breath meditation
Inhale-focused mindfulness
Breath meditation is a practice of focused attention on breathing—observing the inhale and exhale without trying to control them.
It's among the most basic and widely taught meditation techniques, used to calm the mind and cultivate present-moment awareness: Start with ten minutes of breath meditation each morning.
- inhaleDraw air in
- exhaleExpel breath outward
- mindfulnessAwareness of the present
- calmFree from agitation
- awarenessState of perceiving reality
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