One meditation technique involves ‘breathing out’ unhelpful qualities and habits of thought and feeling, and ‘breathing in’ more noble qualities. For me I find it suprising how a range of mean attitudes that give rise to suffering and sabotage relationships spring from a kind of lack of confidence. So with this in mind here’s a meditation I’ve found useful. You time it with your breath and imagine the attributes:<\/p>\n
I breathe in confidence
\nI breathe in health
\nI breathe in presence
\nI breathe in balance
\nI breathe in power
\nI breathe in equanimity
\nI breathe in generosity…<\/p>\n
I breathe out resentment
\nI breathe out a sense of powerlessness
\nI breathe out victimhood
\nI breathe out anxiety
\nI breathe out fear
\nI breathe out anger
\nI breathe out despair<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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