365 thoughts on “The Power of the Gentle Breath Meditation™”

1. ❤️ Absoulutely Henrietta, and may I add the tenderness and sensitivity we can also connect to is amazing as is the many other things that we can feel when we allow our bodies to become still and feel.

2. Henrietta the thought of meditating for several hours sounds painful, I wouldn’t have been able to keep still, I might as well be horizontal and asleep! But I understand why we do this. I’ve gone on guided meditation when I went to a retreat in India. It was gorgeous to do yoga in the morning, meditation and eat vegetarian foods, during the retreat, etc. But just towards the end, I could feel the agitation as I knew I was going home and had to face the world. The retreat didn’t equip me to face the world, except like you experienced, just bliss out to the world.

   The Gentle Breath Meditation is very different and yet simple, it is basically breathe your own breath at your own rhythm and no one else’s. A big difference when you breathe your own oxygen and so simple to do…

3. The power of The Gentle Breath Meditation, ‘as I persisted with this Gentle Breath Meditation™, something began to happen where I actually began to feel the warmth coming back into my body, and I began to feel the gentleness creep back in. It only happened in increments, to begin with, but I could feel the difference… and then from here I kept building on this feeling.’

   1. Lorraine I totally agree, the Gentle Breath Meditation is powerful. I hadn’t realised it until I practised it and the stillness I could feel within my body compared to before was a huge contrast. AND it can be done with eyes wide open too…

4. Escaping the body/life does not help us deal with life and everyday situations and challenges and nor does it allow us to develop loving relationships with ourselves and those around us. We can escape in many ways and meditation is only one of them – other ways include drinking, drugs, alcohol, excess study or sports, or playing video games etc. The list goes on…. Anything really can be used to get away from things rather than being with things and learning to handle what we are feeling and experiencing and taking responsibility for life.

5. I have just re-read this blog that was written 2.5 years ago and am once again blown away by its simplicity and power. The gentle breath is still the one thing that supports me immensely to come back to myself and support me with the challenges in life, and what I have added to this repertoire of tools today is to work on the movement in my body to be one of gentleness in the body but a gentleness that is powerful and not soft and unclaimed. Movement is with breath, a strong combination to support me in my day to day challenges and deep connection.

6. “Gentle Breath Meditation™ can transform your life.” Reading your words I felt my body dropping into deeper gentleness and stillness.

7. Great sharing Henrietta, and what you bring to the table is open, simple and True and thus should be considered as a corner stone or foundation for meditation.

8. What a great read Henrietta, and a very powerful exposé on whether a meditation is truly supportive or not. I agree from my own experience that visualisation meditations provide a space away from the real world and an escape, and as a result don’t support us to be able to handle life better, but the gentle breath technique can because it’s something that reconnects us to ourselves and can be practised in our daily living. The Gentle Breath Meditation is also quite short and very simple.

   1. Spot on Melinda – proof is in the pudding. Many blissful types of meditations will give you exactly that as an experience: the bliss at that moment in time which is simply an escape from all we are feeling and of life in general which supports us not in any way or shape or form to live life itself and connect with ourselves and those around us.

   2. I too find The Gentle Breath Meditation far more valuable than any previous meditations I used to practice, ‘It has been my foundational stepping stone to developing a solid relationship with myself, and has allowed me to embrace and handle life in a way I had never ever imagined possible, and far more powerfully than the way I used to meditate.’

9. The Gentle Breath Meditation was a foundational starting point for me. It has been a huge support for me to come back to my body and feel where I am at. The learning was for me not to criticise myself but rather just observe and then know I was having a constant learning journey with my body to better understand myself.

10. I am the same — it was something that was power-fully felt by me that was instant peace within myself that I had been unconsciously looking for all my life.. Connecting to my essence and drawing on the method of being gentle was a change that far outweighed anything I had ever done. It felt like coming home to a warm safe place, and it was within — a place I could deeply trust because it was inside me. Gentleness is a bridge to Love.

11. The Gentle Breath Meditation is a wonderful technique that supports us to stop and reconnect with ourselves. I find it invaluable.

    1. The Gentle Breath Meditation supports us to come back and be in our body, or to deepen our connection with our body, ‘it asked me NOT to escape into another fantasy world, but in fact to really just be in my body and feel the body.’

12. Today we shared the beautiful connection of breathing gently with 50 Swiss primary school kids and the teachers… It was profoundly beautiful… Especially to hear the young boy saying how lovely, how beautiful it really was… No holding back 🙂

    1. Thank you cjames – it is such a natural thing for us to breath gently and for us as children to get to re-discover it again is GOLD.

13. There are many ways to distract ourselves from what we feel inside, and this may seem work for some, but before or after we all will need a moment to stop and re-consider how we are living, how we really feel inside in our daily basis.

14. There is a big difference between other kind of meditations and the Gentle Breath. This last one has a purpose, is a tool to reconnect back to ourselves and our body, not to go anywhere, nor imagine or fantazise anything. It’s a great support to get to know what’s going on, how we are feeling and from then make the choices that better support us in our life. It is indeed very powerful and very life-changing once you start to practice it.

    1. You make a great point Inma that the Gentle Breath Meditation can support us to make better choices because we are more connected to ourselves and aware of what’s needed. I can see the difference here with visualisation meditations or even chanting, because there is a focus in the mind and not to the whole body experience and reconnecting to the essence within.

    2. Here are the steps of The Gentle Breath Meditation,
       https://www.unimedliving.com/meditation/gentle-breath-meditation/the-gentle-breath-meditation-in-5-simple-steps.html

15. These days I’m appreciating the steadiness and inner strength that I developed thanks to practising daily the Gentle Breath Meditation. I feel no emotional, reactive and tired during my day as I was before but yes more vital and alive, more awake to what’s going on in my life. I can work full time job, cleaning my house, going for a walk…with such a grace and gentleness that feels really exquisite. Definitely life is an experience to be lived and enjoyed.

16. And thank you Henrietta for sharing with us the wideness of the Gentle Breath Meditation and the benefits on our daily life it has. For real, this is finaly a tool that truly helps us rest and connect to a place we deep down know so well. Thank you Serge Benhayon.

17. It’s like we do know there’s a state of being that we are not living but want to be in, but we set out with a notion that it’s impossible to live with and in that state of being, as if to say it cannot be simple let alone easy. Absolutely gorgeous to read about your experience of Gentle Breath Meditation, making me appreciate the gentleness I feel in my breathing also.

18. Henrietta this is a powerful testimony on The Gentle Breath Meditation, such a simple meditation that you can do anywhere, anytime. It has been so supportive for me as I have worked shift work for many years, and working through the night it has made a huge difference to the overall way and quality in how I now work.

    1. Bringing The Gentle Breath Meditation into our everyday life so it has an effect with how we live is key, ‘I was actually able to bring the effects of the meditation into my day-to-day life: I was more aware of how I was feeling and hence I could acknowledge this, and then choose to do things in life with the quality of gentleness.’

19. The Gentle Breath Meditation has been a huge support and still is for me and many hundreds of people if not thousands of which I dont know; we feel the coming home to ourselves, simply by this very practical excercise of breathing God”s breath, your absolute love.

    1. It sounds like the most basic thing to breath gently, but it is deeply powerful in connecting us to our inner self and essentially God’s breath as you have so beautifully shared Danna!

20. The Gentle Breath Meditation is a simple technique that brings you back to you, I often use it sitting at my desk for a couple of minutes to check in with myself when I feel things are beginning to build up.

21. Meditation should not be hard or difficult to access. The gentle breath meditation is the most simple and effective meditation that anyone can do anywhere, this is a true winner to allow everyone to experience what it is like to breathe our own breath.

22. Today I didn’t want to settle so much in my body to feel, so there is huge anxiety felt, so I chose then to settle back in my body no matter how tired it felt, how loveless things are sometimes, and to just feel and accept. The willingness to feel and accept accompanied by gentle breath made me feel safe again.

23. Meditation is always an occasion to connect. The question is what you connect to and what is the intent behind it. These are by no means insignificant details. When you choose to connect to your body, your are connecting with your divine particles with the intention of bringing order and space to them. When you choose something external to you, you ask your whole body to align to it. You never truly depart from the status quo, even if you take a little vacation trip away from it.

24. It’s so simple, very powerful and works as part of your life and day, the Gentle Breath meditation is that and so much more … and it does change lives without fuss or fanfare, a deeply supportive tool for all.

    1. The Gentle Breath Meditation supports us to live in a more connected and aware way, ‘ In contrast, by first breathing gently and then doing things gently, such as opening or closing a door gently, opening a tap gently, sitting down, washing the dishes, brushing my hair etc. – all done gently – all these things essentially allowed me to feel more settled in my body and I have been able to handle situations more calmly and be less likely to get angry or frustrated.’

25. I enjoyed being reminded this morning of just how practical the Gentle Breath Meditation is – it does not require a meditation room to lock the rest of the world away while we try to connect. Instead it asks us to connect in the every day, in a simple way, and to expand that awareness out and beyond the breath into what we are expressing moment by moment… practical chores, our work, family, relationships etc.

26. If someone is reacting to something it is breathing gently that supports us to stay steady.

27. How is it that there is so many practices of Meditation that believe you need to meditate for an hour or two to reach a place of stillness? The Gentle Breath Meditation is a powerful technique that proves within five minutes we can feel a connection to our body and begin to experience an exquisite stillness that we can carry with us throughout the day.

28. That is a huge part of your day gone if you use 2-3 hours of it to meditate – particularly as opposed to the gentle breath meditation which takes 5 minutes.

29. Learning the Gentle Breath Meditation was a very significant turning point in my life and how I choose to live.

30. The surety that one can feel when we choose to be in our body, without reservation, is proof personified that this is how we are ment to live.

31. Whenever I feel that I am a little bit out of control, saying things I wouldn’t normally say, or becoming emotional or reactive very quickly, I come back to the gentle breath meditation. It brings me beautifully back to my true sense of self and aligns me back to my body and my soul. I then feel like I am in my centre, and the erratic behaviour is no more. It is an amazing tool.

    1. This was such an interesting point Rebecca, more because of what it reminded me of. My usual response to being out of control is to want to take control again (bit of a default for me)… whereas in truth what is needed is to come back to how I’m feeling and then take the journey from that point. A good reminder!

32. The Gentle Breath Meditation is so profoundly different from any other meditation that I have done, so extremely simple and yet so true.

    1. I agree Chris, I used to meditate for at least an hour at times, it didn’t really do anything other than give me pins and needles in my leg.

33. The Gentle Breath Meditation simply invites us to return to our natural breath. It is a yummy warm feeling that has the sense of home. We can be at home in our bodies if we do not allow external influences to dictate how we breathe.

34. ‘or filling myself up with ‘sand’ and ‘melting’ away any tension.’ Wow what a way to escape and how different with the ‘down to earth’ Gentle Breath Meditation which asks us to feel the tension and choose gentleness, not as a way to escape but a way to live our lives 24/7 and to deepen this quality, like you’ve shared Henrietta into innate qualities like tenderness and delicateness.

    1. Yes, as we deepen in how we live, our gentleness becomes tenderness, or delicateness, ‘And this has been a forever unfolding process where the ‘gentleness’ is then taken deeper and deeper until the quality changes to tenderness or delicateness.’

35. The Gentle Breath Meditation transformed my life too. After years of trying every meditation that was on offer, to be presented with this simple form of meditation was the best gift ever. Gone are the days of escaping ‘down a meandering path towards a tinkling waterfall’ and various other places outside of me. In their place is the most simple technique to re-connect me to who I truly am; no bells and whistles, just a few gentle breaths to bring me home to me.

36. It is very interesting to read the different and varying kinds of techniques that are available for meditation, with so many of them offering an escape in to a fantasy world that seems to leave the body behind.

37. It comes down to love, always. In such simple meditation by Serge Benhayon, the Gentle Breath Meditation, we helps you restore the original flow of energy throughout your body. But we need to be present with ourselves; being in the moment with our body and focussed from this connection with what we do. Must remember that : connection to our body is always #1.

38. Re-establishing a connection with my body has been a real revelation – and the practice of the Gentle Breath Meditation has certainly been a key part in that reconnection. I practiced every day, in the mornings and rather like you say here Henrietta, there came a time when I found myself breathing gently whilst doing other things like driving too. It became second nature you might say. This method is so very simple and just takes a few minutes – and yet the benefits of regular practice are very broad. It is without doubt the most effective meditation practice I have experienced.

39. There is definitely something about meditation that is very appealing, there must be something about the basics of its practise or the sound of its word that resonates deeply, an offering perhaps of what so many of us are looking for. And this is why it is important to be discerning, because the activity of the word surely must match the true meaning that everyone knows it to be.

40. The Gentle Breath Meditation, as taught by Serge Benhayon, has allowed many people to transform their lives in ways that would never have been imagined.

41. “And this has been a forever unfolding process where the ‘gentleness’ is then taken deeper and deeper until the quality changes to tenderness or delicateness.” Gorgeous Henrietta. Deeply connecting with our breath – and with our body – supports us in ways I would never have imagined to be possible.

42. The Gentle Breath Meditation is a tool of medicine. Medicine is never about escaping. It is about leaving behind the disorder and the movement that feeds it that created illbeing in the first place.

43. Commitment and persistence paid off, as you started to see and feel changes, ‘But as I persisted with this Gentle Breath Meditation™, something began to happen where I actually began to feel the warmth coming back into my body, and I began to feel the gentleness creep back in.’

44. Henrietta I really enjoyed the simplicity of the steps of how the Gentle Breath Meditation was for you, It was the same for myself. You take us through the initial stages of discomfort to the realisation of letting all that go and starting to connect to your essence to how simple and enjoyable you find life today. A great understanding of what to expect when one firsts engages The Gentle Breath Meditation.

45. This blog brings the age old saying to me “Quality, not Quantity”. It is beautiful that you have used this simple technique as a foundational tool.

46. Before being introduced to the Gentle Breath Meditation I have tried many other types of meditation too and knowing that those do not truly support me–as they feel I am escaping into what I do not want to deal with but when I open my eyes, all those things are still there for me to deal with. In my resistance to meditation in general, I have been aware but also not fully committed to any meditation, which now when I have dropped this resistance I am feeling the support of the gentle breath meditation much more and it is so wise to make use of this support of truly coming back to myself and feeling my body.

    1. Thank you Adele for sharing. I used to practice all different kinds of meditation too from visualising something in front of me, listening to a guided meditation taking me off somewhere to chanting because that was what I was encouraged to do but never understanding the purpose of it all! What this has made me aware of is the sadness and hurt I feel in my body from making these choices to carry out these types of meditation. There cannot be any regret or lack of acceptance in my movements no matter where I am in life but a willingness to let go and embrace my gentle breath in my every day living and not treat it as a ticking of a box to say I meditate every day practicing the Gentle Breath Meditation which I have done in the past.

47. By just reading all these comments I can feel the stillness that is found through the Gentle Breath meditation The same feeling l have when I practise it. And I agree with you all, it has nothing to do with any meditation I have done before. No complication, no images, no effort, no hours,… just my breath and me in intimate gentleness while I simply live, fully aware.

48. It is so amazing, I love how you point out that this mediation does not ask you to escape, it is so true. I grew up with relaxation techniques that were all based around your special place by the river etc and none of them ever made an impact on my life. I have had enormous success with the Gentle Breath Mediation too but I have never committed to it so consistently as you have. I think I might be up for the gentle mediation challenge! I’ll see if I can out gentle you next time I pass you in the arcade at work! Kidding, you are the queen of stillness and grace but now your secret is out, I will be using it to my advantage, which I know you will relish in!

49. The difference between “ bliss” and the true connection that comes from experiencing the gentle breath meditation is incomparable… It is exactly as you say Henrietta. One literally disconnects you from the world and the other one prepares you for full and graceful interaction

50. I haven’t done the gentle breath meditation for a while but did it with some work colleagues on Friday. The difference just 10 minutes made to how we all felt afterwards was huge. First I could see how peoples bodies changed; at the start being very tense and a bit fidgety compared to the end where they had almost melted into themselves. It was also evident when they opened their eyes their expression showed how good it felt, without them having to say anything. The verbal feedback confirmed all of this.

51. The gentle breath meditation has helped me to understand how to be me in a world full of chaos, a tool that has kept me steady in the face of adversity. It is something that is always there to connect to like a trusty friend.

52. When we breath gently, we not only offer ourselves a transformation, but we offer it to the world.

53. My life has changed dramatically since introducing The Gentle Breath Meditation. as you say such a simple yet powerful and profound technique that supports us to connect much deeper to our inner being, our Soul. This quality of rhythm you can allow yourself to go to can then be taken out into your day and when you are in connection with this and going for it – WOW you feel incredible and you know it is you deep down to the core.

54. The Gentle Breath Meditation is something we can use to support us to be more who we truly are in the world rather than withdraw or try and escape from life.

55. A powerful testimony of The Gentle Breath Meditation and significant case study of a life turned around with full commitment now leading the way. It is very inspiring to realise that every movement can be healing and meditative.

56. The power of this blog – just a simple reminder of how easy it is to reconnect. Just a simple choice, a few breaths that can be done anywhere and we are back in our bodies, feeling ourselves and what is really going on.

57. I have tried numerous meditations, including sitting cross legged and trying to empty the mind or gaze at a candle or focal point, all of them have been a real struggle to do. On the flip side, I look forward to doing the gentle breath mediation and can commit to doing it daily without hesitation because I love how it feels to when I am more connected to my body and not in my head.

58. The power of gentleness, the power of breathing our own breath, the power of making this choice, is out of this world amazing. It is something I have been practicing for around 9 years and it is now part of every day life…if I start any shallow or laboured breathing this tells me a lot about how I am feeling, emotions and stress can often get the better of us and it often does not feel supportive. We can feel like we are dizzy with reactions we are having to things and the to do list we need to get through keeps piling up… I choose to check in and I choose to breath in a way that does supports me, and then I feel connected, steady and ready for life. It physiologically makes sense to bring awareness to how we breath, for our well-being, I practice this at home, at work, at the supermarket, you name it….it steadies the ship on the sea of life…

59. The Gentle Breath Meditation has brought an awareness of my breath throughout the day, whatever I am doing, the breath is there to be felt and enjoyed.

    1. For those who want to take a moment to practice The Gentle Breath Meditation,
       https://www.unimedliving.com/meditation/free/meditation-for-beginners/introductory-gentle-breath-meditation.html

60. From my own experience of many forms of meditation I noticed that most of them take you further away from your body or disconnect you from your body where as the Gentle Breath Meditation actually connects you more with your body and this is interesting because I have also observed that my body is very honest so it always is communicating with me exactly what is really going on in my life ay any time, so it makes sense to develop a connection with the body as it can feel and discern energy in a way that my mind cannot.

61. Everything starts with our breath, we cannot have movement without first – the breathe. So it makes complete sense that we need to attend to that breathe and allow it to be everything that it naturally is.

    1. That’s such a good point and not one I often consider, so why is it then that so many of us give little to no attention to the way we are breathing?

62. When we use anything to escape what are we actually doing? Where do we think we are going to run away to that will outdistance ourselves? Inevitably we return to ourselves, to what we have chosen and it is a reflection of responsible or irresponsible we have been.

63. I deeply appreciate the way The Gentle Breath Meditation is taught by Universal Medicine. Great deal of care is taken for you to deeply understand the true purpose of meditation, and not fall for the many gimmicks out there about meditation.

    It is never sold as a panacea or an end in itself, but a deeply honouring tool to support us to reconnect to our essence, and to build a foundation of living that in every aspect of our daily life. (this is beautifully reflected in the articles and the many free recordings posted on http://www.unimedliving.com/meditation).

64. A great expose of our increase in checking out from life and the simplicity in which we can reverse this trend

65. Connecting to the breath is a great tool to use to support our re connection with the body and being. The Gentle Breath Meditation is simple and requires no forceful breathing techniques or long hours in discipline. In a few minutes we can feel the quality of the breath and how this reflects how we have been living.

66. The beauty of the Gentle Breath Meditation is that it is so simple, and requires nothing other than a committment to focussing on the way we breath as we go about our day to day lives.

67. 15 years of studying various methods and techniques including mediations and I had never come across anything so simple and effective as The Gentle Breath Meditation in supporting me to stop, begin to free myself from the clutches of my emotions and reactions, and be more open and aware in life once again.

68. One of the gifts the Gentle Breath Meditation offers is re-connecting to myself in my body with gentleness and appreciation which can be missing when in thinking mode of getting through the day. Then this re-connection stays with me as I move into my day with more awareness and gentleness, that being with my body as I go offers more flow and harmony to my day.

69. Henrietta, thank you for sharing this. I tried many meditations in the past ad they never worked, they all seemed very complicated and hard to do, when I came across the Gentle Breath Meditation I loved the simplicity and that I felt calm and connected.

70. When I used to meditate long hours and it was to escape life, what I experienced was disliking the world even more. I just wanted to escape to somewhere, anywhere but be here. That did not help me commit to life at all. While doing the Gentle Breath Mediation no more than 10 mins I feel present and I am aware of myself and my body and this feeling is very empowering as when I am here, I can deal with anything that comes my way.

    1. Wow thank you Adele. I never fully saw this insidious nature of the many meditations and other similar techniques I practiced in the past. I went to them to relieve myself from life, and they were in fact sold as that, which actually means my belief that life is something to escape from was confirmed!

       This is a shocking realisation that all these techniques actively ingrain our perception of separation and disempowerment in life. Thank God, literally, for the Gentle Breath Meditation which, as with everything else about Universal Medicine, actually supports you to deeply connect with yourself, to let go of all the false imposed ideas and perceptions and commit even more fully to life.

    2. Beautifully said Adele, and thus is the power of the Gentle Breath Meditation. To bring presence, awareness and the ability to deal with life. Simple and quick to do, yet profound in it’s effect.

71. Like a driver who continually gets lost and crashes their car, isn’t it time we admitted that this current approach isn’t going so great? There are GPS systems we can use, and it’s possible to stop and take stock along the way too. The Gentle Breath Meditation is like this for me – a brilliant support when perhaps I may have taken a wrong turn in the day. We don’t have to live life alone, to do everything ‘our way’ – if we just open up as you say Henrietta we might find we feel a great deal clearer.

72. There are a number of variations to the Gentle Breath Meditation on http://www.unimedliving.com which I find hugely helpful at different times.

73. Simplicity is the essence of the Gentle Breath Mediation – it’s very simplicity allows one to let go of the complications of the day and to deepen our inner awareness to what is true. Finding the Gentle Breath Meditation is like finding a pure gold – it brings us back to feel our own true worth, and feel the quality of a life lived in harmony and joy .

74. In 2006 I attended a Sacred Esoteric Healing Level 1 course presented by Serge Benhayon, which was to change my life. On this course I was presented with ideas, concepts and most importantly truths that made me question my whole approach to work and living resulting in me make a complete lifestyle change. One of the defining moments on that course was the Gentle Breath Meditation. In those few minutes of the meditation I experienced a connection with my body and myself that was unparalleled and so immediate. From that day on I committed to practicing it at least once everyday and it was the foundation that supported me to make the lifestyle choices and changes I did following that course.

75. The gentle breath meditation is one of the most simple things to do – so simple that in its simplicity that most people discount the power that it holds and brings! Try it for yourself… https://www.universalmedicine.com.au/services/free-audio-library/gentle-breath-meditation

    1. So true, Henrietta, it can be difficult to accept that something so simple is so powerful, yet it is.

       1. Absolutely jstewart, the world is so taken with and enchanted by complication that something simple and very powerful like the Gentle Breath Meditation is just dismissed or by-passed – how can that possibly work we have been used to complicated medical machinery costing a fortune to curtail our momentums!

76. With all other meditations I have tried, I have felt agitated and uncomfortable. I have always wanted to fight and had a nagging voice saying – ‘is time nearly up?’

77. Gentle Breath Meditation is the most simplest and powerful meditation I have come across. It takes minutes and brings you back to you body quickly, It supports in all your movements and keeps the mind in control, as you connect to your body.

78. The Gentle Breath Meditation is the simplest, easiest and most deeply connecting of all of the meditations I have tried in the past. As you have shared Henrietta it can reveal where we are at and how we have been living, which can be uncomfortable to feel. However along with that you feel that these choices aren’t you, because you connect to that loveliness within that is untouched by the world. The Gentle Breath Meditation supports us to then live more from that loveliness.

79. The Gentle Breath Meditation offers the most loving unimposing invitation to be with my body. My mind has reacted to the simplicity and power of this but my body doesn’t which is confirmed in the way it loves to surrender, let go of the held tensions and share with me how it truly feels in response to my minds control of how I have been with and used my body. The Gentle Breath Meditation is an incredible foundational support to re-connecting with my entire being.

80. The Gentle Breath Meditation is an amazing tool in our lives with its simplicity and powerful intent of connection , our stillness felt and spreading through our body and allowing a clarity freedom and expansion of knowing and a foundation to live by and with on a moment to moment basis of love.

81. ‘What meditate? Me? I am a grown adult, I don’t need to stop and besides I just don’t have the time. And I mean how much can 5 minutes of my day really change?’. These are some of the types of thought I have had and continue to get even though everything in my life points towards the fact that the Gentle Breath meditation has been a huge and life changing support. Thank you Henrietta for this timely reminder not to heed the thoughts but follow what my body says instead.

82. The Gentle Breath Meditation allowed me to acknowledge that I am at least gentle by nature. I had pushed this aside in order to exist and get by in the world. This was a beautiful thing to feel after a life of protection, toughening up and trying to be something I was not. I realise that this inner sense of self was to be valued way before anything I could do, and the toughness was just an outer façade to hide the loveliness inside me.

83. I agree Henrietta The Gentle Breath Meditation is the most powerful tool for bringing me back to me that I have ever use. Here is a link if you want to try it for yourself http://www.unimedliving.com/meditation/free

84. The Gentle Breath Meditation is the only meditation I know of that brings you to your body, the warmth in your body …. your essence. Writing this I am asking myself why do I not do this more!!!

    1. I agree, it is the only meditation that brings you to your body, all other forms of meditation take you away from you body and lost in your mind.

    2. I agree and it feels so lovely to reconnect to this on a daily basis.

85. What I have loved about The Gentle Breath Meditation is that it is something that can be incorporated in to our every day lives… in the lift at work, on our way to and from school, any moment that we can simply bring our attention back to the quality of our breath and how our body feels. It has certainly transformed my life.

    1. Yes Matilda it is the only meditation I know that you can do anytime, anywhere and it is as powerful each time. I remember all the old techniques I use to do, I have to create some time in the day and spend min 30 mins to hour if not more. This form is quick simple and very powerful.

       1. Yes, that’s what’s so different is you can take it with you wherever you go.

       2. It certainly beats sitting crossed legged in front of a repetitive video of instructions for around 8 hours a day for 10 days (which I have done – or at least I lasted 7 or 8 days before enough was enough). If we’d been allowed to speak I’m sure nobody would complete it.

86. Yes I agree, Henrietta. The Gentle Breath Meditation has supported me to feel much more settled in the body, and therefore much less exhausted and drained, simply because I am no longer in constant nervous tension throughout the day. This frees me up to be more engaged and active in life…and much more joyful!

87. Learning the Gentle Breath Meditation was a revelation for me and I was blown away at the change in my body within a few minutes. To have thought bringing stillness and a sense of calm to my body was a long process involving hours of sitting without movement then discovering how I could feel in a few connected minutes of Gentle Breath Meditation was an enormous blessing.

88. Powerful, simple and easily accessible for us all.

89. What is so beautiful about the Gentle Breath Meditation is that is re-introduces us to a quality that we can keep connecting to throughout the day. It then gets obvious when we are disconnected and instead of trying to fix that tension it is about re-connecting to the quality that we are.This I find very supportive in life.

90. Some years back now I was feeling very anxious about some reports I was doing for work, and whether or not I would be able to get them out on time. As the panic was rising I just stopped and connected to my gentle breath and the feeling melted away. There is a split second where you are convinced that nothing will work but this showed me that within only three breaths I was back, and the anxiousness subsided.

91. The fact that you would feel unsettled after coming back from mediating in a fantasy world is great proof that our bodies and the people that we are naturally do want to be here, presently and aware in life.

92. The Gentle Breath Meditation gives us the ability to be in command of ourselves at all times. There is nothing to prevent us choosing to breath gently, and one breath can begin to shift our current state to one that is more connected and steady.

93. The gentle breath meditation invites a vibration into our body that is true. From the very outset of experiencing this meditation, my body has always responded by becoming more and more settled and still.

    1. Vicky, yes it so true, it does invite a vibration to our body that is true, and I took can say it responds by becoming more and more settled and still. This is a great proof of how it is support us and our body.

94. What a beautiful process it is the movement from gentleness to delicate and an ever unfolding process it is.

95. The Gentle Breath Meditation and its simplicity has become my foundation also to coming back to who i am in a stillness and gentleness where all is seen and felt and put into perspective with a love and understanding possible from this stillness and connection inside.

96. Meditation ought not be confused with medication. There is only a letter of difference between these words but also a sea regarding what is the intention behind. The Gentle Breath Meditation never crosses to the other side. So, what we brings is spaciousness and order.

    1. True Eduardo, it is a great question to ask ourselves, who or what purpose is truly being served when we spend long hours, even days in meditation.

97. It is interesting how many people find guided meditation so much easier than taking a couple of minutes to connect with themselves and their bodies. The Gentle Breath Meditation is great for bringing our minds back into union with our bodies and re connecting with ourselves.

98. There are so many different kinds of meditation, but none of them can support the body to cope with life in such a gentle way as does The Gentle Breath Meditation it is so simple and powerful at the same time.

99. Coming back to our breath any time any place and allowing for it to be gentle tender or delicate, deepening the quality allows us a deeper connection and brings a greater reflection to others.

100. It’s amazing how something so gentle can be so powerful. When we re-connect to our innate gentle nature we re-connect to our true power.

101. “It has been my foundational stepping stone to developing a solid relationship with myself” – This could be different for every person, but finding something through which you can really connect to yourself is so supportive and something you can always go back to. I even find this with cooking, cleaning and writing!

102. I remember coming to the Gentle Breath Meditation for the first time with a lot of expectation about mediation is or ought to be, what it’s purpose is and the rules of how to do it. The Gentle Breath Meditation has not ever imposed upon me that what I was doing before was wrong, it just gave me a different experience in my body, one that I was free to say yes or no to.

103. The mind is always busy, but what is it busy doing? I have found the gentle breath meditation a huge support in understanding my body and how much tension I can be holding. To be anxious as I so often can be, to have a tool that only takes 2-3 minutes to do is incredibly supportive. It is amazing when I stop drifting in my mind how willing my body is to let go and surrender to a state of grace, in greater wellbeing.

     1. Yes, it is so simple yet very powerful to bring the mind into focus on the body and the breath.

104. There are currently big debates globally about energy conservation. If each human being took responsibility for the way that they themselves use energy we would not have this world-wide problem with ‘energy’ and pollution. The Gentle Breath is the simplest exercise or meditation which takes 5 minutes max to do, and it acts as a kind of gauge or marker of how we will use energy that day. Will we squander it or use it wisely and for the benefit of all?

105. There has been a big rise in the popularity of ‘mindfullness’, and so many are talking about it and it is now offered in many workplaces, as well as part of some of the school curriculums too. In my experience this mindfullness meditation is one that is exactly as its name reveals itself – in the mind..there is no connection to the body and how the body feels, and certainly no real adressing of the issues in the body – in my experience, mindfullness attempts to erase what is going on with stress or emotions, or overwhelm, rather than actually getting to feel the effect in the body. This is a bit of worry, as our body is our key marker of what is going on, especially considering the rise in the incidence of illness and disease. What I love about the gentle breath meditation is that it is about the body and about making the body the key communicator rather than the mind itself. The polar opposite to mindfullness and it is super simple, practical AND powerful!

106. Meditation stops becoming a moment to stop and starts to become moments to live. As we get more familiar with this living way through the gentle breath meditation the connection to ourselves builds a familiarity that becomes our normal and the disconnection starts to stand out.

     1. Love what you have said here Lucy. By simply doing this meditation we have this opportunity to live again in a way that is nurturing, powerful, productive, fun, loving, and for the benefit of all.

107. At first it might seem incongruous that power and gentle go together, but when felt the gentle breath meditation is very powerful!

108. Meditation is like anything we do… the energetic quality is the bottom line of the quality of how we will be in the end.

109. When I feel myself getting caught up in ‘busyness’ at work, I have started to stop, down tools and connect back to the Gentle Breath Meditation so that when I return to what I was doing I am less racy which leaves me less exhausted at the end of the day.

110. I agree my life would not be as it is without practicing the Gentle Breath Meditation. Everyday I breath gently in through my nose out through my nose and doing so has altered my physiology. A sense of stillness is with me.

111. Yes, people nowadays are so overwhelmed and stressed that a ‘fantasy space’ can seem very appealing, however these kinds of meditations do nothing, as you say, to re-connect us to the stillness and all-knowing wisdom that resides within us, and provides true settlement in our bodies.

112. The Gentle Breath Meditation is hands down the most simple and powerful meditation there is. It does not ask you to go somewhere else, or be a monk, or climb a mountain. It takes 5 minutes and the tender connection within that was always there waiting is awoken.

113. ‘Awareness’, ‘Knowing’, ‘Believing’, ‘Thinking’.
     Are they all kind of the same? I used to think so, but thanks to the Gentle Breath Mediation not only can I now deeply sense the difference, I am also much wiser in my life as a result. It is not a theory but an ability to feel and deeply know the different qualities.

     There is immense awareness and wisdom we can access from within which many of us are mostly numb to or dismissing. The Gentle Breath Meditation has supported me to reconnect to, recognise and once again trust such inner awareness.
     This was hugely assisted by the simple yet profound explanations offered by Serge Benhayon before, after or during the meditations while I was learning the steps. What I am talking about is beautifully captured on the meditations posted on this site: (http://www.unimedliving.com/meditation/free). Well recommended.

114. The absolute simplicity of The Gentle Breath Meditation is what can get some people! it is not complicated enough! The undoing of the bondage of the lie we live that we have created is very simple, a bit by bit, moment by moment application. It requires dedication and is not a quick complicated fix which is in fact impotent to change a thing. Simplicity is All.

115. The Gentle Breath Meditation has supported me to re-connect with the qualities of my essence that are divine and I delight in fully re-claiming them and living them in the world. Hiding them and making up what was considered acceptable ways to be, cope, manage, survive and even protect weren’t working for me – exhaustion, ill health and becoming emotional where just some of the side effects of dis-connecting to my own gentle breath.

116. One of the most beautiful things about the Gentle Breath Meditation is that it is so simple and accessible for anyone to do it anywhere, at anytime as it needs nothing other than a reminder and then a willingness to stop for a moment to reconnect to your own breath and consequently to the essence of who you are.

117. What is so beautiful about the Gentle Breath Meditation is that it or at least the quality of gentleness becomes part of your life, your way of living and that is making it so supportive and practical in life. It is not just an escape but a reconnection to a quality we can live every day.

118. A very simple technique that can be part of our day as is showering, eating and working. The bonus here is the impact that is has on these elements of our lives that changes the quality that we can possibly live. A great tool for supporting levels of overwhelm and exhaustion.

119. Our lives can change beyond recognition, our health improve out of sight, but still there is a part of us that likes to think ‘gentle breath meditation? There’s no need for that’. Despite the fact that this simple act has given us so much consistency, clear connection and supported us to know the truth throughout our day, we like to say ‘I’ve moved on and no longer need this ritual’. This is a testament to the power the Gentle Breath brings, and the way the wayward selfish part of us resists the simple honesty that comes. So yes Henrietta, here’s to the Gentle Breath and the gift we offer ourselves when we surrender to it.

120. One of the great things about the Gentle Breath Meditation is that it requires you to get in touch with your body and really connect with it. This is the first step to coming back to our Soul, as many earlier forms of meditation required that we leave the body and go off – some people even erroneously decided it was good to ‘astral travel’. Coming back to the body enormously assists our ability to feel and when we can feel then we can be aware. And if we can be aware and feel then we will know truth.

121. I love the way you have exposed the trap of meditation that relies on visualisation of a ‘nicer place’. It encourages you to check out and not want to return to the reality of life which can be beautiful but also harsh and unloving. The gentle breath gives you a solid knowing of yourself, your soul and the steadiness and love for self and others that makes you want to return to life. There is much to restore in the way we live in this world and giving up and checking out will not bring this about.

122. It is remarkable that such a simple technique can assist with such profound experiences and way of living. Goes to show how we have over complicated so many things and thinking that is our normal. Having the complication as a distraction from connecting to the stillness within.

123. The Gentle Breath Meditation is completely different to any other I have experienced in that it takes me to be with my body and encourages an inner connection that allows me to feel where I am really at – no escapism in sight!

124. The Gentle Breath Meditation has been pivotal in my re-connection back to my body and my soul. It has changed my outlook on everything.

125. Yes breathing gently is very natural and certainly is my natural way of breathing and it has been a revelation to really stop and observe how much my breathing changes during the day and how simple it is to keep coming back to my natural breath through the Gentle Breath Meditation.

126. It is true from my experience that many forms of meditation encourage a leaving or disconnection from the body where as the Gentle Breath Meditation actually supports a greater connection with the body which is so important because it is through the intelligence of the body that we can reawaken our sixth sense, our clairsentience which is our ability to feel and discern the quality of energy inside us and around us, which means we are reading life and understanding life on a much deeper level.

127. The Gentle Breath Meditation is a simple tool that delivers more than one can imagine. I recommend it to everyone. It brings me out of my head and back into my body where I belong from there I can move as a full unit of expression.

128. . I also used to meditate lots before I discovered the gentle breath. This is what I thought was normal, that I needed to sit for an hour at a time and it was a test of my resolve to not move and stay with what I was feeling. But while this meditation brought some calm and stilling of my mind, I didn’t get to know and feel the real me, the ‘me’ that comes from my soul. The Gentle Breath Meditation literally changed my life. In 5-10 minutes I was reconnected or appreciating my connection with myself. I realised I was not only gentle by nature but many other exquisite things and this relationship kept developing. I also found this focus on my breath and body was something I could do all day, not just when I was meditating, which is when the big changes occurred. Being able to love life steady and connected is a great gift to myself and everyone around me.

129. The Gentle Breath Meditation is super simple, practical and effective like no other meditation I have ever tried.

130. I had no idea that it was a choice I could make to Live from my body and not be driven by the mind until I made a commitment to practicing the Gentle Breath Meditation. There were many little things that started to change such as my energy levels, the settled feeling in my body, the mind was exposed in its constant activity and I was just more at ease in my life. It is so simple and something a person can choose to experience – the outcome will tell its own story.

131. Being able to bring oneself back to breathing our own breath can be sometimes a really difficult thing to do. When we are used to not breathing gently and for ourselves, it can be really a big change to have the awareness that we actually aren’t. So the first thing is to bring that awareness to when we are not, so to then bring the breath to a gentle one, this is what helps bring the body back into sync with itself.

132. “But it is powerful, especially when practised consistently and brought into the activities of everyday life – a connection with the body and the quality that we live with” – yes because as i’ve been understanding and experiencing thanks to deepening with the Gentle Breath Meditation, is that what is anything without noting the quality it’s being done in? I know that when i end up feeling bashed/smashed that it’s not what i’ve done, but that what i’ve done has not been in a quality that’s supported me or my body. Quality first. It is the great revealer.

133. Meditating is no longer about checking out anymore for me, its about checking in. It no longer takes me an hour, I don’t have to go to a class, or sit in an uncomfortable position… I can in fact, do it any where, any time,
     and I don’t need special music or a teacher. The Gentle Breath Meditation is free and available for everyone, any where and it works. I don’t need to look any where else!

134. I too would not be where I am today had it not been for the Gentle Breath Meditation Henrietta – along with the presentations I have attended at Universal Medicine on self-care, love and evolution. I have very little ‘drama’ left in my body, my anxiousness has reduced astronomically, I have hugely increased my ability to work in the world, and the joy of living is amazing!

135. Indeed a gift for humanity Elizabeth – to breathe our own breath.

136. It is so gorgeous and amazingly healing to build awareness. In the early stages we become more and more aware of how unaware we are and at that point it is great to be aware of just how much awareness it takes to be aware you are unaware so you can appreciate yourself and not judge!

     1. Such a simple and supportive tool this is, to be simply honest with ourselves and observe what is going on, that alone opens our awareness, and as you say, allows for appreciation and no judgement, and I would add it brings curiosity to explore more.

        1. Yes and a good playful sense of humour helps!

137. One of the great realisations I had with the Gentle Breath Meditation was the power of simply nominating and observing what is. For example when I first did it and found my mind being racy I would think it should be different, but then I discovered that by observing if I was a bit speedy or something it would already settle. Our body is so beautifully responsive and wise – all we need to do is listen.

138. I love the gentle breath meditation – as you say Henrietta, it really supports you in daily life and you can bring it to all you do. Meditation is not a moment where you need to pause life and take a break from it all. It’s not an escape but something to bring presence to what you are doing. Focusing on your breath is a great way to bring presence. I find focussing on my hands and fingertips has the same effect and this can be done anywhere – while driving, while typing, while cooking.

139. We need to seek the truth in life, not we want or what we would like to keep (comfort) but an open approach to explore what there is to life and our responsibility. The gentle breath simple and is a fine way of support that allows you to breath your breath and observe then all in and around you. From this we have a great marker in our day – to not obsorb so much of what is going on, but to observe.

140. Thank you, Henrietta. The Gentle Breath Meditation has changed my life completely because I used to be in so much tension and move my body harshly, whereas now I am aware of how gentle my breath and every movement can be.

141. The Gentle Breath Meditation supported me immensely to build a foundation for myself without the harshness and abuse of my past. I am forever thankful for Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon who time after time know exactly what tools to share that support one to live with a deep sense of love in their lives.

142. I agree Henrietta, the Gentle Breathe meditation is super powerful. It is simple, knocks out anxiety, and is never time consuming and as it becomes a way of living for you, you can breath gently all day!

143. What is amazing about The Gentle Breath Meditation is that you can practice this anywhere, anytime, while you are alone or on a busy train full of people. It is so simple yet so powerful and deeply supportive.

144. There is no special place or zone needed for this Gentle Breath Meditation practice, no compartment outside of our normal everyday lives – the potential for connection is there on the underground; in a meeting; stacking the shelves; driving the car – simply our breath and our bodies are forever there to feedback.

145. I used to attend groups or listen to recordings of guided meditations. Since working with the Gentle Breath Meditation there was a revelation of how harming and stressful this is on the body and how important it is to ‘breath you own breath’ and not take on the breathing rhythm of others under any circumstances. This has proven very wise.

146. It really is amazing, how something as simple as the way we breath can potentially change so much about how our bodies feel and consequently how we go about our day. What a wonderful exercise this would be if we were to start the day in schools with this simple but deeply profound technique.

147. Henrietta thank you. I did a meditation daily for over twenty years that when I started the The Gentle Breath Meditation I realised had been supporting me in my withdrawal from the world. The more I did it the longer I did it for, sometimes hours yet my energy levels health didn’t improve infact I feel they got worse and now I know it was a great escape from life. The Gentle Breath Meditation connected me to my body and brought profound change very quickly and has supported me immensely in my health and wellbeing and being part of our world. It is so simple to do yet so powerful.

148. Meditations in the past for me, went on the scale from, being off with the fairies to floating in the sea of darkness in the void of nothingness! And, the longer I escaped to La La land, the better. All the time I was not with me or the world I live in. The Gentle Breath Meditation is always available, with simply shutting our eyes and one gentle breath to reconnect to oneself. I know the meditation I can use anytime or place that can bring me back to myself and is always just a breath away!

149. When I realised that meditation was connection within – not a way out – it changed everything and I could feel reconnection to divinity within my body. And then to be with that in my day, my work …everything. Thank you Serge Benhayon, you made meditation really, really real.

150. Many meditations are evil by design as they purport to guide people inwards whilst actually mechanically steering them outwards.

151. I used to try to meditate the way I learnt through various yoga practices, but couldn’t ever get it to do anything for me beyond highlight how active my mind was and unsettled I felt in my body. The first time I did the Gentle Breath Meditation I felt a shift within minutes that switched off my mind and I felt an instant connection in my body to something I had rarely felt before… a stillness l’ve since come to know myself as.

152. “Without imposing or directing me in any way, it [The Gentle Breath Meditation] asked me NOT to escape into another fantasy world, but in fact to really just be in my body and feel the body” – as you share Henrietta, I too was in the same boat in wanting to escape feeling my body and the state i was in [tired, exhausted, anxious, low/blue, stressed, tense…] through keeping myself busy, distracted, in my mind/head avoiding the gentleness quality to deliberately avoid another quality – that of stillness. Stillness over the years of development has been the settlement of my body and the pre-curser to this, gentleness.

153. Henrietta your sharing conveys the true essence of what meditation should bring. The difference between your old, more widely practice meditation and the Gentle Breath Meditation is profound. It’s easy to feel how the old style was just the same as watching a movie in order to not feel what was going on for you, whereas the Gentle Breath Meditation brought you to you, beautiful.

154. One of the most incredible things about the Gentle Breath Meditation is the fact that it is so simple There is no man, woman or child alive that could not practice it. We all need to start simply in order to get back to true simplicity in our lives again because true joy and fulfilment is found in simplicity – part of the fabric of the universe.

155. I love how the Gentle Breath Meditation supports us to stay connected to ourselves and any activity we undertake during our day. It is only a breath away and can be dropped into at anytime and its free! Reconnecting me to me and because of that everything and everyone around me. It has supported me to an ever expanding enrichment I never knew was possible.

156. I can remember when I started to bring the quality of gentleness and stillness that I had connected with in The Gentle Breath Meditation as presented by Serge Benhayon and how I could not see where I wasn’t being gentle. Slow I started to allow this gentleness in to my life and how I went about in life became a whole new way on the most precious and practical way possible.

157. I also used to meditate daily, sitting in a crossed leg position imagining myself somwhere else or staring into a candle trying my hardest not to feel the discomfort then afterwards getting up and feeling in a daze for a while before getting on with the day with no actual benefits achieved. The Gentle Breath Meditation is so simple, yet so powerful and I remain far more aware and focused during my day, which is the total opposite to how I used to feel after I finished meditating. At the times when I am feeling disconnected or uncertain, I find it is a wonderful tool that supports me to come back to myself and to what is needed during the day.

158. Beautifully shared Henrietta – I absolutely concur, the Gentle Breath Meditation is definitely unlike any other meditation I have ever come across and if practised in our day to day life, it is life changing.

159. Great testimony on how much time is used to escape our bodies in other forms of mediation, it’s not only the time during the mediation but the time after as we try and come back into reality. The Gentle Breath Mediation is the complete opposite to other forms as it asked us to come to reality and bring our bodies to it also. It asks us to feel what is happening within and feel the warmth of love that is us.

160. I used to try so hard to meditate and get frustrated I couldn’t do it for long – I had a picture that spending hours meditating would help me in life. But it was the same for me – what followed from meditation was frustration as I couldn’t integrate any blissful feeling I got to in with everyday life. The meditation separated me from life and took me away from it. It may have been ok while meditating but life was there to be a part of and it definitely didn’t support me to live life.

161. The Gentle Breath Meditation in a very practical and tangible way helped me to feel empowered to change my way of being, the quality I choose to have with myself and the way I do things. From there the unfoldment of an ever deepening quality began.

162. Thanks for sharing Henrietta, I used to meditate and go on trips in my mind and I had completely forgotten about that even though, it is something I used to do a lot. It was great to read your blog and appreciate for myself how much the Gentle Breath Meditation has supported me over the years. I no longer need to or want to escape life as I love it, and like you work more now than ever before yet am more energised and vibrant than ever before. What I love about the Gentle Breath Mediation is that I don’t need an hour to meditate, and I don’t have to be in a certain room, environment, or posture. I can do it any where, any time and it doesn’t take long!

163. Thank you for sharing, I too can say if it was not for the Gentle Breath Meditation, I am not sure where I would be in my life. Gentle Breath Meditation transformed my life. I was a person who was always on the go never had a moment to stop. Now even though my life is busy and long working hours, my breath is gentle and my flow of life reflects that, I have more stillness in my body and space in the day to complete more task than ever before. My working hours are easily 80hrs plus, but it feels a normal flow.

164. It is so true what you say here, Henrietta, about the Gentle Breath Meditation being “powerful, especially when practised consistently and brought into the activities of everyday life – a connection with the body and the quality that we live with.” I use it every day, throughout the day. It is the greatest tool in simply being able to bring me back to myself without fail.

165. One moment of ‘stop’ and a gentle breath brings more love into the world that a whole life of being good.

166. Bringing our mind back to our body and the quality of our movements is truly settling and regathering, equipping us to commit more fully to life whereas techniques whereby we are escaping or withdrawing from life only make our problems worse…

167. What I love about the Gentle Breath Meditation is that you don’t need to sit there for hours, it is a short meditation and then you head back into the world and practice living that quality in all that you do, in the way you walk and talk.

168. I agree the Gentle Breath Meditation is simple – I’m discovering more and more truth is simple

     1. Complication is, in itself a sign that something is not the truth.

        1. Absolutely agree Alexis – it starts to cram the thoughts and mind, can even prompt a tension in the head. These are all signs to come back to the gentle breath at the tip of the nose.

169. Like you Henrietta I had tried a few different meditations but had concluded they weren’t for me. That was until I attended a workshop run by a guy called Chris James. When he introduced us to the Gentle Breath, it was like my body melted and knew exactly what to do, as if someone had found a magic key to help me settle and return to a deeper version of truth. As you beautifully say, it turned out not to be the escape I thought I wanted but instead, a great example of how surrendered and at ease I could feel just being myself. This lovely feeling is still my marker today.

170. The gentle breath meditation is a great marker for how I have been living it gives me a moment to reconnect to me.

171. It is incredible the amount of things that can be done under the label of meditation. What we do or not do while ‘meditating’ matters a great deal (not all paths lead to Rome). The question is how meditation ‘talks’ to the rest of our life and to our daily life. And, in that regard, it is important to understand what are we asking it to do for us. Understanding this is also key to be aware what it does to us as well. What you connect to leaves an energetic imprint in the body that is what it is but that in any case is a great reflection of ‘where have you been’ (the company you have chosen) .

172. Simple, foundational and once experienced, something that can be brought to almost any task.

173. Its very interesting Henrietta, how you found you got irritated and agitated when you had to come back to reality after a meditation where you had felt such a blissful state. What a contrast for the Gentle Breath Meditation, that actually revitalises and energises you to be even more engaged in life when you open your eyes, rather than leaving you feeling like you want to run away and hide from it.

174. One of the beauties of this meditation is that it helps you to focus on being, not doing.

175. I meditated (under a guru) for 2.5 years for half an hour each day. I bought into all of the things I was told would happen – more energy, less sleep required, inner peace, etc. but I often saw it as a chore or task to be given something, felt uncomfortable in the sitting positions and rarely felt any benefits (if at all). So I was surprised with the Gentle Breath Meditation to find that I could sit anywhere, or even lie down, and there was no visualising or om-ing. In fact, it was the most lovely feeling ever – it allowed/allows me to reconnect to a stillness, a completely different quality to that of my old meditation. It wasn’t about checking out, but feeling my own breath and thus my body. I completely agree, it’s a real life changer.

176. The Gentle Breath Meditation is such an invaluable tool for me it has enabled me to see, feel and know that everythign is already within me I just need to surrender and allow it rather than thinking i need to go out and attain anything. I use it as a way to reconnect and come back to myself when I have allowed myself to get caught up in things and events outside of myself.

177. I find the difference between the Gentle Breath meditation and other meditations I have practiced in the past (TM, Visualisations, Bhuddhist, Vedic), is that in those you are directed as to how you breathe, what to think or not think at all, sit, how long, and so on, whereas The Gentle Breath Meditation is about breathing you own natural rhythm of breath with no force, only gentle, and letting your mind focus on that. I have also found that during the years I have practiced it the meditation has become shorter and shorter, as I only have to close my eyes and breath and that beautiful warm place inside ignites, and I am “there” and “here”, gently so.

178. The Gentle Breath Meditation changed my life. It showed me a different way. A way that is more natural than the way that I had been living. It brought gentleness into my life, and the ripple effect of that was huge in many ways.

     1. The simplicity is the Gentle Breath Meditation brings gentleness into our life, it shows us there is another way, just by connecting back to our own breath, its that simple.

179. Before I encountered the Gentle Breath® meditation I used to meditate in different ways. But actually I did not questioned then what meditation really is. I have to conclude that I actually did not new the true meaning of the word to meditate, which to me is now a way to connect to your innermost but at that time to meditate for me was a way to escape into a concoct way of life that only existed in my mind but never in my body that actually had to live in the reality of every day’s life.

180. There is nothing more beautiful than to want to feel and be in our own bodies. I know the escaping of myself very well too and have also done many different types of meditation before, but never have any such meditation made me feel like my body is the place I want to be. All these meditations were asking me to leave my body instead of being with it. But having tried the gentle breath meditation and using it in awareness of being in life instead of avoiding it, I am inspired by the very lovely, delicate, beautiful feeling I feel within, and even when I feel anxiousness or other emotions which I do not enjoy as much, I am able to stay with them rather than to escape them. This has changed tremendously how life begins from and with the body, rather than from leaving it behind.

181. Wonderful blog Henrietta. Thank you! The Gentle Breath Meditation is one of the most powerful and also the most simple of exercises or meditations, and it works extremely well in building a foundation of true awareness which is our vital tool. You say: ‘Without imposing or directing me in any way, it asked me NOT to escape into another fantasy world, but in fact to really just be in my body and feel the body.’ This is key. So many mediations have been about escaping form the world and the body – a knee jerk reaction to how raw and challenging the world that we have made is. But our only way out and through and to evolution is to embrace the body and its well-being fully and re-connect to our inner love and intelligence. The Gentle Breath is the perfect tool to support us to do this.

182. What a powerful revelation to discover that living in connection to ourselves and remaining present throughout our day is a meditation in itself rather than the traditional approach of using medtation to escape and therefore lose our presence and true connection with ourselves.

183. ‘And this has been a forever unfolding process where the ‘gentleness’ is then taken deeper and deeper until the quality changes to tenderness or delicateness’ …. beautifully confirming that there is always a deeper level for us to go. With a willingness to be open and honest, there is no end point, no limits or boundaries, we are forever deepening our love and light to share with the world and beyond.

184. Day dreaming was my choice for escape, I couldn’t begin to estimate how many hours I have spent happily existing in my own little world, closing off to everything that was going on around me. As soon as I felt something I didn’t like, off I would go into my own space, which was just as I ‘thought’ I wanted it to be. However, the longer I stayed detached, the harder it was to reconnect, and the greater the lure of alcohol which allowed me to just numb myself even further. I drifted so far away from myself, it’s no wonder I felt so empty and lost, knowing there was more but not knowing how to get there. The gentle breath meditation has had a very profound effect on me, I was instantly connected to this incredible feeling of warmth, love and light – which over time has deeply supported me to build a foundation from which to fully engage with life.

185. After a decade of 40minutes a day meditating with a world recognised school of meditation, my life had not changed an iota. After a decade of Gentle Breath Meditation, taking only 5-10 minutes a day, my life has changed in every aspect, starting from how I feel about myself. Nothing could be more precious than that.

     1. Indeed Heather, look at us, all the people that have walked the path of the Gentle Breath meditation®. They all claim to be so much more joyful in life in being connected with the delicateness of the body instead of, where most of us came from, living with the harshness of the mind.

     2. Love this Heather; indeed the Gentle Breath Meditation is sourced & held by the galactic energetic integrity that Serge Benhayon lives day to day.

186. Looking back, I attempted lots of different types of meditation but with all of them I got distracted, bored and impatient. With the gentle breath meditation I absolutely love the feeling and never for a moment get bored.

187. The gentle breath meditation has been such a huge support for me to let go of raciness and be more in my body.

188. I spent a week in silence meditating or at least looking like I was meditating when I was mainly focusing on the discomfort in my body and the need to get comfortable, it was the strangest experience.

189. For me the Gentle Breath Meditation has been the most versatile, simple but powerful, and life changing ‘tool’ that I have in my tool-box for life. You can take it anywhere, do it anywhere and feel the settling effects in your body after only a few focussed breaths. It is the foundation that so many other changes in my life have been supported by and the appreciation I have for being introduced to it by Serge Benhayon is endless.

190. I can relate to this sharing – I remember being introduced to meditation at school, and it was always about a fantasy and escaping in the mind. I thought this was what you did.So the Gentle Breath Meditation was so very different because I was being asked to feel my body. A big wake up call. But at the same time, this gave me a real starting point to actually take responsibility for where my body is at.

191. Henrietta, I very much enjoyed reading your blog as I am also a testimony of the powerful effects of the Gentle Breath Meditation. I too have tried other types of meditation before and the effect was exactly as you described: a blissful and momentary experience. The practice of the Gentle Breath Meditation (as you, for some time, I did it for a few minutes, in the morning and in the evenings) did not restrict itself to the moment of the meditation – it followed me through my daily activities. The Gentle Breath Meditation is very practical and it does not provide any blissful experience, quite the opposite it is very down to earth and support us to stay present and attentive with ourselves.

192. I attend Gentle Breath Meditation classes regularly and i love doing it in a group because it is such a powerful and palpable sense of stillness and unity, showing me that in group work when the quality if first and foremost, there is no separation.

193. We live in our bodies 24/7. Fact. But how much of that time do we really allow ourselves to really be in our bodies, and to feel them? It is often only when we are forced to – by accident, illness, or a cold – that we actually listen to our bodies and be with them, and that is usually to rest and recuperate. I feel very blessed to have come across Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine and their teachings as they support you to be with your body, and to listen to the wisdom that it shares. And the Gentle Breath Mediation is a super way to start.

194. i love the way the Gentle Breath Meditation is so practical and comes into our daily way with everything we do when we connect to it. It makes it real as it builds, and we can be gentle with everything we do.

195. I used to do days of silent meditations. It was awful and never gave me anything I searched for but just left me with such deep despair! I wanted to know what life was all about but these medications we’re all about the mind and transcending the body. How off kilter I was! The Gentle Breath Meditation was such a wonderful support to me bringing me back to being and trusting myself in the world.

196. When I first started the Gentle Breath Meditation it was confronting, because it revealed how far away I was on a day to day basis from breathing my own breath. I was breathing everybody else’s breath but not my own – and hence how hugely anxious I always was.
     Breathing our own breath is choosing our true quality and breathing that. The more I let myself go there, aided by the Gentle Breath Meditation, the more those patterns and momentums of absorbing the issues of others literally left my body. Now it is my normal every day. Each evening before sleeping I will feel the delicateness of my lungs breathing in and out – and in the warmth of my very own breath as I let myself deeply rest, I know I am one with the breath of God.

197. I love how the Gentle Breath meditation can be done anytime of the day. It is so portable!
     It is a very natural and supportive medicine which I use in my daily living.

     1. Great points Anne: portable, natural and supportive medicine. Absolutely!

     2. Yes it is very practical and all about connection and establishing a quality that you can live in each moment in day to day life. Super simple and supportive.

198. The Gentle Breath Meditation is a down to earth technique to start reconnecting to oneself, no airy fairy or spiritual exercise but very practical, tangible and real to empower you be who you are in daily life and not losing yourself in the stresses and emotions of life´s intensity. Do it and you know what it can do for you.

     1. Yes, agreed Alex – the Gentle Breath Meditation is an enriching experience that all can enjoy.

199. Having an awareness of the body is one of the most wisest skills one could ever develop. Surprising how this essential-for-a-true-quality-of-well-being skill is not taught more in general life.

200. I have found The Gentle Breath Meditation offers a great marker during the day to stop and reconnect with my body, and reintroduce a sense of stillness to my day, its simple, easy, very practical to everyday living and only takes a short few minutes…

201. The proof is in the living, Henrietta, and so it is inspiring to hear what is possible when you live in connection to your body and breath thanks to the Gentle Breath Meditation.

202. “Without imposing or directing me in any way, it asked me NOT to escape into another fantasy world, but in fact to really just be in my body and feel the body.” like you the power of the gentle breath meditation has had a significant impact on my life. In fact I would say that is is the single most supportive tool when I started to want to make my life about truth. I felt that no matter what was going on in the world, no matter how caught up I had become that there was a way to re-connect to the innate warmth, the innate beauty and the incredible magnificence inside. When I could not longer feel that connection I would know that something was wrong, in effect I knew I was in illness.

203. Before Universal Medicine, meditation as a word meant mystical fantasy and white space, now the word means grounded and in touch with life.

204. I love the distinction you make about the meditation you tried previously and the gentle breath meditation. Before the gentle breath meditation I too had tried other forms of meditating and the goal every time was to escape what I felt rather than allow myself to feel my body. Giving ourselves space to feel what we feel is very powerful.

205. The power of the Gentle Breath Meditation has to be experienced to really understand just how effective it is.

     1. It sure does, and I know that I dismissed it at first because it is so simple. I was used to meditating being long, and it looked a certain way to me….. so in a sense, I was not fully convinced the Gentle Breath Meditation would work as it was so simple. How wrong was I.

        1. Rosie, I too was not convinced about the long last effects of the Gentle Breath Meditation until I decided to consistently incorporate it into my daily routine. Indeed it is so simple and very supportive.

     2. Ditto Elizabeth, very well said.

     3. I agree, it is like no other meditation I have tried.

206. How striking you share that you would often feel more agitated and irritated at having to be a part of life after having done a visualisation. It strikes me that any activity we choose for the purpose of escaping life, whether that be gaming, meditation, films etc, one would similarly really struggle with the very tangible, real world at some level. So to one degree or another the more we choose to check out the more difficult life will feel as we have disengaged. The Gentle Breath Meditation brings us straight to our body, the very tangible body, and asks us to choose gentleness, something we can most definitely take back into the world once we open our eyes.

207. I never actively chose to visually meditate in the way that I would call it meditation, for me the exact same experience has been called Daydreaming. In some cases I would feel an opioid style of relief away from the real world and when I felt this it scared the pants off of me! But I came to this scare after having practiced being in my body more and feeling the settlement that being with my body, whatever is within it be it hardness, sadness or sheer joy or a yummy warmth. That acceptance of whatever was within me felt amazing whereas today I can now say that daydreaming disturbs me as I know it is only a temporary solution and a delay to feeling that amazing acceptance.

208. Through practising the Gentle Breath Meditation I experienced a warmth within me. A warmth that felt super familiar. Over the years I noticed how I actually panicked when I didn’t feel this fiery warmth within me. There’s much to connect to within us. We’re very special, very loving and have a natural pull to evolve and to share our love. Everything done without any push. How incredible that a simple tool as this is so very supportive to truly get to know ourselves and our precious qualities.

209. The Gentle Breath Meditation is very simple and accessible and readily available. It can be done in a few minutes in most environemnts and really takes the barriers to meditation away.

210. I started meditating at 15 and tried various forms over the years,,, repeating a word, visualisations, and living in silence for a week, sitting for hours in the one position – all of which achieved nothing except escapism and some very sore and aching body parts! When I started The Gentle Breath Meditation I didn’t believe it could be that simple – but it is – it is profound and very powerful.

211. Wow, Henrietta this is amazing. The difference you described is massive, there are so many modalities out there that can steer us further away from truth, leaving us wanting to escape from the world even more. But the Gentle Breath Meditation is the opposite of this, where it supports us to live more connected to ourselves, to our body and therefore more connected to people and the world around us.

212. This very much illustrates the power of ‘being’ in the world rather than all the ‘doing’ we ‘do.’

213. The Gentle Breathe Meditation supports us to re-connect to our body and to move into the day with this connection. And if we loose this connection throughout the day we can come back to our gentle breathe and re-connect. It is so simple and practical and only takes a few minutes, unlike other meditations where you can sit for hours gazing at your navel!!.

214. Some great clarity here on the differences between a ‘blissful’ meditation, one used for escape and the gentle breath meditation – simply used for connection. It makes sense that if we used meditation for escape we would not be better equipped to face life but in fact, would be left feeling rather more empty on our return; use it for connection however and we have to connect to our choices through what our bodies are presenting, and begin to take responsibility for this – not just supporting ourselves but offering truth to everyone we encounter, which supports them in turn.

215. Henrietta, I had also tried many meditations but it wasn’t until I tried the Gentle Breath Meditation that I felt a reconnection to me, to something solid and true in my body (which was my own being), and with this came a beautiful feeling of being settled. I also just started out incrementally, I noticed small changes and initially it felt quite a challenge to breathe gently – it sounds simple but that’s how far I was from true gentleness, especially with myself. Its supported me to make many positive changes in my life and to live more gently and come back to myself when I’ve felt unsettled or upset. After trying many meditation types for over 20 years I have finally found something that works.

216. I tried lots of different mediation techniques before I came across the Gentle Breath Meditation, but I never really knew if I was doing it ‘right’ or if I got to where I was supposed to get to! But when I discovered the gentle breath meditation, and realised that all I had to do was focus on my breath until I felt a connection with my body, I understood that the other techniques I had previously tried, actually didn’t make any sense to me. What could be more simple? To breath in a way that keeps us connected to our bodies all of the time 🙂

217. Once you have tried the Gentle Breath Meditation you would never want to do any other meditation, It is a simple modality that connects us with our body and reminds us of our essence and the naturally gentle way we know ourselves to be.

218. I had also tried various forms of meditation in my life before I encountered the Gentle Breath Meditation and I have found the Gentle Breath Meditation by far the most effective and powerful and simple and practical breathing tool that has transformed my life.

219. The Gentle Breath Meditation, is just that, nothing complicated or weird, it is a choice a connection to be with our breath and choosing to breathe gently. This simplicity alters our physiology, which is the key to us feeling more steady, connected and still. There is nothing like it and we breath all day, so we have many opportunities to reconnect and we can do it any time. Love it.

220. Although The Gentle Breath Meditation has not been something that I have overly used as a resource, on the occasions that I have sat/lay down to do it, I loved it! The way that my breath has changed just in and around life is amazing too.

221. I used to meditate for several hours a day, and would do different meditation techniques. All of the techniques were to take me away from life, as with visualisation, in my case floating on a lake on a small boat. Or meditating to pick up vibrations within the room to teach me how to be clairsentient, but the Gentle Breath Meditation has never needed me to go anywhere or to do anything (except breath gently), and yet it can change our lives in ways that were unimaginable to me previously.

222. The Gentle Breath Meditation has transformed my life. This is no understatement! It has formed the backbone and foundation of my day-to-day living. It gives me a point to come back to when I am in anxiety, stress or tension and supports me to connect to my body in a way that nothing else has done. The Gentle Breath Meditation has given me a marker of quality in my body, a way of being that continually deepens with every breath.

223. Love this article and I’m a huge fan of the Gentle Breath Meditation. I was never a meditation type of person before I must admit but this meditation has given me a solid base to come back to, a point to return to that I know and that I can have anywhere that doesn’t take hours but seconds to connect to. If the world starts to impact me I check my breath and go to the Gentle Breath Meditation for support. This gives me a different view of the world, a settled view.

224. We breathe more than anything else we do, so it makes sense that the quality we breathe in effects us. What I love about the gentle breathe is that it begins with breathing gently but then that gentleness begins to be the way we move, and the way we type and open or close a door. It’s incredible at introducing a different quality into our lives.

     1. The Gentle breath Meditation as you say is a catalyst for so much more then purely the time spent doing it, it filters into all areas and aspects of life, bringing a deeper focus to the quality and way we do things.

225. You’re so right Henrietta about other meditations. Most of those i also did were an escape. The Gentle Breath Meditation supports me to stay connected with my body and can be a touchstone to return to throughout my day.

226. The Gentle Breath Meditation was a great support when I was giving up sugar. I have been sugar free for years now!

227. Wow, working 70-80 hours a week, having a family, kids and dogs and still got time to write this blog, truly amazing and inspiring and just shows what we can do when we are living in our natural rhythm and just being who we truly are; for we are all super tender and gentle beings.

228. Escaping our bodies never works, because ultimately we cannot. Being brought back to the quality of our breathing and hence the quality we move in everyday enables us to restore a true relationship with our most precious friend.

229. The Gentle Breath Meditation is so simple yet it has been the foundation upon which I have transformed my life. It just goes to show that gentleness is not weak but in fact tremendously powerful.

230. The Gentle Breath Meditation certainly isn’t about escaping. It is the complete opposite. It invites us to be here fully and engaged in the world. Totally different to forms of meditation that take you away from yourself and into imagination or fantasy.

231. Henrietta, I have tried meditations over the years and would sit in uncomfortable positions for a long time trying to visualise something in my mind or chanting words, this only ever left me feeling achy and a bit frustrated that I couldn’t do it properly. I love the gentle breath mediation for its simplicity and the fact that it re-connects me to my natural gentleness and calmness, it is very lovely and very different to any other meditation that I have tried.

232. The Gentle Breath Meditation has shown me how to bring a gentle breath into my everyday living.

233. The awesomeness of the Gentle Breath Meditation is it’s simplicity and how it supports us to reconnect to ourselves.

234. My place was floating on a river, in my mind or the isolation tank floating in the void of darkness cut off from all senses. And, as you have said Henrietta, the world and its noise awaited my return. The gentle breath is the total opposite of the fantasy world, where we feel all of ourselves, how we live in and move in gentleness with every thing we do.

235. I love practicing the gentle breath while I work it really is astounding how it can transform a really mundane task into something that is completely enjoyable. I just can’t figure out yet why I can’t maintain it all day without my mind, with all its tricks, taking me away from it.

236. All that is presented by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine are simple tools that when applied to life bring enormous changes. As you describe here with the Gentle Breath Meditation, it is nothing difficult or complex, just a very simple tool to assist us in life to literally breathe our own breath and with that building a foundation to stay more with ourselves and not being swept away by the world’s fast pace and daily demands.

237. I love the gentle breath meditation as it shows me where I am at and supports me to make choices which support me to be gentle with my breath. Thank you Henrietta.

238. Henrietta how you described the Gentle Breath Meditation is such an invitation for me. If I would not know it by myself it would have made me curious.

239. Even though I had been practising the Gentle Breath Meditation for a number of years and it had awoken me to a whole new world of energy and awareness, I only recently truly committed to it fully as a regular part of my daily routine, with amazing results. It was as if I had been resisting its simplicity as in the past I had tried every type of mediation in the book (many of them quite complex visualisations or techniques that sometimes lasted hours) and the idea that just 3-5 min. twice a day just seemed impossible to have any effect. So when I finally completely made it a foundational part of my day in the morning and evening I have noticed just how much I can really feel my body and what’s going on with it and am able to read situations more clearly without reaction as in the past. The feeling of bringing my body back towards a more still state and getting to really see what is going on for me as a result of all my choices when I check in to my body using the Gentle Breath Meditation has been super healing and allowed me to handle things throughout the day more as an observer, rather than getting wrapped up in a lot of emotions and drama as in the past. This has also shown me how simplicity is the gateway to the soul.

     1. Sometimes when things are simple, I don’t believe they are going to work. Its too good to be true. And the idea that something must be hard and complex in order to make a significant change is ingrained in many of us. I am realising that life can be that simple and committing to the Gentle Breath Meditation for five minutes each day has really increased the awareness I have of myself and others.

     2. Thanks Michael for sharing your experiences, and what a great line “simplicity is the gateway to the soul.”

240. Me too – I used to find myself meditating more and feeling less equipped to be in the world – which actually makes sense now thinking about it because there was less of me there present in the body.

241. Thank you Henrietta for this confirmation of the Gentle Breath Meditation in your life. This simple process allows for so much richness and depth to be uncovered within ourselves, something that has not happened for me through any other meditation – I am now meeting myself and who I truly am for this first time.

242. I too had a similar experience with The Gentle Breath Meditation where it allowed me to take a stop, feel my body and reignite an old familiar feeling and knowing within. I on the hand had not meditated much prior to this as everything I tried seemed to hard, took too long or was so woo woo I couldn’t relate. The Gentle Breath became a tool where I observed the quality I had been living in – no right or wrong no perfection just a marker of how I had spent my day. I soon found that the more gentle and aware of my breath I was through out my day – choosing to breath gently – that this became more and more the norm for me and my day and my life became my meditation. And yes i fully agree that it too changed my life and how I am with myself and my body in ways I never could have expected – an truly supportive meditation that does not promise to take you anywhere or deliver you something. Just a starting point to bring you back to you.

243. I 100% agree with you Henrietta. The Gentle Breath Meditation brought purpose back to my life and gave me a marker of the stillness within. Compared to other meditations they take you to a place where you actually become more frustrated with the world. “A bit of a contrast one could say, where this style of meditation only increased my frustration with how the world actually was and highlighted how much I just wanted to escape it all.” The Gentle Breath Meditation connects you back to stillness and provides a knowing that is now liveable away from the emotions.

244. Beautiful Henrietta, the Gentle Breath Meditation is one of the simplest yet most profound tools l’ve ever come across for supporting an ever-deepening and aware relationship with ourselves and therefore with life. It allows the gesture towards ourselves to be an inward one first… which is our most common mistake when we feel out of sorts. We look outwardly at what we need to fix or change, rather than settling deeper into the body and connecting with an inner stillness and wisdom.

245. True settlement comes from breathing our own breath and not getting caught up with the false way to breathe that we have adopted for ourselves here on planet Earth. By this I mean that when we breathe in and with respect to the physical form we are enhoused within, we feel far less encumbered than when we try to escape our physicality by moving in a way that is not respective of our physical form. This happens when we get caught up in excess motion, the constant ‘doing’ void of any ‘being’, thus losing our breath, or by the escapist style meditations that take us further from the truth of who we are and not towards it. I love what you are presenting here Henrietta -who would have thought there was so much in just one breath?

     1. And, that one breath is always just a breath away!

     2. It is amazing how simple it is to connect to truth and to connect to our own breath through The Gentle Breath Medication, yet the other forms of meditation which I was not able to get into seemed so complex and false.

246. Henrietta, love the way you break down the unmistakeable merits of this simple and profound meditation – The Gentle Breath Meditation – over the past 10 years too using this meditation, i too have changed from being a inwardly highly strung, knee jigging, fidgeting person to now being steady in my wellbeing, far less anxious and clearer in myself about myself, my work and also life too. I cannot recommend highly enough this life-changing and life-saving (!) meditation as presented by Serge Benhayon.

247. The Gentle Breath Meditation supports us to connect deeply with our body by simply focusing on how we breathe and making this as gentle as possible, with no perfection or imposition on the body. Anything that asks us to stay in our mind and doesn’t focus on the body is so obviously promoting and supporting escapism and checking out. There is enough checking out activities around then to use something that is disguised as connecting. I only tried a self guided meditation once via a cassette recording to help ease my anxiety levels, it did the opposite to what I wanted and I finished feeling more anxious then ever before.

248. Intensive meditation can provide what feels like relief but I do not remember feeling energetic afterwards. Calm yes, but not energised

249. A very beautiful blog this is about the Gentle Breath Meditation and how this actually supports people to become aware & awake and on track with the truth and our body.

250. The Gentle Breath Meditation is so beautifully simple but powerful in that it only takes a few minutes on a regular basis to bring you back into balance and connected to your body, the only place to come from if you want to know all about what’s going on for you.

251. How you describe other meditations Henrietta, about it being ‘always a fantasy space’ is so true, and in fact by indulging in them we hide from life, our bodies and ourselves, and so they do not work in supporting us to live connected to our bodies in our lives. The Gentle Breath Meditation is so simple, easily accessible, you can do it anywhere, no strange postures and it’s deeply supportive in connecting to us and our bodies and feeling how they feel and how we are with them. In my experience it’s allowed me the grace of space to observe how I am and slowly change to what will deeply support me. I can also say as you do that it’s changed my life.

252. What I love about ‘The Gentle Breath Meditation’ is how it always brings you back into your body, and it is the feeling and quality of this connection with yourself that you then naturally bring with you in the activities of daily living – theres no trying because its our natural expression.

253. I also use to meditate for long periods of time, at different retreats all over the world and also on a regular basis at home. Some were for 10 days at a time. It is quite difficult when you remove yourself from life to then have to re-enter it. With the simplicity of the Gentle Breath Meditation, which can be done anywhere, we can connect to our body and being in a few minutes in a loving and gentle way.

254. ‘Many people today comment on how ‘calm’ I am and ask me how I ‘do’ this – they find it hard to believe that something so simple as Gentle Breath Meditation™ can transform your life’ – but it does. For me, this simple practice of coming back to my body has helped me develop a strong foundation of trust in myself and all that I know – deeply supporting me to stay steady when I am dealing with challenging situations.

255. I hadn’t really practiced any other form of meditation before trying the Gentle Breath Meditation, and I remember very clearly how beautiful it was to feel this warm, joyful feeling deep inside, and someone explained that what I was feeling was ME. It was an absolute revelation. I’d had no idea that I was so gorgeous and tender.

256. I used to love escaping into a ‘fantasy’ world, it was always ‘better’ than real life. This is a lie, and those who peddle ‘bliss’ are also selling a lie. Real life is not pleasant, but the more we bury our heads in the sand, the worse it will get as we resist living our truth. There is deep joy available to us all, no need to fantasise, just make a few different choices, and using the Gentle Breath Meditation is a great start.

257. Wow, what a testimonial Henrietta! Amazing the difference a few minutes at either end of the day has made! This makes so much sense, that the meditation supports you in your day, doesn’t give you an out for the time you’re so called ‘doing it’. When connecting to yourself, it’s more a re-connection rather than a moment that starts and stops. So very cool!

258. Brilliant Henrietta, it is very revealing how challenging it can feel to just be and gently breathe. It shows up how there is a reckless part of us that wants to distract, fidget and keep on moving in life. For like a criminal permanently on the ‘run’ from the police, it seems to think if it keeps moving it won’t have to face facts. But it could not be more wrong. One day, sooner or later we all will be faced by the consequences of our actions in our body – the longer we leave it, the worse that it gets.

259. Reading through the comments, looks like you are not alone on how the Gentle Breath Meditation has supported you in your daily life.

     This line particularly stood out for me today – “I was actually able to bring the effects of the meditation into my day-to-day life”, and I would completely agree. I struggled with the meditation as often I felt asleep, but it taught me very much about how to breathe gently and that I can do that at anytime, to connect back to me and breathe my own breath in situations and not let the stress of a situation alter my breath.

260. Thank you Henrietta, a beautiful piece on the Gentle Breath Meditation which is a support like nothing else available in this world because it is so empowering. You breathe and move gently, the focus being on your choice in how you breathe and move with constant observation and no judgement, nothing to attain or achieve, it simply is a support as we walk through life.

261. The gentle breath medication is an amazingly simple life changing technique that makes all the difference to our lives. It allows a real connection with our bodies what we are feeling and the truth that cannot be denied of what is going on for us inside our bodies.. It bring us to our stillness our steadiness and a deep settlement inside the more we bring it into our everyday lives. The gentle breath meditation is beautiful and transformational and allows us to build a greater connection and responsibility for ourselves and life and is an amazing gift for us all.

262. I have experienced meditating to escape before I too found Serge Benhayon and was introduced to the Gentle Breath Meditation. Nothing before has brought the settlement in my body that I feel from practicing the Gentle Breath Meditation. As Henrietta shares, I may not always like what I feel, but being in and with my body brings the awareness needed on how to adjust how I live to release the tensions I feel.

263. Re-connecting to my body as offered through the Gentle Breath Meditation is an absolute life changing choice. Yes it’s taken me a little time to get used to feeling what’s in my body, sometimes I would squirm but along with the squirm is the warmth, loveliness, gentleness and even more, all waiting to be felt when we give our selves permission to stop, connect and feel. And the more I appreciate and re-connect to these gorgeous qualities with-in the more the squirm starts to fade until it becomes a distant memory.

     1. I found that it fairly quickly felt better to be connected to my heart than not and the Gentle Breath Meditation assisted this until the connection happened more automatically.

264. The foundation which the Gentle Breath Meditation provides is truly life changing and although I had tried other types of meditation before I thought I must have been doing them incorrectly as I could never really see any benefit until I came to Universal Medicine and started the Gentle Breath Meditation.

265. The Gentle Breath Meditation has turned the whole world upside down because it has made Meditation about the body and feeling from the body so that the slightest of movements or feelings becomes a simple focus. Then the mind can stays with the body, and not be distracted by things outside the body all this is done to the best of our ability with no perfection.

266. The Gentle Breath Meditation makes so much sense to me. It is a wonderful way of allowing myself the space to be, to be present and feel my body and reconnect. I learn that I can, no matter how anxious or what is going on, return myself to me. And discover I’m lovely just being.

267. Thank you Henrietta for writing this. I also used to meditate for long periods of times in all sorts of ways that when I look back now were utterly ridiculous, and with no respect for my body. I would do dynamic meditation where I would literally shake for hours and then reach a state of blurred out bliss – my body a complete mess in the process. It was the pinnacle of escape from the reality of life.
     When I discovered the Gentle Breath Meditation I could not deny its power even though it made me feel uncomfortable in the honest realisation of where my body was truly at. It showed me how much I had been wanting to run away and annihilate my body in the process. But in reconnecting to the warmth of my own breath I could gently begin the journey home – back to my true self and committing to being in life once again.

268. I am in complete agreement with you Henrietta. The Gentle Breath Meditation opens the door onto our inner world of graceful tenderness and the more familiar we become with it, the greater our connection grows with this innate quality throughout our day and life. I was heading down the road of major illness before meeting Serge Benhayon. Sitting for a few minutes each day and regaining the quality of breath has over 10 years completely transformed me and everyday I wonder on the miracle of this. The Gentle Breath Meditation is an absolute game changer.

269. Bringing the meditation into our every day living is incredibly practical and stops it being a moment of isolation. What you share here is gold. I can totally see that focusing on something to achieve your stillness and then having to leave it behind would actually increase the irritation of having to live in our practical world, not decrease it. Much to ponder on here.

270. The Gentle Breath Meditation brought me back to me, to my body. All other meditations I did in the past brought me further away from myself. To connect to my breath was not easy in the beginning and I struggled with focussing on my body and the simplicity that was on offer but eventually I felt how I could observe life while connecting to the gentleness of my breath in the body instead of what I had always done absorb everyone’s emotions and this made and still makes a huge difference in the way I live my life.

271. The Gentle Breath Meditation is unlike any other meditation and one of its greatest qualities is that it connects one with one’s body and the reality of life rather than attempting to escape it or transcend it.

272. “A bit of a contrast one could say, where this style of meditation only increased my frustration with how the world actually was and highlighted how much I just wanted to escape it all.” This was my experience too, with the result that I felt greater dissatisfaction with my life and that I had to go back to the meditation like an addict to get relief.

273. I had never tried meditation before, because I thought I would never be able to still my mind. I had no idea how to do that. With the Gentle Breath Mediation, the focus is on the body and the rhythm of the breath in the body and the feeling of the ribs as we inhale and exhale. It is very simple but connects us to ourselves and gentleness like nothing else, it is very beautiful to return to.

274. The Gentle Breath Meditation supports us to connect to ourselves rather than escape into a make-belief fantasy world which does zilch when it comes to facing reality and living life.

275. The Gentle Breath Meditation was my first step of consciously bringing a quality to my life that is supportive of getting to know who I am. It was the first marker giving me direction to further explore, unfold and establish a sense of being me that I can fully trust; it is a knowing the moment the quality is felt.

276. Meditate for 2-3 hours and feel frustrated feeling nothings changed or meditate for 5-10 mins and really truly get to feel and connect with you in a way like never done before and is so practical we can bring this with us in our day … I know what one I would choose! The Gentle Breath Meditation all the way and a tool that every single person can use .. no images, no fantasy just you feeling the gorgeousness of you.

277. I will never forget the time I did the gentle breath, it was like nothing I had done before. It allowed me to connect to what was within, a beautiful quality.

278. Thank you Henrietta, I remember meditating as you previously did and it is true in what you say around feeling it was more difficult to be in the world after being in this “blissful” state. This is a little crazy as I would meditate to escape and thought it was supporting me but instead this way of meditating just took me further away from and out of myself. Once I started practising the gentle breath it became a part of my life and not something I had to take myself away from life to achieve. It was the start of returning to me and being in life.

279. I love the Gentle Breath Meditation – a challenge at times, to face the feeling of agitation, frustration or anxiety in the body when you check in, all the momentum of how you have lived leading up to the point where you make space to stop and meditate being right there in your body to feel. But this is also what i love, because I got to feel that no matter what, underneath all the feelings I took on from life there was an essence, an inner place of stillness and warmth I could connect back to and choose time and time and again until slowly it started to feel it for longer periods of time after I finished meditating, and then I started to feel it other moments and slowly some of these moments started to connect up to form a new kind of lived quality.

280. “But whenever I came back to the ‘real world,’ in other words when I finished my meditation, I really struggled with how to live in the world and bring this so called ‘peace’ back with me. In fact, I would often feel more agitated and irritated at having to be a part of life after having experienced such a ‘blissful’ state in a fantasy world. A bit of a contrast one could say, where this style of meditation only increased my frustration with how the world actually was and highlighted how much I just wanted to escape it all.” Wow, doesn’t this just say it all! Visualisations of a fantasy world or trying to clear our minds is simply a way to avoid feeling the truth of where and how we are living – ultimately creating more tension and frustration with life. Beyond ironic! The Gentle Breath Meditation brings us back to our body, uncomfortable as that may be and gives us a tool (gentleness) to be able to bring the quality of meditation into our movements. No blissing out in sight, just real life lived in a responsive way, instead of the usual reactive way so many of us choose to live.

281. It is deeply empowering when we make sure we breath in the quality of our own essence. Yet often in life, even without realising it, we let ideals, beliefs, emotions, issues and pressures of life determine the quality of our breath. I find the Gentle Breath Meditation and the care with which Serge Benhayon provides an explanation (http://www.unimedliving.com/meditation/free) is hugely supportive in deepening my understanding, awareness and ability to consciously choose in this area.

282. It is like the Gentle Breath Meditation supports you to come back to your body and feel yourself again in a little space or moment outside aside the busyness and intensity of the world so that when you open your eyes again you are more able to deal with it because of the reconnection with your body and yourself. It is when we are disconnected from our body life gets harder and more intense, it is when we are connected with our body that life gets more simple and we can observe the intensity instead of being in it. Therefor ‘escape into our mind’ meditations don’t really work.

283. In as little as 2 minutes I can feel completely settled in my body and feeling much more myself when applying the gentle breath mediation. It’s so simple and effective. I supported a friend the other day who had not come across it before and she was amazed by the result, exclaiming that no one had shown her how to breath ‘properly’ as it was an expectation that we all know it. She suffers with anxiety and felt the benefit immediately.

     1. This is spot on Rachel, the benefits can be felt ‘immediately,’ and the process once learnt is so simple.

284. The Gentle Breath Meditation is the first and only ‘tool’ that made me feel that I’ve got a heart and that there’s an interconnectedness between my body, breath and head. For years I have practiced the Gentle Breath Meditation for 5-10 minutes. As soon as I open my eyes- Pure Magic, yet also very, very natural.

285. I agree completely, Henrietta. The Gentle Meditation is the simplest of tools that has transformed my life by bringing me back into connection with myself, my body and what I feel to be true in each moment.

     1. Yes and what is so lovely about it is we can connect to it at any point during the day, it’s not something that needs us to be sitting for hours.

286. Thanks for sharing this, Henrietta. I too used to meditate a lot to escape what I considered to be the harshness of life, so in many ways it retarded me from connecting to the truth of what I feel and know. The Gentle Breath Meditation has empowered me to embrace life in full.

287. The Gentle Breath Meditation has been a life-saver over the years. I have found It is a very simple and unimposing way of meditating, yet is so incredibly powerful as it brings me back to me, which is the total opposite to most meditations that ask us to travel somewhere, visualise something and take us out of our body and into the mind offering an enlightening experience.

288. I found the gentle breathing just great , I got a sense of command over my body . That the body was , is in sync with me .

289. I also dabbled in one type of meditation Henrietta, and looking back I was using this time 30 minutes every Monday evening to escape from the world which at the time was something I wanted to do. I just wanted to get a respite from the world,but the world and all my troubles were still there after a 30 minute check out nothing changed.
     But as you rightly say with the Universal Medicine Gentle Breath Meditation you are asked to come into your body and not check out – Completely different and much more settling for our bodies.

290. It must have been so frustrating and disheartening to do 2-3 hours of meditation in a day and then lose that sense of peace and back to being loaded with frustration. What I love about the Gentle Breath Meditation is that it asks us to be honest and accepting of what we are feeling, and that whatever it is we are feeling is okay to feel. This is priceless support in a world where feeling something is taboo.

291. The gentle breath meditation is so so simple – literally bringing awareness to your breath and watching it go on and out- but, practised frequently enough, becomes transformative. Every time I do it I feel a letting go, a surrender and just a gentle solidness within myself: a deep knowing that everything is going to be okay.

292. “A bit of a contrast one could say, where this style of meditation only increased my frustration with how the world actually was and highlighted how much I just wanted to escape it all.”
     Such a great point Henrietta, by actively encouraging this type of escapism from the intensity of our daily lives we are promoting this idea that life can be compartmentalised; alternatively The Gentle Breath meditation allows one to connect to a stillness and space within that can then be draw from & walked into our daily lives – and building awareness that honours the body from cells to systems.

     1. Yes this sentence struck me as so true as well lucindag, as I could see how much I had rejected meditation because I always had to come back and reality sucked! Truth be told, how often do we get so attached to that check out that we try to find ways to extend it by other means – holidays, retreats, food, exercise, drugs. If we are honest about the fact we find it difficult to grow up in the world and live in the world when there is so much that is not harmonious, then I feel we would run from it less because we would realise that by our running away we are not changing anything but leaving everyone else vulnerable too.

293. What I have observed since doing the Gentle Breath Meditation is how much I have wanted to feel how my body is truly feeling. And hence how much we can labour in our minds, numbing our awareness of what is really happening to us.

294. The simplicity of the gentle breath mediation is exquisite in how it asks you to do nothing but be in your body and feel what is there. The honesty that comes is amazing and beautiful to watch what is there transform as you commit to offering yourself this time to be with you. It is indeed a foundational stepping stone out of the often struggle of life to a place of settlement supported by the gentleness of breath.

295. There is something so amazing about connecting with something so simple, and when the stillness within ourselves is connected to the world indeed comes alive, there is energy in trees, in rooms, in nature etc, but why has this been deemed boring compared to our technological advances?

296. What I found makes the gentle breath meditation so powerful is one’s intent and approach to it. The more we are willing to see, feel and honestly register within ourselves, the more we feel to re-connect, to deepen and care, the stronger the gentle breath meditation becomes. As this builds this quality/intention/will strengthens and establishes itself through everything we do between meditating.Then living life becomes mediation.

297. The Gentle Breath Meditation transformed my life. It supported me to stop absorbing everything that was going on around me and allowed me to simply connect with myself and get to know myself in truth.

     1. Yes, it’s supported me with this too as I have been able to feel the world going on around me and rather than get drawn, I have been able to observe.

298. What I love about The Gentle Breath Meditation is how practical and simple it was to integrate into my already busy life. I still use it today and, the moment I start to focus on my breath, my body remembers the harmony its felt previously. Its great that it only takes 5 minutes, but the stop it creates is lasting and ripples out into my days.

299. I gave up doing the Gentle Breath Meditation because I simply fell asleep every time. What it was showing me was just how exhausted I was. I still don’t do it but I am conscious of breathing gently and that has made a huge difference to my life as well as touching things gently like door handles.

300. Indeed connection with our gentle breath does not take us anywhere but offers a re-connection with our inner essence and to feel how we have been living.

301. I used to attend 10 day silent meditation retreats where I would sit and meditate all day and only break for meals and to sleep, I would also meditate each day for an hour or two. I used to think this was beneficial even though it did not practically change the quality of my life. When I started practicing the gentle breath meditation which was max 3-5 min in morning and evening … first bonus was the time I saved sitting around meditating, and the next bonus was that it actually supported me to change the quality of my movements and my whole life started to change, unlike all the other meditations I had practiced over the years.

     1. That is exactly what I have realised marylouisemyers, that it is not only about re-connecting, but also about the movements that come from that meditation. The quality of movements change, which means so many outcomes also change as the situations I have put myself in have shifted as well.

     2. I look back at all the hours I used to waste sleeping in till late after a big night out in my twenties or because I had nothing to do, just laid around watching TV… the thing is though that many of us don’t see standing on our head for an hour or meditating for days as a waste of time, we see it as beneficial, however, I now feel it is exactly the same, a way of not deal with life and what needs doing.

     3. From 2-3 hours a day to 3-5 minutes. Amazing isn’t it. It seems like it’s a massive shortcut but it’s just a simple and effective technique. Doing it for much longer and you may feel like it’s approaching the stage of checking out.

        1. To take our 3-5 minutes of our day, every day, to connect to our breath is nothing when we consider most of us spend about 2 days a week distracted on a device of some sort or another.

     4. I attempted a 10 day silent meditation but I can’t say I was wholly committed, I got fidgety and bored. It was the most uncomfortable thing but I had managed to convince myself that it was beneficial until I drove home and I had more pain and tension in my upper back than when I had arrived.

302. The Gentle Breath Meditation promises you nothing, no utopia, no bliss, instead i have found it has left me feeling settles and ready to face anything that comes my way. It is genius in its simplicity and accessible to everyone.

     1. It’s the only meditation technique I’ve come across that doesn’t promise to make you feel anything or take you somewhere (usually further away from your body) and therein lies the simplicity and its benefit: that focusing on one’s breathing gives us the space to feel more deeply.

        1. I agree Bryony, we give ourselves space to feel – even if what we are feeling may not be pleasant at times. And we do not escape from it but feel more capable of dealing with it.

     2. I agree Stephen and it is the settlement The Gentle Breath Meditation leaves you with that is so profound. It confirms you for being you no more no less.

     3. Awesome points here Stephen – I love how you have described it as not promising you anything, no utopia and no bliss – hence the challenge for some to switch to this as a meditation over the other types that offer the so called fireworks in the mind, but that do not connect you to your body and addressing what is truly going on.

        1. Often that which promises the least offers the most, and importantly it is what we do with our resources that matter. We can be given gold but it is only gold if we treat it as thus.

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