Let's Talk Breathing Practice
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Let’s talk about breathing practice.
There are so many wonderful breathing techniques out there for settling our nervous system, helping us feel calm and grounded. However, very few of them work when we’re actually in the moment. If you’re on stage in front of a thousand people, in the middle of a sentence, you can’t just ask them to pause so you can do some alternate nostril breathing or box breathing—right? You just can’t do it.
So, I’m going to teach you a quick tool that will help you in these moments when you’re in front of people and can’t stop for a breathing exercise.
Go ahead and close your eyes. Picture something you love the smell of. If smell isn’t your thing, you might imagine a beautiful place in nature that you love to be. Now, when you’ve got this image really clear in your mind’s eye, breathe in as though you were actually breathing that thing in—breathe in the smell, breathe in the location—then sigh it out.
You can do this as many times as you like. But in the middle of a speech, when you’re starting to feel nervous and know you need to take a breath, you can easily take a pause, breathe like this, and no one will even notice.
I hope this tip is helpful for you! I’d love to know—what image do you use when you breathe in something you want to smell or a place you’d love to be? Drop a comment and share! And don’t forget to follow or subscribe for more content.