A Zen Mind Guided Meditations - 10 Minute Breathwork Meditation: Deep Restorative Breathing for Realignment & Clarity

Episode Date: February 19, 2025

☁️ This meditation is a simple yet powerful practice in deep breathing, designed to bring realignment and clarity. Using a 5-10 breathing pattern—inhale for five, exhale for ten—you’ll slow down the nervous system, activate the parasympathetic response, and encourage a deep state of calm. But don’t worry if you can’t reach these counts—just do the best you can. This practice is equal parts guided and spacious. You’ll receive gentle cues and counting, but also have moments to settle into the breath on your own. Perfect for any time of day, this meditation was created to help you reset, breathe deeply, and return to balance. With love, Jo 👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨A Zen Mind Instagram 🎙️A Zen Mind Patreon ▶️ Watch on YouTube 💌Join My Email List 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And as always, once the meditation begins, there will be no advertisements and no disruptions. Thank you so much for being here. And welcome to this guided meditation. This meditation is your moment to realign. To soften into yourself. And to reconnect with the steady rhythm that has always been within you. Breath is balance. It is the bridge.

between mind and body movement and stillness energy and peace and right now we will use it to ground to center and to return to a state of clarity in your being wherever you are settle in and close your eyes or simply soften your gaze feel the weight of your body supported by the earth beneath you and let your shoulders drop, let your jaw relax, let your hands rest easy. Now let's move through a 5-10 breath pattern, a rhythm designed to steady the mind, restore balance, and invite calm, expansive energy into your body. And if you can't reach these counts, that's not a problem. Just do the best that you can do. So when you are ready start by getting all of the air out of your lungs with a full exhale with a deep breath in

through the nose one two three four five and exhale slowly through the mouth one two three or five and exhale slowly through the mouth one two three four five six 7, 8, 9. Feeling the release and the settling. Inhale again, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. The way that your body softens into stillness. Exhale, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.

Again, inhale to the count of 5. Energy rising, fresh and clear, and exhale for 10. Bringing away tension, noise, or distraction. Feeling the rhythm as you breathe in, expanding, and breathe out, releasing. with every inhale realigning you, bringing you back to yourself and every exhale grounding you, anchoring you in deep, unwavering peace. Take three more rounds of breathing as you inhale to the count of five and exhale to the count of 10. When you are ready, allow your breath to return to its natural rhythm, soft.

Feel this energy flowing through. through you, balanced, calm, steady. Your mind is clear, your body is light, your energy is balanced and vibrant. And carry the stillness with you into your day, into your night, moving from this place, of peace, of alignment, of grounded, secure, effortless energy. Take one more final deep breath in through your nose and let it all go with your exhale. And when you are ready, you can open your eyes. You are here.

You are whole. You are aligned. I'm wishing you peace and love. Namaste.