Bruce

Vancouver, WA, USA

Alistair

Bristol, UK

Tara Cook

John

Omaha, NE

Angele Beeman

Libby

Wrightstown, NJ, USA

Lei C

Leeds, England, UK

Catherine B

Durham, NC, USA

Gary Murphy

Andrew Nicol

Hamilton, New Zealand

Bianca Osborne

Brisbane QLD, Australia

Anna

Malmö, Sweden

Steph

Hamburg, Germany

Emily Ziegler

Kirsten

Lisa Abramovic

Portland, OR, United States

Claude🐘 B

Canada

Alex

Ogden, UT, USA

Kaa TeUruti

Secular

Breathing Meditation

Health & Happiness

Flow

Concentration

Secular Mindfulness

English

Research suggests that humans' optimal breathing rate is 5.5 breaths per minute. This works out to be 5.5 seconds per inhale and 5.5 seconds per exhale. This meditation provides an original musical composition paced at exactly this rate with some initial guidance from me to get us started. Find a comfortable position, relax your shoulder down your back, and let your eyes gently close. Let's begin. 

5.5 Breaths Per Minute

 During this brief time together, we are going to breathe at an ideal rate for our bodies, which is 5.5 breaths per minute. And that equals out to be 5 and a half seconds for our inhales and 5 and a half seconds for our exhales. We're going to breathe only through our noses during this meditation. And we want to maintain a constant cycle of air. So when we inhale on that higher tone, we want to keep breathing until the exhale on that lower tone. And keep exhaling until you breathe in and out through the nose. And in and out. And now we'll let the music continue to guide us with this higher tone and lower tone on the exhales. And now we'll let the music continue to guide us with this higher tone and lower tone on the exhales. And now we'll let the music continue to guide us with this higher tone and lower tone on the exhales. And now we'll let the music continue to guide us with this higher tone and lower tone on the exhales. And now we'll let the music continue to guide us with this higher tone and lower tone on the exhales. And now we'll let the music continue to guide us with this higher tone and lower tone on the exhales.