Relax, Let Go

The Buddha taught in the Anapana-sati, the mindfulness of breathing. It's just to use breathing in a way that relaxes the body. So most of the time that means full inhalations and very long exhales where the exhale is much longer than the inhalation. One way to do this is to keep slowly releasing air even long after it feels like you've run out of air to release. Very often we'll find actually that there's more we can release with each exhalation slowly relieving any tightness in the muscles of the face. And so we'll just for a little while just practice returning to the breath each time the mind slips away adding no