Soften and Smile

“The breath is the link between the inner and outer experience.” This link is what we tap into when we focus on the breath. An ever present and efficient way to bring yourself into the present moment since the mind is a time traveler and the body is always in the here and now.

We have shared before, “breathing in, I calm my body. Breathing out, I smile.”

Here is another way to deepen this feeling throughout your entire body, therefore experiencing the LINK between the inner and outer experience thoroughly.

Take 10-20 breathes to feel this new sensation:

On your breath IN feel your lower ribs and belly letting go and filling up a balloon within your gut. This diaphragmatic breathing encourages your belly and below to relax and allow for this air to enter and your organs to shift. Your diaphragm pushes down causing movement and ease down to the base of your pelvic floor. From pelvic floor to ribs you are calm and soft.

On your breath OUT feel your navel and lower abdomen pulling up and in as your pelvic floor pulls in as well. “Breathing out, I smile.” This smile, this turning up the corners of the mouth, happens in your body. A constant toning of the pelvic floor for men and women is available to us with each breath when we become intimately aware of our natural, healthy rhythm and body movement.

Each inhale is a softening. Each exhale is a smiling, compression squeezing air up and out, toning our deep and lower core as well as our very important pelvic floor.