Meditation: Square Breathing

Learn the technique of Square Breathing to balance the nervous system. When we are stuck in an anxiety state of chronic sympathetic overdrive, breathing meditation can activate the parasympathetic relaxation and down-regulate the nervous system. The breath is always in the present moment. As we slow down to meet the breath, the nervous system will find balance.

Square Breathing

  1. Imagine a Square
  2. Inhale (as you travel up the left side in your mind’s eye)
  3. Hold (as you move across the top from left to right)
  4. Exhale (as you travel down the right side in your mind’s eye)
  5. Hold (as you move across the bottom from right to left)
  6. Repeat

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