# 131 Bloom where you’re planted

 

Happy Fun Friday, 

Today’s breath is:   Ocean Breath (Ujahi breath)         

Which: Calms, improves Focus and concentration, Grounds and Centers you and the ocean breath also increases oxygen consumption.

1. Sit up tall with your shoulders relaxed away from your ears and close your eyes. To prepare, become aware of your breath without trying to control it at all. Then begin to inhale and exhale through your mouth if you have been breathing through your nose.
2. Bring your awareness to your throat. On your exhales, begin to tone the back of your throat (your glottis or soft palate), slightly constricting the passage of air. Imagine that you are fogging up a pair of glasses. You should hear a soft hissing sound.
3. Once you are comfortable with the exhale, begin to apply the same contraction of the throat to the inhales. You should, once again, hear a soft hissing sound. This is where the name of the breath comes from: it sounds like the ocean. (It also sounds like Darth Vadar.)
4. When you are able to control the throat on both the inhale and the exhale, close the mouth and begin breathing through the nose. Continue applying the same toning to the throat that you did when the mouth was open. The breath will still make a noise coming in and out of the nose. This is ujjayi breath.
5. Let’s try this a few more times now. 

Today’s nudge is: Bloom where you’re planted

Maybe this isn’t exactly where or how you want to live, but this is how it is for now. You have options. You can feel stale and stuck or you can grow and try to still follow your dreams and live your life to the fullest. Wherever you are now is just temporary. Maybe you feel stuck in an apartment or living with relatives. Maybe you are living in a city that you want out of to be near a beach or somewhere famous. Don’t give up on those thoughts. Start blooming where you are. Work hard where you are now so you can get to that place someday. Work hard in your studies, your health, your athletics, your relationships. Make the best of where you are today so that you can get to where you want to be in the future. You have to bloom and blossom where you are now to move on to better things in life. 

Bloom where I’m planted

Bloom where I’m planted

Bloom where I’m planted

 

Have a great Fun Friday!

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