Can't get to sleep? Rhythmic circular breathing is useful for those of you who find it difficult to switch your mind off the problems of the day.
Try this exercise...
Your mind becomes anchored to the rhythm of your breath instead of to the problems of the day and the natural sleep cycle is encouraged to take over.
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Now that you understand the principle, Try It! ...
Breath in from the diaphragm slowly through the chest to the mouth, counting to four and blow it out back to the diaphragm in another count of four...
Pick your most comfortable, fairly slow, rhythm...
The most important part of this is the full involvement of the mind in the in the circular breathing process.
Keep a mental picture of the circle in your mind and follow it around at all times, making sure that your mind concentrates on and thinks only of this circular breathing rhythm...
Then, because there is nothing more interesting going on, I promise you, you will fall asleep.
I use this method to get to sleep and usually it only takes aboutten circles before I drift off...
You will find that your eyes will automatically follow the circle from the mouth out and back to the diaphragm. And this is the whole point, to keep your mind involved!
If you wake during the night, use this method to get back to sleep.
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