Breathing Meditation

In general, the purpose of breathing meditation is to calm the mind and developing inner peace. We can only use breathing meditations or as a preliminary practice to reduce our distractions before engaging in a meditation Lamrim
A Simple Breathing Meditation

Phase one of meditation is to stop distractions and clear our minds and clear. This exercise can be accomplished with a simple meditation, breathing. We choose a quiet place to meditate and sit in a comfortable position. We can sit in the traditional cross-leg position or in any other position that is comfortable. If you want, we can sit in a chair. The most important thing is to keep our back straight to prevent our mind becomes sluggish or sleepy.




The first phase of thinking is to stop distractions and clear our minds and clear.

We sit with our eyes partially closed and turn our attention to our breathing. We breathe naturally, preferably through the nose, without trying to control our spirit, and we try to become aware of feeling the spirit as it enters and leaves the nose. This sensation is our object of meditation. We should try to focus on the exclusion of everything else.

At first, our mind will be very busy, and we can think that meditation is making our mind noisy, but in reality we are only becoming more aware of how busy our mind actually is. There will be a great temptation to follow the different thoughts as they arise, but we must resist and to remain focused on this with a sense pointedly to the spirit. If we discover that our mind has lost and is following our thoughts, we should immediately return to the spirit. We should repeat this as many times as necessary until the mind settles in breathing.
Benefits of Meditation

If we practice patiently in this way, our thoughts will gradually break to relax and we will experience a feeling of inner peace and relaxation. Our mind will feel clear and wide and we will feel refreshed. When the sea is rough, sediment is churned and the water becomes murky, but when the wind dies down the mud gradually settles and the water becomes clear. Similarly, when the otherwise uninterrupted flow of thoughts is calmed our attention by focusing on breath, our mind becomes unusually lucid and clear. We will stay with this state of mental calm for a while.
Although breathing meditation is only a preliminary stage of meditation, he can be very powerful. We can see from this practice that it is possible to experience inner peace and satisfaction only by controlling the mind, without having to depend at all on external conditions.

So much stress and tension we normally experience comes from our mind

When the blur of detached thoughts subsides and our mind becomes still a deep happiness and pleasure naturally arises from within. This feeling of satisfaction and well that helps us to cope with the busyness and difficulties of everyday life. So much stress and tension we normally experience comes from our mind, and experience many problems, including ill health, are caused or aggravated by this stress. Just by doing breathing meditation for ten or fifteen minutes every day, we will be able to reduce that stress. We will experience a sense of calm, of things in mind, and many of our common problems will fall away. Difficult Situations to be made easier with the agreement, we will naturally feel warm and well disposed towards people, and our relationships with others will gradually improve.