What is also great is you don’t need any fancy breathing techniques – just a gentle breath in and out of the nose. What could be easier than that!
Exactly Heather! The power of simplicity 🙂
Thank you Anne, the simplicity of the Gentle Breath Meditation is the most fantastic tool I have ever been given too. As you say, re-uniting you to your exquisite essence is never far away, just bringing awareness to the quality of the breath as it enters and leaves the nose is all it takes. Simple, easy and immensely profound, it has evidently given you an immense internal anchor with which to pull yourself back if you get lost in the busyness of the day. What a true gift from Heaven it is.
The love with which this is written is palpable to feel, it ‘oozes’ from the screen.
Thank you for your testimonial Anne. I had tried many meditations previously, but the Gentle Breath is the only one that has remained. Through incorporating it into my daily life, I can now say that I can feel who I am through the support I’ve received through this meditation. The difference for me is that the Gentle Breath Meditation takes out any trying or efforting to make anything happen, it’s all about connection.
I have found this as well having made a wide berth around any kind of meditation in the past. The Gentle Breath Meditation is simple, can be done anywhere and at any time and does not require any special postures or settings, it is an everyday and every moment tool that connects me back to my body and provides a marker for the difference between what is outside of me and what is within.
I love that the Gentle Breath Meditation is simple. The mind is exposed in its complication.
The way you describe your connection to God, found within you, is a real blessing and a reminder of the connection we have with Heaven, wherever we are in the world and in our lives.
I love the variety you share in tools that support you in connecting back to yourself, Anne.
Same Monika. I found that great to read about Anne’s dedication to connection.
What I have found super empowering and inspiring through practicing the Gentle Breath Meditation and establishing a marker in my body of the quality of my stillness, is that I discovered that at anytime, anywhere I can be who I am, in fact I never have to leave this being-ness. However if I do, as at times this happens, I know how to return to being the love that I am, by connecting to the quality of my stillness within, through the grace of my breath.
Yes, it is having the marker that supports us to know what is true.
The Gentle Breath Meditation gives you back the power on how to return to yourself whenever you need to. Incredibly empowering!
This is such a gorgeous reminder of the simplicity and power of choosing to stop and reconnect using the Gentle Breath Meditation.
Who ever knew that the way to God has been within us all along?
Religion has messed up how many people feel about God, so often people don’t even want to know the way to God. But here we can find the way to God without any of the traditional religions, and take the path of our own hearts.
I share the Gentle Breath Meditation with many people but when I read your blogs Anne it is a reminder that I could also use it more to support myself.
True Annie, we seem to want it for everyone else, but forget about ourselves sometimes.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is a great tool of re-connection to our essence and an opportunity for spaciousness and awareness of where we are at.
The quality of our breath can become so affected by taking on emotions or situations outside of us. When we are not aware of and ‘breathing our own breath’, what are we breathing in and being affected by? It is a great exercise to check in with the quality we are breathing in throughout the day and know we can choose to come back to ourselves when we are ‘out’.
Well said and so true Victoria – “The quality of our breath can become so affected by taking on emotions or situations outside of us.”
It is great to have a simple tool that creates a loving stop moment that truly supports us to come back instead of the usual stop moments of looking at our phone, eating chocolate or having a cigarette for example.
Yes great analogy Shirley-Ann, every moment we live in connection with ourselves builds on our foundation (anchor) which holds us in the times we are challenged. I have also found this to be true.
Yes Victoria, what are we breathing in and how is that affecting us and then how are we talking, walking and living life in response to that. It really does come back to what quality are we living in? We all have a sense and a knowing of what feels good or not. You can tell when you are stomping your feet and how that impacts every part of your body or when you are walking and your whole body is in a flow and moving gracefully.
So beautiful and powerful in its simplicity Anne, what you share here can help many as your words bring power from your lived way and the gentleness you hold yourself in is very lovely to feel.
I also love reading Serge Benhayon’s Open Letter to Humanity, so often I resist it instead preferring to surf the web and waste time, yet when I stop that and open the book I always wonder why it took me so long. I am reading it 2nd time through now and it is amazing to get so much more out of it in the re-read. It is like a refresh button gets pressed in my body whenever I sit and take in a paragraph.
Yes Stephen, I know this resistance too. Be it to read this book or other things in life. However, once we push through, we wonder why we ever resisted.
Great comment, Stephen. I can absolutely relate to what you write about loving to read An Open Letter to Humanity from Serge Benhayon. Every time I read one of his books I feel things shift in my body. I take something different out each time I read it, like it resonates at a different level and awakens something new.
It’s amazing how when we let go of the very things that support us most, everything goes wayward… and for me quite fast! I know what you mean Stephen, when you re-introduce it back into your every-day how quickly our lives start to flow and become simple again.
And sometimes we feel that we are miles away from ourselves but in reality we are just a small step away. Just another breath away but we get into an illusion that we are somewhat lost.
I love this Rosie, it’s so true. At times the smallest thing can happen and I wonder why I’m feeling like the world has fallen apart… whereas it’s simply an illusion.
And we don’t have to go anywhere to find it, it is with us all of the time. No trips to India, no caves, no silent cells. It really is very simple if we open ourselves up to the possibility that indeed this inner connection is accessible to us all of the time.
ha ha, yes Donna and more economical too. We simply need our body and our breath.
Divine wisdom comes from within, isn’t that the most beautiful revelation? It means we are the richest guys ever, carrying such a treasure deep within us. What easier way to make us stop feeling this is to tell a story about the benefits of worshipping God outside of me.
I agree totally Felix – we are rich beyond measure and yet seeking constantly to build wealth outside of ourselves and often times without the true us altogether.
It is a complete set up to seek God outside of ourselves or anything for that matter that pits us as less, unequal and disempowered for it will never sustain us, never last and sets to erode the very fabric of Trust from whence we are cut – a stellar weave of Brotherhood, Love and equality.
‘It means we are the richest guys ever, carrying such a treasure deep within us.’ I love this Felix, such treasures we all carry.
Yes Felix, without a doubt the most beautiful revelation. And our breath being the most powerful way through which we can connect to and live this Divine wisdom.
We have for sure a wealth within us that is unknown by many. And we are misguided by everyone encouraging us to look outside of ourself to find God or divinity.
I love how you have expressed this Felix. We sure are the richest guys ever! 🙂
Yes, the story of a God on the outside of us who needs mediators/facilitators to access him and who has been fitted out with human behaviours such as anger and revenge must surely be one of the biggest crimes ever committed.
I have never considered it as a crime but it really is as it robs us of the truth that we are all equal sons of God.
Yes Felix we are so very, very rich, with that treasure we hold within us more glorious and more magnificent than we sometimes realise.
True Ingrid – how we can seek riches outside of ourselves when the holy grail is within, abundant and expansive.
Yes we are Felix ‘the richest guys in the world, carrying such treasures deep within in us’ and I fully appreciate this each and every day.
It’s crazy isn’t it? that we spend so much time looking for the divine everywhere else when we are in fact divine oursleves and with our own connection deep inside.
Not only do we carry divine wisdom within but we are gifted with the perfect tool to connect with this true essence……. the Gentle Breath Meditation, nothing could be more simple and always with us.
The honesty you bring is refreshing Anne…being true to ourselves, honouring ourselves, is a process of unfolding, and it is the quality in which we move through this unfoldment that counts. “Developing my inner self has not always been a gentle unfolding for me – it is a work in progress, lovingly so…” Being loving with ourselves no matter what is a quality that supports true change in every way.
True Paula, a loving acceptance of where we are at in every moment, free of striving and free of the notion of perfection or failure.
I agree Paula and I love your words “Being loving with ourselves no matter what is a quality that supports true change in every way.”
Discovering who we are, the sons of God and living in connection to our Divinity is why we are here, to live this way together. I have found that the Gentle Breath Meditation is a powerful tool as it offers one the opportunity to connect to our breath, our body and as such a quality of stillness within through which we can explore our ever-deepening Divinity.
Offering to ourselves that opportunity to connect to our Divinity is one most certainly not to be missed!
Absolutely Giselle. And to know that at any point in time, with every breath we have the opportunity to return from a moment missed or deepen a moment claimed is a blessing from God, a Heavenly call to be in the oneness of His eternal Love.
It’s a very simple tool, checking in on how we are breathing and observing how it feels. One of the aspects that I have always loved whenever I have done courses with Universal Medicine and been the practitioner is enjoying my own breath as I work on another person. I have taken this with me everywhere I go. It’s super lovely to observe the flow, rhythm and quality of our own breath and simply enjoy it.
“It’s super lovely to observe the flow, rhythm and quality of our own breath and simply enjoy it.” – What a lovely way to remind oneself where the best place to be is! I love the simplicity of your blog Anne.
It is a “very simple tool” Jennifer, one that everyone needs to have in their tool box for life, and you can never be too young to learn it; in fact, kids love it too.
Thank you Ingrid, you have just inspired me to introduce the gentle breath to someone who has difficulty getting to sleep at night.
Using it at work brings me back to that stillness, and offers me some space in what can be a hectic day.
“It’s super lovely to observe the flow, rhythm and quality of our own breath and simply enjoy it.” An utter joy.
I agree Jonathan, And I love it it then brings everything into perspective. It is so easy to get caught up in life and the Gentle Breath Meditation helps me to observe much more of what is going on for and around me and not get caught up in the whirlwind!
What stood out for me in your blog Anne, is the sentence where you say that if you can’t connect back to the Gentle Breath Meditation, then you go out for a walk or hang out in nature for a while…there are times when I lose myself to the point where I can’t just sit down and breath gently – it just does not work for me, and in such times ‘trying’ to do so just makes it worse. However in those times if I just allow myself to come back to my body, walk gently and spend the time on a walk out in nature or with my dogs or just sitting outside listening to the symphony of nature, it is like this acts as a bridge and then it brings me back little by little to a point where I can then begin to breathe gently again. To me this is the key in it all – our ability to come back no matter what has happened to pull us away. For with the way our world it set up, and does not support us being gentle and breathing gently, the perfection lies not in holding ourselves in gentleness all of the time, rather it lies in our ability to return to gentleness when we have strayed away from it.
Agree Henrietta, i love the deliberate focus on breath, though sometimes you just have to move your body, gently, change its positioning which i find also changes my thoughts too… the gentleness of the breath then just happens naturally as opposed to a trying, which can cause or add to the frustration (!)
Spot on Zofia, even a slightest shift in posture can make a world of a difference. And once we make the choice to move gently then it is like this accelerates the body to rearrange itself so that the breath can then happen oh so gently.
Some great, practical sharing Henrietta and Zofia,
Who would have thought that moving gently and shifting our posture could effect a remarkable shift in energy and in thought.
I know exactly what you mean Zofia. In the attempt of trying, and pushing to get a gentle breath when your body is racing or really not connected, it can be frustrating but when you don’t focus on it, and instead just go for a gentle walk in nature, feel your footsteps, be aware of how you are holding your body, check that your shoulders are not up by your ears or your fists are clenched… before you know it, you are once again connected and your body is naturally able to breathe more gently.
These are great points Henrietta, simply walking in conscious presence, that is coming back into connection with the body, is a great way to return to one’s breath again.
And when we walk we can more easily feel the way we tread – do we stomp around and allow the anger or frustration to walk us, or perhaps allow the meekness and hiding to own us? Or do we bring in the gentleness, a pace and a tread that builds back the trust in ourselves? True movement is so powerful.
I appreciated this simple yet powerful reminder as well Henrietta “To me this is the key in it all – our ability to come back no matter what has happened to pull us away.”
The Mastery lies not in holding ourselves perfectly in gentleness all of the time, but in our ability to always re-turn to ourselves and the gentleness that can flow through us as soon as we become aware and can choose it again.
I agree the beauty of the gentle breath is using it to bring us back no matter what. Like Zofia , I also find posture affects how I feel, any conscious adjustment, realigning the back, makes a huge difference.
Amazing how simple it can be!
I like to picture a future world where the Gentle Breath Meditation is common place in every household in every country right across the world and is taught in schools and in prisons.
That would be amazing kevmchardy – a world where every household through knowing the Gentle Breath holds a connection to their own stillness and living that stillness. The Gentle Breath is powerful in allowing us to know the truth of who we are and once that is known then anything else can be felt and taken responsibility for.
This is a great starting point to have such a simple and practical tool to return us to our essence.
To breathe our own breath is deeply needed in Society, to be still and to be aware for we will gaze upon life with the eyes of a Seer and the knowing of the Universe.
Yes, when we are with ourselves we have the space to become more aware, to observe, to understand life and people and to truly be of service as we have a far grater chance to not get caught up in the conundrum.
Well said Gabriele. With space we are well-equipped to observe and contribute meaningfully to Life.
I can feel the ripple effect of all of us choosing to be responsible for ourselves in this way, and am just trying not to get too excited about this inevitable future.
Yes Matilda, I’m with you on that one – that ripple effect will inevitably become one huge tidal wave of change.
I agree Matilda, it’s a joy to feel the inevitable future coming to us.
Love it Matilda! Yep, feeling the percolation is really hotting up.
Me too Kevin, what a difference it makes when we allow ourselves the space to come back to ourselves.
You’ve got good tools in your tool bag, Anne.
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Agree and it’s a bottomless tool bag that needs to continue to grow and develop. To the point where sometimes the tools get old and rusty and no longer work because of the depth we have developed, and we need to regularly spring clean and throw out anything that’s out dated and bring in the new tools.
How revealing Anne, that as a traditional yoga teacher you had been unable to connect with the still place within and your inner heart. I wonder if this is because even yoga has become something that is practised to reach a goal so there is an element of trying and achieving? The Gentle Breath Meditation is so simple and takes no effort, and there is no “should”, nowhere to get to, just observing where we are in every moment as we feel the breath and body. And just a few breaths can bring about that connection, as you say. This brings about the Union that the name yoga means, and is true to its origins from the Ageless Wisdom.
Lovely point, there is no ‘should’, simply a relationship built with your own breath, in your own body. The joy of this is that it can then be with you anywhere and anytime as a solid reminder of who you are. You are not the rush, the anger, the frustration, the sadness, you’re are you and that connection is a reminder that these things are what you are feeling they do not define you.
Brilliantly said Lucy when we realise this, it assists us to let go of what does not belong to us and allows space for deep connection to our essence.
This is an important distinction Lucy – oftentimes we are breathing a crisis, rush and another’s rhythm and flow rather than breathing our own breath.
From my experience of having attended many of those regular yoga classes in the past, it was always about achieving something, whether physically by different poses or spiritually. And it was always about becoming more or better in some way. And all of that has thankfully totally changed with the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom and the Gentle Breath Meditation.
I can concur Gabriele, I remember practicing something called the Ujjayi breath where i was asked to control my breath from my belly, this would feel forced and often quite constricted. How can we connect to our bodies & our movements when we are not breathing our own breath?
I totally agree Gabriele, never once in a yoga class were we to stop and appreciate that we were everything and we had no where to get to or to achieve. The momentum of needing this or that, and searching and attaining and reaching this or that goal is so strong for so many that we are blind to the fact that we are already everything we need, just as we are…if only, we made a moment to stop and appreciate.
Joan, having practised traditional yoga I feel you are spot on in that “there is an element of trying and achieving” in it. Even if we are trying to be still, find union etc it puts ‘out there’ as something to be gained when instead we can just surrender deeply to that which is beckoning us from within. Once we surrender we easily reconnect with our stillness, love and wisdom – no trying needed, in fact it is a hindrance.
And there lies the beauty of The Gentle Breath Meditation and Esoteric Yoga, beautifully expressed Sandra. It is releasing that old habit of trying to seek something for ourselves to feel a connection and make us feel better or good, that actually brings us home to that stillness which is already and always there inside us. Letting go of the resistances to it is the key, not the searching for it or the desire to “attain” it.
What you are sharing Anne, I can relate to it very well. There are times, I can connecto to myself very well, but other times, it is very difficult, because I was building up a wrong momentum of drive, raciness and then it takes a while, until I can slow down again and feel the stillness in myself. To breathe my own breath is also for me an unfolding process. In the past I was given up very quickly, when the pressure in my nose through gentle breath was very high. Nowadays I can let go of achieving anything with the gentle breath – I start to trust myself and my body and that feels awesome.
“Nowadays I can let go of achieving anything with the gentle breath – I start to trust myself and my body and that feels awesome.” So true Alexander…that raciness and drive is all about the outside world, ignoring the body to achieve some ideal or belief, whereas coming back to the gentle breath, and the delicacy of our breath, brings us back inside, to us – to feeling our bodies. And what I like about your sharing is that it is a matter of coming back to trusting ourselves and our bodies again, trusting the innate knowing, love and wisdom that has been within us all along.
That’s amazing Alexander. Instead of feeling that we are slightly ‘out’, possibly racy, frustrated or indulging in an issue and immediately giving up on ourselves because of how tense our body feels, we can make our breath the focus and start to work on feeling the quality of which we move and adjusting it to no longer be tense.
“indulging in an issue” – nailed it. It is such an indulgence when we do that, we give our issues so much airtime which takes us away from being a full participant in life – open and ready for whatever is needed to be done.
This certainly puts any drama, issue or tension into perspective. When we can feel and have restored the connection with our own body, we create the spaciousness to observe all of life.
Reading your comment, makes me connect to the same experiences as you describe Alexander. Isn’t it absolutely wonderful how just focussing on our breath has such a monumental influence. Only connecting to this fact, makes me smile and appreciate the power and simplicity that lies in breathing and the effect it has on our trust in our body. Simply Beautiful.
I agree Floris it is very beautiful to acknowledge and feel the developing trust in our bodies and our divinity.
I love the word developing in your words Vanessa. It’s offering a lot of space and takes away any pressure. It reminds me of the first months of doing the Gentle Breath that I didn’t feel any warmth in me. I couldn’t understand what everyone was talking about. By committing to it, even though it was quite mechanical in those times, I developed a foundation, a trust. And from that trust I built and built and built. Until where I am now today, knowing that this will keep expanding and deepening. There’s no good or bad, no perfectionism, just everything that presents itself.
I found it extremely hard to do the gentle breath when I first tried, my nose was always blocked as I had too much mucus from all the wrong food choices and I resisted something so simple… surely it had to be more complicated to have a beneficial effect. Boy oh boy was I wrong!
Yes Alexander this trust has been an enormous one for me too, and the other thing is letting go of the trying and just being me. When this happens I really get to feel the depth of stillness that is there inside of me and it flows so easily in and out of me in every breath and every movement. This is the core that I keep coming back to when I feel myself get ahead of this when living life.
The answers to everything is always found in deeper connection with ourselves and each other.
It is profound what you are saying Abby. It is an eternal development to go deeper in one’ s love and this true love feels so different of what we think is love.
I love the wisdom that you share here, Abby, because when we stop to go deeper, we stop loving.
Anne such a lovely sharing. It is a constant learning to come back to “Me” and I am so gratefull for Serge Benhayons books…Glorious Music…and all that there is inspired by and from Universal Medicine as this weekend I felt so helpless and so lost and thanks to the music and the books as well through the gentle exercises and the little rituals I introduced in my life I could come back…afterwards it felt like a new lesson learned and really strong so I started to connect again to Universal Medicine and a deeper understanding what the Way of the Livingness really means…is about…feels like…thank You dearly for sharing this.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is a profoundly supportive ‘tool’ which offers us a marker to feel of where we are at and who we truly are. I love your blog Anne and the generosity with which you share the steps that support you to reconnect to your essence when you have let go of it.
It is so true Lucy that through the Gentle Breath Meditation we are able to discover a quality of being and so choose to let go of the quality of doing. This is a powerful marker to establish in our bodies. As it is through building a quality of stillness in our bodies through our breath that then allows our Love to emerge. With this we are then guided to develop our way to live in connection to our Divinity, who we truly are, Love.
A gorgeous reminder Carola that it is not what we do, but how (and who) we are that is of most importance.
Thank you Carola, I feel your stillness and connection very much in your expression here and I loved your completing sentence… ‘With this we are then guided to develop our way to live in connection to our Divinity, who we truly are, Love.’
Gorgeously expressed Carola, a technique that reconnects us back to who we naturally are and as you say allows us ‘to discover a quality of being and so choose to let go of the quality of doing.’
and it feels to me that I have been stubborn in refusing to feel how powerful the simple beingness in true quality is, rather wanting to enjoy the drama of a life lived in drive and doing and the recognition it brings from the outside, we are all set up to be focussed on what we can bring in action rather than the quality we are.
It is very true Vanessa. We have been taught that in this world our focus is to achieve success, identification through what we do and being who we are is not usually offered as an option. But this is clearly not our natural way as we, as a Humanity, are not truly living in a loving and vital way. There is so much more to us than what we do and it is time for us all to begin to explore this, the power of who we truly are, together.
Yes Lucy, I really appreciate how Anne has shared with us her steps in reconnecting back to herself. This I find is reminding me to use the tools I have learnt from Universal Medicine and the students in my every day living. The Gentle Breath Meditation is one of the many amazing and profound tools on offer.
I agree Lucy, generously accessible to all.
Profoundly supportive, simple, practical and anyone can do the Gentle Breath Meditation anywhere and anytime to connect to their essence – It is a pure joy to breathe one’s own breath.
That’s the beauty of the Gentle Breath Meditation, as you say Deborah, it is totally accessible anywhere, anytime, such a simple tool to bring one back to their essence….breathing ones own breath and connecting to ones own essence is indeed a pure joy.
Absolutely, ‘Profoundly supportive, simple, practical and anyone can do the Gentle Breath Meditation anywhere and anytime to connect to their essence’, I love the simplicity of this meditation.
I agree Lucy, the Gentle Breath Meditation is profoundly supportive. I have tried so many forms of meditation in the past, for all different lengths of time and they never ever re connected me to myself. Actually, they had the opposite effect.
Ha! I know the feeling all too well Rosie.. I even went to the extreme of a 10 day silent meditation retreat to connect to myself. As a result I felt more hazy and an inability to connect with reality or integrate back into life. So in truth, it felt very disconnecting and quite tortuous to be honest! Sitting for 8 hours with cross legs was not something my body was into at all.
Ha ha, that is one thing that I did contemplate a few times in my life but luckily never actually did it. I can now see that practise as a complete check out to life and after your review and a few others, there is no way… you would not be able to pay me to do it!
I agree Rosie and it is so simple and so quick! I remember trying other types of meditation having to sit a certain way and all I could do was think what am I doing! The Gentle Breath Meditation is simple, quick, effective and is designed to be lived not simply a place to go to to get relief or respite from the world.
These lines stood out for me ‘my inner heart – the part of me that is connected to, and one with, God. I did not find this inner self by looking to something or someone outside of me’ So true.
This is something that has been hidden from the consciousness of humanity for along time. Some have known and felt it but as a whole and looking at the many deviated ways people have created as an outer way ‘back to god’ it is obvious that it has been hidden from the whole and not lived. The question is why and who benefits.
If we all knew and lived this divine truth we would not have many separate ways amongst us that even at times cause people to go to war – crazy.
Yes, who benefits from this outward search for God?
Indeed the ‘outward search for God’ has only ever resulted in the establishment of institutions where the connection with the inner heart has been lost by most.
Yes bernadetteglass, confirming that there are institutions that benefit from ensuring we do not see this connection as being in us and with us at all times. I am so glad to have this conversation because as a child I knew God was inside me but every teaching I had from school and church talked about the importance of going to church where God resides. I chose to not trust myself and what I innately knew, which meant I went searching for many years.
These may well have been my words exactly Lucy Dahill! I can remember two momentous occasions when I felt without doubt, that God was within and yet I too allowed myself to be subsumed and to be swallowed up by forcefulness and dictates of the church. It is indeed glorious to now feel and totally accept that my/our knowing was truly ‘it’.
Such a disempowered way of living to seek outside of ourselves when we know full well the answers are all within.
We do know full well Deborah but when so much outside says the opposite it takes a strength in that knowing to not give in to joining the masses. I hope it will be more normal to know that connection, that abnormal and that blogs like this one lay a foundational footprint in that direction.
Absolutely Lucy. We have accepted a far lesser reality than what is available to us and chosen to blindly walk where great sight is available. Humanity is awakening and Heaven awaits.
If I search outside, my power is outside of me. So anyone outside of me can misuse my power, because I allow it so.
Well said Felix, we clearly have responsibility for a decision we will often choose to be unaware of.
Yes indeed Ariana and it can be clearly felt in that moment. Taking time to acknowledge and appreciate the choice to reconnect to who we are via this simple tool is what sustains that connection to God in every cell of our being and beyond.
Love this thread about the institutionalisation of god in the searching out there! We have for thousands of years searched outward instead of looking within, why does it pain us so to feel the truth of our divine origins? It is time to reclaim back what we have lived once before harmony with our divinity, expressing fully all of who we are. The other day I got that my purpose is to feel amazing to reflect that to others not by words but by how my body feels, what an awesome job!
That is wonderful Vanessa and, because of your reflection, shows that it is possible for each and every one of us.
One of my most profound life changing moments was when I deeply knew that God was everywhere and within me. I was 16 and in a church at the time – I walked out knowing deeply that I could walk with God everywhere – and did not need the church for access to that which resided inside.
In the knowing that we are all sons of God we can connect to our amazingness and making that our everyday experience is a great responsibility and purpose in life. Every moment spent in misery or struggle is a moment where we choose to be without God.
Absolutely Judith. I am forever reminded of footprints in the sand. We can choose to consider ourselves alone and be so consumed by this feeling that we don’t take a moment to see that the footprints in the sand are not ours but of us being carried. We are never alone.
Great clarity Bernadette – we have the buildings and yet they are empty even when they are full to the pews for they are devoid of True teachings, connection and Heart. This can be felt by us all if we care to be aware and honest.
Johanna I agree ‘if we all knew and lived this divine truth we would not have many separate ways amongst us that even at times cause people to go to war – crazy’. I would add that once we all return to the divine truth then even sport will be an impossibility let alone war!
Great point you make here Alexis – “that once we all return to the divine truth then even sport will be an impossibility let alone war!” And that’s because when we do connect to our divine truth, there is nothing in our bodies that says ‘you need to fight or to win’ – these things are simply not an option any more.
Great point Johanna, there is no ‘outer’ way back to God. In fact I would go as far to say there is no ‘outer’ way at all. True living comes first from our true connection within and then this is expressed. Although this is what I know it is still very much work in progress for me to live this completely. I deeply appreciate Serge Benhayon for what he presents, teaches and reflects.
Beautiful blog Anne and another very true and practical sharing. I love how you do this in your writing. It’s like even though you share your story you are actually taking the readers hand and taking then along with you. It’s obvious that this learning and truth is lived and felt in your body.
Thank you Anne and Ariana, I agree, the Gentle Breath Meditation as presented by Serge Benhayon was the only thing that reconnected me to my inner-most for that “glimpse”.
The Gentle Breath Meditation was and is the ticket to the first leg home for me too.
I feel this blog by Anne deeply supports me and I feel really inspired. I agree it is certainly written from her lived experience.
I like how Anne shares it doesn’t always work with the breath to come back to yourself, your connection. It is real in that way that there are consequences to being in over drive and one of them is not such an ease with connecting back to ourselves.
Yes, I like this too Vanessa, ‘There are times when I find I can’t connect back to myself using the Gentle Breath Meditation™ … so then I might go for a very gentle walk, appreciating nature all around me, until I am walking again with my self. And if I still can’t connect, I will read a story or a book that inspires me, such as Serge Benhayon’s “Open Letter to Humanity”.’ Which makes it real, and confirms if this is the case for me then I have let my livingness slip.
Yes, I agree Johanna, this is a great practical sharing and I love how you describe the sharing as if Anne is ‘taking the readers hand and taking then along’ with her, because that is exactly how it feels.
Me too Ariana, after years of trying this and that learning the Gentle Breath Meditation took 5 minutes and took me straight there, straight inside to embrace a quality I always knew I had but had never treasured. What a God sent gift it is and what a God send Serge Benhayon is, teaching from the core of his exquisitely tender essence, empowering all who are willing to try it, to find their way home.
I agree Arianne, I did all sorts of meditation including 10 day Vipassana retreats but none of these connected me to my love only to a cold mental ‘nothingness’ that I mistook for stillness. Within a few minutes of doing the Gentle Breath Meditation I found I could connect to an alive whole-hearted stillness – returning at last back to the place where love resides within.
I agree Arianna, with the gentle breath meditation I experienced the opposite of what I had experienced in other sorts of meditations beforehand.
Me too Ariana, this is such an exquisite technique and one that makes me not question the fact that we are indeed divinely connected to God!
I love how you are understanding of and with yourself, Anne, and you have some different strategies to lovingly bring yourself back to your gorgiousness, without judgment.
Same for me too, Ariana. I can remember feeling tears in my eyes when I realised that the exquisite feeling I was experiencing with the gentle breath meditation was me, I was connecting to and feeling my gorgeous self. What is so special is that the gentle breath meditation is something we can do anywhere at anytime, how beautiful is that.
Yes I can confirm that was my experience too Ariana I can still remember like it was yesterday going out to lunch with a work friend and sharing with her the technique and saying how amazing it was, how simple. 13 years on its the same but my body is much more supported by the simple fact of having connected more consistently it really is the most supportive breath there is!
I am also really loving your writing Anne as you have such a real, practical and light hearted way of sharing your experience. I also see glimpses of your connection to the magic and awe in nature that I also share. I suspect it is your honesty that encourages me to be more honest and light hearted with my own journey of returning to living surrendered to my soul.
Absolutely johanna08smith. The difference between Anne sharing from her lived experience and someone writing from a belief, perception, concept or ideal is palpable. The clarity and reality that comes with this lived experience is powerful and cannot be denied.
Our lived experience can be deeply felt by all others and never should the power of our experience be overshadowed, denied by knowledge or undervalued for we each hold a needed key to Humanity’s awakening and return to a harmonious way of being, to greatly called for healing and discarding of all that is not True for our experience ignites others and inspires great change.
A glimpse that remains always, forever calling us back to our Core.
Absolutely it was like a window into a whole new world of how life can be. With commitment and consistency it can become our norm, and a new window opens up with another depth and quality we can go to, with movement and awareness and maybe not specifically any more meditation.
Reading this blog and all these comments I can feel my body let go of a tension I have been holding onto. Thank you 💕
Anne, a truly beautiful blog, thank you. “So now when I lose my self, such as when I am rushing around making myself late by trying to do one more thing, or when I get frustrated with someone or with myself, or when I think too much or talk from my head (mind) – which is still quite often, as I am far from perfect – I simply stop, connect and breathe very gently through my nose.” And as you have described, it is so very simple, but oh so worthwhile to be building the pattern of being connected to your own inner-heart, by bringing yourself back whenever you have let yourself be distracted. I can relate to all you have said here. I too am far from perfect and it takes time to stay really connected to yourself all the time with all the distractions that we deal with in our everyday life; it is a continual work in progress, but slowly I find that I am with myself for longer periods of the day. What a beautiful feeling it is to feel our inner-heart, I find the best way to describe it is as ‘very yummy’. We are all equally divine and it is our own divinity we are feeling.
Lovely to read your words Anne, living lovingly and in connection with oneself, without trying to be perfect is supported massively by the beautiful tools offered by Universal Medicine.
I also am a work in progress here and find that the depth one can go to is a never ending unfolding. You deepen love and care for yourself and then there is more. I find this a very beautiful process.
Gorgeous Jeanette I agree. We are all beautiful works in progress and I deeply appreciate Serge Benhayon, Universal Medicine and the student body for their constant loving dedication in offering support and inspiration to discovering our own way of living the Love we are. It is indeed a ‘never ending unfolding’ of which I continue to surrender to.
For me the Gentle Breath Meditation has been a tool I used to learn to breathe my own breath and to re-connect to myself feeling for the first time my inner stillness and develop conscious presence in all what I do. Conscious presence means that my mind is thinking what my body is doing and vice versa. When I started with the GBM it was quite challenging, because what I felt was far from feeling beautiful and simple, it was a struggle and and it was really hard to learn to breathe my own breath as I didn’t even know what this was. Also my body exposed how exhausted and unwell I was and it made me feel very uncomfortable. Through the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom I started to understand that we are much more than human beings and that we all are divine beings first and that we are on earth and not from earth and that what I re-connect to is much bigger than I thought to be. Within this understanding the GBM was a great tool to commit to learning to breathe my own breath and to step by step develop a connection to myself through developing conscious presence as a way to live.
So simple! Yet the foundation that we are not taught at school at home or at work and subsequently are not aware we are even in dis-connection. What you have shared is simple basic and true responsibility to the core
Exactly Joshua. No equipment needed, no special skills, no hidden secrets, no costs…. nothing except you, your breath and the truth. What an amazing and simple foundation that the world is not building upon.
A foundation that could indeed bring true change to our world for the better. Why aren’t humanity all listening?
So true Joshua – how often are we taught to focus on our breath, and to feel the quality of its movement through the body? I agree having this awareness is a foundational quality from which living in connection to ourselves possible.
So rarely Carola. It is generally about the mind and what can be achieved through our intellect but what if our intellect was our whole body? This would change everything
There is such a sense of simplicity in this wonderful confirmation of how we can connect back to God with every breath…very powerful.
Great sharing Anne and a reminder that it is always possible to come back to our inner essence, sometimes we may need to support ourselves in a slightly different way but never the less it is always there ready, alive in us to connect to. Bring the honesty and making ourselves important enough to stop is the key.
How simple Anne, regardless of how we are, the gentle breath mediation allows us a stop moment to feel how we are, to confirm our connection or to reconnect to the inner essence which is who we are. And even when we find ourselves struggling with it, it offer a great marker to show us where we are at – a moment of truth. It’s a very simple and amazing tool,
We have so many ‘tools’ that are available to help us reconnect, there is no excuse – it feels awful being ‘out’ but sometimes we are way out before we realise. Living with Gentle Breath is one great way to live with continuous awareness and helps us to feel our bodies in every moment of our day.
So true Carmel, we have no excuse to continue being out when we are. We forever have the option to choose connection.
From where I was, years of trying to find a solution by thinking it through, a life time of trying to control and manipulate everything into what I thought it should be, I found letting go and surrendering of any kind, even if it was to my own inner self was a challenge. But because I could see others had successfully accomplished that, I could not ignore that this was a possibility. So by holding it as a possibility for myself and having a periodic go at the Gentle Breath Meditation slowly opened up this deep connection and the ease and naturalness that comes with it. And every aspect of my life has been touched and deepened in quality as a result. It is great facility that there are downloads on the links supplied in the article that we can use to support us in our time. I can not recommend the Gentle Breath Meditation enough.
The Gentle Breath has indeed opened up the world of energy for me once again. And that I am part of this world. When feeling the Preciousness inside, I can relate to all others from that perspective, rather than seeing them only through the physical eye – which in fact is very limited. There’s such Beauty and Grace in everyone when I choose to see from the connection with my inner-heart. The Gentle Breath Meditation is very supportive to connect me back to me when I’m out. And from practising it a lot I developed a beautiful connection with my breath that is continuously supporting me throughout the day of where I’m at – connected or not.
I have always been amazed by the change in the way in which I am able to view the world when opening my eyes after the gentle breath meditation… as if the connection it offers to the preciousness within, removes whatever tainted perspective I was seeing the world with and allows me the grace of understanding to feel the truth and move forward in life with that to support me.
That’s beautifully said and shared Samanta. It’s like a gateway to a different world. First of all a totally different way of relating to and with myself and because of this, I relate to the world in a completely different way. Just like you’re describing Samantha. There’s a lot of sweetness and gentleness in all people, yet a lot of us are very good in hiding this and working hard to keep believing that they do not belong.
I’m always amazed by how such a simple technique can make such a huge difference to someone’s day or life. Much of humanity live in a rush and as a result anxiety, stress, tension and even obesity (as this is somewhat linked) are on the rise. You’d have never thought that a breathing technique (so simple!) could be a super effective measure to stop this!
The state of unwellness in the world is quite extreme and people are desperately looking for measures to deal with it spending countless dollars on a therapist or the latest pill or quick fix… and yet one of the greatest things they could do to support themselves is as simple as them breathing gently… and it doesn’t even cost a thing.
Absolutely Samantha. Money cannot buy love and it cannot resolve a broken relationship with our body, yet many people look to find an expensive ‘quick fix’ that will surely save the day instead of looking inward and evaluating how they’ve been living and what techniques will truly support them/bring them back into relationship with their bodies.
“I discovered my inner self, this Divine essence inside of me, the first time I practised the Gentle Breath Meditation™.” the first technique that I also used, so simply and within a few minutes I get a true reflection of how I am actually living.
“The answer was inside me all the time.” I love this Anne. After many years of spiritual searching and reading – looking outside of myself for answers – coming to Universal Medicine was like coming home, to the real me. Supported to look within rather than outside for answers.
Simple but transformational…. we have all fallen for searching outside of ourselves in one way of another… disempowering our amazing selves and denying the enormous clarity we hold within. How gorgeous to now live knowing this to be a truth and a place to go to for the wisdom we seek.
Love this, Anne. What a gift for mankind is the Gentle Breath Meditation.
To have been given the amazing gift of the Gentle Breath meditation, something ‘simple’ something that everybody can take part in if they so choose. The GBM has such an impact on the quality of our lives that we can therefore truly appreciate the many changes that unfold. Re-learning to check in, connecting to who we truly are and not check out and let the outside world run the show.
I remember the first time I ever did the Gentle Breath Meditation. I had downloaded the free recording from the Unimed website, sitting on my bed, with very little expectations I have to admit. I know at the time I was going through a lot of anxiety as I was studying at Uni again which I did not enjoy. Anyway, I will never forge that first breath I took with the intention of it being gentle, I felt a space inside of me, like a small area of peace and quiet that I had completely forgotten about. It was clear to me from that moment that this was unlike any other meditation I had tried, and it was also one of the things that prompted me to start having esoteric healing sessions.
Anne, this is amazing, ‘By simply breathing very gently in and out of my nose, I came to a place that I knew was home – my real self.’ How very simple and beautiful, all of the years spent searching outside of ourselves for the answer, when all along its within us and something as simple as the gentle breath can re-connect us to our true selves, simply beautiful!
I love the Gentle Breath Meditation. After a a few months of it not being part of my daily routine, I have gone back to practising every day, first thing in the morning, last thing at night, and at various moments throughout the day, especially if I start to get a bit anxious. I have found that by doing this I have much more awareness of my body and how it feels. I am also sleeping more soundly, and also getting to know a little better that divine part of me that is always there inside. It is such a great tool to have this simple meditation.
Thank you Anne for this simple blog that brings out the beauty of the Gentle Breath and how to use it throughout the day in practical terms. It is an amazing tool to use to bring ourselves back to our inner hearts.
It does feel like the opposite to the paradigm that is playing out in the world today. The impression I got of how to be was to be more, to improve myself, to take on more, to earn more. Yet the simple message at the core of the Gentle Breath is that we are already everything we need to be and we simply need to connect to that.
And the Gentle Breath meditation has refined over the years. Its lovely to do while sitting but increasingly I find that I can simply bring my attention to my breath, the coolness at the tip of my nose, when I’m walking, or working, or talking. The connection to my breath, my body and myself gets stronger and stronger with time.
Its just so perfectly simple to connect with yourself. I always thought it would take a thousand years of meditation, but through such a simple technique I found it was mere moments away. And when I connect, I find that God has been waiting patiently for me, always open, always available, always gorgeous!
We search here and there for that elusive something yet often forget the source of stillness lies within. The Gentle Breath supports to stay connected with our true essence and return home whenever we lose ourselves.
Love this simple and profound blog that says how it is: breathe your own breath and come back to who you truly are.
The most beautiful thing in the world is actually feeling ourselves our inner essence and who we are and the gift of the gentle breath meditation is fundamental to this as a way of coming back to ourselves and building this connection to our innermost as a simple tool. Beautiful Anne a powerful sharing thank you.
Thank you for expressing the power of the Gentle Breath Meditation so beautifully Anne but also for your honesty that sometimes you make use of additional tools to come back to yourself which I can really relate to. The foundational support of the GBM in connecting to our essence is the greatest gift for humanity and reflecting that allows others to feel there is another way.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is actually a very practical exercise, because it is you who chooses to mechanically change your breath to be more gentle. This choice comes from an awareness that your breath has not been so gentle, and that perhaps you have taken on the activities of the world in to your body. So the Gentle Breath Meditation acts as a tool to assist you in re-connecting back to yourself without the impositions of the world upon you, you just become simply you, and that is where the divine unfolds.
There is a place we can call home. It is not physical but can only be accessed through our body. Its beauty is paramount. Its beholding power is total. When we visit it, every single particle recognises that we truly belong to it. It is like bathing in an oasis in the middle of the desert.
I have felt the truth of your beautiful comment Eduardo in every cell of my body. It is a true homecoming.
Stunning comment. There is deep beauty like bathing in an oasis in the desert… and also great power… for in that space we are unaffected by the harsh environment around us – what an amazing tool to have to connect to a place that allows us to keep the craziness of life out of our bodies.
I too use the Gentle Breath Meditation as taught by Serge Benhayon as a way to bring myself back in line with my body. Its a take anywhere tool that is practical and simple.
“… but if I hold myself absolute in my knowing that my essence is Divine, as a son of God, …”
This really is the key for me Anne, where the possibility of true change starts, the more I can embrace the fact that I am a son of God and what that means to then claim and live that.
A moment of madness quelled with just a few gentle breaths… it really is that simple to come back to ourselves.
The Gentle Breath brings you home to the love of your inner-heart and a connection to your Divine essence.
I agree Mary, it is so profound and gentle, I found it such a surprise to realise it was inside me all the time, waiting to be re-connected to. Simple yet a huge learning.
Thank you for sharing you your simple practical example on how you wind down and connect back to yourself.
The work on Universal Medicine is A grade.
What this also reveals is that most things in this world, be it entertainment, food and so on, is not really there for us to rekindle our divine beautiful essence but to keep us distracted. Thank God though that what lays within is still a billion times more powerful.
You make a good point here Matts. Most things in life are very big distractions that help us check out, but never connect to ourselves. The Gentle Breath Meditation has developed my awareness and helped me take a step back and make new choice about how I want to live my life. Many of the distractions I used to use to numb myself have fallen away without any big push or effort.
Brilliant blog Anne, it is so supportive to read and it’s inspiring. I love how you share the different methods you use to reconnect back to yourself. These techniques are so simple and easy, Thank you.
Thank you, Anne, for this beautiful reminder that it really is that simple and what we breathe and how we breathe is for us to choose.
This is so inviting and simply expressed Anne! I can feel your openness and dedication in every word. What a gem. Thank you!
The modalities and various techniques offered by Universal Medicine have been the most effective, I have ever found, in helping to connect to my essence
Anne it feels very much to me that you are now a yoga teacher in truth.
Anne your blogs are always very real, very accessible and very true. A powerful combination.
No perfection, no rules just connecting to ourselves and being honest. It is beautiful the way this is so simple and within each and every one of us.
Its lovely the way the connection is available to all, equally so. At the same time its a forever deepening practice.
Why is it that when we connect to something within that we know is true we can’t hold onto this or stay with it for very long? This was something I was thinking of regarding me earlier. Countless times while knowing Serge Benhayon I have felt or connected to love or a greater quality/wisdom within that is innate and then a few days (or moments!) later it is like I forgot it was ever there! Crazy! And I guess this ‘forgetting’ is what keeps us all on the false merry-go-round. However, I know from the teachings and presentations of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine that consistently building moments of reconnecting to this quality within, during my day will support me in feeling, living and connecting from this truth more and the false merry-go-round less. It is still very much work in progress. As you share the Gentle Breath Meditation is a beautifull and very simple tool that helps us to do this.
Yes Vicky the Gentle Breath Meditation is such an awesome tool to support us in getting off the ‘false merry-go-round’ and staying off it more consistently.
Hi Vicky, I was pondering on the very same thing only yesterday! I’ll be like a kid with a new toy when a revelation is presented, or I come to a realisation, and this will be my focus for, as you say ‘a few day (or moments!)’ but then it’s like it was never there. Rather than give myself a hard time about that, which has been pretty standard reaction, I am choosing to care enough to reconnect to myself, through the Gentle Breath Meditation, my movements, reading….whatever amazing tool I have been given by Universal Medicine that will support in that moment. Consistently doing this is what will stop me ‘forgetting’.
Having practise and taught yoga myself for many years, I hadn’t realised at the time that I was constantly looking outside of myself for fulfilment. I always thought that there was a goal that I was to achieve and that some day I would get there. That some day never came. When I was introduced to the Gentle Breath Meditation, I knew straight away that there was no need to search anymore. Through the simple technique of reconnecting with me, I soon realised that all I had been searching for was actually inside of me and the Gentle Breath was simple way to access this.
The simplicity of your honesty shared Anne is pure beauty. Thank you.
I never really knew what my inner self was, except for a feeling or knowing of how I felt about certain things. There are so many books or explanations stating what the inner self is but they never felt like there was complete understanding and connection to what this was. The words ‘inner self’ have, now have a true meaning, especially since starting workshops with Universal Medicine and experiencing my inner self, which is the same inner self as everyone on the planet, absolutely delicious.
‘Developing my inner self has not always been a gentle unfolding for me – it is a work in progress, lovingly so – but if I hold myself absolute in my knowing that my essence is Divine, as a son of God, it is like the breeze upon still water… forever expanding…’
I love this line. I don’t feel like developing my inner self is at all graceful – sometimes I feel like I’m like one of those babies who, when held, wiggle about like a fish nearly jumping out of the arms that hold them. Yes, I could just surrender but I still choose to struggle at times. What I do appreciate more and more though, is coming back to the truth that my essence is divine and I can feel this; a stillness beneath the wind swell.
…and therein lies the exquisite beauty… for there is always stillness beneath the wind swell and at any moment you can surrender to what you know is there and truly embrace the beauty and power that it offers you in forever developing, unfolding and expanding all that you are…. without any need to struggle.
Is so great when we get to know ourselves and what works for us, and wonderful to feel the different layers you have to this Anne. Being together with oneself, or with one’s breath, consciously so, does feel amazing, supportive and balancing.
Reconnecting to our true selves, dropping into the exquisiteness of our inner warmth is really that simple, and the access is through our own breath and our own bodies. There is a miasma of techniques and modalities that purport to give us what we are seeking but our true home will never be found outside of us. It is always and always will be within.
Divinity is often spoken about as though it is some ‘out there’ type thing – that us mere mortals are not worthy of it.. Whereas I love how you say here Anne about reconnecting with your divine essence, inside of you, that has always been there, and is in all of us.
That’s true Fiona, as children we were told that we are not worthy of God’s love, that we are sinners all of us, not fit for divinity. But we come into the world already divine, already the love that we subsequently get taken from us by those very words. How can we not be divine when we, and everything around us are held in the body of God. We are not just random, we are of a divine order and magic. This can be found within us and ignited once again by the means of the Gentle Breath Meditation.
I love the simplicity and honesty in your blog, Anne. It shows that we don’t have to be perfect to know our true self, our home. We don’t have to master a certain asana (Yoga body posture) or straining pranayama (breathing exercise) and bandhas (to lock certain body-parts through intense contraction). To me trying to master those exercises in fact brought me further away from what now feels home inside of me, since I started to be a student of Universal Medicine.
What I love about the Gentle Breath Meditation, or going for a walk etc. is the opportunity to simply connect back to my body. In fact, up until the time I was introduced to the Gentle Breath, I actually was not consciously aware of how much of the time I was ‘not’ connected to my body (i.e. in a constant state of rush, stress, thinking about the next thing to do etc.)! The Gentle Breath is such a simple, yet very practical tool that I’ve found to be super supportive to gently bring me back to an awareness of my body.
Anne I love the simplicity and practicality of how the Gentle Breath meditation can be used everyday as a tool to bring us back and reconnect to the divine essence- love/ God that is within us all.
After years of practising many different forms of meditation, when I first started doing the Gentle Breath Meditaiton, I was blown away by the depth of connection that I could feel with my body and being, in the matter of a few minutes. It blew all of my ideas out the window that meditation needed to be long and hard (in which I was heavily invested in). The Gentle Breath Meditation completely turned around for me my understanding of what meditation is. I now understand that meditation is simply a tool to reconnect, not something to use to check out from my daily life, but something that I use when I feel a bit out to help me to reconnect back to me. I then take this connection to and with me into my day to day life.
Yes I totally relate to what you are saying Donna. I also had a history of practicing many different breathing and mediation techniques and initially questioned how something so simple as breathing gently could have an affect. I was fooled into believing the more one practiced the deeper the connection to one would be. So there were a lot of hours spent sitting with my eyes closed. The simplicity of the Gentle Breath Mediation does not enforce any outside technique on the body; it reconnects us to the natural rhythm of our own breath.
Connecting with our inner most selves is the most powerful thing we can do. I too discovered this when I first learned and practiced the Gentle Breath Meditation as presented by Serge Benhayon. I discovered how much life changes when I live connected to my self.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is a simple meditation to assist us to reconnect to our inner most. It doesn’t need hours of practising postures or sitting at the feet of a guru, it simply take a few minutes to stop and choose to breathe our own gentle natural breath and anyone can do it at any time.
Breathe in, and feel all that you are. Breathe out and express all that we will be.
Love it Harry – in a nutshell!
Beautifully said harryjwhite.
The Gentle breath meditation, setting a foundation for reducing a stressful and anxious way of being in life. If everyone stopped to feel, they would see that underneath everything is an undercurrent of anxiousness, Why? because life is out of order. The gentle breath Meditation is an essential tool to bring life back into simplicity and centeredness. Once this is achieved it is then a lot easier to go into our routine and do it from this place of centeredness within.
Our current way of life is out of order and our bodies are reflecting this to us through illness and disease. When we lose our connection to our natural rhythm and ourselves everything in life becomes out of balance. The gentle breath meditation is one tool to support us come back to ourselves.
Not only is life ‘out of order’ but it’s actually chaos for most. A relentless pressure that never abates with sporadic dramas thrown in for good measure. Teach people in the workplace the gentle breath mediation, teach kids in school the gentle breath meditation, teach people in hospital the gentle breath meditation, teach everyone the gentle breath meditation and the world will start to come back to some kind of equilibrium. Can the world get more chaotic? Sure it can and unfortunately it will. We’re not the quickest of learners!
Yes, the chaos of life is surely reflecting to us we need to re-educate ourselves. Our bodies and life are calling for a different approach and it is up to us to be willing to do our part. Each part adds to the quality of the whole.
Lately I have realized, by keeping myself so busy that rushing becomes necessary as a form of hiding, for in rushing I am not connected to and do not move in the divineness that I am.
Adele the other day I got to really feel my body as I rushed through the washing up and even though it felt nothing short of abusive, I still didn’t change the way that I was doing it !
Anne thank you for reminding me how very useful the Gentle breath Meditation is and how using it often can change so much in our lives. Sometimes I have forgotten to use it in certain situations that have come up, and as I look back I see how much quicker the situation could have been healed had I used it. I agree that sometimes I haven’t been able to connect back as soon as I have wanted to, and I have seen this as a failure on my part so I thank you Anne for dispelling that myth for me..
Anne how inspiring and truly healing to all is your honesty. True humility is in being honest to what does not work and taking the responsibility to choose again, and it is in our choice back to the heart that we will be met with the most amazing support, for love leaves no one behind.
Anne, thank you for your clarity and simplicity in expressing how easy it is to re-connect to who we are and feel our essence. As you say it just takes practice and commitment to keep bringing ourselves back to who we are and becomes more of a livingness every day.
Thank you Anne. Your blog expresses beautifully the power and simplicity of the Gentle Breath Meditation in supporting us return to our inner heart.
Thank you Anne. I really liked what you shared here: ..but if I hold myself absolute in my knowing that my essence is Divine, as a son of God, it is like the breeze upon still water… forever expanding”. This feels so true, I love the way how you describe our souls as a breeze upon still water. Can you imagine living with this breath all of the time. I guess this makes life truly rich if we are all present, breathing our own natural breath.
Thank you Danna, that is a beautiful reminder that the soul is like a breeze upon still water – it makes you so at ease with yourself.
Anne a gentle reminder that we are indeed the sons of God and you have expressed so beautifully ” I hold myself absolute in my knowing that my essence is Divine, as a son of God, it is like a breeze upon still water… forever expanding… ” Just reading that deepened my appreciation for the love I am, and the depth of love we are all offered without limitations or judgement.
Thank you Anne. It would be great if tools such as the Gentle breath Meditation, walking with body awareness and other reconnecting exercises were introduced in schools to support our children. Life can be intense, and having tools to support us to come back to ourselves is the truest education we can receive. So many distractions in life can take us ‘out’ while the true joy is waiting inside of us.
Thank you Anne for sharing your very real experience of the gentle breath meditation and discovering your true self. I have had some similar experiences, and like you, it is a work in progress for me to be continually be aware of and connected to my inner divine essence. It is so powerful to know that, even when I get caught up in rushing around in the day to day busyness of life, this divine essence is still at my core.
That is powerful Lee, that our essence is alway there, always present, never touch by life and that something as simple as how we breath can take us away or re-connect us to our divine essence.
Anne – thank you! Your blog is very timely for me as I can be quite hard on myself when I have gotten off track, especially when I have been going along quite well and then something often quite small will happen and suddenly, I’ve lost my lovely sense of connection. What I am finding is that it’s important for me to come back to the absoluteness I hold regarding my knowing that I am a spark of light and the other stuff that happens are just fragments that are hanging around but don’t belong inside of me. It can take quite a while to feel the disturbance has left me, but I know it will happen if I stay resolute about what I am and what I am not.
A superb comment Helen, “…it’s important for me to come back to the absoluteness I hold regarding my knowing that I am a spark of light…” It is effectively pulling yourself up out of the puddle you have fallen into. It is amazing how we hold the grandness to be our own savior if we choose so.
Thanks Anne for adding in the truth about some times being tougher to reconnect than others. I find I can be quite hard on myself when I’m so all over the place in my head and have trouble getting back in my body. You’re right, some times it takes a little longer, but it’s ok, no one is perfect.
Yes Elodie, sometimes when we’ve been ‘out’ for too long, or things have gotten too crazy, it takes a little longer to come back. I find the addition of other things very helpful when this happens, like having a gentle walk, making sure I eat right for the way I feel, getting to bed early etc.
One of the greatest ills of our times is our lack of presence with ourselves. Stress and anxiety are now so prevalent even in the very young. The Gentle Breath Meditation offers a great support in reconnecting back to our inner essence.
In the most challenging of situations our presence holds and supports us to remain steady.
This is so true Victoria, presence is something undervalued in society, we are so focused on getting things done that we lose our presence so easily and forget that presence is what brings space and the capacity to deal with situations from a grander perspective.
Yes, staying in touch with the body and it’s natural rhythm does allow more space. It is no wonder we feel overloaded when we get caught in overdoing and fill in all the spaces.The simplicity of the Gentle Breath Meditation is a great tool to re-connect us back to our body and being.
Presence is highly undervalued in our society, yet it is considered the root cause of dementia. Personally I have experienced the importance of allowing myself to actually feel everything there is to feel and express it.
It’s a very powerful thing to consider that we are already everything we need before we even do anything. Recently I have had the opportunity to see in one sense that there is much for me to learn, practically in one sense, but at the same time feel the value of who I am and what I bring and because I am feeling this, I am not considering myself any less because there are things that I do need to learn. This is huge as I would have, in the past judged myself based on what I did not know. All this from knowing who I am, the quality of my presence and all stemming from a gentle breath through the tip of my nose…
Yes Jennifer, presence and re- connecting returns us to who we truly are. We are already everything, we are un-learning and discarding all we have taken on in life to cover our divine natural essence. I am also appreciating each unfolding moment.
So simple, yet so profound – thank you Anne.
It can be hard to believe that something so simple of breathing gently at the tip of your nose can have such a powerful effect. I find when I do it, all the other ‘stuff’ surrounding me drops away and I am with me – connected to me, the universe, God and all around us.
The gentle breath meditation is wonderful and using it tenderly helps us come back quite deeply to who we are and re-connect to our body.
Very beautiful to read as I start my day – thank you Anne. I can connect to the ‘divine essence’ as I sit here and can feel that there is no benefit or love to choose anything else but my connection with myself first and foremost – every time. No perfection just an immensely different choice and outcome.
Beautiful to read Anne, we are so blessed to be given the simple tools for reconnection back to who we truly are, from the teachings given by Serge. It is a continual expansion of the love we are, and the love we come from, in our day to day lives. ” but if I hold myself absolute in my knowing that my essence is Divine, as a son of God, it is like the breeze upon still water… forever expanding…”
Thank you Anne for the reminder of simply stopping and coming back to the breath. I like how you have also mentioned that sometimes the gentle breath is not enough to bring us back depending on the momentum we have been living. A really practical read.
‘I discovered my inner self, this Divine essence inside of me, the first time I practised the Gentle Breath Meditation™. By simply breathing very gently in and out of my nose, I came to a place that I knew was home – my real self.’ This is my experience too Anne, when I first practised the gentle breath meditation I felt my body completely let go and I came to a place I had missed, a place that was definitely home.
When connected to our essence, we will breathe our own breath and from here, we may deeply experience the magic of life, the abundance of nature and the power of God.
I agree Deborah. I feel the same when I am connected the breath is naturally gentle.
I love the simplicity of this blog and and building a tool kit, a tool kit that brings me back to myself when I’m feeling disconnected. I often start my day with the gentle breath meditation and lays a lovely foundation for the day.
Yes fionacochran01 I used to do the Gentle Breath several times a day for many years. Now I find that my breath is almost always gentle, and when it’s not, I can feel it instantly… as though my breath is grating in my nostrils. Quite extraordinary really to consider the power of transformation in such a simple technique.
It is indeed wise to connect and allow our true breath in our every expression – be that standing still, in motion or in thought.
How true it is hat in our haste and spin, we leave our essence long behind and before we know it we are operating (barely at times) without connecting first to our heart and living it’s beat.
Yes, and in living that way (operating without connecting first to our heart and living it’s beat) we aren’t really living, it’s more surviving and there is hardly any joy.
Without connection, we are totally missing the beat.
I completely agree Anne. No amount of traditional yoga or the many varies styles of meditation bought me back to the simple and gentle quality of my natural breath. I am so grateful for finding Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.
So true Sara I had searched far and wide for 25 years, trying a myriad of different modalities and meditations, nothing re-connected me back to my essence until I came to Universal Medicine and did the gentle Breath Meditation.
Absolutely relate to what you are sharing Anne. The first times I did the Gentle Breath Medidation was such an amazing experience to feel that stillness in me, even though I found it challenging as it was so hard to stay just focused with my thoughts on my breath!
From there I knew how I wanted and could live and have experimenting with living more in a way that made it possible to feel this stillness with doing the Gentle Breath Meditation less and less. This meditation has definitely changed my life.
Amazing Lieke, it is so true the more we connect to our essence, the Gentle Breath Mediation can perhaps become part of our natural way of being and breathing. We won’t have to switch back and forth, breathing and living gently will just be our natural way.
It is ironic that we spend years searching outside of ourselves when the very thing we seek is within us all along…its a very clever trick of distracting us from our truth, our innate love and wisdom.
It is ironic how the world seems set up to distract us from the simple truth that we are enough already. You could almost say this trick is deliberate……
It makes so much sense that we are born with everything already inside us and yet I too got caught in the trap of thinking there was something to look for on the outside. Looking outside just became one big distraction, no different really to all the other distractions that we can take part in.
Very true Vicky, ‘Looking outside just became one big distraction, no different really to all the other distractions that we can take part in.’ The Gentle Breath Meditation assists in bringing us back to what is inside, our beauty and stillness, our essence, who we truly are.
One big and very looooooong distraction!
and that we can begin to re-connect to this innate love and wisdom of ours through this very simple tool of the Gentle Breath Meditation. I tried many other ‘breathing techniques’ that brought me momentary calm, but did not go near the feeling of re-connecting me with my innate love.
Thank you for sharing of your discovery of the beautiful essence and connection to the Divine. The things we have going on around us and at times making the choice to rush or take on too much can result in loosing that connection. The simple ways you have chosen to re-connect are clear, easy to do and as I have experienced Anne, allows space for the ‘stillness’ to make itself known.
The Gentle Breath meditation is a life changing tool. Before coming to Universal Medicine, I would get into a big tizz when making decisions, turning myself inside out and using my head to nut things out. Whereas now, after years of using this simple technique, I find that decisions are much easier and in fact, there is often just a feeling, a knowing of what the ‘right’ or best decision is. When I do go into my head to try and work things out, it’s easy to catch myself now and bring myself back to my inner heart through my breath or walking or even talking with another.
I love the simplicity of the Gentle Breath Meditation. No mantras, weeks of silence or years of dedication to achieving the impossible ’emptying of the mind’. To be with your breath knowing you are divine is as you say Anne, “… like the breeze upon still water… forever expanding…”
Yes the simplicity is deceptive jeannettegold, but by the same token is the very thing that allows it to be so powerful. Re-connecting to the Soul is not complicated, nor difficult, and hence a simple tool is all that’s required.
Complication occurs whenever we look outside ourselves for answers. This applies to re-connecting to our Soul as much as it does to anything else.
Yes absolutely, this applies to everything else because first and foremost we are either connected to the Soul, or not… simple as that. And from there, everything else is as a result of that choice.
Jenny I know where I choose my choices to come from – definitely my Soul. My spirit seems to get me into all sorts of complications and crises.
I love the simplicity of The Gentle Breath Meditation in assisting us to re-connect with the Soul.
Me too Anne, Practising the Gentle Breath for several years each morning when I woke up, has brought me a foundation that can never leave me. I love coming back to my body and feel the warmth filling up my lungs and body. That’s like feeling home! Every moment I feel that, I feel I’m not alone. How beautiful is it that we are to find our selves through breathing. I love that. It’s very simple, yet deeply profound and is a testimony that IT is available for everyone.
It seems so simple to do Anne and yet how difficult is it, that so many of us do not choose to stop and re-connect? Our lifestyle choices can build up such forceful momentums, they become like powerful steam trains on full speed ahead, diminishing our quality of life.The thing is, if we don’t make the choice to stop, often times our body will make that choice for us and we, ironically, end up in hospital ‘stopped’ anyway, with something much worse than exhaustion and overwhelm. Time to stop and do the gentle breath meditation. Anyone care to join me?
I definitely want to join you Irena. A great reminder to stop and do the gentle breath meditation. I have had a busy day, very early start and two plane flights. Yes, I have been a little distracted at times, and at this time of day, soon to bed, feels a great time to stop and once more do the gentle breath meditation. How important that ‘stop’ time is for us to realise that we have lost our connection, sometimes we do not notice when we are very busy, and rush our way through the day not realising what has happened until then we are brought back by some twinges, or other feelings in the body.
I still remember my first experience with the Gentle Breath Meditation, it was quite profound as I discovered that I can actually be still with myself and yet be aware of what is going on around me without being distracted by it.
Yes, that is such a valuable experience, that we can be ourselves in the world without being effected by what is going on around us and it is an important skill to develop, which should be taught to every child.
Isn’t that beautiful! “be aware of what is going on around me without being distracted by it” – so I can be a part of the all without getting overwhelmed by it. I do not have to build a shield around me or to become hard, I can observe and be me, with my breath as a supporter. Lovely!
Yes, this was groundbreaking, something I hadn’t experienced before, to be able to be in this world without being torn apart, overwhelmed, intimidated by all that was going on, and as you say Sandra, all that without having to find a quiet place or having to become hard to protect myself.
So in fact the Gentle Breath Meditation did support you (and I guess many others) to deal with the world and so to become a more active member of society again.
The Gentle Breath Meditation lets the separation melt and brings me back into connection, with me and the world.
Thank you Esther. This is a revelation for all of humanity because how much do we live each day absorbing life and being distracted by everything that is going on around us…and hence, how much do we allow ourselves to be drained? The Gentle Breath Meditation is a true support that we can all benefit from.
Isn’t that beautiful, that we always have the choice to come back to our divine self, sometimes through the gentle breath, a walk or for me what works really well is connecting with a friend or just somebody on the street. We always have that choice, even if it feels at times that life has taken over…
Yes I agree Mariette, there are a number of ways to come back to our divine self, and getting to know ourselves and what works for us, or what works at particular times is key. The Gentle Breath Meditation has been very powerful for me in the past, and now I find a walk to do something similar. Of course it’s not just any walk, it’s a walk that has purpose… to walk myself. Conscious presence is key to this I find, and not needing to be anything for anyone with each step.
Thanks for sharing Jenny. Gentle Breath Mediation is a great foundation for having gentleness in our body, and not the ill momentums that we pick up from being in the world. A walk can simply bring us back as well, and developing that foundation within ourselves is something truly worthwhile, as it allows us to feel the harmony within.
Yes beautifully said harryjwhite… knowing what truly supports us in life is vital, and that has to mean what supports us to be honouring of the grandness we are in our essence. The difference between honouring the being within, and supporting ourselves in all our indulgences, desires and wants in life… is key.
great point Jenny, it is such a key difference!
Yes… without understanding that, we don’t discern what it is we’re honouring, and can end up ‘following our truth’ along all sorts of paths that turn out not to be true at all.
I’m with you on that one Jenny. Going for a daily 10min or so walk has been one of the most powerful healing techniques I have used. It shifts mountains and this can happen in under 10mins. Having purpose to your walk by walking with you (and God) and the discovery of power you hold within. Miraculous technique without a doubt.
This is a subject I have recently been coming to slowly accept and throw away any ideal or belief that who we are is difficult, complicated or requires a lot of effort to achieve a connection to. It is actually very simple and it is already within our bodies. There are no fireworks when connecting to who we truly are, at times the world can and does appear to carry on without even being aware of what we are aware of when connected. But that doesn’t mean that we have to wait around for the world to wake up an take notice of whats within us before we choose to take notice and re-connect.
I love the simplicity of the gentle breath meditation, and as you say, using it throws away “any ideal or belief that who we are is difficult, complicated or requires a lot of effort to achieve a connection to”. It is up to us to not be concerned about the world waking up and taking notice, but to go on living our lives this way to the best of our ability, and to be role models to others that there is another, wonderful way to be living our lives. The more we live this, then more people will notice the huge changes in us, and some of them will be drawn, in their own time, to maybe giving the gentle breath meditation a ‘go’.
The answers always has been and always will be, on the inside. At first it may seem a rather far fetched concept or idea, but when you start to be shown the pearls of wisdom that evolve ourselves, there can be no doubt.
Yes agreed Matthew, I can’t believe how many years I searched fruitlessly, going from one modality to another, one course, workshop, new book, guided meditation… the list goes on, ALL failed to deliver the promised ‘there’ I was looking for. The Gentle Breath meditation delivered it within minutes and I never looked back, or should I say, I never looked outside me again. So simple and so profound!
Indeed Matthew Brown. And we wonder how we had thought it to be any other way
A gorgeous blog Anne. It constantly amazes me in a ‘new-normal way’ of how simple it is to bring ourselves back into connection with ourselves and let go of the rushing, not enough time energy. As you say it is not always easy and sometimes it is having to come to a complete stop to be honest with ourselves to be aware of the quality we are actually in and return to breathing gently through the nose to re-harmonise and balance ourselves once more.
Awesome reminder Stephanie, sometimes we do actually have to stop and change what we are doing to stop the momentum of raciness, anxiety or disharmony. To be honest and more aware is key to shifting our patterns and behaviours that no longer supports us. To have the Gentle Breath Meditation so accessible is a massive support.
This is great Anne, it is so supportive to have such a simple tool to get back to what we know to be who we truly are.
Thanks for the reminder, I just breathed gently and my whole body shifted. Love it. So simple.
it’s true Anne, the more you connect and the more consistently you live that connection, the easier it is to bring yourself back.
Absolutely, Joel, consistency is the key for us to really live that connection, and it gets easier and easier to bring ourselves back when we have been bringing more consistency in our practice.
This is what I have found too Joel, at the beginning staying connected to my essence and not letting my mind wander off was not consistent, but these days it is more the other way around, and when I do lose my connection I am able to get myself back so much quicker and easier.
Easier to bring ourselves back and also to deepen that connection by powering up our confirmation through the delicateness we move in.
Love that detail Johanna ‘Easier to bring ourselves back and also to deepen that connection by powering up our confirmation through the delicateness we move in’. And to add, not only is it getting easier to stay connected but it’s getting harder to be disconnected because it just feels so awful.
And I love the detail you introduce Alexis, that “…it’s getting harder to be disconnected because it just feels so awful”. I feel the same way. I also find that if I am disconnected and don’t correct that back to re-connection with myself I get further away from the beauty and joy of being connected and then the state of disconnection starts to feel ‘more normal’. That is why the Gentle Breath Meditation is such an invaluable tool You can use it anywhere anytime and very quickly re-connect to the real you.
Spot on Joel, like anything that you build for yourself, it is about making it a part of your everyday rhythm and ritual. And the beautiful thing that I have found is that even with this, there is no stagnancy, for once you feel you are solidly able to hold yourself in the gentleness (with no perfection) then you get to feel how to deepen this even further for example deepening it into tenderness or delicateness. How beautiful is this!
That has been my experience too, Henrietta. There is never an end point, just a deeper base from which to start the day.
Absolutely Joel and then there is no need for long meditation practises which is something that I spent many years doing. Meditation becomes a way of living in every moment, living in connection to and with our body. I have found that this is what has made a difference to my quality of how I live my life, not hours of sitting on a cushion which I realise in hindsight was just a way to check out of the world.
Yes, spot on Joel, the foundation of connection and consistency supports us in connecting back to ourselves again when we lose it. No need for hours of meditation, but very real day to day living.
Yes, until it becomes a natural way of being and one no longer needs the ‘stop’ moment to return to themselves.
The gentle breath meditation has been the singularly most invaluable tool that supports me in connecting to myself. I am so deeply appreciative that Serge Benhayon has taught this. Whilst this is a very simple, non imposing and easy technique it is nonetheless utterly profound in its results.
Thank you Michelle819, I am familiar with the Gentle Breath Meditation, in reading this blog and the comments they remind me of how powerful, simply and accessible this is. I could definitely practice the Gentle Breath Meditation more and more to assist me to reconnect back to my essence, especially when I am off track.
I love the gentle breath meditation, Michelle, and it is an amazing support for us to connect to our true self. The incredible thing is that it is such a simple process. It is up to us to practice connecting to ourselves, and become aware when we are not connected, and be ready to take some of Anne’s suggestions as tools for bringing ourselves back. As we build this practice, then we find we can increase the periods that we are really connected. Bit by bit, we can come to the point that for much of the day we are connected to our true self, and from there what a great quality we put into all our daily activities.
I am coming to realise more and more that our bodies are ‘home base’ and the world is set up to keep us out of them.
I completely agree Michelle. The gentle breath mediation supported me to develop that level of connectedness in my movements and now I use my breath and my gentle movement to bring me back, or I feel a little out or to confirm my solidness and divinity and grace in my body.
I totally agree Michelle that the Gentle Breath Meditation is an invaluable tool in reconnecting to myself, so very simple, always available and has for me been totally life changing.
Love that Rosemary “always available” – the kingdom of God lives inside of you and is a breathe away.
Yes Rik God is always with us and totally available, how truly beautiful and wonderous is it to know and feel that.
I love this piece of writing Anne, the understanding of yourself and who you really are, a son of God, is beautiful, full and held with such tenderness as you live life and experience from the center of your being everything and note that which is not equal to your essence. To see it and to choose again your essence is all that is needed, the same being for each of us. Thank you dearly.
And her understanding for others is also deeply felt from this blog. A gorgeous piece Anne. Thank you
Yes, the connection within herself feels warm and nourishing. It is quite an interesting contrast reading this as today I saw a profile picture of a yoga teacher, he had his legs crossed but his feet were in a prayer like position resting above his navel. In short he looked extremely contorted to the point of ridiculous. In this photo I didn’t feel the genuine warmth of connection you have so beautifully shared Anne.
Yes agree abbyhinchcliffe, contortion may have a certain type of suppleness or flexibility but is no match for the easefull-ness that comes from a spacious body accessed through one’s true fullness of breath, in other words one’s acceptance.
Yes Zofia, ‘easefull-ness’ what a beautiful description of the Gentle Breathe.