This short meditation can be very powerful when done with attention and care.

• Find a comfortable position, either sitting or lying down.
• Take a deep breath in. Draw the breath right down into your stomach, so that your stomach rises on the in breath. This fills your lungs more completely than shallow chest breathing.
• Focus on the breath and let it out smoothly and naturally.
• Feel any tension in your body drain out with the out breath.
• Take another breath in when your natural inclination is to breathe in. Do not force it.
• On the inbreath, feel the air fill your lungs and imagine the fresh oxygen travelling from your lungs throughout your body. Do this for several breaths.
• Before you go back to your usual activities, notice how this attention has changed your energy.

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