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Breathing Hands

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Lisa Pollard
Yoga & Meditation Teacher
This short guided mindfulness practice invites the union of breath and body. Inhalation hands open and exhalation the palms gently touch each other. Connecting the breath and the movement is a way of bringing the mind into the palms of both hands. This practice can be a support for you if you have difficulty being present and your mind is often racing. A moment to pause and be with the breath and touch, breath by breath, moment by moment. The touch of the hands is an anchor for the mind and this can also regulate breathing. Thank you for your practice and I hope this short practice can have a soothing effect on the body, mind & heart.
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72 reflections
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Tiffany
Synchronistic
movement & dance & flow is art. Symbiotic relationships make synchronization look easy to the public eye. Initially my arms were moving faster than my breath. It wasn't until I heard the gentle voice encourage perfect timing that I could slow my arms down to the timing of my breath. I did in the end. Say I can, I will, and I do.
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Robertas
Return to center
This practice helps me to find inner center when I focus on my breathing and scan my body.
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Aracelis
Breathing Hands
This practice was excellent in helping me connect to myself by involving my hands and my breathing
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mimi
Breathing hands
Wonderful connection breathing/palm touching soothing meditation
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Everett
Far
Git far and further out than expected but I'm also not lying in my robe on my podcast
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Lisa
Self connecting
This physical act of connecting hands actually helped me a little more than just breathing itself, though I’m still pretty new at that.
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Rabia
I learned that..
Your mind is a very powerful thing. You basically become what you think.
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Amanda
Taking a few minutes to return to Centre helps calm my mind
Breathing and being in touch with my breath is so calming .
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Lisa
Today
I learned that taking a few minutes to return to Center calms my mind
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Kellee
Wonderful Wednesday 11-22-17
Internalizing your breathing and using your hands is futile. I learned how important it was and it put my mind in control. Thank you, Aura. Happy Day, Everyone!
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kate
day 1
I learned that by slowing things down a bit I can calm myself down. I need to focus on letting things go faster. I need to focus on my breathing.
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Sara
Breathing
Breathing relaxes me Noticed time flies when i relax and concentrate on my breathing
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Cayla
Breathing Hands
I learned that... my hands help me focus and center myself.
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Barbara
Moving with the breath
This meditation is simple and in action. After that, let’s do yoga!!! 😃
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Mia
Meditation in motion
Following the breath with my hands follows the same principle under mindful dance I long to practice everyday: my thought becomes my body, my body becomes my thought.
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Zahra
Back after a few days
This session felt really great. I’ve been a little disappointed in myself for skipping a few days this week but I realized that I shouldn’t be beating myself up. I should instead focus on celebrating the moments that I do take time to do this.
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Ana
Breathing hands
This calmed my mind. I was very anxious about hosting an upcoming party and I’ve just accepted what will be, will be. I don’t need to stress over being impressionable, I just need to enjoy myself while being a hostess.
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Sarah
12/24/17 Breathing Hands
Good morning let’s spread positivity today! Advance merry christmas 🎄💖
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Alicia
Breathing hands practice is soithing
I relearned the power of touch with this practice. How soothing it can be to connect the mind, body, and spirit with these motions of breath and hand movement!
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Paula
Breathing Hands
This was very relaxing and allowed me to connect with my hands while meditating. These exercises help me a great deal. I hate to miss a day!
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Etinosa
Session 2
It help calm the body and after it made me think of the importance of things I didn’t realise .
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Angie
Breath and hands
I like the breathing and movement for calming anxiety. The quality of the recording was poor again though. Sounded like voice was in a tin can
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Christina
Anxiety Away
This one was great. It allows you to concentrate on you breath and your hands - releasing anxiety without allowing your mind to wander. I didn't have to remind myself to focus. Happy New Year!!!
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Josh
Breathing Hands
Connecting the breath with an action is powerful. I have always found that my prayer and meditation is deepened by movement. Enjoyed this guidance and will use again.
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Justine
Bellows of life
Breathing hand movements in the inky depth of night. Wind pushes at our windows, rain hammers the roof. Snuggled up in bed we listen to the sounds, our hands move with our breaths, late night meditation soothes our racing minds as we drift off. Joyous greetings we delve deep into blissful sleep, our little deaths, we evolve into our subconscious selves and live impossible dreams. Escaping to imaginary landscapes, chaotic realms and sometimes revisit loved ones long gone. Breath and dream.
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Asja
What you give out you will (eventually) receive
No matter how much we want things to be the way we imagine them, life often gives us completely the opposite. Why? It is a good question. I radiate love, peace, compassion, but often attract people who are damaged and can’t give me the same...I believe it is not ours to think about what is that we are getting but to be best version of ourselves, and most importantly PROTECT our good energy from negative people. Eventually you will get there where you imagine to be. Improve yourself everyday. Love yourself and show a little bit of that love to everyone around. But don’t waste it on those who take advantage of your good nature. Saying NO is sometimes the best thing. You are also a human who deserves care and love no matter how independent you are.
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Melanie
Being in the moment
Physical touch grounds you and returns you to the moment. It helped me to stay focused more than usual.
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Alex
Breathing
I definitely felt it was easier to breathe deeply with my hands moving as the opening of my hands enabled me to visualise my belly expanding with air on the inhale.
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StarSeven
The concentration on breath and hands is s powerful relaxation tool. I plan on using this
This is very helpful to use through the day! I realize that taking out a few minutes to meditate during the day is essential for mental health and spiritual growth.
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Lisa
great practice
eases my mind. i love meditations that teach me to take the mind into "elsewhere", this helps me to release any thoughts i have in the moment.
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Roger
Day 2
I need headphones for the volume and I need to add breathing moments throughout my day. Maybe adding more reminders?
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Valerie
Time flies
Time goes by fast when you successfully connect the mind and the body in the motions and state you wanted them to be, but also that when this happens what you want is no longer up to you.
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Lauren
Breathing
Breathing is very powerful, it's something we take for granted and don't even think about but our breathing can really affect our mood, our day and how we feel.
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Kassidy
Totally at peace
It all comes within there is SOUND waves EVERYWHERE when u are having a bad day this meditation is great way to re amp your mood FEELING AMAZINGGGG🤗⭐️
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Kristin
connecting movement to breath
connecting my breathing to my movement will really help me recenter and calm my mind.
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Chris
Connecting
Liked connecting physical touch and movement to breathing. But that was about it for this one.
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Hannah
Calm your pits
It felt silly at first, but using your hands to demonstrate breathing really helped calm me down and recenter myself!
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Jaden
Reflection of Breathing Hands
I learned that breathing with your body helps ease your mind and calms you down.
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Ram
Breathing hands
Absolutely a must-practically bringing the breath(mind) rhythm to to rhythm for the body. Probably the most effective means short of a session of yoga. Thanks!
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Melissa
Beautiful hands
I loved how grounded I felt doing this meditation. There was an instant opening and connecting with this meditation. Definitely going to be doing this one more often.
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Lacy
Breathing touch
I focus on breathing so often that it was really nice to add a touch piece to ground me back before every breath.
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Jorge
El centro
Retornar al centro de las sensaciones, de los pensamientos y de las emociones es volver a reconocer que todo es energía y que dicha energia hace que todas las cosas conecten y fluyan como debe de ser. Embonando en lo correcto y alejando aquello que no sirve. Siempre, hay que volver al centro de las emociones, ya que también es el centro de lo que alguna vez soñamos.
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Patty
Energy
It wasn’t so much the breathing that I was focused on, but the “energy” that I felt as my hands separated and then when I brought them back together. It’s quite a pleasant feeling knowing that there is nothing there but still feeling something. 🙏❤️
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Tara
When my mind is racing
When my mind is racing and it’s hard to come down I learned that I can use this short little meditation that engages my hands to help calm my mind.
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Emma
Gravity
I overthink a lot and gravity is a nice way to center yourself
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Charlie
Air accordion for focus
Pulling in fresh, healing air from the infinite universe. Using the movement of my hands to focus on my breath is another simple yet powerful tool I can use when my mind is really racing for the gold medal 🥇. I had such a relaxed but hyper concentration on my breathing. Once I got my mind to stop picturing an air accordion contest 👨‍🎤, my inner stillness came on quickly. Im centered and ready for the glorious gift of the unknown experiences that await! Have a super open minded day y’all!
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Markus
Not for me
I didnt really care for this one very much, actually none at all
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Vernon
Breathing Hands
I enjoyed syncing my breathing with the movement of my hands. I look forward to exploring this method further.
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Mando
Breathing control
Sometimes you need to slow down and don’t look past the simple things that you have. When you take time to reflect on how you feel, it’s easier for you to try and understand the problems that you may have that seem troubling at times.
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Kerstan
13
I'm surprised by how calming that motion truly is and I definitely feel that focusing on two things, hands and breathing, was a great way to truly clear my mind.
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Sierra
Docking the space shuttle
Palms moving towards one another, the breath guiding movement with precision of the ISS joining up. The care and focus of which does wonders to still the mind.
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C.J.
Breathing Hands
This was powerful. I had some minor distractions but I was able to get centered.
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Janna
Breathing hands
Adding hands into the breathing meditation really helped me to focus. I found that my mind did not wonder if I was focusing on the movement and breathing together.
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Alicia
Energia sutil
Abrir e fechar minhas mãos durante a respiração me fez sentir no momento da inspiração a absorção da energia através do ar, e através das mãos, instrumentos tão preciosos de emanação de energia. Visualizei algo luminoso entrando através das palmas e as senti aquecidas depois. Muito interessante. Merece ser feita por mais tempo
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Isabela
Tea not coffee
I learned that rushing around and drinking coffee and then coming into meditation doesn’t feel as compatible for meditation as meditation in the beginning of the day with tea afterward. As for this meditation, “Breathing Hands”, I enjoyed the practice. Moral of the story... hyper mediation is more difficult to relax the mind.
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Jessica
i feel like i can now go to sleep without thoughts and really get a great sleep.
this app is great and i can feel myself getting less and less tense as i use it
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Abbie
Breathinh
Now that I have done this I can fall asleep peacefully it feels great to be able to fall asleep just from breathing
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Kaitlin
Motion and breath
This was enjoyable for me. It’s a simple exercise I can really see myself doing on my own to stay focused.
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Yuval
Connection
Everything can be connected together if there’s a will of even the simplest breathing creature, which makes life so beautiful.
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Aria🧚🏽‍♀️
Bringing me back and connecting me
This really helped me connect myself to life around me, and my breath. I have a bit of stress and drama going on in my life right now, so this helped ease my stress and calm down.
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Helen
Simple but effective
I liked this one as it is simple to perform, but very effective at focusing the mind. I can also do this one at work!
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Susie
Hands
The was a relaxing soothing meditation that I will definitely do again 🙏
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Barb
I liked this!
It’s very relaxing! It feels a little like praying at the end of the exhale, when my hands are together.
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Kelly
Love inclusion of hands.
It’s easier for me to meditate - the small movement of hands gives me something to focus on. I will bring this one with me to work.
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Lori
Breathing Hands
This is a good way to ground myself and bringing attention to grounding and breath with the hand movement is simple yet powerful
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Lori
Breathing Hands is a good practice I can do anywhere, anytime to bring myself
To bring me back to the here and now start fresh with re-setting my thought patterns
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Kat
A simple gesture
Using the hands as a way to help in refocusing the mind was very helpful. A very gentle method in redirecting thought patterns. I plan on using this in the future. Thank you!
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Walter J
Occupying ...
It was certainly successful at occupying my mind. No side thoughts, visuals or learns except Breathing and coordinating my hand movements. I hope that is all it was designed to do...?! 🖐🏼🥱🍀
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Amy
New Technique
This technique is a new one for me. I am looking forward to adding this to my arsenal of calming techniques when life gets a little crazy.
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Cyndee 🌊
Centered & Anchored
This exercise really did improve my focus which improve the quality of my experience and help me stay in the present moment. Focusing on moving my hands in unison with my breath created the anchor for a more centered mind. Namaste
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E
Moving during meditation feels natural
Maybe I should do more movement based meditations. I noticed that my hands naturally moved in and out with the breath. I noticed that I felt dizzy with the deep breaths so I need to be careful to use my diaphragm.
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Demi
Movement helps breath!
I actually paid attention to my breath. The slight movement of my hands helped so so much! Grateful to learn this small tool.