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Exhale: Spoken Word Breathing Meditations Relax and Focus on Your Breath
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Part 1: https://ffm.to/exhalespoken.owe
Part 2: https://ffm.to/exhalemeditation
Welcome to your new breathing practice. With these recordings, and others that have already been released, you’ll be able to create your own breathing adventure by combining tracks in a unique playlist customized especially for you. Create a playlist that helps you relax, get focused, or energize yourself based on the needs of your body at that time. All you have to do is plug in, play, focus, and breathe.
The breath is a form of active meditation, if you’ve had problems staying focused while trying to meditate in the past, the breath is the tool to help focus your mind internally and create space for relaxation.
Each breath is labeled by a number denoting the length of the inhale and the exhale in seconds. If there are only two numbers, the first number is how long to inhale for and the second number is how many seconds to exhale for. If there are four numbers, such as for the box breath, the first number represents the inhale, the second is a hold with full lungs, the third is the exhale, and the fourth number is a hold with empty lungs before repeating the breath cycle.
A breath cycle is the duration for an inhale and exhale to be completed along with any holds. Practice on lengthening your breath cycles and…