Welcome to this five minute breathing, practice. Breathing abdominally belly breathing diaphragmatic breathing Are you somewhere where you won't be interrupted for the next five minutes you can do this practice sitting on a chair sitting cross legged or lying on the floor.

If you're sitting upright, just make sure your postures upright. Relax your shoulders, relax your chest, relax your belly. And when you're ready, take a long breath out your mouth. Breathing as much air out from your lungs as you can before breathing in your nose.

And starting this rhythmical breath cycle starting to count for on the in breath, holding for two breathing out for a count of four and then holding for two and repeating the cycle simply focusing on the air coming in your nose, counting and the air going out of your mouth. Alternatively, you can focus on the movement of your belly as you breathe.

And when your mind wanders, which it will just notice where it went in, come back to breathing and come back to counting.

Simply noticing whatever's going on in your mind, whatever's going on in your body, whatever you're feeling whatever is happening in your surroundings and just coming back to counting in a cycle and breathing in a nice abdominal belly diaphragmatic way where your belly is relaxed and you're breathing deeply down into your lungs.

Again, simply breathing and counting. Noticing the movement of air and the movement of our belly as we breathe. With each breath just relaxing more your shoulders, your chest, your belly

breathing and counting and now when you're ready if you've had your eyes closed, just slowly opening them noticing your surroundings you've just done a five minute breathing practice well done.

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