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Manipulating the breath in time. From a comfortable seat, or resting on your back in Corpse Pose, bring your inhalation and exhalation to equal duration. You can measure this by counting along with beats in the music. Let your inhalation last for a count of six or eight with your exhalation lasting that same number. Choose an intentionally longer breath. Give it a tempo effort, so it’s comfortably challenging.
Now, let’s begin inserting a pause at the top of inhalation and the bottom of exhalation. Think of it not as holding your breath, but as lingering in that liminal space where you are changing from an in breath to an out breath. If your inhalation were lasting for a count of six, the lingering at the top would last for one or two beats. The exhalation again a count of six, and now pause at the bottom again, one beat or two beats.
Return out to a normal breath eliminating the pause at the top and the bottom. Now, let’s work to extend the exhalation. This takes a few rounds before you get the pacing right. If your inhalation is lasting for a count of six, draw the exhalation longer to a count of eight. If your inhalation is at a count of eight, draw the exhalation to a count of ten. Now, let go that extended exhalation and return to a normal breath pattern.
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