Concentration

Focusing on breathing.

I learned that I really enjoy the variety of meditations on Aura. 😊 I learned how nice it is to just be present on focus my breath moving in and out of my body. I also learned that it’s helpful for me to use my inner voice and coax my attention back to my breath and even encourage myself and give appreciation for my efforts (rather than just having those intentions). 😊

This was a great way to start my day!

Focusing on my breath allows for a few blissful moments to step away from the stressors of my life and remember that I am in control.

Meditation

Today was rough. This meditation helped me to ground myself and find my bearings. It was much needed. Breathing is an anchor point.

Beautiful and simple

Calm, easy to listen voice. Meditation was deep, beautiful and simple. Just what I needed this morning!

Focusing on the breath

If you are concentrating fully on your breath time passes like one second.

How much we carry

It's crazy how many things we can carry in our minds thinking that we must control everything and do our best in all times. It's ok if we fail, it's ok if we don't know everything. The world will still be there and life will go on. Every time I stop to take a deep breath and stop thinking about everything or trying to have all under control the world is still there and everything is fine. It's all gonna be ok.

Breath

I learned that breath is a beautiful and powerful thing, often underestimated. It has the power to center and focus oneself. We often ignore our breathing as it is an unconscious effort, but the power found within concentrating your attention on the breath is a strength like no other. A very useful tool in life.

Breathe

Breath can be used as an anchor throughout your day. It can help you concentrate on the moment.

Anchor

The breath is truly what grounds us to our day and to our mindfulness practices.

Something that I actually already knew but keep forgetting.

The power and importance of my breath. The fact that I mustn't forget my inner power in peace. The fact that I am MY center and that we all have an inner "temple" that's always available. This free gift I keep forgetting or maybe that I(ego) keep('s)denying. "Familiarity breeds contempt".

Third Meditation

Concentration on ones breath can serve as an anchor point to relax and recover... and in a sense come back to a feeling of stability in the day.

Self control

Today was all about breathing in and out and learning to control how to deepen and stretch our breathe wow that was breathe taking hehe

Breathing

To let go (my stress) I just need to keep breathing. While the first thing I do i to keep my breath and try to ignore emotions. What makes them even more present.

Second session

Breathing is the center of relaxation. Control your breathing and control your mood :)

Concentration

It’s been hard for me to find time in the mornings to meditate, even three minutes as I try to rush out the door for work. But I shouldn’t be hard on myself for that. I’m doing the best I can.

Spreading (not straying)

I found the idea of "attention spreading" really helpful. I usually think of "attention straying", which has a negative judgement attached to it in my mind.

I do have time to concentrate

This is not time to multitask- commit to the process. A committed mind committed lungs, hands and feet are needed.

We are more powerful than we know...

The ability to tap into our mental power is dependent upon our ability to concentrate and focus. The ability to concentrate and focus is dependent upon our ability to eliminate distractions. Mindfulness meditation is key to it all.

The power of concentration

I have never concentrated so much on my breath to the point where I didn't have any thoughts. I simply felt calmed, relaxed, and the presence of myself. Nothing else at all.

Listening

I was so mindful of my breathing and relaxed that I felt at peace with my self and relaxed and ready to have a great day

Anxhor

The breathe can lead to the present of the moment. Present equates to gift.

Breathing

Harder than I thought. Need more peaceful place. Too many animals.

Finding peace

Focussing on my breathing really erased my thoughts from my mind and I found peace in that moment.

Being more calm and patient

I’ve tried to focus on my breathing before and it help me be more calm and patient.

Grief

To be honest, I used to think that when going through the 5 Stages of Grief, you’d go through them in the order we know them to be. Now I realize that you can relapse back to a previous stage. I constantly feel as though I am going back and forth between anger and depression all the time.

Breathing is my anchor

I need to remember this as I go through my day, especially when little things pop up that bug me. ❤️

Focus

I learned that I need to focus on one thing at a time. Not 50. Focus on the breath and all will come then into place.

Focus

I need to try focusing my mind on one thing at a time. I can start by focusing on my breathing.

Myself

I learned that my breathing can help me wipe away all the distractions in my mind and bring myself back to me!

Concentration

I learned that concentration is key to the mind and heart and soul

Breathing

breathing is the biggest part of any meditation practice. it helps heal the mind and prepare you for more days to come.

Calmness

I learned that by focusing just on the breath going in and out of my body, I instantly feel a sense of pure calmness in and out of my body..

Begging

I learned my patience and strength are twins but fear and memory beg me to abandon them

Return to focus with breath

I learned to use the rhythm of breathing to empower my often wandering mind to return to what I’m trying to focus on.

Concentration and breath

Taking deep breaths and focusing inward has been a good fall back when work got overwhelming. It's a good reminder.

Breath the antidote for anxiety

Everything in life is about the breath. When I’m anxious I hold my breath. I love that she said the breath is an anchor. Many times I feel like a ship in the throes of a dark storm- and forget the power I have - I can’t control the outside events- but I must not allow them to control me. I have the anchor and it is within me- breath.

Clearing the mind

I really liked the idea of my breath cleaning off the chalk board of my mind so I can just focus on this moment.

Focus

I tend to struggle with concentrating but yes my breath is a way to fully remind myself full concentration is possible when life seems to go too chaotically.

Breathing

Focusing on breath can be hard sometimes when I’m anxious, but it’s good practice.

Concentration

Focusing on your breathing can bring you back to this ideal state of concentration without any outside forces competing for your attention

Day 11

I’m always so unfocused, and always so tense, that I worry myself so much, imagine things that do not happen, and I feel that I’m scared all the time or that I have to keep trying harder, and push myself more and more until I finally lose it again, and that was scares me the most and this made me have more control over myself and relaxed for just a little time

Anxious

I find myself feeling anxious about doing meditation "right." My chest feels tight, am I breathing correctly, who am I, how come I'm not good at this, lets speed through this and get it done.

Beaming with Bliss

I love that line. At times my whole being is blissful, breathing in the fresh air, remembering my mother’s love, playing tag with our son and dogs and a simple kiss from a smiling husband. I choose to remember those small things when life is hard.

Concentration

Today for the first time I was totally absorbed in just concentrating on breathing in and out. Sometimes I counted the in and out breaths, other times I just mentally said breath in, breath out. I feel centered and ready to start my day. If I have stress today I will remember to self sooth myself with my breath.

Wow

I do my sessions before I go to bed, and tonight I decided to take a nice, hot bath and do my meditation. This is the first time that I felt truly focused on my breath. Maybe it was the incredibly hot water? Either way tonight‘s meditation was very fulfilling.

Day #2

I need to focus on one thing. Take the time to step away and focus on breathing.

Concentration is king

Concentration is king, wonderful bursting energy from the focus on my inhale n exhale

The meditations save my Life.

The meditations save my life as just a few minutes are always worth it.

Concentration

What a challenge it is to concentrate on one thing especially my breath when I am going about my day! I continue to practice....🙏🏻.

The simplicity makes it work

I woke feeling incredibly anxious, my stomach in knots and heart pounding. Just focusing on my breath coming in and going out did reduce some of anxious feelings. This is a useful skill to have in your back pocket for those moments of panic that crop up.

Take time to mediate everyday

Don’t let the opportunity pass you by. Make time, find time, give time.

Great session

These help a lot with getting distracted during meditation as it helps guide you back to the breath and the present moment.

The heart of mindfulness 💛🧡❤️

Focusing on our breathing is the heart of many things : attention, concentration and wellbeing. Thank you for this essential meditation. 🙂

Still fail to see how to apply this

In the real world. Focusing on my breath during meditation is one thing. How it helps me deal with my real world problems still eludes me.

Focus

Taking the time to anchor myself in my breathing helps calm me.

1st Aura Session!

☺️So great! I’m looking forward to meditating more in the future!

Meditation ...

Makes me calm, enables be to focus better and let’s me sleep peacefully.

Meditation on breathing...

...are the ones I like most. Makes me calm and focused. Feel alive.

Be ready

This was a good meditation, but I wasn’t myself read for it. I learned that I can depend on aura-meditation to automatically calm me down. I need to be at least in a place physically that I’m ready and able to be mindful.

Simply focusing on breathing

I’ll do it longer next time to strengthen my focus as my mind didn’t wander much

Stability of breath

This key statement in this meditation really inspired me to realize that even when things are crazy around you, you have a long to do list, and everything seems to be out of whack… Your breath is always there for you as a reminder that your body is working the way it should, and that your breath is always there for you. I thought this was very impactful and I will continue to try and remember my stability of breath

Focus is as simple as breathing.

I often feel like my day is all over the place and I easily lose focus. One breathe can bring a scatter mind back into focus.

Soinge

One needs to erase all the dilemmas and focus on the positive

Concentrate

Breathing helps me to refocus and shut out everything. I love the thought of it being an anchor point for my feelings.

Concentration

I learned that breathing in and out can really affect the level of concentration.

Concentrate

I learned that if I find myself unable to concentrate or out of focus take a step practicing my breathing and really concentrate on that. Breathing is a focal point of everyday activity.

Concentrate

Focus on your breathing. Centre your mind. Lose everything else but your breathing. Anchor yourself with each breath. Very relaxing meditation. Feeling good. 🙂

Release

I learned that even just focusing on your breathing can really help you let things go that's going wrong and make you release your stress

Fabulous Friday 2-2-18

Breathing is our concentration for this meditation. Focus in and focus out. You can do this any time of the day and especially when you need to take a break from something. Thank you, Aura! Have a nice day, Everyone!😀

Concentration

I need to turn off the radio and choose times I’m not anticipating some change or request. I am much better at concentrating on my breath now

Not bad!

It ain’t bad at all but I’m British so I can’t agree any further..... Ha!

Clean slate

Grace the drawing board of my mind with the sponge of my breath. Using my breath to gently clean and release. I’ve heard if you put a note somewhere to remind yourself of something you only truly see it the first day- after that your efficient mind skims over it as familiar. It’s feel renewed focus to start fresh and re-write/redraw what i want on my mind’s whiteboard for the day. What a great image. Namaste

Concentrate

This helped me a lot to concentrate on things that are important than things that are not important. I learned that I should have self- control of myself. I should focus on one thing to fully work into it, instead of working on multiple projects and not being able to concentrate fully. This also helped me realise that when I am concentrating on too many things I should just breathe and bring my attention to the breathing. This will help me a lot when I stressed out..

Breath

I learned that you can always come back to your breath. Your breath is an anchor.

Breath in, breath out

My breathing forms as an anchor. It holds me back when times get a too rough for my enjoyment. I feel at peace despite being in an airport full of stress and noise, i am at ease.

Reflection

I need to focus more on my breathing, if I apply these medications to my fifteen minute breaks or personals it can make my day a lot more bearable for myself.

Focus on breathing

I truly enjoy breathing exercises. It’s calming to concentrate on the simple function of drawing and releasing breath.

breathing

Whenever you are stressed or upset concentrate on your breathing to help put your mind at ease

Calm

It’s important to stay calm and make you you relax throughout the day and make sure you have concentration in your developments

Night 4

I’ve learned that getting over break is hard, and everyday gets better but slowly

Concentration

I learned that I need to concentrate and breathe and let focusing on my breath do I can calm down

Erasing

Powerful. I love the quote “erase the drawing board of your mind with the sponge that is your breath.”

Control

It’s okay for me to not be in control always. Sometimes - always really - allowing life to control itself is the only way to remain zen

Breathing

Breathing is the anchor to bring my concentration back to focus.

Breathe focus

Always come back to your breath. if you focus on your breath mindfully you can calm yourself. Never forget that it’s good to just stop and breathe throughout the day multiple times.

Breathing

I’m excited to practice this breathing technique the next time I’m out of focus.

Amazed

Amazed at how the basic act of breathing, and focus of breathing, can wipe away so much. Loved this session.

Love it

Absolutely amazing My anxiety washed away by the first minute of concentrating on my breath.

Concentration

I learned that it is best to exclude everything else behind you’r breathe and concentrate on your breathing. Don’t let all the emotions take over your body.

Focus

It can be difficult for me to just focus on breathing. Its one of the reasons all of the meditation has been helpful- its training my mind. I like doing breathing while I'm running or during yoga because there is a physical aspect. Maybe this makes sense as I am a kinesthetic learner and doer.

Day 1

Sounds can be distracting. I’m going to try keeping my headphones in.

Hurt

I learned that to get through the day I need to breath and that’s what I will do from now on

Hurt

I was emotionally hurt by one of (a past) dear friend, I swear it was so hard to keep focus on anything. This meditation helped. The whole “...sponge of your breath.” It was like everything just shifted and made sense.

With Every Breath

Your. Reach is a God-given blessing of. It on,y life and survival but also a tool to keep you focused.

Breathing

You can never take a single breath for granted. Our time here is short.

Works like a charm

This meditation keeps me going no matter how tired I am. Running on an hour of sleep, I'm about to take my exams on legal medicine. I'm blessed to have discovered this.

Concentration

This one didn’t help me over any average ones. Just a very super simple breathing practice.

Concentration

I’ve been struggling with concentration the last few days. I forgot about this meditation but doing it this morning helped. I could actually, with only tiny beginnings of thoughts, Stay focused only on my breath. It was wonderful!

It’s a struggle

Concentrating is one of the things that I can barely do. Oftentimes, I am distracted by anything, even the littlest sounds. It’s so hard to just put everything in the background and mute every distracting sound. It was hard! To think that my main goal here is to observe myself breathe properly. But sure enough, in life, it’s like that. It’s so hard to concentrate on things that matter especially when there are so many distractions around us and within us. However, what I’ve learned in this meditation is that you can always try. You may not get it right the first time, you may not be able to concentrate be it on your breathing or on the things you have to do first, but you can always try. That’s better than letting yourself be carried away by this raging river of distractions and drown. 😂 So try, one step at a time. Thank you for this learning. Namaste 🙏

Focus on Breathing

When we concentrate on our breathing it can bring us a sense of ease and calm. Our breath is always there to anchor us back to the present moment.

I loved this short breathing meditation

I really loved this short breathing meditation. I know some people can feel the temperature of the air as they breath in and out, but I don’t. I tried to focus on the sound of myself breathing and the air filling my lungs instead.

Focus

Always a good intention, yet so easy to forget and get caught up in all the big and little distractions of the day. Namaste

💗

I absolutely loved this meditation, whenever I feel my day is getting stressed or I’m getting overwhelmed, I can think of my breath as an anchor to bring me back in to calmness💗

I noticed that I can be ready today in time by preparing the night before and showering before my wa

I can live within rules and boundaries I set for myself I need to spend more time with myself and less absorbed with women. Concentrate on many Mind and health

using breathing to concentrate

I learned that it is possible to improve concentration by focusing on one breath at a time going in and then going out . I liked the background mantra which said, “erase the drawing board of your mind with the sponge of your breath. The visual of a drawing board was helpful, when focusing on this practice. I sometimes have trouble concentrating, and I anticipate this meditation will be beneficial . Thank you to Those who work for this app for teaching me This technique and putting this track together. I am also grateful for the community On this app for taking the time to read this post. I hope everyone is OK, happy, and well. 

Focus

I felt anxious trying to do it correctly. I got better as I did it.

Concentration

Use to breath to focus your concentration. Remember that you can return to the breath to refocus throughout the day

Undistracted Focus

A worthy goal, starting with a single breath. It’s a continuous effort. Namaste

Concentrate on one thing

I feel so much more focused after getting my mind to focus only on my breathing during this exercise.

Simple and effective

I really loved the imagery of the breath as an eraser. I learned how important it is to truly focus on the breath . That may sound kind of “duh” but this session really helped drive that realization home. She so simply and succinctly led me through this meditation on concentration that it really helped me focus.

Concentration

What a beautiful reminder to return to the breath. I love the breath as a sponge picture