Exercises From the Book, The Divine Within
Being with and balancing the breath
This practice is designed to help you learn to balance the breath. This can be a powerful tool to help you learn to recognize when you are triggered and how to calm yourself through the breath. I invite you to experiment with doing this several times throughout the day.
Being with the breath with movement
This next exercise is a gentle seated yoga practice that is designed to help you balance the breath with movement.
Reparenting your infant self
This mindfulness practice is designed to help you reparent your infant self and regulate yourself when you are triggered. In this practice we will focus on imagining we are engaging with our infant self.
Sensing the divine through the breath
This next mindfulness practice uses active imagination to help you connect with the divine through the breath. Many spiritual traditions suggest that the breath is the key to connecting to the divine. What do you notice when your experiment with the concepts in this meditation?