Calm Heart Meditation

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Instructions

  • Find a comfortable seated position

  • Find a soft gaze with your eyes or allow them to close

  • Place right hand on your heart and let the left hand rest on your left knee

  • Begin by inhaling for a count of 4

  • Hold the breath in for a count of 4

  • Exhale for a count of 4

  • Hold the breath out for a count of 4

  • Continue for 7 rounds 

  • Return to your natural breath

  • Integrating breaths

Modifications

  • Decrease or increase the count to what is comfortable for you.

Contraindications

  • N/A

Type of pose

  • Pranayama

Parts of Body Benefited

  • Mind

  • Lungs

  • Nervous system

Other strategies for emotional support:

Anger

Anxiety

Depression

Fear

Grief

Sadness

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