How to Slow Down Your Breath - Trapezoid Breath

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Meditate with Nate Episode 4 – Trapezoid Breath

"Meditation is simply training our state of being so that our mind and body can be synchronized. Through the practice of meditation, we can learn to be without deception, to be fully genuine and alive."
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche

In the trapezoid breath you will breath with the pattern: 6 - 4 - 8 - 2
6: Inhale
4: Retain inhale
8: Exhale
2: Retain exhale

If you count each number as one second, it will take you 20 seconds to make each breath.
This is 3 breaths per minute, much slower than the average or 15 breaths per minute.

If you feel dizzy, lightheaded or in any way uncomfortable, simply return to a normal breathing pattern until you feel better.

It may take a while for your nervous system and body to adapt to this slow type of breathing.
Don't force it!

The Benefits of Controlled Breathing
By LESLEY ALDERMAN NOV. 9, 2016 New York Times

"Controlled breathing may also affect the immune system. Researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina divided a group of 20 healthy adults into two groups. One group was instructed to do two sets of 10-minute breathing exercises, while the other group was told to read a text of their choice for 20 minutes. The subjects’ saliva was tested at various intervals during the exercise. The researchers found that the breathing exercise group’s saliva had significantly lower levels of three cytokines that are associated with inflammation and stress. The findings were published in the journal BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine in August."

I hope that you enjoy this Trapezoid Breath Meditation, let me know how it goes for you!

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