Breath as anchor for the noisy mind

᪥ The mind constantly speaks up and running through fast thoughts. This is a truth.

The exercise of de-cluttering the mind can be done via different practices and methodologies but as a “yogi” the one I prefer the most is through breathwork.

᪥ The main sounds we hear coming from the body are our wheezing breaths and the heartbeat. We can notice them more during a physical activity as we are increasing their speed rate, but we can connect with them at anytime.

When I invite my students to connect with the air element, talking about breath, my intention is to let this vital sound be a guidance that would lead them to a peaceful state of mind. And this is just the beginning.

᪥ Bringing awareness to the breath means recognizing how important is this simple activity that continuously exists in us and how connected it is with our emotions and so the mind.

᪥ The breath when practiced at a certain rhythm during scheduled sessions in a week, expands literally our body, rejuvenates our joints and tissues, releases out the excess of carbon dioxide from the lungs and lately subtly expands our level of consciousness.

᪥ How the breath can become an anchor for our mind?

Analyzing one the basic yogic breath technique called Ujiayi (the victory breath), where the breath is kept “audible” by contracting the glottis of the throat during every exhalation, its soothing sound might become an anchor which our attention can be directed to. This idea of using specific points to direct our eyes (or the eyes of the mind during visualized meditation) is intriguing to me when is switched from the sense of sight to the sense of hearing. As sound healing facilitator, the theme of sound has a closer space to my heart, and is so fascinating the idea of using the whistle of our breath to direct the mind towards just a single thought: the breath itself!

᪥ So, in conclusion, the exercise of clearing the mind might look not easy but I warmly invite you to listen to your deepest breath, find your own rhythm and transform the fluctuations of your mind to a inner soothing dance. And then the movement will come out.. but this is another chapter!

Picture taken on the shore of the holy lake in Pushkar!

Always with love

Tania